Layers.library V45 on the aminet

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For the record:

If anyone is interested in setting up a bounty for AOS sources then I'm willing to put down $1000. Personal, hobby, non-commercial money.
Make it for 3.1 only if that makes it any easier.

(The bounty should have some legal-speak that indemnify the buyer(s) if the rights are disputed at a later date.)

It's your money, but if I were you I would put that $1000 towards an AROS bounty to develop the 68k port to a better standard. It's more likely to happen (AmigaOS is never going to be open sourced) and has better long term benefits.

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I used AROS a couple times on x86.
On x86 AROS looked very amiga-ish and very good.
I compiled a couple of selfwritten Amiga shell tools for it.
This worked fine and the programs ran fine.
From just having a gimse look - it looked very AMIGA like and it looked working to me.

I have not used AROS on 68K so far, so I have no clue what is missing there.
Maybe not much?


I generally like the idea to continue developing AMIGA OS for 68k very much.

When I understood you right you and Thomas were discussing the option to develop a new AMIGA OS version - e.g 3.9.1 or whatever..

My question was : Can someone give a statement how close/far the result would be to what AROS is today.

I wonder what the percentage of AROS to AMIGA completness is today.
If for example AROS has 95% of what is needed to be a 100% AMIGA OS replacement ?
Then maybe a bounty to get a knowledgeable developer that now how to code this part for AMIGA OS would be an option?

Or maybe just buying out the right of this part of AMIGA OS 3.1?

Last time I tested AROS68k two things stuck out:
Workbook (Workbench clone), needs some polish.
Low level hardware drivers need work, the obvious being graphics.library which, IIRC is entirely CPU driven for Amiga Naive modes, was slow on a real Amiga but acceptable on emulation, by which point one would use RTG :-)