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- Short: AROS - Amiga Replacement OS
- Author: Aaron "Optimizer" Digulla (digulla@aros.fh-konstanz.de) and many others
- Uploader: Aaron "Optimizer" Digulla (digulla@aros.fh-konstanz.de)
- Version: 1.10
- Type: misc/emu
-
- New this time:
- - Bugfixes
- - Worked on docs
- - Many (50+) new functions in c.lib and amiga.lib
- - Big endian IO functions in aros.library
- - Amiga native and Linux/m68k versions. Amiga is still alpha.
- - A *pre* alpha of VBCC with i386 support. This is only loosely
- connected to AROS. See the README in the directory
- \filename{AROS/compiler/vbcc/}.
- - iffparse.library completed
- - Exec 90% completed, DOS 50% completed, Graphics 15%, Intuition 25%.
- All in all 30% of the whole work is completed.
- - Uses now shares libs on Unix to make it smaller
-
- HOW TO USE THIS
- ---------------
-
- There are two archives:
-
- AROSdev-$x.$y.lha
- AROS-$a-$b-$x.$y.lha
-
- $x is the major and $y is the minor release, $a is the system and $b is
- the CPU this archive is for, ie.
-
- AROS-linux-i386-1.10b.lha
-
- Is the binary archive for linux with Intel CPU (386 and above). The version is
- 1.10 and it's a beta.
-
- If you are not involved with developing AROS but want to try it out or
- (even better) want to write apps for AROS, get the binary archive. It
- contains a ready-to-use copy of all binaries for AROS (not that there
- were many, yet ... :-). Unpack the archive, cd into AROS and run
- the arosshell (NOTE: For some systeme, there are shared versions of the
- libs to save disk space. On these systems, you must tell the loader to
- look into AROS/lib for additional libs. On linux, do "export
- LD_LIBRARY_PATH=lib:$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 savely 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.lysator.liu.se/amiga/aros/ (Sweden Mirror)
- http://aros.fh-konstanz.de/~digulla/ (German Mirror)
-
- If you have FTP, you can also get the most recent version as tar.gz files
- from
-
- ftp://aros.fh-konstanz.de/pub/aros/
-
- This software is subject to the "Standard Amiga FD-Software Copyright Note".
- It is MAILWARE as defined in paragraph 4s.
- If you like it and use it regularly please send a message to the
- following address:
-
- Aaron "Optimizer" Digulla
- Th.-Heuss-Str. 8
- 78467 Konstanz
- Germany
-
- EMail: digulla@aros.fh-konstanz.de
-
- For more information please read "AFD-COPYRIGHT" (Version 1 or higher).
-