🚀 go-pugleaf

Here is a sample of the feedback from Genie.  All this response (and more)
took less than 24 hours!  Apparently, I made a mistake about the TOS
upgrade.  Hmmmm, I know I saw that article.  Tramiel must have been talking
about the Blitter upgrade instead.  Sorry about the apparent error on my
part.  I guess my brain is turning to mush due to all the high octane I've
been taking in this week.  (I graduated today so I think I owe myself a
few (read MANY) cold ones.)  Anyway, here's a bit of the GEnie-speak for
you:


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Category 4,  Topic 62
Message 14        Wed May 17, 1989
SANDY.W [SysOp]              at 10:49 EDT
 
Er...where did Atari say TOS 1.4 would not be available for the 520/1040?? As
the chips will be in both the 6 and 2 chip set I don't see where they could be
considered machine specific at all.

As for copyright, some copyrights do contain a clause against alteration, but
whether it would be worth it to enforce it in a single case is another
decision. Actually, if you don't intend to sell it, and it will be for your
use only, why bother to publicize it??

(If this topic is going to be another copyright discussion, it is going to be
moved to Cat 18 <grin>)
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Category 4,  Topic 62
Message 15        Wed May 17, 1989
D.MCNAMEE [Dan2@Atari]       at 14:51 EDT
 
Chris,

      Where did you hear that Atari is not going to make TOS 1.4 available to
520/1040 owners??  We have announced that TOS 1.4 will be available as an
upgrade in BOTH 2 AND 6 CHIP SETS, and WILL BE AVAILABLE AS AN UPGRADE TO ALL
ST OWNERS (520/1040 included) AS AN UPGRADE.

Dan 2 @ Atari
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Category 4,  Topic 62
Message 16        Wed May 17, 1989
TOWNS                        at 16:18 EDT
 
 Yeah, what Dan said! <grin>

 As for the legalities.. We own ALL rights to the code that is in
 those ROMs. From what I am told, it is illegal to do what you 
 would like to do.

 But, if you are going to do it, I can't stop you. I will remind
 you of a couple of things: AES is line-f'ed. This will make it 
 VERY hard to modify. As for the rest of the code in the ROMs. It
 is designed to be in a certain place at boot up. If you start to
 fool around with it too much you will break it.

 But, if you feel like wasting your time.. go for it.
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Chris Mauritz
cmm1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu
No points for 2nd BEST!