Kickstart ROM Replacement (Phase II) Assigned

[dammy]

Link is dead

Worked fine for me.  Glad to see AROS68K is progressing so nicely.

[Hattig]

It's good to see progress being made.

[deadwood]

Toni and Jason started working on workbench replacement fitting into ROM modules. Here are first results (original AmigaOS 3.1 Workbench disk booted using AROS Rom in WinUAE)



Some more information from Jason:

"Workbook: Super lightweight Workbench/Wanderer replacement
   
    Workbook is a BOOPSI based Workbench replacement, designed
    for very light weight systems, namely Amiga m68k.
   
    This is the initial prototype checkin, which can (before it
    crashes due to some memory corruption I haven't fully
    diagnosed yet) open the disk volumes, drawers, and launch
    applications.
   
    TODO: Stop crashing, snapshops, copy, paste, rename, info, etc etc.
   
    Total compiled size is 20k on m68k.
   
This is *not* meant as a replacement for Wanderer on full systems. It is for low memory/slow cpu systems, and as an exerciser for workbench.library."

[bloodline]

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

[Khephren]

Toni and Jason started working on workbench replacement fitting into ROM modules. Here are first results (original AmigaOS 3.1 Workbench disk booted using AROS Rom in WinUAE)



Some more information from Jason:

"Workbook: Super lightweight Workbench/Wanderer replacement
   
    Workbook is a BOOPSI based Workbench replacement, designed
    for very light weight systems, namely Amiga m68k.
    "

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

[bloodline]

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

Already does RTG is built into AROS.

[haywirepc]

This is fantastic work, fantastic news. Say goodbye to the AINC stranglehold on the roms. Hey silly billy, here's one more reason your going to need a real job finally you slouch amiga grave robbing prick!
 
These guys are doing just fabulous work. QUICK! Someone get them a briefcase full of coke and some asian hookers. Whatever it takes to keep them coding and happy, its the least we can do.
 
Steven

[warpdesign]

Just had a small look: NICE!

It's felling like we're back in 1985

Toni and Jason (and all other people involved !) are really doing an amazing work!

[Digiman]

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

[wawrzon]

http://img705.imageshack.us/i/workbook.jpg/

[Louis Dias]

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

Why the Cloanto hate?
They are one of the biggest contributors to this bounty if I'm not mistaken.

They have never wronged the community and have provided us with a legal way to emulate Amiga.  Now they won't have to pay licensing fees either.

[SysAdmin]

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

Not their idea.

[nicholas]

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

Just curious, but did you go by the handle of DMan in the 90's?

[Khephren]

Already does RTG is built into AROS.

I mean on AGA machines without a graphics card?
It annoys me that shapeshifter runs in HAM8 but my WB won't. (well, there's a screenmode hack to run WB and icons in HAM, but it WBpattern just draws backdrops in their base colours)

Very good news though, iv'e really enjoyed using AROS recently, it coming on leaps and bounds. And means we can add features without having to ask Amiga, Cloanto, Hyperion or anyone elses perrmission to tinker with our own machines.

[dammy]

oops

[bloodline]

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