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Title: Reply once if you've tried AROS
Post by: bloodline on July 22, 2003, 08:37:46 PM: In keeping with the AmigaONE and MOS threads, AROS was feeling a little left out...

:-)
Title: Re: Reply once if you've tried AROS
Post by: sdesros on July 22, 2003, 08:42:29 PM: Tried a self-booting and had problems getting it to run (that was a few months ago, didn't work off of CD, worked off of a floppy.)

A month or so later I picked up a linux-x86 native version and played around with it (it locked up on me after a few minutes).

I'll probably look into it a bit more in the future.
Title: Re: Reply once if you've tried AROS
Post by: iamaboringperson on July 22, 2003, 08:45:18 PM: Quote
feeling a little left out...
:-o

yeah! ive tried it! a number of times! and i must say: "I LOVED IT!" and ill try it again! :-)
Title: Re: Reply once if you've tried AROS
Post by: Plaz on July 22, 2003, 08:48:35 PM: I tried it a few moths ago from bootable CD. It was fun, but very limited in what I could do. Can't wait till it has more functionallity.

Plaz
Title: Re: Reply once if you've tried AROS
Post by: N7VQM on July 22, 2003, 08:53:04 PM: I tried it from a bootable CD a few months ago but I didn't like my video hardware. I have a different machine now (old one fried by lightning) so I'll give another go once I find the disc...
Title: Re: Reply once if you've tried AROS
Post by: Peggus on July 22, 2003, 09:01:48 PM: Tried it, very interesting but not so useful at the moment. I'll definitly be checking back in the future.
Keep up the great work.
Title: Re: Reply once if you've tried AROS
Post by: JetFireDX on July 22, 2003, 09:05:57 PM: I downloaded, burned, and booted a disc about 3 weeks ago. Ran like a dream. Later that week I donated some $$$ to help with development. (I am not a coder) I loved it and I can't wait until I can have it on my machine all the time.
Title: Re: Reply once if you've tried AROS
Post by: DethKnight on July 22, 2003, 09:14:28 PM: ONCE
Title: Re: Reply once if you've tried AROS
Post by: Hooligan_DCS on July 22, 2003, 09:17:45 PM: Tried once. Didn't work. Haven't tried the very latst AROS though.
Title: Re: Reply once if you've tried AROS
Post by: uncharted on July 22, 2003, 09:36:54 PM: I tried it once, but wasn't too impressed.

Then I reaslised it would be better to try a recent version, and liked it so much I signed up to the dev list :-D
Title: Re: Reply once if you've tried AROS
Post by: restore2003 on July 22, 2003, 09:42:01 PM: Tried the cd version a week ago, worked fine, zune looks 50% done, not much u can do with it yet

:-)
Title: Re: Reply once if you've tried AROS
Post by: Glorix on July 22, 2003, 09:48:29 PM: Tried it, loved it. Very anxious to see a TCP stack and Gailhead's emulator sometime in the future.
Title: Re: Reply once if you've tried AROS
Post by: Alcamino on July 22, 2003, 09:59:18 PM: Tried the boot ISO CD last month.... It was FAST! (Athlon 2400+ & 512MB Ram)... about to try latest nightly build.... Awesome work guys! :-o
Quote

:hammer:
Title: Re: Reply once if you've tried AROS
Post by: 4pLaY on July 22, 2003, 10:04:44 PM: Latetly the build hasent been 100% working so it might be a good idea to wait a few more nights before trying another build again :-) then again it might be fixed with the next nigthly! also for the future ill try to have online a build that is considered "stable" (stable is a big word it dosent mean AROS Is 100% stable but that ive tried the iso on several of my pcs/other peoples pcs and that it works at least here).
Title: Re: Reply once if you've tried AROS
Post by: Xand on July 22, 2003, 10:08:14 PM: I've tried it. It works on my Crateway at work and doesn't work on my machine at home. It seems to be a video and USB mouse problem.
I like it and can't wait until I can dump Windows and dual boot AROS and Linux.
Title: Re: Reply once if you've tried AROS
Post by: 4pLaY on July 22, 2003, 10:09:53 PM: No wonder it dosent work on your PC at home we have no USB support yet :) use a PS2 mouse/key.
Title: Re: Reply once if you've tried AROS
Post by: Hammer on July 22, 2003, 10:20:28 PM: I have tried several AROS X86 releases…
Title: Re: Reply once if you've tried AROS
Post by: fx on July 22, 2003, 10:26:57 PM: I have tried several releases and I love it.
Title: Re: Reply once if you've tried AROS
Post by: Samuar on July 22, 2003, 10:28:24 PM: Yep, once, downloaded the iso image for x86 live cd, burnt it and tried on the AthlonXP. was alrite. not brilliant tho. but its at an early stage and has plenty of potential

