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Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga Software News => Topic started by: dammy on November 24, 2004, 07:34:08 PM
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Thanks to CoolCat, AROS-Max-0.2.2 (stable vs 0.3.0 developement) can be downloaded at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/katejames/Amiga . This is a live CD for x86.
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Woohoo, Time to get a CD burnin' :-D
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I'll try it out....
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Downloading :-).
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0.2.2 is looking rather fine!
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release notes?
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AROS-MAX 0.2.2(selected nVidia) looks and plays nice on my work's PC.
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Woot! The drive clicks, the colours were all wrong and it hung! Just like a real miggy :-D.
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What is AROS-Max??
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Tweaked AROS(open source AmigaOS clone) Live CD distribution. This release runs on X86 PC.
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It hangs on some stuff, some doesn't work at all or do anything but other than that, it feels and looks amiga to me, impressive stuff. If they ever get tcp/ip and the hard drives mounted it'll be good for a go :)
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I was impressed, only tried it for 5 mins, late last night, but didnt realise AROS was so advanced, booted first time on my amd/asus/ati powered pc..
Couldnt get it to boot on my laptopn, think beacuse it was looking for a floppy that wasnt ther
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Bugs and other annoyances found in AROS-Max should be posted here (http://aros-exec.org/modules/newbb/viewforum.php?forum=6).
Dammy
TeamAROS
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Woot! The drive clicks, the colours were all wrong and it hung! Just like a real miggy :-D.
:roflmao:
Yup brings real Amiga experience to your PC!
@dmac721 You can mount Hard drives (and Amiga hard drives), you can even install AROS and boot from them.
"2 more weeks" (tm) for the TCP/IP though :-D
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Couldnt get it to boot on my laptopn, think beacuse it was looking for a floppy that wasnt ther
I had a similar problem with on of my machines, I just switched the Floppy drive on in the BIOS (even though there was no actual floppy drive attached) and AROS booted just fine.
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I don't know if its a bug, but it seems that my mouse (logitech ps2) doesn't work. Everything boots fine and the keyboard also works, but I can't move the pointer.
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what was changed from the previous to this release?
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oh sorry, I just saw that its in fact a serial mouse. I gues then aros has (like amithlon I think) no support for serial mice?
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Thats correct rayt! no serial mice support! and with all the more important things we need to add support for serial mice isnt very high im afraid.
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Im a bit busy, so havnt got time to register and stuff to post on the aros max forum, prehaps someone here can help
I have a dell cpx 500mnhz pentium 3 256mb ram,ati laptop jobby. When I try booting aros max in normal mode, it goes so far, then i get loads of warning messages about wander, non dos disk, in the boot shell window, and then everything stops
if i use failsafe mode, i get the pointer a red pointer on black screen, floppy drive klicks for ever and no more booting
any ideas anyone
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New features in version 0.2.0 include install scripts, graphical grub bootloader, improved sound support for play, lbreakout, lmarbles, circus, a redesigned contrib directory and a working version of summvm!
Download file size is also much smaller than before, without sacrificing features, so be sure to try it out :-)
Non-booting can often be fixed by choosing 'e' at the grub screen and adding the -nofdc switch to the startup line, or switching off the DMA (also at the grub command line). Unfortunately some chipsets just won't work right, like some i810 machines only show 4 colours and will only boot from floppy.
If something appears to not work, it often needs to be run, or started from a script, on the command line - we don't have IconX functionality yet!
Thanks for the feedback everyone :-)
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Oh yeah, and please keep a bookmark of www.AROS-Max.co.uk rather than the long URL posted by Dammy, just in case we move in the future ;-)
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"2 more weeks" (tm) for the TCP/IP though
Cool, but what network software is there to run one there is network connectivity thru a TCP/IP stack?
P.S. Tis the Season. Donate to Bounties...
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Mozaic works ok already ;-)
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Works great here, impressive. Multitasks nicely and is very responsive.
