predcon: Basically, the "Lamer Exterminator" gets into the RAMs Boot Sector. Worse still, it's written to show up as a "Clean" boot sector. Every time it's "read", it overwrites a ton of more bootblocks, eventually resulting in every operation ending with a read-write error, also known as the "Guru Meditation" error (a precursor to the RROD, since the Amiga's red "Disk Activity" LED would flash predictably when a Guru Meditation was about to show) .
Imagine a virus that would get into a modern mobo's BIOS boot sector, and then worm it's way into the RAM and HD's boot sectors.
I've never had an Amiga, so i don't really know how stuff worked there. I've read the virus description. There's no way to unplug stuff, purging BIOS, and then work from there?
predcon: The C64 Forever package probably isn't as useful as the Amiga Forever package, because with the AF package you get legal copies of all known Kickstart ROMS and Workbench ADFs, as well as CDTV and CD32 files. As far as I know, most C64 software is compatible with the Amiga (at least I haven't yet run into a Commodore program that wouldn't run on the Amiga, though they may not have been compatible at first), so your best bet would be to get the AF package and just work on "converting" your Commodore software.
Well, with the C64, it's kinda wonky, i had one since 1985, collected a lot of games, which were cheap as hell, due to the way copyright laws worked here [they didn't] it was completely legal. After 1994, when a copyright law was introduced, all [now] illegal copies were proclaimed legal, paremia lex retro non agit, presto, all my games became legal. Now i just live off GB64. Hence such a package doesn't really interest me.
With the Ami, yeah, that was my first thought "mm, legal kickroms". Probably one day i'll invest in this. I didn't know c64 programs [games] we're compatible. If so, i don't know why people bothered to port some of the games, even botching some of them, beyond playability.
One question [ok, two], do I buy this once, and get free updates later on? Or are extra games being added later an extra cost? And, are they all set up separately in WinUAE?
As far as i've played around with that, i've came to a conclusion, that there were too many different KS, RAMs, CPUs and graphical chips for me, to figure out, how to launch a game, and make it playable. I usually ended up with a flashy red screen.
It would be cool, if this was something like GOG for the C64/Amiga.