The relatively recent and on-going legal actions between Cloanto and Hyperion Entertainment has me concerned about implementing VertigOS as a port of the BOAR Project.  The BOAR Project is a clean-room implementation of a proper subset of AmigaOS. including only the exec.library and dos.library components of the operating system.  While not binary compatible with AmigaOS, it should be source compatible with a large number of native AmigaDOS console applications, particularly those which treat BPTRs as opaque references.  (BOAR implements all DOS pointers as APTRs instead of BPTRs.) BOAR's library and device driver APIs are sufficiently powerful to enable a significant reproduction of actual AmigaOS libraries (albeit disk-resident) that, frankly, has me concerned that I might become a future target for litigation.

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