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Current AROS Happenings
« on: September 12, 2007, 12:11:05 PM »
The AROS Show has summed up some recent activity in and around the AROS Operating System.


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Re: Current AROS Happenings
« Reply #1 on: September 12, 2007, 12:31:34 PM »
Nice update, can't wait to read your interview with Dr. Schulz. :cheers:

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Re: Current AROS Happenings
« Reply #2 on: September 12, 2007, 01:56:19 PM »
Thanks Dammy!
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Re: Current AROS Happenings
« Reply #3 on: September 18, 2007, 03:34:26 AM »
Can I ask what the kickstart replacement is for?  Seems to mee AROS just needs to boot off standard pc equipment, there's no place to put a kickstart rom in a PC and even if there was it's a bad idea to put system code in hardware, it's just a big dongle in the old (classic) Amigas.
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Re: Current AROS Happenings
« Reply #4 on: September 18, 2007, 02:27:20 PM »
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Can I ask what the kickstart replacement is for? Seems to mee AROS just needs to boot off standard pc equipment, there's no place to put a kickstart rom in a PC and even if there was it's a bad idea to put system code in hardware, it's just a big dongle in the old (classic) Amigas.


For using AROS on x86 Hardware, you dont need a Kickstart. But AROS is intended to be binary compatible with real Amiga OS when ported to a 68k Amiga. For that, you would need a Kickstart. It is also very interesting for UAE, WinUAE and Amiga Clones like the minimig.
 

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Re: Current AROS Happenings
« Reply #5 on: September 19, 2007, 01:15:57 PM »
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But AROS is intended to be binary compatible with real Amiga OS when ported to a 68k Amiga. For
that, you would need a Kickstart. It is also very interesting for UAE, WinUAE and Amiga Clones like
the minimig.


Should'nt the intention be toward the latter (UAE, or the integrated UAE to be more precise)
and not the former, classic amiga are just that, classic, IMHO AROS better think about the future
and not the past, the way I see it is that for every year that passes other alternative
operating systems grow, I certainly dont hope
AROS will be regarded incapable or a toy compared to, say, Haiku, especially when the whole user
experienece is so much more joyful on AROS, would be a shame if all these years of development
would end up for nothing.
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Re: Current AROS Happenings
« Reply #6 on: September 20, 2007, 04:38:22 PM »
@Einstein

Perhaps not enough material is getting out what AROS is doing.  I'm been sitting in #aros channel on freenode.org's IRC network watching as AROS64 kernel is being developed. Also Rob's work on SDL continues as he makes advancements for AROS hosted. Neil is finishing up a new AROS installer as well.  It's been a long summer, but some of the large projects are about to finish in the next coming weeks.

October maybe full of suprises. :-D

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