| ▲ | zozbot234 6 days ago |
| The new Commodore folks seem to be on friendly terms with Cloanto, so this MIT-licensed release from Microsoft is great news for them and I wonder if it was partly instigated by the Commodore developments. If only because, in principle, it saves everyone the effort and cost of having a difficult negotiation over something as silly as the purported IP value of those old BASIC ROMs. |
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| ▲ | snvzz 6 days ago | parent [-] |
| It is a shame that, even today, none of these Commodore or Amiga ROMs are open source, or even free to use/distribute. |
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| ▲ | LocalH 5 days ago | parent | next [-] | | They're easy to find if you want them. If you ever owned any of the relevant machines, then I'd say you're even morally in the correct. Feel free to send Commodore or Cloanto some cash for your use if you feel so inclined. Cloanto even offer packages for both C64 and Amiga that include the most relevant ROMs (and Workbenches, in the case of the Amiga). | |
| ▲ | zozbot234 6 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | It's obviously inconvenient but I wouldn't call it "a shame". It's historically quite normal, open source/free to use just wasn't a common thing back then. | | |
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