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what is AROS?
« on: June 07, 2006, 10:59:55 AM »
what is AROS? :-?
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Re: what is AROS?
« Reply #1 on: June 07, 2006, 11:05:06 AM »
A very good question...

Their home page is here.
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Re: what is AROS?
« Reply #2 on: June 07, 2006, 11:06:27 AM »
Another dream...

It is an attempt to recreate the AmigaOS 3.1 such that it will run natively on a peecee, e.g. not as an emulation, but right on the hardware itself. Quite a bit done, but needs much work to be complete.
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Re: what is AROS?
« Reply #3 on: June 07, 2006, 11:31:27 AM »
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It is an attempt to recreate the AmigaOS 3.1 such that it will run natively on a peecee, e.g. not as an emulation, but right on the hardware itself. quite a bit done, but needs much work to be complpete.


Actually, AROS is slowly being back ported to Amiga 68K and ported to PPC. Progress is very slow as only a single dev is working on both.  There is even a dev showing interesting in porting AROS to ARM. AROS is open source and hence not tied to any given arch.  x86 is the primary developement arch for many years, though.

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Re: what is AROS?
« Reply #4 on: June 07, 2006, 11:31:45 AM »
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Re: what is AROS?
« Reply #5 on: June 07, 2006, 04:00:52 PM »
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   Hmm. AROS on Amiga Classic ? Sounds neat. If it is really optimized, then it ought to be something.
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Re: what is AROS?
« Reply #6 on: June 07, 2006, 06:10:13 PM »
Check out the AFA news announcements. That being AROS for Amiga. Search "AFA AROS"

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Bernd Roesch has compiled an AmigaOS-68k hosted version of AROS called AFA (AROS for AmigaOS): "AfA OS is a way to use AROS source without changes and compile them on every AmigaOS based operating system.     It can run and be build hosted on every AmigaOS compatible system and provides a compatible API to all systems. With AFA, the host Amiga OS is degraded to do things that MS-DOS was doing for Windows 3.11-WinMe. It is easy to check for bugs/errors using testprograms, but the rest of the system is using the old stable functions. You can easily boot with or without the new libraries". More informations and pre-compiled binaries are here.
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What is better? AROS or Amiga Forever.
« Reply #7 on: June 07, 2006, 07:00:50 PM »
Another good question is what are the advantages/Disadvantages  of going with AROS over Amiga Forever (other then the obvious beeing its FREE?)
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Re: What is better? AROS or Amiga Forever.
« Reply #8 on: June 07, 2006, 07:43:22 PM »
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Another good question is what are the advantages/Disadvantages  of going with AROS over Amiga Forever (other then the obvious beeing its FREE?)


It's free, yes...but..

It's open source, as more people get on board aspects of the operating system can be continually improved, changed, adapted to meet new hardware. It's all there for the community to get their teeth into and change. Even create their own AROS distros, in much the same as what happens with Linux.

It's running directly on the processor, so, as fast as AmigaForever might seem compared to your a500+, we're talking about an AmigaOS running natively at unrestricted speeds, capable of running modern applications.

Whereas AmigaForever is about running old classic applications AROS is about creating a new open source Amiga environment which people are going to want to use everyday. If you use AmigaForever, you have to host it on Windows and you're not going to think of it as a replacement to the host OS. With AROS, it's having a real Amiga again. And if it all works out, it could be your next OS, and it sure as hell isn't going to share a HD with Windows.
 
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Re: What is better? AROS or Amiga Forever.
« Reply #9 on: June 07, 2006, 07:50:48 PM »
So what you are saying is AROS should be installed on its own partition or hard drive and set up the system to boot from XP or AROS?
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Re: What is better? AROS or Amiga Forever.
« Reply #10 on: June 07, 2006, 08:03:40 PM »
Well..you can run in hosted in Linux. But really you'd want to either give it it's own partition and let it sit alongside XP. Another, nicer, option is to give it its own machine. It's a bit choosey (at the moment) about things like network cards, so you just purchase things you know are supported right now.
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Re: What is better? AROS or Amiga Forever.
« Reply #11 on: June 07, 2006, 08:08:27 PM »
It will be interesting one the ROM Replacement bounties are picked up and finished. Add that to a new 68K AROS port and UAE. Totally free Amiga emulation.
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Re: What is better? AROS or Amiga Forever.
« Reply #12 on: June 07, 2006, 08:25:21 PM »
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tonyvdb wrote:
Another good question is what are the advantages/Disadvantages  of going with AROS over Amiga Forever (other then the obvious beeing its FREE?)

AROS and Amiga Forever are totally different products. AROS runs natively and does not run Classic Amiga software. Amiga Forever runs hosted in Windows and emulates a Classic Amiga.

You cannot say that one is better than the other, as they are totally different.

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