Kickstart ROM Replacement (Phase II) Assigned

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I'll echo what vidarh said and add hat they are also a good way to show your appreciation for the work undertaken to add specific functionality to the project. There are lots of (indeed most of) parts of AROS that have been developed simply as a labour of love by a particular developer, without the motivation of a bounty.

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Bootshell now works and we have a graphical display (thanks to Toni), good stuff! Reminds me of the state AROS x86 native was in 10 years ago

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i dont like that about changing the abi. any details why it was neccessary? is that the problem wit the particular gcc version they are using? 4.5.1? how about downgrade?

Just a short term problem, trying to force gcc to use to the Address registers the way the Amiga expects

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i am contributing to bounties i expect to be completed. for instance: i would have contributed to opensource poseidon (although i already have it available on 68k) but it went so fast that i was late. given the record of chris hodges it was obvious that it will be completed in short. i contributed a little to kickstart bounty, when it wasnt assigned to anyone that seem to be capable to complete it, but now i contributed again because i expect results in a short therm. i do not contribute to update zune compatibility to mui4, although i would like to, but i do not see chances for it to be assigned atm. i didnt contribute to firefox either, because as 68k user it has no value to me, as its been stated it will ont work below 4.1 and also because i do not believe that developers that have to develop and maintain the whole operating system all alone have enough time left for that.

Slightly off topic, but why bother with Firefox? Surely a webkit browser is a much better idea... And we have that with OWB, which I have used on my AROS laptop without issue (as an iPhone user, I'm used to a flashless Internet)... I expect with enough RAM, OWB works fine on 68k too!

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Correct me if I'm wrong because I have a poor knowledge on this. But is this Kickstart replacement a reverse engineering of the original Kickstart?

Anyways, I love how AROS is doing well. Might try it to my computer soon. I am a mere new guy in the Amiga world and I respect all the people maintaining how great Amiga (or AmigaOS) is.

Sort of... Basically AROS is an operating system build to the same specification as AmigaOS, this is quite easy to do as the OS was VERY well documented... In theory it should be a drop in replacement for the original OS, Jason and Toni are currently working through the source code fixing areas of incompatibility

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AROS 68K gives me wet dreams... Someone had to say it!

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Will it offer any udgraded functionality, such as c2p or a ham aware screenmode prefs?

Already does RTG is built into AROS.

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Sooner this is done sooner Cloanto can drop dead with their legal Kickstart Amiga Forever stranglehold.

Cloanto managed to stop A Inc sitting on the Kickstart ROM an letting them rot in some lawyers IP filing cabinet... They want free ROMs as much as you do... More so in fact as they have contributed to this bounty

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Like 99% of the UAE/WinUAE users I don't care about AROS 68K, wake me up when I have a legal FREE file to load a game's ADFs in WinUAE without breaking A Inc copyright/IP

Should be quite suitable for that now... It's the high level parts of the OS that need work.

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For the love of the Amiga, please change this awfull mouse pointer by another better one...

There are so many more important things to sort out before worrying about the mouse pointer, which is user customisable anyway

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Great!

I am just looking forward that Amiga 68k hunk compatibility gets achieved (not just a loader).

In that way, we can freely mix Aros68k with native AmigaOS68k files, and get the best from both worlds.

It does use Amiga hunk files, and you can mix and match to some degree (AROS components are ELF files), But AROS can load both