New Version of AROS released

[bloodline]

Yet another version of AROS is avaiable for your pleasure.

This is the first version where I recomend the CD-ROM over the Floppy disk version.

Please note, new graphics driver allows Hi-Colour (16bit) and True-Colour (32bit) screens.

There are still a few bugs, so please read the readme or the news page on my site.

http://www.ahsodit.com/aros/

[Kronos]

I'll try it tommorow. Anybody knows how the native
compiler progresses ? /me is waiting for C++ :-D



@moderators
Completly wrong category  ;-)

[Paul_Gadd]

Aros is getting better and better each day.

[Bandaren]

yeah, and no problem with hardware to run it on ;-)

Dan Andersson

[bloodline]

The native c++ compiler is coming along... slowly  :-P
No doubt Fabio will post something here later to give you a better idea of the progress of that.

Also, I recomend you use 640*480*16 on the graphics mode at the moment they work the best at the moment.  :-D

[Kent]

Article updated.  Category changed along with the link updated and verified.

Oi, it's just been one of those days...

:pint:

[bloodline]

I'm not sure emulation is the right category either... actually I don't know if there is a category for AROS... :-D

[downix]

What the heck is AROS doing under "Emulator" when it's not an emulator?  It's an API compatable AmigaOS clone.  It can't even run AmigaOS binaries (unless you're on an Amiga).  It clones the API, provides new options, but is not an emulator under any definition of such.

[Turrican]

I was about to ask why this new is under the "emulation" category too!

AROS is not an emmulator! Don't make it look like one...

 :-?

[falemagn]

Anybody knows how the native
compiler progresses ?

It's coming along, as Matt already said. There's quite some way to go yet, though, since I want to do a clean job.

Right now the binutils (that is, the linker, the assembler and a few other tools) are being worked on and almost finished in their cross-platform version, meaning that you'll soon be able to download the latest version of the binutils from the official source and you'll be able to configure it to produce code runnable under AROS.

Right after the binutils I'll tackle gcc, which will be a much easier job. Still in the "cross" form, though.

Then, with those tools, I'll be able to attempt a native compilation of the binutils, and then of gcc. But for this to happen in a clean way some work will have to be done on the AROS' libc, since right now it's missing most of the signaling stuff.

All this is done in my spare time, which I'm not rich of these last days...

[jumpship]

didn;t run on my machine :-( VGA just resets the machine, and the rest come up with funny gpahics at the top of the screen

[bloodline]

didn;t run on my machine  VGA just resets the machine, and the rest come up with funny gpahics at the top of the screen

Typical... there's always one isn't there!!!! :roll:

What Gfx Card and CPU do you have?

[jdiffend]

didn;t run on my machine  VGA just resets the machine, and the rest come up with funny gpahics at the top of the screen

You should record a list of the hardware on your system and forward it to the AROS team.  The most important will be cpu (not likely to be a problem), motherboard chipset, graphics card (most likely) and other cards.

The standard VGA works for me but none of the other modes (garbage at the top of the screen).  Lucky me and my Savage 2000 based card... #$%@* S3 and Diamond!!!

[bloodline]

Well, I've had no problems with 640*480*16 on:

Several models of; Nvidia, ATI, Matrox and a Trident Blade3D (Almost forgot the integrated intel gfx that one machine had).

I've not tried a Savage card, as I don't have one.

[Dagon]

actually I don't know if there is a category for AROS...

Yeah, an Aros category would be very cool, Aros isn`t an Emulatror.

I `m downloading the cd version now ;-)

I`ll have the new AmigaOS in my new Amiga, and Aros in my PC when it will be more complete :-)