....plus its open source :D
Title: Re: Reply once if you've tried AROS
Post by: Revener on July 22, 2003, 10:32:42 PM: Tested once, will try again sometime in the future.

It seems to be good, keep up the good work.
Title: Re: Reply once if you've tried AROS
Post by: Tomas on July 22, 2003, 10:32:45 PM: I tried it for first time a few days ago... Used the live aros cd, booted like a charm, was also pretty responsive :-)
But not much useful applications on it yet, so pretty unusable for me at the moment :-(

But it looks very promising! Just need some more software, a tcp/ip stack and we are all set ;-)
Title: Re: Reply once if you've tried AROS
Post by: amigamad on July 22, 2003, 11:02:41 PM: I tried it and it worked fine very stable on my asus machine but like skyos it needs a lot more work .
Title: Re: Reply once if you've tried AROS
Post by: Blomberg on July 22, 2003, 11:10:43 PM: Tried the floppy version a long time ago, booted fine, but wasn't very usable (I'm not a developer).
Tried the ISO a couple of months ago, but wouldn't boot at all :-(
Title: Re: Reply once if you've tried AROS
Post by: jeffimix on July 22, 2003, 11:57:43 PM: used boot floppy, meh, need newer version really, but IBM 300GL doesn;t like me
Title: Re: Reply once if you've tried AROS
Post by: Dan on July 23, 2003, 12:43:30 AM: I have only tried the floppydisk version, I haven´t got a CD-burner yet and I don´t have a proper linux-installation yet.
Title: Re: Reply once if you've tried AROS
Post by: spihunter on July 23, 2003, 03:01:48 AM: It runs on both of my PC's and under virtual PC on my Mac.
:-D
Title: Re: Reply once if you've tried AROS
Post by: DFergATL on July 23, 2003, 03:31:31 AM: I tried the one Matt Parsons has on his site from May and it booted fine, had fun with it. The latest builds from the website will not boot for me. I am using an AMDXP 2500+. Anyone else have this problem with the latest builds?
Title: Re: Reply once if you've tried AROS
Post by: dammy on July 23, 2003, 05:24:44 AM: Tried, loved it, want it. It's getting to the point that I'm passing out floppies to people who are interested in alternative OSs. And of course, formed TeamAROS (http://www.thenostromo.com/teamaros/) to help out the devs with financial incentives.

Dammy
Title: Re: Reply once if you've tried AROS
Post by: bhoggett on July 23, 2003, 08:08:46 AM: Tried it, and it worked fine until it hit some misconfigured demo app, when it froze solid. Very Amiga-like. ;-)

It's looking good, but has a very long way to go before it becomes remotely useful to anyone.
Title: Re: Reply once if you've tried AROS
Post by: mschulz on July 23, 2003, 08:09:50 AM: It happens for me quite often ;)
Title: Re: Reply once if you've tried AROS
Post by: Crumb on July 23, 2003, 10:42:35 AM: I tried it a few times... it lacks apps, a 68k emu would solve many problems... including the tcp/ip stack for example...
Title: Re: Reply once if you've tried AROS
Post by: Ni72ous on July 23, 2003, 10:53:32 AM: Tried a few different cds, i like it, it is should be really good when fully functional.
Title: Re: Reply once if you've tried AROS
Post by: shaf on July 23, 2003, 12:47:31 PM: The Floppy versions work fine for me.

I have never been able to succcessfully boot with the CD Image, although my system is usin g a SCSI CD-ROM and SCSI HDD.

Is there a way to extract the new ISO's in Windows, I can't successfully extract the *.gz2 image after the first untar?

Unfortunately my download box doesn't have a Linux distro on it.
Title: Re: Reply once if you've tried AROS
Post by: Radfoo on July 23, 2003, 02:30:17 PM: Yep, I have a go with it now and then.

