Broadway 0.0.4 aka Murphy's law is ready

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@phoenixkonsole

the article is still in progress in my free time, please ask the AROS staff and pavel to review it..

Saimon69

Hi,

Here is my review of the new Broadway.

I installed it on a Toshiba Satellite laptop which has 512 mb of memory, 1.1ghz cpu and a 16 gig CF drive.

Time for load up is less than 30 seconds, but at least 10 of that is the Toshiba splash screen.
At first look, when loaded it looks really cool, how does it work?

Well on this system I first tried Doom, Doom booted up really fast, but upon playing there was no sound (probably because the Toshiba satellite needed special sound drivers (but, I didn't have this problem with Ubuntu 10.10).

Now lets get on to Networking, and cruising the Net, once again utter failure. ( I don't see why all Amiga programmers have to stick with the old Amiga protocol, AFTER ALL MOST COMPUTER SYSTEMS HAVE PROGRESSED WHERE SETTING UP A NETWORK IS JUST ABOUT AUTOMATIC) once again, the sound, networking REALLY SUCK AND ROT. I have tried to adjust this for two days now this weekend, no joy.

Ok, if you can play your games with no sound and really don't like the internet on some systems, then this isn't for you.

If you want to buy a system that has the hardware specified by the makers of this program, and don't mind spending money on ancient stuff so you can get this OS running on a rig, then be my guest.
C+ for effort.
but
Need to upgrade your parts list and make it see and notice new hardware used in modern day systems (after all this is 2011, not 1993).

Looks really cool on my laptop (oldest system I have in the house), but failed to have an internet connection on all 3 of my modern day computers and one old computer.  

This still needs a ton of development.  

The AROS Broadway is a total waste of a good CD, but an improvement over the last AROS I tried, at least it lit up the screen and gave me something nice to look at.

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@Smerf
So why not just make sure you have supported hardware?

Hi,

To answer your question? That would probably be the easiest solution, but with all the computers I have (about 3 laptops, 3 really modern up to date computers, 3 slightly out of date computers, and one Dell, of which I have no problem running Linux on. You would think that the makers of this OS would at least support some of the more modern day boards and systems. Maybe they are and I am just doing something wrong, I dunno, anyone else out there try this on their system.

I tried it on a Q6600, 4 gig ram, ATI Radeon 5570, XFX motherboard, it ran but could not use the internet, but had sound.

I also tried it on a AMD 1090T with MSI with 4 gig ram, ran but no internet, but I had sound.

The Dell as always couldn't do nothing.

My old AMD 3700+ with an ASUS board, and a Sapphire 3850, no picture.

Why don't the authors of this software actually put up what they are using?
Maybe I will have to go up in the attic and get some of my really ancient stuff out.

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@smerf

You seem to know all the details of your systems' CPUs, but strangely nothing about their network chipsets. If you could tell us what they are, we could tell you what drivers you need to use. It's unlikely that none of them have a supported NIC.

Also, you suggest that AROS should support all modern components as if it was just a matter of adding a line to a config file for each. Linux needs hundreds of programmers to achieve the level of driver support it has. You might be surprised to hear that we don't have that many driver programmers.

Hi,

Understand what you are saying.

Really should take into consideration that the AROS people are really trying hard to get this system going, sometimes being around Linux with it's millions of supporters makes you forget that the AROS people are really doing an excellent job. I am working on my AMD 3700+ computer now, reinstalling it in another case for an experimental Dos computer, will look into putting parts in there that are AROS capable.

Believe it or not I am really excited about Broadway, from what I see on the screen it looks exciting, now if I can get the sound and networking going, I may leave this computer set up with AROS. I guess what happened was I really got into this after seeing it on you tube. Got really disappointed when it wouldn't work with my newer systems. You know it is like that TV commercial,

I WANT MY AROS, AND I WANT IT NOW

Accept my apologies, haven't given up, will try to get right hardware. What I really need is probably peace and quiet when I work on this system, then settling down and concentrating on what I am doing.

Lets face it I have gotten lazy, Ubuntu just about set up everything for you automatically, and Windows sets up everything automatically and then crashes.

Once again accept my apologies.

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@ncafferkey (darn can you make it harder to spell)

Hi,

Sorry, I mess around with so many computers and OS systems each day that you are definitely right. I will have to find my books and look up at what kind of networking cards they have. Once again networking on most Linux systems and networking on Windows systems (XP, Vista, and 7) are automatic. Don't really have to know what type of nics they are using. I am going to have to go back to old school and read on what they really have.

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