Amiga Replacement OS (AROS) Now In 11th Beta

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: digulla@aros.fh-konstanz.de

AROS V1.11 Released

August 16, 1997 - The AROS team proudly releases the 11th beta of AROS.

AROS is an effort to re-write the AmigaOS V3.1 (40.70 or later) in ANSI C (mostly). The goal is to have the power of the AmigaOS without beeing limited by the hardware. We try hard to maintain source compatibility which means that, if you want some Amiga application on your mainframe, all you have to do is to get its source and compile it again. Right now, we have implemented these features:

• Almost the complete exec. Only interrupts and some more esoteric functions are missing
• Much of DOS
• A shell to run DOS commands
• A set of working DOS commands: Dir, List, Echo, Cd, ...
• Parts of graphics.library, intuition.library and locale.libary, math*
• Enough of Intuition to open a window, receive IntuiMessages and process them.
• console.device with RawKeyConvert()
• Several demos
• The following parts are finished: icon.library, iffparse.library and utility.library.

Changes since 1.10

• Bugfixes (as usual)
• Many new functions and libs
• We have the first game for AROS: Moria3D runs after minor changes
• All necessary includes to compile AROS
• Added conditional build (see make.defaults)
• Much faster linking on Unix
• Makefiles are generated from templates
• AROS has Resource Tracking now :-)
• Added a small mini kernel to ease porting
• New libs: math*, diskfont, gadtools
• New logo by Mike Williams
• New unix kernel with only one simple assembler file left
• New technique which allows the hardware dependend part of AROS replace files in other parts of AROS

Contact info

Aminet:/misc/emu/AROS*
ftp://aros.fh-konstanz.de/pub/aros/ (Main FTP Server)
http://aros.fh-konstanz.de/aros/ (Main page)
http://www.lysator.liu.se/amiga/aros / (Sweden Mirror)
http://home.worldonline.nl/~ldp/aros / (AROS for Amiga)

Aaron "Optimizer" Digulla - Head of Development
Haldenweg 5
78464 Konstanz
Germany

irc: Optimizer on #AmigaGer and #aros-dev
email:
digulla@aros.fh-konstanz.de (for AROS related mail)
digulla@home.lake.de (for private mail)
digulla@fh-konstanz.de (for large mails)
aros-bugs@aros.fh-konstanz.de (for AROS bugs)
aros-linux-bugs@aros.fh-konsta nz.de (for AROS bugs on Linux)
aros-amiga-bugs@aros.fh-konsta nz.de (for AROS bugs on Amiga)

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