Is AROS and AmigaOS 4.1 the samething?

[wawrzon]

I like AROS. It's very impressive, and open source, and really nice, and the price is unbeatable....
... but it doesn't feel like the Amiga to me,

maybe until you run it on an actual amiga, where it feels more amiga than running os4 on an accelerator board i can assure you.

and its API is a lot closer to OS3 than OS4, but that will only affect you if you code.

which is good since it is a legacy standard everybody agrees upon in amiga world and this ensures compatibility and portability of software that runs upon, providing a good base for community cooperation.

Plus with an AmigaOS 4 machine you know it's not going to have compatibility problems.

what compatibility problems? hardware support? as lt looks like most if not all of os4 machines have incomplete hardware support. in case of x1k half of the hardware is not yet supported. in other cases devices lack dma, or the like, and beyond that you have no choice, you must stick with this unsupported hardware. in case of aros you may be lucky or not, but there are so many choices and as a fallback you can always run it hosted. this situation may even improve soon.

Also I don't think AROS emulates a 68k for OS3 apps yet, does it? JanusUAE is great, but not suitable for simple commandline tools and stuff.
AmigaOS 4 feels like home. 'nuff said.

much better. on amiga aros actually runs native amiga 1.x-3.x apps without any emulation. try *this* on os4;)

[wawrzon]

Basically the problem is that you have to buy second hand hardware, and then it'll probably work. People tend to assume that because it runs on a PC, that it'll run on a recent PC - but that's usually not the case.

what? im not interested enough in x86 to actually run aros on it, but last time i tried a livecd on my i7 it was working. i really cant imagine, what do you base your claims upon..

Only having the API from an old version of AmigaOS from 1994 is not a good thing though - and in fact AROS has its own API.

of course it extends upon 3.1 api, but you can still stick with it if you want. after all, it wasnt me who stated, aros is just 3.1 compliant.