A: Amiga Forever includes ROM and system disks between version 1.0 and
3.1, including 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.04, 2.05, 2.1, 3.0 and 3.1. Beta versions (e.g. "1.4",
which was then released as 2.0), and versions released only for a specific type
of hardware (e.g. the relatively buggy 2.00 which worked only on the A3000, or a
special version of the 1.3 operating system to support the A2024 monitor) are not included.
These items have been licensed to Cloanto by various successors of
Amiga Corporation (formerly Hi-Toro) and include newer
developments by Cloanto and by other third parties.
Amiga Forever includes a preinstalled Workbench 3.X environment
(newer than 3.1), and includes or supports operating systems not
originally released by Commodore (e.g. AROS), as well as
hardware diagnostic systems and operating systems not originally
meant to run on Amiga hardware.
The Value Edition of Amiga Forever includes only versions 1.3
and 3.X of the ROM and Workbench, which is in general sufficient to run more than
95% of Amiga games and other older software. The
Amiga Forever Plus Edition
contains versions 1.3, 3.X (preinstalled Workbench plus application software) and
the additional versions of the ROM and operating system files.
The licenses for certain third-party files which were originally bundled with the Amiga
operating system were not renewed by the successors of Amiga Corporation
(formerly Hi-Toro), and are therefore
in part missing in
disks released after a certain date (e.g. in version 1.3 of the Amiga
operating system as shipped with the Amiga 3000
in 1991). Cloanto was able to license some of these original components directly from the copyright holders,
and to include them in Amiga Forever.
Cloanto placed a high priority on preserving and respecting the original
look, feel and compatibility of version 3.1 of the operating system as it was
released before its development team ceased maintenance of the
operating system. Amiga Forever also
includes internally-developed or fully-licensed additional preinstalled components, such as system
patches, GlowIcons, TCP/IP, RTG, etc. Amiga Forever contains instructions on
how to disable such add-ons without affecting functionality, if so desired,
or to entire additional add-on packages, such as
AmiKit and
AmigaSys.
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