Internationally AROS
Thanks to Neil Cafferkey, Adam Chodorowsky, Daniel Holmen and Paolo Besser, aros.org has now its finnish and italian counterparts. Translations of this website are now available at these nice new addresses:
Finnish aros.org:
www.aros.org/index.fi.phpItalian aros.org:
www.aros.org/index.it.phpFinnish translation is almost complete, while Italian one is still a work in progress. Aros.org does support german translation too, but only few pages are already available. If you wish to contribute localizations of our web pages, well... please apply to the development mailing list.
AROS means art
Hogne "M0ns00n" Titlestad has released Lunapaint v0.2 for i386/AROS. The app can save and open projects, make animations and export images. Initial stability issues in hosted AROS has been resolved, and Lunapaint works fine also on native. You can see screenshots
http://aros-exec.org/modules/xcgal/thumbnails.php?album=23">here and read a nice interview on
http://arosshow.blogspot.com/2006/04/this-is-interview-with-aros-developer.html">The Aros Show. Download it from the
http://archives.aros-exec.org/share/graphics/edit/lunapaint_v02.tar.bz2">Archives!
Other news
Mathias Roslund has ported the famous Commodore 8-bit computers line emulator VICE to all Amiga platforms, AROS included. Please notice that the AROS version is still higly experimental. You may find it
http://www.amidog.com/amiga/vice/index.html">here.
Tomasz Wiszkowski has ported
http://www.tbs-software.com/fp/">FryingPan and
http://www.tbs-software.com/fp/files/060430/AROS.lha">CoFEE to AROS. FryingPan is a CD/DVD burner software, while CoFEE is a CD/DVD copy program. They work partially on AROS due to lack of ATAPI and SCSI commands. In order to speed up their implementation, TeamAROS has started a
http://thenostromo.com/teamaros2/?number=38">new bounty.
Randy Vice and Oliver Adams have completely renewed
http://thenostromo.com/teamaros2/">TeamAROS website, with a more stylish graphics and a brand new service: Bounty Subscriptions. Now "you can support TeamAROS by a monthly subscription of $5 USD or $10 USD and that gives you a vote on TeamAROS-Benefactors ML on which bounty deserves that month's cash donation. This is a painless method since PayPal will deduct the money automatically each month. Set and forget, can't be made much easier than that.
Bernd Roesch and Georg Steger are fixing bugs and adding new feature to Zune, while other AROS developers are still working hard on other issues of the operating system.
