Amiga Replacement OS (AROS) Now In 11th Beta

AROS - The Amiga Replacement OS
http://aros.fh-konstanz.de/aros/
Germany

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: [email protected]

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:
[email protected] (for AROS related mail)
[email protected] (for private mail)
[email protected] (for large mails)
[email protected] (for AROS bugs)
[email protected] nz.de (for AROS bugs on Linux)
[email protected] nz.de (for AROS bugs on Amiga)

Amiga News Index Amiga Web Directory

Champaign-Urbana Computer Users Group / [email protected]