I envy your ability to do something useful with programming. I wish all programmers were aware that all three Amiga platforms need their support and knowledge.
Since there have been a lot of talk about AO4 and MOS I thought I balance it up by posting the specs for AROS as an reminder of how many computers in the world you could actually install it on, this very second.
From quick guide pdf at
www.vmwaros.org . This is for the livecd hd install
2. Supported hardware
PROCESSORS
Intel: Pentium, Pentium II, Pentium III,
Pentium4, PentiumD, Core, Core2 Duo,
Core2 Quad
AMD: K6, K6-II, K6-III, Athlon, AthlonXP,
Athlon64, Athlon64 X2, Phenom, Duron,
Celeron
CHIPSETS
Any chipset supporting IDE/Atapi
operations with the processors above.
VIDEO
AMD/ATI Radeon cards, Nvidia TNT, TNT2
and GeForce cards, any VESA-compatible
card, including most integrated ones. Some
known problems with some Via, SiS and
Intel integrated GPUs.
SOUND
Any Nvidia and Intel AC97 compliant sound
adapter, Creative SoundBlaster
Live!/Audigy based on EMU10K1 DSP (no SB
Live! Value).
NETWORK
Any PCI network card based on RTL 8029, Etherlink 3, AMD Pcnet 32, Nvidia Nforce, intel
Pro-100. Partial support for RTL 8139. Using one of those is the only way to get
networking run on AROS. No modems supported yet.
KEYBOARDS AND MICE
Any PS/2 keyboard and mouse will work. USB models partially supported. In order to let
'em work, just use an adaptor or activate "USB Lecacy Support" in your BIOS.
If your USB mouse is not recognized, try opening a shell (rAros+W) and use one of these
commands:
HARD DRIVES AND OPTICAL ONES
Any EIDE/ATAPI hard drive or CD-ROM will be fully supported. Some AROS developers are
implementing Serial-ATA support in the operating system, however this version of
AROS doesn't contain experimental code. In order to let your SATA hard drive work
under AROS, you may try setting it as "Legacy ATA compatible" in your motherboard's
BIOS.
