Yikes!
I take a couple of day break to try and get a young woman into my be... I mean, "for personal reasons" and this thread happens! :¬)
Looks like a lot of people are axiously awaiting my work.. errrk! Nice to see heavy interest in AROS.
Oh yes, I am using the latest build and it works fine, aside from VERY buggy HDD support. So buggy I cannot make it install to the HDD under VMWare (don't trust it to my real drive yet, but might let it have a shot at an external through my USB-to-IDE adapter). However, it boots perfectly from the ISO image mounted as a CD-ROM, it booted perfectly from the same image burnt to CD-RW and it performs fine in all respects, for me, aside from HDD issues. Limited? Yup. But definitely well on the way to doing what we need, I think.
A few tips: There is no USB support, on my machine, if not using VMWare I need to totally disable USB in the BIOS otherwise the thing locks up hopelessly. To unpack the images I now use WinRAR. But for those who want a simple method, Matt should have a more recent build up on his page pretty soon and the last one he had up worked pretty well too. These are .zip files and should be easy for Windows users to work with.
As for emulation.. well I was attempting some coding tonight, but not getting anywhere (bit run down and tired at the moment) but the fact that so many people are clearly interested in AROS with many citing the emulation as what they are really waiting for... I shall get back on the case either this weekend or monday, depending on commitments like TKD and dates with Laura :¬)
For those who are interested.. we have actually managed to compile and execute a small application all under AROS. It was done with TCC, I believe. This is by no means at the stage where we can "self compile" but we are closer everyday and I shall be playing with this myself next week, as well as working on the emulation routines.
Oh! While I remember, UAE is also being actively worked on again (AROS port) and this will DEFINITELY be available before my emulation is ready and likely available very soon.
