AROS for real Amigas

[Bruce Abbott]

Originally Posted by Gorf

not only will it run, but it already does run on Amigas ... just not with 3.x but with AROS.
In that case it is really not any different to most games, that don't use or kill the OS. Maybe we should not talk about them either?

Where can I get AROS for my Amiga?

[SkulleateR]

Originally Posted by Bruce Abbott

Where can I get AROS for my Amiga?

https://www.aros-vision.de
http://www.aros.org/nightly1.php

[Bruce Abbott]

Originally Posted by SkulleateR

https://www.aros-vision.de
http://www.aros.org/nightly1.php

Thanks for that. I made the mistake of going to 'aros.org' (actually aros.sourceforge.net which reroutes to https://aros.sourceforge.io/) and attempted to download the AROS Vision distribution which is 'targeted at real M68k Amigas' - whose web page doesn't exist.

Your first link says,

runs everywhere

Aros Vision works in UAE on almost any system. In future it will be also tested on real hardware (Apollo V4 SA and PiStorm). Next big thing will be Aros Vision on Linux.

...and is a 1.2 GB download. I doubt it will work on my Amiga.

The 'nightlies' link looks more promising. I downloaded the 'amiga-m68k-boot-floppy', extracted the adf file and booted it in UAE on my Windows XP machine. Seems to work but... oh boy, I haven't seen anything this bad since ks1.1 on my A1000.

Looks like I will have to wait until they port Final Writer back to the Amiga.

[hammer]

Originally Posted by Bruce Abbott

Thanks for that. I made the mistake of going to 'aros.org' (actually aros.sourceforge.net which reroutes to https://aros.sourceforge.io/) and attempted to download the AROS Vision distribution which is 'targeted at real M68k Amigas' - whose web page doesn't exist.

Your first link says,
...and is a 1.2 GB download. I doubt it will work on my Amiga.

The 'nightlies' link looks more promising. I downloaded the 'amiga-m68k-boot-floppy', extracted the adf file and booted it in UAE on my Windows XP machine. Seems to work but... oh boy, I haven't seen anything this bad since ks1.1 on my A1000.

Looks like I will have to wait until they port Final Writer back to the Amiga.

My PiStorm-RPi 4B @ 1.8Ghz A500 or PiStorm32-RPi CM4 @ 2.2 Ghz A1200 could run AROS bloat.

AROS Vision needs aros-rom.bin and aros-ext.bin. I don't recall Emu68 supporting a second ROM extension.

I tied WinUAE with just the aros-rom.bin and it failed. I used 1MB AROS.ROM that is included with CaffeineOS's ROM folder and it worked for WinUAE. 1MB AROS.ROM is not used by CaffeineOS's AmigaOS 3.9.

I would need to copy 68K PiWiFi and Broadcom P96 RTG drivers on it when I set up "AROS Vision" booting in PiStorm-Emu68.

Failed the Deluxe Music 2 test i.e.
1. Use AROS Vision's aros-rom.bin and aros-ext.bin in WinUAE.
2. Boot from Deluxe Music 2's boot disk 1. Result: graphics glitches.
3. In Deluxe Music 2 with graphics glitches with the main side panel, I loaded a music file. Result: freeze.

Final Writer 7 demo for ApolloOS works on AROS Vision.

[TCD]

Moved AROS specific posts from Final Writer 7.1 thread.