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- Short: AROS - Amiga Research OS (Beta release)
- Author: Aaron "Optimizer" Digulla (digulla@hepe.com) and many others
- Uploader: Aaron "Optimizer" Digulla (digulla@hepe.com)
- Version: 1.12b
- Type: misc/emu
-
- !! THIS IS A BETA !!
-
- New this time:
-
- HOW TO USE THIS
- ---------------
-
- There are two kinds of archives:
-
- AROS-source.tgz
- AROS-docs.tgz
- AROS-<key>-bin.tgz
-
- AROS-source is the complete source tree, AROS-docs is just a copy of the
- HTML pages which you'll find on our site and AROS-<key>-bin is an archive
- with the binaries for <key>. Here is a list of keys:
-
- amiga - Binary for 680x0 hardware
- lx86 - Binaries for Linux/i386
- fx86 - Binaries for FreeBSD/i386
- ibmpc - Binaries for IBM compatible PC standalone
-
- If you are not involved with developing AROS but want to try it out or
- (even better) want to write apps for AROS, get the binary archive. It
- contains a ready-to-use copy of all binaries for AROS (not that there
- were many, yet ... :-). Unpack the archive, cd into AROS and run
- the arosshell (NOTE: For some systeme, there are shared versions of the
- libs to save disk space. On these systems, you must tell the loader to
- look into AROS/lib for additional libs. On most systems, do "export
- LD_LIBRARY_PATH=lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH" (without the "")).
-
- Now you will get a prompt reading "Workbench:> ". Now type "dir all" and
- press return and doesn't it look familiar (There will be lots of debugging
- output which you can safely ignore. It will go away in the next versions) ?
- Try "demowin" to see what our intuition.library and graphics.library can
- do. Have you tried "sift" ? This is the AROS version of sift.c which is in
- the RKRMs. We just copied and compiled it and it works ! If you want to try
- it, copy any IFF file into the AROS directory and call sift with the
- name of that file. It will print you the contents of the file using
- iffparse.library !
-
- WHERE TO FIND MORE INFOS ?
- --------------------------
-
- Look at these pages on WorldWideWait:
-
- http://www.aros.org/ (Alias for Main site, preferred)
- http://aros.fh-konstanz.de/aros/ (Main site)
- http://home.pages.de/~aros/ (Alias for main site)
- http://www.lysator.liu.se/amiga/aros/ (Sweden Mirror)
- http://www.xs4all.nl/~ldp/aros/ (AROS for Amiga)
-
- If you have FTP, you can also get the most recent version as tar.gz files
- (quite smaller than lha) from
-
- ftp://aros.fh-konstanz.de/pub/aros/
-
- HOW DO I REPORT BUGS ?
- ----------------------
-
- There are these EMail addresses where you can send bug reports to:
-
- aros-bugs@aros.fh-konstanz.de
- aros-linux-bugs@aros.fh-konstanz.de
- aros-amiga-bugs@aros.fh-konstanz.de
-
- MISC
- ----
-
- This software is subject to the "AROS PUBLIC LICENSE" which can be found
- in this archive as license.html. The license is derived from the Mozilla
- Public License. The biggest difference is that the word "Mozilla" has
- been replaced by "AROS" everywhere in the text.
-
- If you like it and use it regularly please send a message to the
- following address:
-
- Aaron "Optimizer" Digulla
- Haldenweg 5
- 78464 Konstanz
- Germany
-
- EMail: digulla@hepe.com
-