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Aros i386
« on: October 23, 2009, 02:38:59 PM »
Hi,

While doing my daily Amiga-Related-Research I found out the following website:
http://www.power2people.org/bounty_041.html

From what I understand this website is asking for someone to port Poseidon USB to AROS i386 - So is there really a move to get AROS working on a x86 machine? I thought that bought AROS and Morph where strictly PPC!

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Re: Aros i386
« Reply #1 on: October 23, 2009, 02:44:10 PM »
AROS goal has always been to get it running on as much hardware as possible.  Currently it run best on x86.   I believe the PPC version has not been touched in awhile.  Though I could be wrong.
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Re: Aros i386
« Reply #2 on: October 23, 2009, 02:49:27 PM »
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AROS goal has always been to get it running on as much hardware as possible.  Currently it run best on x86. I believe the PPC version has not been touched in awhile.  Though I could be wrong.


That is good to know - for some reason I always thought that both AROS and Morph where only for PPC and never even considered searching to see if they where available for normal x86 PCs! I may consider installing it (if I manage) to see how it goes - although the lack of USB makes me wonder if there are many other things missing as well!
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Re: Aros i386
« Reply #3 on: October 23, 2009, 03:11:38 PM »
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That is good to know - for some reason I always thought that both AROS and Morph where only for PPC and never even considered searching to see if they where available for normal x86 PCs! I may consider installing it (if I manage) to see how it goes - although the lack of USB makes me wonder if there are many other things missing as well!


You probably didn't pay enough attention to the page you browsed: "Status: Completed (by Chris Hodges) on July 31, 2009".

Before installing, you can try IcAROS (http://vmwaros.blogspot.com/2009/08/icaros-desktop-live-is-complete.html) as a live version to check if it works well on your hardware. If so, please read carefully the supplied documentation.
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Re: Aros i386
« Reply #4 on: October 23, 2009, 10:57:04 PM »
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AROS goal has always been to get it running on as much hardware as possible.  Currently it run best on x86.   I believe the PPC version has not been touched in awhile.  Though I could be wrong.


There are three currently maintained architectures:

x86 - The most complete.
x86-64  - Should be almost identical to the x86 version (maybe a tiny bit behind).
PPC - Only currently maintained for the SAM and the Effika (AFAIK), should be at the same level as the x86-64 version.

The average user probably couldn't tell any of the ports apart though. :)

Oh, and when I last tested the USB on an x86 machine, it worked fine.
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