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Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga News and Community Announcements => Topic started by: OlafS3 on April 07, 2014, 05:12:33 PM

Title: Aros Vision 2.5
Post by: OlafS3 on April 07, 2014, 05:12:33 PM

I have uploaded Aros Vision 2.5

It includes a number of improvements including additional web-software, games and tools and improvements regarding the included development-software.

Some of the highlights:
Poseidon
ImageFX 1.5
AmiBlitz 3.6 (new snapshot)
Additional Amiga-E compilers
Trog AGA
additional SDL-Games
Ignition fully working
ViewCSV
MIDI-File support

small optimizations. As example there is a dir "Dos" in "Games" that is automatically mounted when DosBox is started (there you can put all DOS-games)

Download-page:
http://www.aros-platform.de/html/distribution_download.html

Title: Re: Aros Vision 2.5
Post by: JohnFante on April 07, 2014, 07:48:00 PM

Cool :-)

I know it is possible to install this on real hardware. Two questions in that regard:

I am a little unsure how to do it. Is there a more detailed step by step than the one on the website?

Does it support Voodoo on a mediator or just AGA?

Thank you in advance!

Title: Re: Aros Vision 2.5
Post by: wawrzon on April 07, 2014, 08:16:23 PM

i have repeatedly provided step by step instructions on multiple occasions, but honestly dont remember where atm.
the simplest is to download the whole archive on a third party computer with (win)uae. attach an amiga hd via ide-usb adapter. format the drive from under uae. decompress the whole archive onto the bootable partition and attach the drive to your amiga again.
there might be a necessity to delete certain file, must check back which one, before it fully boots.

now there is no support for pci bridge. at least not a usable one. but you can use zorro gfx cards given the p96 .card and .chip drivers. you need to add these drivers with a valid path to your bootstrap.

Title: Re: Aros Vision 2.5
Post by: wawrzon on April 07, 2014, 09:25:37 PM

Quote from: wawrzon;762147

i have repeatedly provided step by step instructions on multiple occasions, but honestly dont remember where atm.
the simplest is to download the whole archive on a third party computer with (win)uae. attach an amiga hd via ide-usb adapter. format the drive from under uae. decompress the whole archive onto the bootable partition and attach the drive to your amiga again.
there might be a necessity to delete certain file, must check back which one, before it fully boots.

now there is no support for pci bridge. at least not a usable one. but you can use zorro gfx cards given the p96 .card and .chip drivers. you need to add these drivers with a valid path to your bootstrap.

errm.. just realized olaf has probably deleted the offending file anyway, so just try to boot to aga and then add rtg drivers to bootstrap.