First Aros 68k Kickstart boot screen!

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Originally Posted by commodorejohn  
Could use a different splash screen, though; I never did care much for the KS2-3 one anyway.

I vote for a bouncing Boing Ball, or the Juggler.

Guys!!! It's AROS, it's open source... you can have whatever boot screen you like

I've waited 10 years to see this. So I'm pretty pleased.

Toni Willen (of UAE fame) has joined the project to help with hardware support, so soon we will have a totally free, UAE... no illegal/grey ROMs needed... Also AROS can be tailored to fit UAE better (more direct hardware control)... only good things can come from this.

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

From the website:



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...

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)?

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A4000 with CyberStorm PPC and A1200 with Blizzard PPC running MorphOS. Very early on the userland was mostly AmigaOS with 68k apps. Also, not all kickstart modules were PPC native replacements yet, so some 68k modules from the kickstart ROM were used.

Using gcc on AmigaOS? Or did you guys use any Mac/PC machines for large builds?

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A small correction, if I may:

Because there was no person interested and with enough knowledge and time. Now such person joined the team and the projected kickstarted.

What is nice is that since Jason has push the 68k section forward, other devs have joined in to assist! It really got the ball rolling

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"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."

Yeah, that sounds very open source to me.

I appreciate your use of sarcasm here, but it isn't warranted. The MOS guys returned all the AROS code they used with bug fixes an a few extra features here and there... Without the MPL licence AROS wouldn't have got the bug fixes, full stop... It was a win win.

You can still make money with a GPL license. And it would really look more professional and legitimate to allow an object third party to say what the conditions are.

Selling:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html

AROS source code is there, you can download it, learn from it, play with it, do what you want... It will always exist in the public view, it will always be there, fork it if you like... I honestly can't see your objections in this regard. Shrug... Why waste your time arguing semantics?