it is now official. The native version of Aros for Sam 460 will be presented on amiwest:

http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=63060

"At AmiWest 2012, Samuel Crow and Jason McMullan will be representing AROS, on October 19 and 20.

http://www.amiwest.net/

We will be demonstrating AROS v1 on the Sam460 (native), FPGA Arcade (native), Raspberry PI (hosted), and Linux x86_64 (hosted).

We will be available for questions, and giving out AROS Vision (m68k) and Icarus Desktop (x86) install CDs while supplies last.

Hope to see you there!"

Jason will show a port of Aros PPC on Sam 460 and as I understand it there will be a aeros-version too. So it seems that Sam 460 offers the most choices in the nearterm.

It is dedicated to be used in emulation (UAE). It "might" run on classic hardware but certainly only on heavy equipped machines (68060 propably). I also plan to make a "Classic" version that replaces Wanderer with Scalos and has less preinstalled software, but I stopped working on it before updating the main version. But it will certainly need more ram and a faster processor (68030 and higher) to be useful.

I have a page regarding this:
http://www.natami-news.de/html/aros68k_installing.html

But 68000 is (from real experience) theoretic right now

Thank you very much. Hopefully people like it. For 68k gaming it is already almost perfect.

Regarding Natami, I am not a team-member anymore and do not know what is going on now.

Thank you for downloading Aros Vision 1.5.3. more than 1200x

Today I have uploaded 1.5.4.

It can be downloaded here:
http://www.natami-news.de/html/distribution_download.html

more informations:
http://www.natami-news.de/html/aros_vision.html

One big improvement is full integration of WHDLoad (newest version) with preinstalled "Aros Rom Replacements". That means hundreds of 68k games work out-of-the-box without needing original roms.

A updated list (in progress) is here:
http://www.natami-news.de/html/compatibility.html
(with original roms from Amigaforever almost all games work)

As a kind of demonstration I was allowed to install "Lure of the Temptress" (WHDLoad-Version).

Additional changes/additions:
Amistart (Amikit-Version, thanks to Jan, Ken and Darius)
AGA (Scene) Demos for demonstration
free printer-driver
Annotate
Inga
AmiArcadia
ScummVM AGA
AmiMastergear
smaller additions like new includes for Amiblitz
Sqrxz (HD-Version)
Brutal Homicide (with permission)

Funnily there is the same discussion on Morphzone.org, of course regarding MorphOS . The topic is whether supporting G5 or immediately leave PPC and use X86 or ARM. Both platforms have similar problems (hardware that is too slow now) so the question is will PPC fast enough to compete or more and more lag behind (besides from prices of course).

For 200 € you almost get a new PC with Windows-License... Of course such prices will noone understand.

And how want you persuade new customers? You only have to buy old outdated Mac-Hardware and only 200 € for the OS? Or do you seriously think that MorphOS-Users will spend 200 € just for using AmigaOS on their computers?

Sounds good, thanks. Send me a message with your email and then I will send you the download-links.

Hello,

I am working on a new distribution based on Aros 68k and Kickstart Replacement. Before you stop reading i want to explain it shortly. Aros is a rewrite of 3.1. so from the view of applications and games it is (more or less) 3.1. 68k environment (with patches).

My test environment runs in WinUAE but I would like to see it running on different platforms. So who is interested to test it and report problems to me?

Some informations and screenshots are here (background picture can be changed ):
http://www.natami-news.de/html/aros_vision.html

Best regards,

Olaf

I have this ok by email and forworded the correspondence to power2people. I have not a signed written contract because I do trust GPSoft and who will do the lawsuit in australia even if there is one.

"

Ok.