It is very promising, as soon as it gets either TCP/IP or a 68k emu it will become a very functional OS.
Title: Re: Reply once if you've tried AROS
Post by: dammy on July 23, 2003, 02:42:51 PM: TCP/IP stack is being worked on (huge project). UAE was ported awhile ago. An updated UAE needs to be done.

AROS could always use some more devs. ;)

Dammy
Title: Re: Reply once if you've tried AROS
Post by: bloodline on July 23, 2003, 06:42:56 PM: Quote

shaf wrote:
The Floppy versions work fine for me.

I have never been able to succcessfully boot with the CD Image, although my system is usin g a SCSI CD-ROM and SCSI HDD.

Is there a way to extract the new ISO's in Windows, I can't successfully extract the *.gz2 image after the first untar?

Unfortunately my download box doesn't have a Linux distro on it.

Saddly there is no SCSI support at the moment. You can only use IDE devices.
Title: Re: Reply once if you've tried AROS
Post by: that_punk_guy on July 23, 2003, 07:36:09 PM: tried an iso about 2 or 3 months ago... it needs apps badly, I'd love to see it mature and see software available for it that really takes advantage of my beast of a PC (two of which I could build for the price of an AmigaOne, but that's another thread... :-) )
Title: Re: Reply once if you've tried AROS
Post by: melott on July 23, 2003, 07:42:52 PM: Tried the floppy ver. them burned a CD ver.
I love it ..... am waiting, like everyone else for
a 68k emu. and the we can Rock & Roll.

Mel Ott
:-) :-D ;-)
Title: Re: Reply once if you've tried AROS
Post by: Gopal on July 23, 2003, 08:10:34 PM: Tried it, like it, waiting for more.
Title: Re: Reply once if you've tried AROS
Post by: dammy on July 23, 2003, 08:34:25 PM: by that_punk_guy on 2003/7/23 14:36:09

Quote
ried an iso about 2 or 3 months ago... it needs apps badly, I'd love to see it mature and see software available for it that really takes advantage of my beast of a PC (two of which I could build for the price of an AmigaOne, but that's another thread...

Did you also download the contrib ISO for more apps?

Dammy
Title: Re: Reply once if you've tried AROS
Post by: 4pLaY on July 23, 2003, 08:44:54 PM: i thought you guys might like to see some new development that has been going on with AROS :) check out this screenshot http://www.chodorowski.com/aros/screenshots/aafonts+gradientbuttons.png and for the lastet info dont forget irc.freenode.net #aros :-).
Title: Re: Reply once if you've tried AROS
Post by: bloodline on July 23, 2003, 11:48:12 PM: New AROS Screenshot with Antialiased text!!! (http://www.chodorowski.com/aros/screenshots/aafonts+gradientbuttons.png )
Title: Re: Reply once if you've tried AROS
Post by: on July 24, 2003, 12:00:23 AM: Quote

bloodline wrote:
New AROS Screenshot with Antialiased text!!! (http://www.chodorowski.com/aros/screenshots/aafonts+gradientbuttons.png )

Very nice! :-D
Title: Re: Reply once if you've tried AROS
Post by: Hammer on July 24, 2003, 12:02:43 AM: Quote

bloodline wrote:
New AROS Screenshot with Antialiased text!!! (http://www.chodorowski.com/aros/screenshots/aafonts+gradientbuttons.png )

Very nice…
Title: Re: Reply once if you've tried AROS
Post by: iamaboringperson on July 24, 2003, 12:10:07 AM: Quote

Hammer wrote:

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bloodline wrote:
New AROS Screenshot with Antialiased text!!! (http://www.chodorowski.com/aros/screenshots/aafonts+gradientbuttons.png )

Very nice…
erm... im sure that exact pic was posted not long ago...
Title: Re: Reply once if you've tried AROS
Post by: Dr_Righteous on July 24, 2003, 09:08:35 AM: Do any Snapshots exist? I can't seem to find them. I tried the 7/23/03 ISO on two different machines, K6-2/400 and a P3/667... All I get is a black screen with a mouse pointer, and the mouse only moved in a small area of the screen (tho the size of the area changed with res).
Title: Re: Reply once if you've tried AROS
Post by: bloodline on July 24, 2003, 10:35:36 AM: Quote

Dr_Righteous wrote:
Do any Snapshots exist? I can't seem to find them. I tried the 7/23/03 ISO on two different machines, K6-2/400 and a P3/667... All I get is a black screen with a mouse pointer, and the mouse only moved in a small area of the screen (tho the size of the area changed with res).

