New Version of AROS released

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Yet another version of AROS is avaiable for your pleasure.

This is the first version where I recomend the CD-ROM over the Floppy disk version.

Please note, new graphics driver allows Hi-Colour (16bit) and True-Colour (32bit) screens.

There are still a few bugs, so please read the readme or the news page on my site.

http://www.ahsodit.com/aros/

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The native c++ compiler is coming along... slowly  :-P
No doubt Fabio will post something here later to give you a better idea of the progress of that.

Also, I recomend you use 640*480*16 on the graphics mode at the moment they work the best at the moment.  :-D

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I'm not sure emulation is the right category either... actually I don't know if there is a category for AROS... :-D

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didn;t run on my machine  VGA just resets the machine, and the rest come up with funny gpahics at the top of the screen

Typical... there's always one isn't there!!!! :roll:

What Gfx Card and CPU do you have?

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Well, I've had no problems with 640*480*16 on:

Several models of; Nvidia, ATI, Matrox and a Trident Blade3D (Almost forgot the integrated intel gfx that one machine had).

I've not tried a Savage card, as I don't have one.

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If that is your attitude then I will think twice before I waste another CD on the AROS project.

Oops sorry Jumpship... I didn't mean to offend, that's why I put a smilie at the end of the sentence. I was just being Ironic, since I imagine that that quite a few machines won't work. I have tried to test as many different configurations as I can. I will always list any compatibility problems I find.

As soon as you listed your machine specs, I was on to my friends to see if any of them had a similar configuration to yours, so I could test it.
Sadly all my friends are really cheap and 90% of them have Geforce2 mx's...

It seems that there is a general trend of Radeons not working, If you (and several others) hadn't posted that information, then there is no other way we could have found that out!!

So I thank all of you who have provided feed back as to this latest release.

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I would love to have a list of supported hardware, but until I get back the bug reports from you guys, I have to assume it will work on all Pentium class machines with VESA2 compatible Graphics cards(as it should!).

By the way, I like your Epicurus Avitar, Epicurus being my favourite philosopher.

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Will the pull down menus (AmigaOS style) be implemented on AROS?

The menus can be configured anyway you want!

Send me an E-Mail and I build you one with AmigaOS 3.1 menus (ie no magic menu style menu)

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Very impressive Matt........nice music too!

Thank you!! pretty good examples of how useful the Amiga still is for music!! Which also hints at my main interest in AROS ;-)

Since we signed to Ahsodit we have been working on another 6 songs... we will see how it goes.