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Poll : Is James Jacobs helping the Amiga community?
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ChrisH 
Re: [Poll] Is James Jacobs helping the Amiga community?
Posted on 27-Aug-2006 9:33:24
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I found the site in question. It is an ecletic mixture of:
* A few very old Amiga games, most of which I haven't even heard of, so some may even be freeware (I have not downloaded any to check).
* A lot of Amiga programming documentation, including the ROM Kernel Manual. As most (probably all) of this is long out of print & so incredibly hard to obtain, I have no moral problems seeing it here, even if it may theoretically break copyright. Indeed, this could be very useful for anyone wanting to start Amiga programming.
* A load of Megadiscs (I presume some sort of free scene mag).
* Some Amiga hacker/virus utilities (not really useful today, but could be of historical interest).
* Some really ancient commercial Office & Paint programs for the Amiga.
* A few other bits & bobs that a probably not important.
* Several Kickstarts ROM images & an image of OS3.9+BB2.

The only thing that I have a moral problem with is the last item - the Kickstarts & OS are still owned by a company (Amiga Inc is still with us) and sold (by Cloanto & perhaps others). All the rest is commercially unavailable, and in most cases so old that the companies have long since gone bust.

So I would vote that he is helping the Amiga, except for the Kickstarts & OS image.

Last edited by ChrisH on 27-Aug-2006 at 09:37 AM.
Last edited by ChrisH on 27-Aug-2006 at 09:35 AM.
Last edited by ChrisH on 27-Aug-2006 at 09:34 AM.

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      Re: [Poll] Is James Jacobs helping the Amiga community?DarkGlobe27-Aug-2006 9:59:36
          Re: [Poll] Is James Jacobs helping the Amiga community?hotrod27-Aug-2006 15:23:10
              Re: [Poll] Is James Jacobs helping the Amiga community?DarkGlobe27-Aug-2006 16:50:24
                  Re: [Poll] Is James Jacobs helping the Amiga community?bigsnyder27-Aug-2006 21:23:49
                      Re: [Poll] Is James Jacobs helping the Amiga community?Darth_X29-Aug-2006 15:18:27
                          Re: [Poll] Is James Jacobs helping the Amiga community?ssolie29-Aug-2006 15:41:55
                              Re: [Poll] Is James Jacobs helping the Amiga community?Darth_X30-Aug-2006 0:11:54
                  Re: [Poll] Is James Jacobs helping the Amiga community?AmiGame29-Aug-2006 16:01:56
                      Re: [Poll] Is James Jacobs helping the Amiga community?BrandonLee29-Aug-2006 18:23:13



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