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Title: Questions according AROS
Post by: Blinx123 on July 22, 2006, 12:33:42 PM: Hi guys,
I´ve 2 questions according the native i386/x86 AROS OS.

1. Is it possible to play classic 68k Amiga games or PPC games in AROS?

2. I burnt the boot image to CD, but now I can´t get the quake wad data on it afterwards. The CD is burnt in multisession format and the quake wad is on it, but not on the boot session.
Title: Re: Questions according AROS
Post by: Wayne on July 22, 2006, 12:45:05 PM: question 1: NO

Aros is a OS designed to look like Amiga OS but for the PCs
so
Aros is an OS that runs only x86 programs designed to run on AROS

Question2:don't know

bye, Laser
Title: Re: Questions according AROS
Post by: dandelion on July 22, 2006, 12:56:57 PM: Much like MorphOS or OS 4, AROS is a fundamental shift away from "classic" hardware - just this time usinh widely available and cheap x86 processors instead of PPC. AROS doesn't yet have the JIT capabilities of the PPC commercial variants but there are plans to intergrate this low level emulation in the future. There are AROS native programs and the more people that get on board the more software there will be. UAE is available of course so that's an option, especially for games.
Title: Re: Questions according AROS
Post by: Blinx123 on July 22, 2006, 01:56:37 PM: Thanks. But how can I fix the CD boot session problem? Would AROS MAX help? What´s included in AROS MAX other than in the normal AROS?
Title: Re: Questions according AROS
Post by: mihcael on July 22, 2006, 02:42:01 PM: might get more help here...

http://aros-exec.org/modules/news/ (http://aros-exec.org/modules/news/)
Title: Re: Questions according AROS
Post by: Blinx123 on July 22, 2006, 05:26:02 PM: Ok,
I burnt a new version. Should work now. But one last question. Does someone of you know if it is possible to use a USB Stick under AROS. Because I don´t want to install AROS at the moment but play around with it and get some images and music files from the stick.
Title: Re: Questions according AROS
Post by: bloodline on July 22, 2006, 09:26:00 PM: Quote

Blinx123 wrote:
Ok,
I burnt a new version. Should work now. But one last question. Does someone of you know if it is possible to use a USB Stick under AROS. Because I don´t want to install AROS at the moment but play around with it and get some images and music files from the stick.

You'll have to wait for Michal to finish the USB stack for AROS :-)
Title: Re: Questions according AROS
Post by: Piru on July 22, 2006, 09:37:21 PM: Quote
You'll have to wait for Michal to finish the USB stack for AROS

...and someone to write FAT filesystem for AROS.
Title: Re: Questions according AROS
Post by: bloodline on July 23, 2006, 12:29:39 AM: Quote

Piru wrote:
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You'll have to wait for Michal to finish the USB stack for AROS

...and someone to write FAT filesystem for AROS.

Ugh... too true :-(
Title: Re: Questions according AROS
Post by: Blinx123 on July 23, 2006, 10:56:14 AM: Thanks. Hopefully it won´t take long till the USB stack is finished.
Title: Re: Questions according AROS
Post by: dammy on July 23, 2006, 12:06:53 PM: Michal's second daughter was just born about two week ago and he is in the final stages of submitting his Ph.D Thesis (he may have already done so very recently) and getting ready for his Ph.D final test so USB and AROS-64 developement has greatly slowed. You can see the Next Generation AROS Developers here (http://msaros.blogspot.com/).

As for USB sticks are concerned, this (http://thenostromo.com/teamaros2/?number=40) bounty really needs to be completed first so AROS has fairly easy time porting existing "Amiga" file systems.

Dammy
TeamAROS (http://www.teamaros.org)
Title: Re: Questions according AROS
Post by: dammy on July 23, 2006, 12:10:29 PM: Quote
I´ve 2 questions according the native i386/x86 AROS OS.

1. Is it possible to play classic 68k Amiga games or PPC games in AROS?

Only via EUAE. There is a bounty (http://thenostromo.com/teamaros2/?number=7) for initial/basic UAE integration into AROS which is the current target for TeamAROS-Benefactors' donations.

Dammy
TeamAROS (http://www.teamaros.org)
Title: Re: Questions according AROS
Post by: Piru on July 23, 2006, 12:34:35 PM: Quote
Quote
1. Is it possible to play classic 68k Amiga games or PPC games in AROS?

Only via EUAE. ...

That doessn't allow running PPC games, though.
Title: Re: Questions according AROS
Post by: dammy on July 23, 2006, 01:20:02 PM: Quote
That doessn't allow running PPC games, though.

Truism. Then again, there isn't enough PPC games to make it worth while to port a PPC emulator either.

Dammy
Title: Re: Questions according AROS
Post by: bloodline on July 23, 2006, 07:44:59 PM: Quote

dammy wrote:
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That doessn't allow running PPC games, though.

Truism. Then again, there isn't enough PPC games to make it worth while to port a PPC emulator either.

Dammy

There aren't enough (killer) 68k apps to make a 68k emulator worth while either...
Title: Re: Questions according AROS
Post by: dammy on July 23, 2006, 08:58:50 PM: I agree, but there are those who have been very numerous and vocal on wanting to run their 68K apps. They-we have pulled together a fair amount of money (just got a new donation a few hours ago for $10 [minus PayPal fees so $9.xx]) for it, so it's of major interest within the AROS community.

Dammy
Title: Re: Questions according AROS
Post by: pixie on July 23, 2006, 09:59:46 PM: Quote
There aren't enough (killer) 68k apps to make a 68k emulator worth while either...

I'll name you just one:
http://www.back2roots.org/ (http://www.back2roots.org/)
Sadly the server is down... :-(