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by bogantech 1274 days ago
It seems they offer an .iso download link now alongside the one for the .msi

The kickstart ROMs are still encrypted on the ISO and AF stores unencrypted versions on disk after you run it but if you're on a Mac/Linux you can use romtool to decrypt them

https://amitools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tools/romtool.html
2 comments
dark-star 1274 days ago
AFAIR the "encryption" is just an XOR with their license text file (LICENSE.txt?) as a large key

That was some time ago when I got it, so maybe it's different now

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snvzz 1273 days ago
>Encrypted ROMs

Which of course protects nothing, and is easily worked around. But it is still evil.

People will go on to claim that Cloanto isn't evil, and that the only reason they haven't open sourced AmigaOS is Hyperion.

Yet Cloanto does shit like this. I wonder if these same people can explain how this helps.

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AndrejXY 1260 days ago
Where did Cloanto ever refer to this as "encryption"? It is a simple XOR, and it is open source. They always said they were "encoded" because Amiga International or Gateway asked them to. ROM encoding has been supported by UAE since 1997.

(Interesting takeover attempt by the usual "anti Cloanto" trolls.)

Post Scriptum - Found some info here:

https://www.amigaforever.com/kb/16-128

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