The current nightly build has problems loading Wanderer, if you hold down the mouse buttons during the boot will bring up the "Early Boot menu", this will allow you to "boot without startup-sequence" and you can then boot to Shell.

Alternativly wait until the build is fixed, or you can try my older build:

AROS (http://www.ahsodit.com/aros/)
Title: Re: Reply once if you've tried AROS
Post by: Emufreak on July 24, 2003, 09:30:19 PM: I tried it and I can't wait for the "final" version
Title: Re: Reply once if you've tried AROS
Post by: hagar on July 24, 2003, 10:10:21 PM: Yes, a couple of times.
Title: Re: Reply once if you've tried AROS
Post by: Hammer on July 24, 2003, 11:20:42 PM: Quote

iamaboringperson wrote:
Quote

Hammer wrote:

Quote

bloodline wrote:
New AROS Screenshot with Antialiased text!!! (http://www.chodorowski.com/aros/screenshots/aafonts+gradientbuttons.png )

Very nice…
erm... im sure that exact pic was posted not long ago...

I could have missed it…
Title: Re: Reply once if you've tried AROS
Post by: Gaidheal on July 24, 2003, 11:54:16 PM: 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.
Title: Re: Reply once if you've tried AROS
Post by: iamaboringperson on July 25, 2003, 12:35:22 AM: i wonder if the AROS guys would consider a closed source comercial version(aimed at beginngers perhaps) release seperatly to raise money, and why/whynot?
Title: Re: Reply once if you've tried AROS
Post by: Gaidheal on July 25, 2003, 12:43:38 AM: Speaking for myself..

No, because it is not needed. If a "Beginner" version (or even a switchable interface) is needed, we'll put that in and still release the source. If people want to donate to the project, so much the better. Also, anyone wanting to make a commerical version, can, within the licence terms, since it is Open Source. AROS should (and I am pretty sure will) remain free and Open Source.

edit: incidentally, AROS code is present in both AmigaOS4 and MorphOS. To illustrate the point about commercial reuse of Open Source.
Title: Re: Reply once if you've tried AROS
Post by: T_Bone on July 25, 2003, 04:01:35 AM: Quote

bloodline wrote:
In keeping with the AmigaONE and MOS threads, AROS was feeling a little left out...

:-)

I use it.
Title: Re: Reply once if you've tried AROS
Post by: bloodline on July 25, 2003, 11:31:02 AM: Quote

iamaboringperson wrote:
i wonder if the AROS guys would consider a closed source comercial version(aimed at beginngers perhaps) release seperatly to raise money, and why/whynot?

I am planning to release a distribution aimed at the beginer. It won't be Closed source, it will we available for free from my Web site, but I will also have the option to buy a CD for a nominal price should one wish.
Any Profits would go into "Bountys" for the AROS team so that they can be "paid" for the work they do.

Obviously this is not really something that could work now, as the IDE.device is really dodgy and the GFX drivers still have issues with some gfx cards, we have no sound card drivers... and without TCP/IP I can't run a "live update" service, which would be vital for beginers.
Title: Re: Reply once if you've tried AROS
Post by: Elwood on July 25, 2003, 11:34:52 AM: Tried it several times but on floppy disk only....
Title: Re: Reply once if you've tried AROS
Post by: dammy on July 25, 2003, 03:28:27 PM: by bloodline on 2003/7/25 6:31:02

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Obviously this is not really something that could work now, as the IDE.device is really dodgy and the GFX drivers still have issues with some gfx cards, we have no sound card drivers... and without TCP/IP I can't run a "live update" service, which would be vital for beginers.

Speaking of update service, any thoughts on how to do the packaging?

Dammy
Title: Re: Reply once if you've tried AROS
Post by: bloodline on July 25, 2003, 03:38:44 PM: Quote

dammy wrote:
by bloodline on 2003/7/25 6:31:02

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Obviously this is not really something that could work now, as the IDE.device is really dodgy and the GFX drivers still have issues with some gfx cards, we have no sound card drivers... and without TCP/IP I can't run a "live update" service, which would be vital for beginers.

