XDelusion wrote:
OK call me retarted, but I still am not clear on this whole AROS thing. I have burned ISO's and all that jazz, and at most I got to a command line prompt and that was it, so I didn't get a chance to really play with it. I have read through the pages and know it is supposed to look and act like Work Bench, but beyond that I am clueless. Is this sort of like WINE, where it can somehow make Amiga Apps run in a new OS that can run on X86 hardware, or is it something else all together? I keep hearing mixed stories, one is that yes it is, but then I read about Quake being ported to it and stuff like that, and I wonder, why Quake would need ported if it already runs on Amiag OS!?!? VERY CONFUSED, please inform me.
Also while your at it, I need to know my those DAMN ISO's don't boot half the time, and if so why there is no GUI.
sounds like you are using some old ISO there...
Try the one on my site:
www.ahsodit.com/aros/OK, to answer a few questions.
1. AROS is basily AmigaOS rewritten from scratch using the C programming language.
2. Using C means we can compile (turn it into CPU macvhine language) it for any type of CPU we choose.
3. The current AROS builds available are for the x86 CPU (other than the 68K that the old Amiga's used to use).
4. Running AROS on your PC, means that an OS almost identical to AmigaOS is running your PC :-)
5. Amiga programs have to be recompiled to run on the x86 CPU, since it speaks a different language to the 68K.
6. Should you choose to compile AROS for the 68K CPU (the one the Amiga uses), it will run on an Amiga computer and run the Amiga programs with the need to recompile them.