AROS Vision 2.4 uploaded

[OlafS3]

I have just uploaded 2.4

Improvements:
Reworked/Optimized Icons (screenshot)
Different modes for different directories (name or icon-mode) to improve handling
Freeware Raytracers added
New filetypes added (YAFA and many different module types)
existing Filetypes improved
special version of AppStore added (indieGO Marketplace text client)
big number of small improvements, f.e. a number of GUI Toolkits added)

This version will also be base for next release of AMINUX and will be integrated in Phoenixkonsoles new AppStore for easy distribution and installation

In next months I will concentrate on making online-documentations (for both user and developer) and plan to create references/documentations/tutorials for all the integrated components and software

Planned for next future version:
improve integrated developer environments
adaptions to real hardware (like changing icon set)
make use of AREXX ports of the different applications
adding own small components

[OlafS3]

up again... (down since friday because of upload problems)

I am also changing my website and will concentrate on AROS Vision there.

http://www.aros-platform.de/

Feedback appreciated. I want to add a "beginner" section with basic explanations for people who have no amiga-experience or rejoin after being away for a long time (as a kind of refresh of memory  )

[vox]

Its great and much respect for maintaining advanced AROS distro!
However, I test AEROS r3 and its even more fun having Linux and AROS at once. AEROS only needs better look and some more AROS apps to be way better then some fake CommodoreOSs ... I believe author of AEROS has expressed interest, can you join the great adventure of AEROS x64, AEROS ARM (including Pi) and AEROS PPC soon?

[OlafS3]

Its great and much respect for maintaining advanced AROS distro!
However, I test AEROS r3 and its even more fun having Linux and AROS at once. AEROS only needs better look and some more AROS apps to be way better then some fake CommodoreOSs ... I believe author of AEROS has expressed interest, can you join the great adventure of AEROS x64, AEROS ARM (including Pi) and AEROS PPC soon?

Yes I do already :-)

[vox]

Yes I do already :-)

My public congrats, looking forward to see AEROS v1.0

"Going where no AROS has gone before!" :hammer:

[AmigaClassicRule]

I have one question to ask about AROS. Any plan to remove the GRUB system all together where we can modify screen resolution and save those settings in AROS itself?

Any plan on making AROS native OS and not rely on Linux kernal in the background?

Any plan for making installation of AROS as easy as MorphOS?

Any plan for supporting more than one file system including the old fashion OFS? Just curious on this regard.

Any plan for supporting modern hardware without forcing me to buy an oudated x86?

Any plan for making AROS easily installed with duel OS such as Windows 7 without fear of losing everything?

Any plan for support WiFi hardware with specific hardware?

If the answer to those above yes, I will wait for the version that have them and install that in my system immediately.

[vox]

I have one question to ask about AROS. Any plan to remove the GRUB system all together where we can modify screen resolution and save those settings in AROS itself?  

I ll tell you my AEROS exp

Any plan on making AROS native OS and not rely on Linux kernal in the background?

- Its cross arhitecture and Linux kernel brings GIMP, Blender and Libre to my table so I would never remove it. Its older and stable one.

 Any plan for making installation of AROS as easy as MorphOS?

Havent yet tried MOS install (as soon as 3.6) but AEROS install is as easy as any Linux.

 Any plan for supporting more than one file system including the old fashion OFS? Just curious on this regard.

Having EXT4 and NTFS support unlike OS4 is far more vital, but yes FFS support would be old school.

Any plan for supporting modern hardware without forcing me to buy an oudated x86?

For native AROS is so, AEROS works great on my i7 just needs IntelHD gfx driver which can be added thanks to Debian beneath

 Any plan for making AROS easily installed with duel OS such as Windows 7 without fear of losing everything?

AEROS is booting great with Fedora and Win7

 Any plan for support WiFi hardware with specific hardware?

Well I have to hustle a bit with Deb to get Atheros working, but LAN works out of box.

 If the answer to those above yes, I will wait for the version that have them and install that in my system immediately.

AEROS r3.5 on Torrents and website after registration.
http://aeros-os.org/AEROS_r3.5.torrent

[Lurch]

Isnt AROS Vision 68k version? Anyway willing to switch if it now supports mediator/pci :-)

[Lurch]

Oh and does iGame work?

[OlafS3]

Oh and does iGame work?

I will test. WHDLoad perfectly works on it. I use the registered version myself. Preinstalled are the rom replacements in it what works for many games but it is easy to use original roms (amigaforever) and then (almost) all games work.

To name two examples Putty Squad works out of the box, Wingcommander needs original roms (if I remember right)

[OlafS3]

Isnt AROS Vision 68k version? Anyway willing to switch if it now supports mediator/pci :-)

I cannot test it myself on real classic hardware, it would be nice if the 68k community would help me to optimize it and I would also like to offer step-by-step manuals how to use it on 68k hardware (if I get help there).

[Lurch]

Willing to get another HDD and try on my 1200 060, not sure what other assistance I can give.
Not a programmer but will see how it goes :-)

[SamuraiCrow]

I'm trying to get the 68k version of AROS to boot from Ezrec's Gitorious Git repo.  Soon I'll be able to optimize things for you.  (And I also intend to do for Allegro 68k what NovaCoder did with SDL 68k.)

[OlafS3]

I'm trying to get the 68k version of AROS to boot from Ezrec's Gitorious Git repo.  Soon I'll be able to optimize things for you.  (And I also intend to do for Allegro 68k what NovaCoder did with SDL 68k.)

Thanx a lot :-)

there are a number of areas where I could need help on real hardware

For example implement unsupported features (or try to motivate Toni and Jason to add it) like PCI-support and MESA/Gallium and adaption of parts of the OS to classic hardware like using the blitter for certain operations and identify bottlenecks of the system. There are some tests in Aros Vision, perhaps they could be used to compare the platforms. And there is support for serial port missing what is needed for MIDI and printing is not correctly supported (I print in file and then use Windows to solve that).

There is the AROS version of Poseidon, perhaps you could compile and test it.

[SamuraiCrow]

I don't intend to do much with graphics card support since my real A1200 doesn't have any free card slots.  I will see how much can be done with AGA though and will see if I can try to add Copper support to the AROS classic Amiga chipset drivers.  (Commodore's Copper support was never adequate to start with.)

First things first however.  I need to get AllegroGL running to see if AGA is fast enough to do proper 3D graphics (like GLQuake, for example) in 256 colors.  Otherwise trying to add a Gallium driver to AGA will fall flat on its backside.  I plan on doing a hybrid blitter-accelerated and CPU texture-mapped mode first.   (4 bitplanes for the CPU chunky2planar, and 4 bitplanes for the blitter-filled shading.)  If it's not fast enough to do anything useful, I might just shift my priorities.

Also of note, try using a non-Windows version of FS-UAE with AROS Vision.  You'll see that when it is capped at the performance of an A4000/40 it's already dead-slow.  I'll have my work cut out for me in the graphics drivers alone.