Amiga & AROS Archive

AROS-Max 0.4.8 Released

Submitted by oGALAXYo 2005-12-17 Amiga & AROS 30 Comments

The AROS-Max team has released version 0.4.8 of their AROS-based live-CD. Their website is hopelessly outdated, so don't count on that to give you any information. A direct link to the download can be found here, and oGALAXYo has put up some screenshots of this new release (1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8).

Memory Management in AmigaOS 4.0 Explained

Submitted by dylansmrjones 2005-12-14 Amiga & AROS 34 Comments

"Back in the old days of the original AmigaOS, the system used to allocate areas of unused memory to new tasks was pretty simple. The old method served its purpose well enough at the time, but with the increased demands of modern computing - and of course the desire to bring this new version of the operating system to the cutting edge - AmigaOS4.0 has introduced a better way of doing things."

Review: Amiga Forever Premium Edition

Thom Holwerda 2005-12-12 Amiga & AROS 84 Comments

The Amiga. A platform with a history. Today, we are reviewing Amiga Forever, which was kindly provided by Cloanto, its manufacturer. The question I tried to answer during the usage of Amiga Forever was: does it have anything to offer to OS enthousiasts today? Of course Amiga Forever offers great functionality for Amiga fans, but what about the rest of us? Can Amiga Forever cater to more people than just Amiga fans?

AmiZilla Update; GTK+ for AmigaOS 3.x /4, Aros, MorphOS

Submitted by dylansmrjones 2005-12-11 Amiga & AROS 19 Comments

Various bits of news from the AmiZilla front. "Firstly, oli has finished his GTK->MUI AROS Bounty. Also, OS4 people have ported the the GTK->MUI emulation layer from AmigaOS3.1 to AmigaOS4." Other than that, the AmiZilla project will be recieving help from a group of students from King's College (London) as part of their practical coursework. "AmiZilla has been split up into individual projects for them- as we have five students, we have added in creating a GTK->Reaction layer to AmigaOS4, and maybe porting AmiZilla to MorphOS and AROS, as well as the AmigaOS 3.1 target."

Upgrade Board for A1200 with AmigaOS4

Submitted by Mike Bouma 2005-12-01 Amiga & AROS 25 Comments

Within an interview with The Swedish Association of Amiga User Groups (SAFIR) ACK Software Controls revealed some details on their WIP upgrade board for classic A1200 systems, which should come bundled with AmigaOS4.0 when available.

AROS for PPC, AmigaOS-68k, More

Thom Holwerda 2005-11-23 Amiga & AROS 17 Comments

AROS has seen a lot of under-the-hood work lately. Firstly, Joe Fenton has been able to run AROS PPC on his iMac using Fedora Core 4. Joe and Markuss Weiss are working hard on them, in order to give us a PPC version of AROS. Secondly, Bernd Roesch has compiled an AmigaOS-68k hosted version of AROS called AfA (AROS for AmigaOS): "AfA OS is a way to use AROS source without changes and compile them on every AmigaOS based operating system. It can run and be build hosted on every AmigaOS compatible system and provides a compatible API to all systems."

AmigaOS Cross-Compiler Project Now Includes AROS

Submitted by dylansmrjones 2005-11-18 Amiga & AROS 4 Comments

The cross-compiler effort now includes AROS as a target. Install these new binaries right along side of your OS3 and OS4 binaries and compile for all three platforms. Binaries for i686-linux so far, i686-cygwin will follow. Binaries available here.

Interview with AROS Developer Michal Schulz

Submitted by Paul J. Beel 2005-11-12 Amiga & AROS 14 Comments

The AROS Show has done an interview with Michal Schulz who is a longtime member of the AROS Team, in the interview he talks about how he got interested in Amiga's and how he came to be on the team, and where he see's AROS going in the next couple years.

New official AmigaOS 4.0 Website Unveiled

Submitted by Duke 2005-10-29 Amiga & AROS 108 Comments

Hyperion Entertainment, creator of various Linux game ports and currently working on the next generation Amiga OS, has now unveiled their new dedicated Amiga OS 4.0 website. It showcases important features and is targeted to current and new users as well as potential OEM clients.

