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Poster | Thread | Leo
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Re: AMIGA Name bought by Commodore! Posted on 7-Sep-2010 15:18:37
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Who owns the Workbench trademark? I'm pretty sure it is Amiga Inc.
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I have no idea.
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We could probably just drop Commodore from the title and just call it Workbench....
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No, I meant: "Commodore Workbench", nothing more...
Since you seem to be targeted the oldschool people, I think "Workbench" means a lot to them.
Now, do you think you could get a licence to the Amiga ROM as well ? Unless you produce some ready-to-play solution (ie: with UAE fully configured with a valid ROM) I don't think it will work out.
Something different but that would work: have you thought about building some "Amiga in a Joystick" thing ? They sold a lot of C64 like these, and I'm pretty sure it would work out for the Amiga too.
There isn't that much work remaining to do: a fully working reimplementation of the Amiga computer already exists in the form of the Minimig. What remains to be done is to reduce it's size and to mass-produce it. You'd also need some games but a lot are already available for free, so contacting the owners to obtain a valid license for your system without a problem.
To sum up, you would need:
- obtain the rights to distribute the kickstart ROM image (WB disks could be useful too, but 99% games will run without it) - obtain the rights to distribute some games (all Team17 games are available for free already, so maybe the owners would be ready for some agreement ?) - make a smaller version of the Minimig
Of course, do some marketing,...
And if I was to use an existing Linux distribution, I would go for Linux Mint: that's an elegant easy to use Linux, and that's what was (once) the Amiga to me.Last edited by Leo on 07-Sep-2010 at 03:23 PM.
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