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- AROS - Amiga Replacement OS
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- This is the AmigaOS FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions. Read this before
- anoying anyone with questions answered in here :)
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- Table Of Contents
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- 1. What Is It ?
- 2. Who Is Doing It ?
- 3. How Can I Join ?
- 4. What Has Been Done Already ?
- 5. Where Are The Sources ?
- 6. How Is It Being Done ?
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- Have Fun !
-
- Aaron "Optimizer" Digulla
- digulla@fh-konstanz.de
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- 1. What Is It ?
-
- This project's goal is to provide a public available AmigaOS which
- is compatible with AmigaOS 3.1 (Kickstart 40.70) able to run on
- other hardware than the Amiga (but on the Amiga, too).
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- 2. Who Is Doing It ?
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- The current memberlist or the project team:
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- Aaron "Optimizer" Digulla
- Matthias Fleischer
- Adrian Halamoda
-
- and some 300 others (which are not mentioned here since they have not
- written a line of code yet).
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- 3. How Can I Join ?
-
- You can do two things: Join the discussion about how it should be done
- in the "The AMIGOS Discussion mailinglist":
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- amigos - general discussion list
- amigoscoord - private coordinators list
- amigosannounce - list for announcements
- amigosdesign - general design discussion list
- amigosexec - list to discuss design and programming for exec
- amigosdos - list to discuss design and programming for DOS
- amigosintuition - list to discuss design and programming for intuition
- amigosgraphics - list to discuss design and programming for graphics
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- To subscribe, send mail to
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- listserv@colombo.telesys-innov.fr
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- with no subject, and in the body
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- subscribe <listname> <Full name>
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- without the brackets, ofcourse. Multiple commands are allowed, for example:
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- subscribe amigos John Doe
- subscribe amigosdesign John Doe
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- Note that while the amigoscoord list is private, everyone can write to it,
- thereby effectively reaching all coordinators at once.
-
- or if you really ( :))) ) want to do something, write a mail to
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- digulla@fh-konstanz.de
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- with what you want to do and I'll tell you what you have to ;) Ok, now here
- for the hard core coders: Write to me that you want to join. I will reply
- your mail with a current TODO list where you can choose a topic to work on.
- You tell me what you want to do and I'll note that down so no one else does
- the same work as you or other who are interested in the same topic can be
- redirected to you. When you finished your work, you send your sources to me
- for now. When we find a good way to automate this process of updating
- source, we'll announce that publically (since I got all your EMail
- addresses, you need not fear to be forgotten).
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- 4. What Has Been Done Already ?
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- Parts of Exec (Memory and Lists) and quite a lot of discussion.
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- 5. Where Are The Sources ?
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- All sources and docs and related files can be found on:
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- ftp://amigos.telesys-innov.fr/pub/AmigOS/
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- 6. How Is It Being Done ?
-
- There has been a lot of discussion about how to do it. Some wanted to
- write a all-new-and-shiny-OO-and-everything OS, others wanted something
- to replace the original AmigaOS and even others wanted AmigaOS for a
- different hardware. To make everyone at least a bit happy, we (ie. at most
- I) have decided to do this:
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- a) We write something that is almost plug-in compatible (at least on
- the Amiga) with Kickstart 40.70.
- b) As much code as possible should be written in portable C
- c) We _don't_ put _much_ effort in improving the OS at this
- stage but whenever possible, we look forward into the
- future white implementing something.
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- When this stage is over, we can start to improve the OS (put MP in and
- other niceties).
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