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[`duKe`]

Hey Guys.
I'm really new in this business. I love to play the old "Knights" game, what is done by Kalle "Reaper" Marjola.
I saw the Source Code at his site and try'd to read them. But, dunno, there isn't a IDE for Win/Linux that can read the source files correctly. So I'm asking you. Is there ANY IDE or Editor, that can correctly read AMOS files?

[SamuraiCrow]

Amos files are tokenized so the only way to read them on the PC is to install an Amiga emulator such as http://www.amigaforever.com/ and then install AmosPro on the emulated hard drive.  AmosPro is available in the downloads area of this website.

[Hungry Horace]

dont point people to Amiga Forever!! 


for one, it is not an emulator itself. It's the amiga roms and some emulators and some other pointless stuff bundled together in one pack.

secondly, they will also charge you money for something that, imho, they have no right to.


http://www.winuae.net is the usual source for the emulator itself, which is provided for free.


However the kickstart amiga roms you will also need are not allowed to be linked to since they are the 'property' of Cloanto of Amiga Forever. Although quite how that came about given that they should rightfully belong to the bods who designed them at Commodore originally, i dont quite know.

a quick google search for such terms as amiga, kickstart, roms etc should be all you need to find them though!

[SamuraiCrow]

AmigaForever is the only LEGAL way to get a Kickstart ROM other than buying the chips themselves or an Amiga containing those chips.  That's why I suggested it.  I didn't use AmigaForever myself because I own an A1200 and an A500 and can use the respective Kickstarts from those two machines.  BTW, I'm having a hard time registering Picasso96 drivers for WinUAE because I didn't buy AmigaForever which includes the license for Picasso96.

[Lonewolf10]

I agree.

Getting Amiga Forever is the best option. You get loads of ROMs *legally* plus loads of other stuff depending on which version you get. I got the version that has 1 CD (PC emulators and Amiga files) and 2 DVDs (loads of stuff you will have a hard time finding - except Dave Hayney's stuff which can be downloaded from YouTube (lookup "HazyDave")). It's certainly worth the money in my opinion.

Cloanto bought the rights to distribute the ROMs from Amiga Inc. ages ago, and without that we would probably have no (legal) emulators at all.


Regards,
Lonewolf10

[Hungry Horace]

the Roms could (should) have been released to the Public Domain, as Amstrad did with the Sinclair ZX-Spectrum roms.

this way ever emulator would be fully functioning "out of the box" and be legal and we'd have a far more vibrant emulation scene, as the speccy does. Much of the Amiga scene seems to have a bitter hatred for emulation atm, which is frankly insane if you ask me... i think some of this stems from the way the scene is restricted by the legality issues.


Cloanto didnt code any emulators, and they didnt design/create the kickstart roms. The current emulators exist completely regardless of Cloanto's involvement.  IMHO they have no "rights" to be making money of something they have done nothing with except sign a piece of paper, and then package and sell for profit.

I still have my Amigas, so i feel i have every right to keep digital copies of the roms, without paying a penny.

just my thoughts of course.

[FOL]

Thinks this was sent to my by mistake. Its the source for Knights in txt format.

Think Duke requested it from the autor, anyways, i upped it to the downloads section.

Its in .txt format.