A: Out of more than 30 ROM
files that are included in Amiga Forever
Plus Edition as of this writing, very few
specifically require an emulation environment.
Some
original technical limitations, which were in part a
legacy of a 1997 wish by some licensors that
Amiga Forever not compete with the sale of
"real" upgrade ROMs for Amiga computers,
were later removed. These restrictions were implemented by using some
"illegal opcodes" and a ROM
encoding combined with a "rom.key" file, support for which was
added to the UAE and Fellow emulation
projects in 1997. Amiga
Forever Plus Edition installs a full
set of original unencoded Amiga ROMs,
including
WHDLoad-compatible files.
The Amiga Forever End User License
Agreement (EULA) allows use of the
Commodore/Amiga ROM and OS software not only
in the context of Amiga emulation on two
Windows, macOS or GNU/Linux systems, but
also on one "Classic
Amiga" computer (i.e. models from the original
Amiga 1000 up to the Amiga 4000 series,
which already came with a ROM and an OS disk
set).
As a standard PC would have no way of
writing a floppy disk which an Amiga could use to boot, the
creation of a bootable disk from the Amiga
Forever disk images would itself require a
working Amiga computer, or another way to
write an Amiga disk. We understand that you may have difficulties obtaining original
operating system floppy disks and other spare parts for your old
Amiga hardware, which was one of the main reasons for us to
provide Amiga Forever in the first place. As long as your Amiga
can boot, you can use the tools which are provided with Amiga
Forever to transfer all data to another computer on which Amiga
Forever is running, retaining your existing configuration, or
experiencing a "fresh" installation, which is included.
Alternatively, Cloanto's retail partners
provide ready-to-use
Classic Support media.
Third-party files other than the
Commodore/Amiga ROM and OS files have
in part been licensed to us, and are licensed by us to end users, for
use only in the context of Amiga emulation. Although these files may be
available for other uses as well, not all items have been
specifically licensed for such purposes as part of their
publication in Amiga Forever.
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