Windows hosted AROS-Max, now available!

[Holley]

Wow, I go away for a couple of days and look what happens! :-D

Any visitors to the Max homepage can now see a proper Windows page there, with Par2 files just in case you get a broken download.

I'm also working on a FAQ that should explain most of everything to anyone that doesn't follow AROS quite so closely :-) (including what to do to get the Native version burnt right)

Well that almost made sense ... catch you all later :-)

Oh yeah, thanks go to Nicholas for putting this together - hopefully the Mac emulated copy will open things up to a bunch more people too!

[Holley]

There is really a HUGE interest in this!

Tell me about it - when 0.2.0 was released we got through 40Gb of downloads (never mind the Torrent downloads), hence the need for a new ISP ... first question heard was 'is there a windows hosted version?' !

Anyway, there's a link to Olivier's existing Torrent tracker on the Website's download pages, and the Par2 files in the same place can be used if a Torrent download comes out broken.

[Holley]

The copy of AROS thats under Windows is running in a PC emulator (it's a whole virtual PC!) that can't access your hardware directly, hence the NVidia mode doesn't work.  The Vesa mode should be ok, and show whats what though ;-)

In the folder of WinAROS-Max the ISO file is the full 0.2.0 file, so burning it and booting it you might be able to use the NVidia mode (not sure about 6800 support, I know the definitions are getting an update soon though).  It works nicely with GeForce cards :-)

MDMA - we've moved 14Gb of data in the last day!

[Holley]

Nice to know I'm not the only person that it 'just works' for :-D

17Gb moved today by the way (!)

[Holley]

For the NVidia refresh rate, by default it is pretty high (like 70Hz or something).  I've only tried it using an LG StudioWorks 15" monitor, it worked but I had to adjust the settings to get it looking right.

I've had AROS running without a reboot on a vanilla Intel chipset machine without problems for 2 to 3 hours at a time, and only reset to clear stuff off the screen.  Let us know how you do with the IRQ and/or your new MB, hopefully it'll work better :-)