Basic questions and needed clarifications about AROS

[dammy]

Do I understand then that the goal of AROS is to run Amiga games and programs without emulation, and also provide a future for new software that takes advantage of modern hardware?

No, what the page is talking about is ease of porting.  A application that is running on 3.1 should with hopefully minimum effort, to recompile as a AROS x86 app.  The text on that page is aim at Developers and not end users.  For Amiga68K binaries, you will need to run EUAE with one possible exception.   _IF_ (and there are couple of devs looking at it now) AROS68K is brought back to active developement and ported to the Amiga68K machine (or such as Minimig), then AROS68K should be able to run an Amiga68K application.  

Dammy

[dammy]

Yeah, it's confusing since AROS is being ported to many arch's.  For right now, you will need EUAE to run your old Amiga apps.  For future Amiga with AROS kickstart ROM, that would be a different story since each kickstart will have to be made to the different Amiga series.  There are no silver bullets, just alot of waiting and hard work.

Dammy

[dammy]

Does AROS have known issues with certain Wintel systems? Mine is a Asus A7V333 mobo, with AMD XP 2000+ CPU (256MB Ram).

Unless it's some unusual gfx card, looks good hardware wise. Did you try selecting different gfx settings at grub?  Nightlies are pretty raw so best to try a very recent nightly and try it again with different gfx settings.  There are two distros (which will be far more end user orientated/stable) in the works with one of them do out Oct 31st.

Dammy