Reply once if you've tried AROS

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

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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.  

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New AROS Screenshot with Antialiased text!!!

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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

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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.

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

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:

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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.

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

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...