26 May 2013, 22:06 | #1 |
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Amiga Forever Value - Help!
Hi there,
I was an Amiga addict in my teens and just discovered the potential goldmine of the world of the emulators! Downloaded FS-UAE and then found that I needed a Kickstart file, so downloaded the Value edition of Amiga Forever. However, having just spent the money, it seems that it's missing a vital rom.key to work on FS-UAE. Is there anyway of getting this without paying anymore for it? I don't have any of my old Amigas to extract the file. Any help gratefully appreciated! All the best, Spog |
26 May 2013, 22:10 | #2 |
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26 May 2013, 23:25 | #3 |
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Due to an oversight, the ROM.key file is not included in the Amiga Forever Value Edition. It should be included, IMO. If its omission is not an oversight, then I don't know what is! |
27 May 2013, 00:32 | #4 |
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Thanks both, much appreciated.
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27 May 2013, 01:26 | #6 |
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It should be possible to extract the kickstart from the running Amiga - from inside the Amiga. I.e. download and run a tool from Workbench to extract the kickstart, and then copy it out to a directory hard drive for example. I don't have the value edition so I cannot tell if this is against the license agreement for that package or not. Also, I don't know what version the bundled kickstart is, and whether FS-UAE/Launcher would recognize it as an official one.
This page http://fs-uae.net/kickstarts has some links to guides for extracting kickstarts from real Amigas, which should probably work on an emulated one as well (I also have a warning about the missing rom key in Value Edition on that page ). Note, I haven't tried, as I have Amiga Forever (full edition) Last edited by FrodeSolheim; 27 May 2013 at 01:37. |
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27 May 2013, 21:28 | #9 |
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This is strange, Cloanto clearly mentions "...includes versions 1.2 and 1.3... which will run the majority of classic Amiga games and applications. 50 games are included.". The user shoudn't need to grab the rom file from a real Amiga.
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27 May 2013, 21:32 | #10 |
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Cloanto includes a crypted version of the kickstart file. It should be possible to use GrabKick to create an unencrypted version (inside emulation). I don't know if that is allowed by Cloanto's terms, but technically it seems to work...
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27 May 2013, 21:53 | #11 |
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Hi, you misunderstood a bit - you can use the same technique as you would on a real Amiga - but in this case using an emulated Amiga instead of a real one.
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It looks like they want you to purchase the Plus edition (as I did) if you want to be able to use the ROM files outside of AF. Unfortunately, the 2013 edition is packaged only as an MSI file so you either need access to some sort of Windows or, possibly, Wine (Windows translation environment) in order to get to the option where you can create your own DVD. I am guessing Cloanto did this because they were receiving too many technical support requests from Windows users who did not know what to do with the ISO file. If I had made the same purchase as the original poster, I would probably be looking at the same alternatives. Bob C |
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