Re: Superdrive 2000?

On Tue, Jun 05, 2018 at 08:50:17AM +0100, smf wrote:
>On 05/06/2018 08:22, Marko Mäkelä wrote:
>>I believe that CMD must have made some kind of licensing agreement 
>>with Commodore, with some conditions.
>>
>I believe they had a license, but if there were conditions then why 
>did CMD willfully violate those conditions when they sold bulk 
>licenses of JiffyDOS licences (not JiffyDOS 1541 product) to the clone 
>drive manufacturers knowing that CBM had sued them and were capable of 
>finding them out?
>
>Conditions may have been imposed afterwards, but then why did the 
>drives remain on sale? They were advertised in all of the UK magazines 
>for years.

Yeah, even I got an Oceanic OC-118N that I think has JiffyDOS on board.  
I vaguely remember that some address or data lines may have been 
shuffled. It is a great drive; in my opinion better than Commodore's 
(even counting the 1541-II). A compact design with off-the-shelf 74 
series chips. I got my drive for free after submitting something to a 
Finnish magazine's coding contest. That must have been in the early 
1990s. A funny detail is that the drive was originally shipped with a 
110V power adapter (US plug).

	Marko