http://www.osnews.com/ Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams OSNews version 4 donotreply@osnews.com (Adam Scheinberg) donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:44:34 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com/ 120 http://www.osnews.com/story/21798/Icaros_Desktop_1_1_2_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21798/Icaros_Desktop_1_1_2_Released/ A new update for Icaros Desktop, the leading AROS distribution, has been released. It includes some new programs and features like the Protrekkr music tracker, the DosBox emulator, but this release is mainly a "mantainance one": it includes dozens of big and small bug fixes, a better desktop environment and improved support for Amiga Forever and 68K applications. Icaros Desktop 1.1.2 is available in two formats: the whole package on a Live DVD for new installations, and an update CD for Icaros 1.1.1 users. The update can be automatically downloaded, mounted, and installed directly from Icaros using the brand new LiveUpdater program, also available on the Icaros site. Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:47:22 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Amiga & AROS 1 http://www.osnews.com/topics/12 News paolone http://www.osnews.com/story/21775/AmigaForever_2009_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21775/AmigaForever_2009_Released/ While I'm still chipping away at my AmigaOS 4.1/sam440ep review (try writing a thesis and a large review at the same time), Cloanto released AmigaForever 2009. AmigaForever is a very full-featured AmigaOS emulation tool, packed with various different ROMs and AmigaOS versions (1.3-3.x), as well as tons and tons of included games, software, and demos. This new version comes with even more stuff. Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:32:34 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Amiga & AROS 14 http://www.osnews.com/topics/12 News http://www.osnews.com/story/21548/Poseidon_USB_Stack_Bounty_Reached_Open_Source_AROS_Port/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21548/Poseidon_USB_Stack_Bounty_Reached_Open_Source_AROS_Port/ Another important bounty quota has been reached in the Power2People website, and this time the result comes from a common effort of the whole Amiga/Morphos/AROS Community. The result of this bounty being reached is that the Poseidon USB stack will be ported to AROS, and released as open source under the AROS Public License. Fri, 22 May 2009 23:33:08 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) Amiga & AROS 6 http://www.osnews.com/topics/12 News saimon69 http://www.osnews.com/story/21417/AROS_Status_Update_Introducing_iMica/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21417/AROS_Status_Update_Introducing_iMica/ It's been a really, really long time since the last status update from the AROS team - the last one dates back to before Christmas. AROS was still progressing nicely, as evidenced by the Icaros Desktop releases we've reported on, but it's still nice to hear it straight from the horse's mouth. The AROS guys have given another status update, and a long one to boot. There's also a computer for sale with AROS pre-installed. Fri, 01 May 2009 21:39:47 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Amiga & AROS 6 http://www.osnews.com/topics/12 News http://www.osnews.com/story/21408/Icaros_Desktop_1_1_1_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21408/Icaros_Desktop_1_1_1_Released/ Icaros Desktop 1.1.1 has been released. Icaros Desktop is a distribution of the AROS operating system. "This newer version provides the latest system files, including the newer ata.device from Neil Cafferkey, which fixes many incompatibility issues and should help people who couldn't try AROS before, to boot it on their computers. This new releases includes also an improved version of the OWB browser and fixes some system issues encountered with the 1.1 release. For this reason, this update is available in two versions: an update CD for Icaros Desktop 1.1 users and a complete full live! DVD for new users." Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:32:49 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Amiga & AROS 5 http://www.osnews.com/topics/12 News Amigaman http://www.osnews.com/story/21216/Icaros_Desktop_1_1_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21216/Icaros_Desktop_1_1_Released/ Some weeks ago the popular AROS distribution VmwAROS has changed name into Icaros Desktop, for two reasons: to avoid confusion with VMware-related products, and to better focus on the "Live" version, which runs on top of real hardware. This new release, Icaros Desktop 1.1, the first with the new name, has got many enhancements over the previous ones. Fri, 27 Mar 2009 23:30:10 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Amiga & AROS 19 http://www.osnews.com/topics/12 News paolone http://www.osnews.com/story/21207/AmigaOS_and_The_x86_Question/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21207/AmigaOS_and_The_x86_Question/ Despite the recent emergence of several new ways to actually run AmigaOS 4.0, the supply of machines is still extremely small, and not very future proof. As such, one of the most recurring questions within the Amiga community is why don't they port the darn thing to x86? Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:34:48 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Amiga & AROS 78 http://www.osnews.com/topics/12 News http://www.osnews.com/story/21039/AROS_Gets_Its_Own_Web_Browser_Via_OWB_Port/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21039/AROS_Gets_Its_Own_Web_Browser_Via_OWB_Port/ Stanislaw Sszymczyk accepted the AROS browser bounty last December, ten months after Robert Norris' work that provided a partially working Webkit port. Now, after just three months he delivers the first public beta of the AROS port of OWB. Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:49:47 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Amiga & AROS 9 http://www.osnews.com/topics/12 News saimon69 http://www.osnews.com/story/20888/Sky_Is_Falling_AmigaOS_4_1_Released_for_Pegasos_II/ http://www.osnews.com/story/20888/Sky_Is_Falling_AmigaOS_4_1_Released_for_Pegasos_II/ Boys and girls, it's time to dust off your Pegasos II machine, or maybe to reduce the size of your MorphOS partition, because there's a new contender coming your way: ACube Systems Srl has announced the immediate availability of AmigaOS 4.1 for the Pegasos II. It's 01:40 here, so I can't check if the sky is falling, but I'm pretty sure it is. Sun, 01 Feb 2009 00:52:26 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Amiga & AROS 35 http://www.osnews.com/topics/12 News http://www.osnews.com/story/20649/VmwAROS_v1_0_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/20649/VmwAROS_v1_0_Released/ The first "point release" of the AROS distribution VmwAROS has been published, and it's available on its website. This version introduces a lot of changes and many new features that make it visually different from regular AROS build. Ken Lester's double state icons, for instance, make VmwAROS look more Amiga-like, and former Amiga users can also continue using their applications thanks to AmiBridge, a poweful scripting system which allows launching AmigaOS programs straight from AROS. A big effort has been made to enhance VmwAROS useability and user-friendlyness. Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:12:18 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Amiga & AROS 12 http://www.osnews.com/topics/12 News paolone http://www.osnews.com/story/20516/Former_AROS_Developers_Start_New_OS_Project_Much_Secrecy/ http://www.osnews.com/story/20516/Former_AROS_Developers_Start_New_OS_Project_Much_Secrecy/ Saturday November 8, I received an email from someone, inquiring if I would be interested in "doing a first interview/introduction into a new operating system". We get these emails and news submissions all the time, and most of the time, "new operating system" means Ubuntu-with-a-black-theme, so we don't bother. I figured this time things wouldn't be different, but after a bit of digging around, there's a little more to it this time. Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:56:44 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Amiga & AROS 51 http://www.osnews.com/topics/12 News http://www.osnews.com/story/20441/AROS_Self-Compile_Bounty_Almost_Completed/ http://www.osnews.com/story/20441/AROS_Self-Compile_Bounty_Almost_Completed/ Stanislaw Szymczyk has been working on the AROS self-compiling bounty since April. The job, according to its website, has been not a trivial task. Now that some issues with soft links and the SFS file format have been resolved, the job is almost finished. Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:33:27 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) Amiga & AROS 5 http://www.osnews.com/topics/12 News saimon69 http://www.osnews.com/story/20313/Review_AmigaOS_4_1/ http://www.osnews.com/story/20313/Review_AmigaOS_4_1/ AmigaOS 4.1, which recently finally got a whole lot more accessible, has been reviewed by Ars Technica's Jeremy Reimer. "Long after most people had given it up for dead, companies such as Hyperion Entertainment Inc. are hard at work improving and enhancing the operating system. I had a change to look at a preview copy of the latest release, AmigaOS 4.1, and it is an impressive piece of work." Hardware 3D compositing, memory protection, virtual memory, a modern browser, and performance improvements are among the new features of AmigaOS 4.1. As a sidenote, OSNews will review AmigaOS 4.1 on the Sam440ep in the coming weeks, so stay tuned. Tue, 23 Sep 2008 05:07:46 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Amiga & AROS 12 http://www.osnews.com/topics/12 News http://www.osnews.com/story/20300/OEM_Version_of_AmigaOS_4_1_for_Sam440ep_Imminent/ http://www.osnews.com/story/20300/OEM_Version_of_AmigaOS_4_1_for_Sam440ep_Imminent/ "Hyperion Entertainment VOF and ACube Systems SRL are pleased to announce that they have entered into an OEM license agreement which will allow ACube to offer its customers an OEM version of Hyperion's AmigaOS 4.1 operating system for their SAM440 range of motherboards. Prospective customers wishing to beta-test the near final OEM version of AmigaOS 4.1 for the SAM 440ep will be afforded the opportunity to do so and will subsequently receive the full version. Orders can be placed as of now with ACube. A first public demonstration of AmigaOS 4.1 for SAM440ep is scheduled for the upcoming exhibition Pianeta Amiga in Empoli, Italy on September 27-28, 2008." Update by TH: Due to all the massive cheering and excitement going on in the OSNews Boardroom and our company yacht, we actually forgot to link to the official announcements here and here. Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:58:18 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (David Adams) Amiga & AROS 37 http://www.osnews.com/topics/12 News afxgroup http://www.osnews.com/story/20272/AmiKit_1_5_0_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/20272/AmiKit_1_5_0_Released/ AmiKit 1.5.0, the high-end Amiga on your PC, has been released. Main new features include a fresh new look, faster and more stable engine, support of new 24bit themes, improved Windows installer, choice of two automatic installers for Linux platforms and much more. For AmiKit to work, you do need Amiga ROMs and the AmigaOS, which can be obtained via AmigaForever, for instance. Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:32:17 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Amjith Ramanujam) Amiga & AROS 10 http://www.osnews.com/topics/12 News AmiKit