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Amosiac is working and a small web server so far. Will be interesting to see how long a AROS webserver can stay up under normal loads. As far as other network software, should be a healthy number of apps being ported the day tcp/ip is fully implimented in AROS.
Dammy
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Having fun to the MAX!!
Ok, bad joke.
I am looking for information..
I have been able to create a single partiton on a drvie using HDtoolbox. I wan't to be able to create 2 partiotions for use in AROS. How do I do that?
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Anyone else get it to the point where it shows the mouse pointer and then have it just hang, accessing the cd drive every couple of seconds and clicking the floppy?
I had the same thing happen when I tried the regular AROS CD a few months ago :-(
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On some systems, when booting from CD, it seems to have problems accessing more than the CD buffer at a time, meaning it is booting, just veeeeeery slowly.
It's worth trying the 'failsafe' boot mode, if that works try removing DMA from the preferred grub boot line by pressing 'e' and removing the relevant switch.
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Yes, on all the computers I have. Though only one has a PS/2 mouse. The only computer that I've got it to work on is my mother's old Compaq laptop. Now just to get it out of her sight.
It doesn't seem like it likes my Matrox G550.
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I managed to get it to run for some reason on an old Athlon 800 system, but no luck on my 2100+ :( Even with the boot floppy it does the same thing.
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Downloading now :-D
I am going to try this on my 16-colour Celeron 466, it's Amiga so it shouldn't need more than 16 colours to run right?
Well if not then I can test it on the parent's Duron 750 :-)
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is your 2100+ a 64 bit jobbie? Some people are running on the 32bit Athlons ok, but IIRC there's an issue with the 64bit ones ...
I'm afraid hardware support at the mo only caters for really 'vanilla' setups, anyone's welcome to start writing more drivers though :-D
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I am going to try this on my 16-colour Celeron 466, it's Amiga so it shouldn't need more than 16 colours to run right?
Well it will downgrade to 16 colours it that's all that's available but it will look like AmigaOS 3.1 :-)
There has been talk of making the minimum requirement a Pentium for AROS... though the current builds should work fine in a 486 :-)
Well if not then I can test it on the parent's Duron 750
That would suit AROS better :-D
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That's a 466MHz Pentium Celeron...... not a 486 ;) but thanks anyway.
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OK I've burned 2 CD's of AROS and it just won't boot. I've tried it on 3 different PC's.. they try to boot from the CD but it eventually just carries on with the boot sequence and starts to load from the HD. What am I doing wrong?
I have downloaded the ISO and put it onto a CD the mount-rainer way, I have even tried extracting the ISO and placing the files onto the CD manually. I've tried every way possible and it won't work on any of the 3 machines I tried it on. I don't think it is a hardware problem because Linux images load fine directly from CD...
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Putting the files direct onto the CD should be ok, as long as you make sure to make it bootable ;-)
This may be whats missing, what CD burning software are you using? On most you choose to burn an ISO right onto the CD (cutting out any involvement from yourself) and it'll set all that fine.
Also check that the Bios is set to boot from CD over HD when available, and it's just possible that if it's an old machine it doesn't support the graphical version of Grub we're running (in which case booting from the base AROS found at www.AROS.org and then warm-resetting would probably work ok).
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@Holley
It's Ok (AROS-MAX-0.2.2-NVIDIA)with Athlon 64 3200+/nForce3...
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I am going to try putting the ISO file onto a CD, transferring it to the PCs hard drive and try burning the ISO file under Nero to see if that makes any difference.
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Best carry this on in the forums ... I've posted there :-)
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There has been talk of making the minimum requirement a Pentium for AROS... though the current builds should work fine in a 486 :-)
I hope that 486 support remains, gonna try it out on my 486 Laptop (DX2 75MHz and 24MB RAM), if it works that would be extremely cool, I guess I would have to live with 16-colour VGA in that case though :-(