Did You buy Cloanto Amiga Forever?

[Seiya]

Originally Posted by AC/DC HACKER!

If you think WinUAE is too hard too use, and...some do, then go for AF.

and i repeat always, but for who like interface easy to use from Windows there is GameGase Amiga where you can play games in ADF format, IPF with original code protections and WHDLoad games.
Kickstart you use your personal kickstart maybe bought with AmigaForever and be happy.

[pixie]

Originally Posted by Seiya

and i repeat always, but for who like interface easy to use from Windows there is GameGase Amiga where you can play games in ADF format, IPF with original code protections and WHDLoad games.
Kickstart you use your personal kickstart maybe bought with AmigaForever and be happy.

I would say FS-UAE would have been more relevant

[DisasterIncarna]

i thought the only thing its useful for is the included roms?, the emulation side of things is a quick/simple free download.

[Seiya]

yes, AF is interesting only for that.

[acidbottle]

Yup, same here, only purchased once for the roms, was worth it for that alone.

The emulation side, not so much, well actually not at all. I think an old version (perhaps newer ones to) included Amikit and that is my mainstay for PC Amiga Emulation, courtesy of WinUAE of course.

[Akiko]

Originally Posted by Minuous

Exactly, it seems hardly anyone has noticed that Cloanto haven't actually written any Amiga programs for a quarter of a century, and sold all their rights to those programs (PPaint etc.) to other companies a long time ago...but somehow buying Amiga Forever half a dozen times will help the platform, instead of donating to the PD coders actually writing software?!

It does seem extraordinary the level of support shown for Cloanto, a company that has probably benefited the most financially from Amiga all these years, but ironically contributed back the very least to the community in terms of active development.

The real people deserving respect are the hardware and software developers that actually sat down one day and decided to take a *risk* by developing something new, pay coders etc, whether that was ELBOX who developed the Mediator line and even still do the odd production run today, Jen's Schoenfeld who needs no introduction and has taken on Picasso 96 development in recent years, Ibrowse team, Roadshow, WHDLoad, Michael Böhmer, A-Eon, Lukas Hartmann's ZZ lineup, Warp team, Apollo computers team, the AmiDev Team who do Amifox, Amitube, and more for free, everyone I haven't mentioned, etc, etc, etc.

I just hope if Cloanto/Amiga assume uncontested development rights over AmigaOS they will actually do something seemingly against their nature and actually do something with it, not just integrate AmigaOS 3.2 into Amiga Forever and design some fancy new packaging, do a licensing deal with AmiKit, and spend the next two decades or so expecting the same wheelbarrows of cash from AmigaForever fans who seem to think paying for crusty old ROMS somehow helps support our platform.

[TCD]

Did I buy it? No. I got it as a gift

[Seiya]

Originally Posted by Akiko

I just hope if Cloanto/Amiga assume uncontested development rights over AmigaOS .

i hope no. AmigaOS needs to be freed from copyright.

[wanderer]

Yes. The Premium version with the nice DVDs. AmigaOS 3.2 and AmiKit are next.

[pixie]

Originally Posted by Seiya

i hope no. AmigaOS needs to be freed from copyright.

No one is running towards AROS... just sayin

[OlafSch]

Originally Posted by Minuous

The AF updates are pretty worthless apart from WinUAE itself, and that can be upgraded for free anyway.

AmigaOS 3.2 is more expensive...

@thread

And you get lots of different emulations. It is worth the money. I propably bought it several times over the years. It is not much money