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it can and it has been since long time now. afaik it has been distributed as default with aros vision, instead of aros genuine lib. the reason im not using it usually, is that i test the genuine aros components mostly, if not cross testing with amiga counterparts and software. thanks a lot for yout comments.
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Sorry, that was perhaps a bit unclear. Let me try again:
1) One type of user want to have an OS that runs on modern-ish hardware, has some modern features like USB and internet support. This is perhaps the user who is currently using AROS on x86 or a PPC mac. 2) Another type of user wants to have an OS that: runs on legacy Amiga hardware, let's anyone use old hardware, provides a base around which the community can develop and share new programs, etc. |
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@peterk
btw, peter, i have sent you invitation to slack, where you can join aros channel and maybe communicate directly with some of the developers. its not aros exclusive and is actually a good cross platform initiative of marlon, a member here. hope the mail from aminet is correct. |
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no. its perfectly understandable. im coming from the same angle as you. and while it may not be easy or even possible to make aros as efficient as 3.1 or 1.3 has been, we need to put some effort towards it. but therefore we need experienced amiga users, testers and developers contributing.
good thing is that because of this thread we already have some people joining in and hopefully staying with us for some time. today i have confirmed (thanks toni for assistance) under uae that aros can boot on a plain a600 configuration just with some additional ram even to wanderer. the question is, will it be confirmed on a real machine and how slow will it be. but there is also someone who already volunteered to test that. so we are taking some steps forwards, even if slow. |
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I've downloaded the latest nightly build and installed it already, but didn't get that far yet with testing it again. Some bugs seem to be fixed, others are new, but I must verify that all. |
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must admit that as usual, i have not read these all regulations and rules and simply joined upon marlons invitation. as someone else observed, its just a bit like irc with some extra options suitable for exchanging development material and experience. but this is of course up to you.
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michals intendion as far as i understand is not to provide emulator to start m68k system but to deliver transparent emulation in order to execute m68k binaries or access libs just as os4 and morphos are doing. same way os4 and morphos users are not trying to substitute or use the native system with 68k counterpart on their systems. even though aros will eventually be in a unique position to have a system at hand for both architectures.
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Sorry wawa maybe i explained myself badly, i just wanted to know if in addition to AROS 68k for example, you could also start OS 3.9 or AfA OS
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"nightly" builds of a tweaked distro of AROS 68k can be obtained here:
https://www.eevul.net/amiga/ports/aros-mirror/ Whenever changes are pushed to https://github.com/AmigaPorts/AROS-mirror a new build is made. Anyone is free to fork and make patches there! New with this distro:
Future plans:
If someone wants to help fix things, it's as easy as forking the github repo and doing a pull request. Needs fixing:
Fixes to AROS will be pushed upstream to their main SVN when changes are approved. However, distro specific changes will stay in our repo, and we're less anal about what changes is done, as long as it doesn't break anything! You're all also very welcome to our Slack which is for all types of amiga development: https://join.slack.com/t/amigaports/...DA1OWQwNGY4MWQ Last edited by Marlon_; 04 December 2018 at 14:44. |
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just to mention this too, this distro is (should be) soft-kick able on any amiga with enough ram (~7mb for wanderer) by default. in practice we are still working on some issues, so please stand by.
edit: most notably we have some macros/compiler issues with gcc-6.3.0 that lead to crashes in the s-s. |
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It includes USB (Poseidon), Network Stack, AHI, RTG (kind of CybergraphX), MUI-Replacement and much more. Next to default desktop (Wanderer) you have Scalos. One advantage of the 68k version is you can mix code (aros components and amiga components) without problems. One example is you can use MUI 3.8 on it by copying libs (of course you need a compatible desktop because Wanderer and Aros Scalos not work then). |
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Very good!
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