Cairo, Libfreetype, LibXML2 Ported to AmigaOS 4.0

Submitted by Raffaele 2005-09-18 Amiga & AROS 10 Comments

The Cairo 2D graphics library is now available on AmigaOS due to the efforts of programmer Andrea Palmaté. He also ported LibXML2 and Libfreetype. LibXML2 is the XML C parser and toolkit of GNOME. All ports are available here.

Cross-Compiling for AmigaOS 4

Thom Holwerda 2005-09-10 Amiga & AROS 2 Comments

As the cross development SDK for AmigaOS 4 isn't released yet, the idea to do an unofficial guide to setting up a cross-compiler was born. This document will describe how to do just that. This document also expects you to have some knowledge of Linux or Cygwin, as these are the platforms used in this document.

Feelin Ported to AROS, File Archive Opened

Submitted by Paul J. Beel 2005-08-29 Amiga & AROS 44 Comments

Feelin has been ported to AROS. Feelin is an object-oriented system for AmigaOS as described on their website. It provides a GUI toolkit that looks polished (screenshot). The AROS Archives is up and ready to accept your files. This web site will be the main repository for all AROS software.

History of Commodore

Submitted by Saad 2005-08-23 Amiga & AROS 18 Comments

Commodore, the company that sold 2.5 million VIC-20's and 25 million Commodore 64's was reduced to bankruptcy less than ten years after it released the computer that was supposed to revolutionize the computer industry, the Amiga. Read the history of Commodore at Braeburn.

New AmigaOS4 Video Demonstrating Screen Dragging

Mike Bouma 2005-08-22 Amiga & AROS 103 Comments

Crisot has made available a new demonstration video (xvid avi mirror1|mirror2 MPEG1 mirror1|mirror2) showing the AmigaOS4-beta implementation of the unique AmigaOS feature, screen dragging. For recent user screenshots of the AmigaOS4 pre-release look here.

AmiGBG 2005 Report & Global Amiga Celebrations

Mike Bouma 2005-07-28 Amiga & AROS 29 Comments

Last Saturday on the 23rd of July Amigans worldwide celebrated the 20th birthday of the Amiga platform at several events and gatherings. It was the 23rd of July 1985 when the Amiga 1000 was unveiled to the public at the Lincoln Center in New York. At the three biggest Amiga birthday events there were also extensive AmigaOS4 presentations. Here is AmigaWorld's extensive report.

Amiga Turns 20

Submitted by Tyr. 2005-07-23 Amiga & AROS 45 Comments

20 years ago on July 23rd the Commodore Amiga was unveiled at the Lincoln Centre in New York. For the launch Commodore had hired Andy Warhol & Debbie Harry (lead singer of Blondie) to demonstrate the Amiga's graphics capabilities. Despite many dificulties the Amiga is still around today both as a company and as a community.

How Qnx Failed The Amiga

Submitted by Kelly McNeill 2005-06-30 Amiga & AROS 62 Comments

Back in 1997, the QNX (pronounced either Q-N-X or Q-nix) operating system was positioned to play a vital role in the ongoing development of the Amiga platform. Georgios Panayio provides historical background about the proposed relationship between the two projects and shows how QNX's alleged breach of contract resulted in causing significant damage to the Amiga platform.

AROS Status Update

Submitted by Ola Jensen 2005-06-28 Amiga & AROS 13 Comments

Here it is again the AROS news update, for more fresh news check out the forum.

AmiZilla Progress Update; Bounty At $9507

Mike Bouma 2005-06-28 Amiga & AROS 7 Comments

The AmiZilla Team has released an update report on the progress which has been made since the project to port Firefox to AmigaOS and its clones started. The Amiga OpenOffice.org team will update the community of their progress at the upcoming AmiGBG fair.

History of the Amiga

Submitted by Saad 2005-06-26 Amiga & AROS 34 Comments

MLAgazine has a detailed history of the Amiga, from its beginnings as the pipe dream of a frustrated Atari engineer to it's beginnings as a revolutionary gaming console, through the mini-collapse of the gaming industry, and into the early days of the personal computer.