First Aros 68k Kickstart boot screen!

[warpdesign]

Nice !

Mini-Mig, NatAmi, WinUAE and others can create and sell compatible systems without legal problems.

That's the more important I guess.

Not to mention replacing Amiga modules by AROS modules will help to track and fix AROS bugs, that will benefit for the main AROS "distribution" too.

If I understood correctly FrankenROM is made of an Amiga kickstart with some libs replaced with AROS ones ? Currently only AROS exec, right ?

What's the next step ?

[warpdesign]

The topic is a bit misleading. The kickstart boot screen is produced by Commodore graphics.library, utility.library, timer.device, ciaa and ciab resources, trackdisk.device, carddisk.device, card.resource and various other components which really are not AROS yet.

I think it's time to get excited once AROS does all of that.

Thanks for the explanation, it's nice to learn about the boot process.

The road is still long to have a true AROS replacement kickstart indeed. But progress is progress... Any idea how long it took MorphOS to get from such level to the level where it completely overtook Commodore's OS ?

[warpdesign]

Btw, if it's open source why do I need an account to have read-access to the sources ?

From the website:

The AROS repository is running on a password protected SVN server, which means that you need to apply for access to it to be able to collaborate in the development. At the request of Amiga Inc., anonymous read-only access to the repository has been disabled.

Seems like some parts can be checked out without an account, but I followed the instructions here http://repo.or.cz/w/AROS.git/search/b3650ddf5bd56e88b6d8277ed7a55ccd41589434?s=jmcmullan;st=author and couldn't do it because it asked for a login/pass...

[warpdesign]

I remember a thread on the mailing list a couple of years back, here we decided tat A. Inc were no longer a threat and access should be open again... But I guess no one bothered to do that... Probably because the people who want/need the source are developers who need write access too... The souce snapshot is available for down load from the site, so anyone can grab it if they want

As for the licence, the modified MPL was chosen so that comercial projects like MOS could use the source code without having to publish their private code. Which is a good thing as it allowed the MOS guys to use and fix te AROS code without giving away their, trade secrets.

@piru off topic, but what was the development platform for MOS back in the old days (2000ish)?

Well, seems like I can't build it without login/password...