A new version of WinAROS has been released. “WinAROS is a preinstalled AROS Environment that runs under Windows, using QEMU. WinAROS is a way to use AROS under Windows and try your programs, made with AmiDevCpp. The new Version comes with Themes and GhostScript installed.”
Neither link takes you to a place you can download it.
Why make it so difficult to find the thing?
I thought so too. But if you were to download the WinAros info file you’d find this.
It seems there has been a problem with the content managment system.
Please use this Link:
http://amidevcpp.amiga-world.de/WinAros/WinArosLight_QEMU.7z
I’m not going to install 7Zip just to unzip one zip file. Why the developers insist on using 7zip and excluding 99.9% of people is beyond me.
Don’t know witch platform you use, but on Windows, WinRAR opens 7zip files just fine.
Why would anywant want to install WinRAR or WinZip just to unpack one file?
>> Why would anywant want to install WinRAR or WinZip just to unpack one file?
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Because they unpack most all files. Windows doesn’t even need WINZIP or WINRAR.
It will unpack standard ZIP files quite nicely. As will MacOS X.
That’s why ZIP is considered the standard, and why it makes it even more perplexing that WinAROS developers use an obscure compression method rather than the standard.
It is potentially possible that they want to reduce their bandwidth footprint. 7zip is essentially an evolution of bzip2 with a much larger dictionary size. Which is a lot better than regular zip.
There is no reason to consider that someone who would be downloading this to begin with would not have some better archive program then the regular that comes with Windows.
“That’s why ZIP is considered the standard, and why it makes it even more perplexing that WinAROS developers use an obscure compression method rather than the standard.”
why on earth would people developing an ‘alterntive’ operating system use something differnt then the standard? hmmm
7zip is open source and better. I do not even use winzip/winrar on my windows box. The 7zip program can open anything. And please stop using dirty words like winzip/winrar.
7z x blahblah.7z on my linux box.
Windows native zip performance isn’t great, if you’re going to use large files, get a proper zip utility. This becomes really obvious with Vista, where zip operations typically take minutes, rather than secons.
And what gets me is they STILL don’t tell people that simple winZip won’t work, I told them this about 3 years ago, but don’t seem to care, maybe they just want to keep it elitist, or maybe they’re just dumb?
Winrar and the Windows 7zip client both handle ZIPs much better than the built-in windows zip handling.
I agree. That’s why I’m using 7Zip on Windows (and commandline RAR for files 7Zip cannot handle properly).
> Why the developers insist on using 7zip and excluding 99.9% of people is beyond me.
2 very important reasons:
1. it’s open source, and most devs (especially open source devs) will use open source alternatives when viable.
2. it makes for a smaller compressed file size, and when your serving files to thousands of downloads, every byte counts.
Looks pretty, but I couldn’t find any apps to speak of. I expected to find the usual Text Editor, Games, CD Player, etc. Seemed pretty empty.
Is zip still considered the standard? In my experience most people have been using rar files rather than zip for ages.
Is zip still considered the standard? In my experience most people have been using rar files rather than zip for ages.
I haven’t seen a RAR file in I don’t know how long. I’d thought I’d remember, since I got annoyed that I had to find a program to un-rar it. Everything I see is either zip, tar.gz, or tar.bz2.
Redhat Enterprise doesn’t even have rar/unrar in the repository. It is available for manual install from:
http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/rar/