Speaking of update service, any thoughts on how to do the packaging?

Dammy

A Cheap CD-R in brown paper bag... with an elastic band holing it shut. :lol:
Title: Re: Reply once if you've tried AROS
Post by: AmiNTT on July 25, 2003, 03:52:37 PM: Downloaded it, tried it, didn't work, deleted it. :-(

Unfortunately, it didn't pass my 10 minute rule. The rule is simple; if I can't get a piece of softwar working or close to working in 10 minutes, I toss it.

I'll try it again in six months.
Title: Re: Reply once if you've tried AROS
Post by: Ni72ous on July 25, 2003, 04:00:34 PM: @Bloodline

One thing, when i last tried AROS i found a Mame folder but with no contents, is it on the contributions cd?
Title: Re: Reply once if you've tried AROS
Post by: bloodline on July 25, 2003, 04:02:23 PM: Quote

NitrousB wrote:
@Bloodline

One thing, when i last tried AROS i found a Mame folder but with no contents, is it on the contributions cd?

No you have to build MAME separately. We don't include it in the main Archive.
I don't know why as I've not actually used it.
Title: Re: Reply once if you've tried AROS
Post by: dammy on July 25, 2003, 05:40:20 PM: by bloodline on 2003/7/25 10:38:44

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A Cheap CD-R in brown paper bag... with an elastic band holing it shut.

Heh, not quiet what I ment by packaging. I ment software packaging so that updates can be performed online.

Dammy
Title: Re: Reply once if you've tried AROS
Post by: Gaidheal on July 26, 2003, 04:56:01 PM: @AmiNTT

What build?

What hardware do you have?

How long ago was this?

In what way did it not work?

Ever considered passing feedback to the people who made it rather than trying to look clever with a "10 minute rule"?

(P.S. Amiga easily fails the 10 minute rule for people used to real PCs :¬) )
Title: Re: Reply once if you've tried AROS
Post by: Hammer on July 27, 2003, 09:01:50 AM: AROS 0.07b (~23 May 2003) ISO was the last working AROS for my boxes.

Tried “AROS-20030722-i386-pc-boot-iso.tar.bz2” it didn't work with my old test Athlon M4/MSI-6330 V3.6(VIA KT class)/PC133 512Mb/Geforce2/SbLive5.1DE/Sony CD-RW/Samsung DVD-ROM box i.e. The PC did't recognised the ISO as 'bootable' (even WinISO 5.3 indicated as bootable). Copying 0.07b’s ‘aros.bin’ made it boot…(Other issues cropped up, oh well...)

I haven’t tried “AROS-20030722-i386-pc-boot-iso.tar.bz2” on my other AthlonXP/ASUS A7N8X Deluxe/PC2700 512Mb/Geforce4 TI MyVIVO/Soundstorm box, since I'm currently downloading "AROS-20030727-i386-pc-boot-iso.tar.bz2"....

Addendum (after the download):
“AROS-20030727-i386-pc-boot-iso” works for MSI-6330 V3.6 box...
Title: Re: Reply once if you've tried AROS
Post by: Bobsonsirjonny on July 27, 2003, 11:12:31 AM: MSI KT4V mainboard (old board got a dry joint)
Athlon XP1700+
Geforce 4 Ti 4200 (cos my radeon buggered up)
256 ram (cos my gig got screwed with mainboard)
Onboard 5.1 sound - not tested as I didnt have a long enough cable)
Creative DVD Rom Drive
Lite on 52x CDRW drive (cos my other one broke)
2 x 160gb 7200 rpm drives with 8mb cache :-D (anout the only bit Im proud of)

AROS worked fine :-)

(all those bit went quite recently as well..... Keyboard is ok though :-P
Title: Re: Reply once if you've tried AROS
Post by: bloodline on July 27, 2003, 12:07:33 PM: Quote

dammy wrote:
by bloodline on 2003/7/25 10:38:44

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A Cheap CD-R in brown paper bag... with an elastic band holing it shut.

Heh, not quiet what I ment by packaging. I ment software packaging so that updates can be performed online.