__
Regards, Dr Greg Perry
GPSoftware, PO Box 570, Ashgrove, Qld Australia 4060 Ph/fax +617 33661402
Email: greg@gpsoft.com.au web: www.gpsoft.com.au


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Olaf Schönweiß [mailto:olaf.schoenweiss@innovatronic.de]
> Sent: Tuesday, 31 January 2012 7:06 PM
> To: Dr Greg Perry
> Subject: Re: Natami and GPFax (Last)
>
> I have merged both emails
>
> Last version that I will send tomorrow to power2people:
>
> Open the source of Directory Opus Magellan II (5.82) 68k
>
> Source-code purchase of GPSoftware's Directory Opus Magellan II (5.82)
> for free use under APL. The Name "Directory Opus Magellan", a trademark
> of GPSoftware, can be used on Amiga (real hardware or emulated, Amiga
> here is 68k, Aros (all flavors including hosted), MorphOS, AmigaOS)
> without further permission. Use of the source is limited by the APL
> Licences agreement and use of trademarks on other OS's is strictly
> prohibited except where a separate licence has been negotiated.
> Bounty will be paid, then the source will be released and available on
> public SVN page, so developers from all the camps can works on it
>
>
> Bounty goal: 5200$ (plus Paypal)
>
> please short "ok". the only change was that I put the text from this
> email in the text.
>
"

Hello,

I am working for several weeks on a Aros 68k distribution with preinstalled software and components. Some screenshots here:
http://aros-exec.org/modules/newbb/vi ... t_id=63515#forumpost63515

I use WinUAE for it but search for testers who can report experiences on AmigaOS. I need testers who help me to optimize it. When you are interested send me a email. I will offer download links (about 500 MB) or burn it on CD and send it (then I need the money before.

My email: olaf . schoenweiss at innovatronic . de

they have lost the license years ago...

I have asked this to gpsoft, the owner of Directory Opus Magellan II:

The other question is, would it be
possible to open the source (f.e. for using it in Aros) and how much would you want to have for it? I would ask to make a bounty for it, perhaps there is enough interest.

And the answer was:
For the source, we would want something like A$5-10K.

What do you think? Should we make a bounty?

and one comment from me...

it sounds a little like a "OS4-only" project. There is a lot of interest from all camps so when it is opensource and not using exclusiv technologies (that is portable with reasonable efforts) like Reaction that it could attract more people to donate. I would and I think a lot of others would too.

One addition:

Amifig, a vctor-drawing program, Opensource, available on all platforms with Arexx-Port

interesting thread and application...

I had the idea to use the Arexx-ports (perhaps with special "Server-Applications" for a long time and as long as it is about starting complex, time-consuming tasks that are not needed in real-time and very often it should be at least useful.

For word-processor I would like to use/support Final Writer, Pagestream and expecially Cinnamon.

The idea is not replacing a out-of-the-box office-solution like OO or KOffice or LibreOffice but at least it would enable some things that are not possible right now and could make life a little easier.

I know OpenOffice and MS Office a little and have f.e. used COM to automate MS Outlook and MS Word. I would like to combine the different applications as far as possible and use the Arexx-Ports for it. I know the speed issue and will have to test it first. For adding new formats I think about the chance to create a kind of converter then can controlled by a Arexx-Port and so included in the applications.

One example would be (in my imagination). You want to use a spreadsheet with adresses for mail merge. Then you start cinnamon writer, select a menu point and select the source of data and the letter and press start. Behind the scenes a script starts that connects via Arexx-Ports to ignition and to the Arexx-Server (for converting and importing) and then the mail merge starts.

I am thinking about some sort of "Arexx-Server", a program that offers functions that miss in the programs (like support of new formats), which language should I use to make it best portable to all platforms? PortablE?

I am in contact with the author of Cinnamon and he is interested. I plan to create a kind of office-package that connects by Arexx-Ports. Preferable would be (because of marketing) to have a well-known package like OpenOffice but that would be above our means (not realistic).

So my idea would be:
Cinnamon writer with Arexx-Port that is based (with extensions) on the port of Amigawriter
Muibase (existing on all platforms)
Ignition (Opensource and 68k) written in C and it should be possible to port it
Yam
Painting-Software f.e. XiPaint (i have contact to the author)
Hollywood Designer (Commercial on all platforms)

What do you think?