Final of my Aros 68k distribution

[OlafS3]

I have worked in the last months on a new distribution based on Aros 68k and added a new background pictures, icons, software, libraries and much more.

More info:
http://www.natami-news.de/html/aros_vision.html

I will also offer addon-packs:
CLI, Games and a special Grunch-database

Thank you to the tester.

It is planned to be integrated in Aros-distributions and will also be available as download.

[OlafS3]

a late april joke...

it is this:
http://aminet.net/package/util/misc/Executive

TCS is only a "executive" hater. It is a entry in user-startup so simple to remove...

[OlafS3]

You use the nightly build with WinUAE? You need boot and bootiso from the downloads. In "boot" you find a ADF and the Roms you need to boot, and the iso must be burnt to a CD (must be attached during boot). Then you can install it

[OlafS3]

I have not much experience with real hardware (I have only A600). Someone installed a nightly build on A1200 with 030 and more RAM and it was not useable. It is not optimized for real hardware (as far as I know), you need fast processor (68060 recommended) and more RAM. And not every Turbocard is supported by Kickstart Replacement.

here is a thread on amigaworld regarding the topic:
http://amigaworld.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?mode=viewtopic&topic_id=35052&forum=27&start=200&viewmode=flat&order=0

or post on aros-exec.org

[OlafS3]

the preinstalled configuration of the nightly build is RTG. So would recommend to download it and change to PAL/NTSC. Hardware answer in my last post. i know that the Kickstart on real hardware must be "soft-kicked" (the kickstart replacement has 1 MB). As far as I can remember I use my distribution with/without FPU so I think that is not critical.

[OlafS3]

Minimum is AGA, more RAM and at least 68040 (68030 is too slow, 68060 recommended)

[OlafS3]

my distro, not yet. I have sent it to the Aros distributions maintainer who look at it and integrate it in their distribution. Then I will publish it as a own download.

The nightly build... yes. My own distribution is also based on nightly builds and I will help to update it (I replaced icons and added software, libs... so no problem there). Testing the nightly build is a good starting point.

[OlafS3]

I think that Aros 68k is slow is not true (anymore), at least when using it in WinUAE. I tested Hollywood 4.8 in it and as example the "aquarium"-demo was (almost) too fast. Wazp3D, what I use to integrate Warp3D is directly supporting underlying hardware.

What is true that it (or at least was) not optimized for classic hardware, so speed mainly depends on the processor (68060 recommended) and makes no use of Blitter...

[OlafS3]

i dont know about olafs distribution but it cant be nuch slower than aros nightlies im regularly testing on my real amigas here.
the fact is that aros is slow on many operations, in particular wanderer is slow.
the loading of programs might in case of more complex software also cost more time initially while the execution is obviously as fast as ever especially when not much system calls are involved. what concerns gui/mui/zune it isnt exactly fast but about usable.
currently scalos is being integrated, which makes desktop quite much faster, functional and complete. also the bottlenecks will be eventually identified.

I got the information that Scalos 68k now runs with newest nightly builds (I will test that asap). And it is not "slow". On WinUAE I tested Hollywood-Examples and they were very very fast.

[OlafS3]

short info... Scalos is not slow. Toni gave me the tip. You have to comment out "Assign Theme:..." and then it works (or "Themes"? But I think it was "Theme"). Before it was very slow in RTG and after normal speed.

[OlafS3]

yes in startup-sequence. Before it was slow in RTG, after fast (normal speed). I have used latest nightly build yesterday.

[OlafS3]

I do not know. It was the standard installation (a scenery in the background). I had not much time to test because I went to sleep (01.00 am). I test it in WinUAE.