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Originally Posted by gilgamesh
The necessity to buy/dump a kickstart is a nuisance and obstacle to the proliferation of UAE. Kickstart is basically a collection of OS specific libraries that are saved in ROM for historical reasons, just like ibm's bios. (Correct me if I'm wrong.) Pc emulators like qemu come with a free bios, of course.
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Kickstart is still copyrighted so it can't be included in the UAE package.
It's also more than just "a collection of OS specific libraries", it's the complete Operating System.
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Frankly, I don't see why it hasn't been done before. The effort to to reimplement (the important parts of) kickstart should be very small compared to uae as a whole.
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Which parts of the Kickstart do you consider unimportant?
And you also know that there are different versions of the Kickstart. So much for "very small effort".