Dammy

I know what you meant ;-)

We haven't decided, but I suspect it will be a script that checks your system and then downloads and installs newer versions of the system components if available.
I would intened this system to be for people who really don't want to know if their asl.library is out of date. They just want it to magically be updated.

Other users can do it manually, if they wish, it's not like there is anything cryptic in AmigaOS/AROS...
Title: Re: Reply once if you've tried AROS
Post by: mauma on July 27, 2003, 02:54:42 PM: I've tried AROS a month ago.
It sure has the Amiga feeling.
When it becomes stable and there is a good development environment, then I'm going to use it more frequently :-)
Title: Re: Reply once if you've tried AROS
Post by: Housey on July 27, 2003, 05:50:55 PM: Just tried the new ISO. BIG improvement on the last one I tried.

The last one gave some graphical glitches when I tried it. Although that was on a PC with about half or less the spec of this one (which is a 2400XP).

It looks very promosing, now. Booted in seconds, the demos all rocked and it seems much more useable.
As others have said 68k emu and TCP/IP will make it one hell of a lot better.

I would also like to be able to see the other partitions on my hard disk, don't know if this is already possible.

Keep it up ! ;-)
Title: Re: Reply once if you've tried AROS
Post by: DaveWC on July 27, 2003, 06:07:08 PM: I tried the floppy image a while back. It was the first amiga-like experience I had in a long while, since frying my A1200 in a botched attempt to tower it.

I must say allthough only a brief experience, it bought memories flooding back. No doubt I'll install the linux hosted version once I have slackware up and running for my next uni siemester.

A question though, does one have to be a true Amiga stalwart to get into developing for AROS?

How's AROS' API documentation coming along? Or rather what Amiga literature should I be looking for? Bearing in mind I have ZERO Amiga programming experience but do have solid C/C++ knowledge.

(Hello by the way, I'm new here)
Title: Re: Reply once if you've tried AROS
Post by: KThunder on July 27, 2003, 06:18:01 PM: I've been keeping a close eye on AROS since the beginning and have tried it numerous times. It is fantastic to see the progress they have made. I wish i could help in more than finacial ways, but I suck at c.
Title: Re: Reply once if you've tried AROS
Post by: dammy on July 27, 2003, 06:56:26 PM: by DaveWC on 2003/7/27 13:07:08

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How's AROS' API documentation coming along? Or rather what Amiga literature should I be looking for? Bearing in mind I have ZERO Amiga programming experience but do have solid C/C++ knowledge.

AROS always needs more Devs like you. =) You can Start here (http://www.aros.org/documentation/developers/contribute.php) and you may want to join the
Dev's ML (http://mail.aros.org/mailman/listinfo/aros-dev/).

Or hit irc.freenode.org in #aros and chat with the Devs as they can give you quick replies to your questions.

Dammy
Title: Re: Reply once if you've tried AROS
Post by: Gaidheal on July 27, 2003, 11:22:21 PM: Ditto what Dammy said. My own background is C/C++ developing for Windows, especially NT5 (XP/2000).

I have never programmed for the Amiga and actually never owned one. Something which may shortly be rectified.
Title: Re: Reply once if you've tried AROS
Post by: Ilwrath on July 28, 2003, 12:09:21 AM: Hmm... I tried AROS a while back and thought it was interesting, yet still needed some work. Had an hour or so today, so I decided to try out the latest version from AROS.org, and see how's it's grown recently.

Had some pretty serious issues on the Linux-hosted version. Posted them to the bug-tracker at SourceForge. This the proper procedure?
Title: Re: Reply once if you've tried AROS
Post by: Gaidheal on July 28, 2003, 12:14:14 AM: Probably... what sort of issues? There are some nasty IDE ones with the x86 native at the moment, but I thought everything was working well on the *nix hosted versions...
Title: Re: Reply once if you've tried AROS
Post by: Ilwrath on July 28, 2003, 05:13:34 AM: Quote
Probably... what sort of issues? There are some nasty IDE ones with the x86 native at the moment, but I thought everything was working well on the *nix hosted versions...

It would segfault on start. shortly before, it would spit out a message of
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!!! COULD NOT CREATE OFSCREEN X11 BITMAP FOR SUPPLIED ATTRS !!!

Don't quite know what that means... and didn't take things apart enough to try to figure it out. Similiar results on both the binary and source versions.