AROS Looks for demoscene
category: general [glöplog]
The AROS operating system is looking forward to a demoscene.
It is an Amiga based operating system.
Does it have a chance to have its own demoscene?
http://arosshow.blogspot.com/2008/10/aros-future-demoscene.html
It is an Amiga based operating system.
Does it have a chance to have its own demoscene?
http://arosshow.blogspot.com/2008/10/aros-future-demoscene.html
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The AROS Research Operating System is a lightweight, efficient and flexible desktop operating system, designed to help you make the most of your computer. It's an independent, portable and free project, aiming at being compatible with AmigaOS 3.1 at the API level (like Wine, unlike UAE), while improving on it in many areas. The source code is available under an open source license, which allows anyone to freely improve upon it.
Reminds me that I have a pegasos2 to sell ;)
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Does it have a chance to have its own demoscene?
We're sorry. The demoscene is closed. Come back in the morning.
novaburst: if they just made CyberGraphics compatible PC drivers, they would already have a demoscene?
What is the point? Operating systems are meaningless for demos.
an OS which is stuck to Warren Schwarz obsolete cartoons and stuff?
Planet Hively is already out for AROS. What more do they want?
(btw, OS4 rules. just had to put that in there.)
(btw, OS4 rules. just had to put that in there.)
When was the last time any demo maker cared what OS was running (or not running) on the target machine? From the perspective of a demo, the OS is either a means to get to the hardware, or it is simply in the way.
AROS rulez! 
It's based on Amiga? This means it simply can't fail! Count me in!
aros is useless, rsi demomaker and amos run fine on uae already
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aiming at being compatible with AmigaOS 3.1
Well that's a fantastic objective for a modern operating system...
You conveniently left out the part where it said it was only at API level...
Comment still applies
Since when have demos been made for operating systems?
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at the API level (like Wine, unlike UAE)
Perhaps these AROS guys ought to go and find out what Wine actually does before making these kinds of comparisons. :-p
Perhaps they meant WineLib?
Blueberry: Come on, we're talking about someone who idolizes AmigaOS 3.1.. ;)
"A demoscene" does not work on pouet BBS.
Hey, an OS whose API includes a function called WriteChunkyPixels must be awesome!!
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aiming at being compatible with AmigaOS 3.1
Not at all, make no mistake: Aros is "API compatible" with OS3.1 (1993) but use x86 binaries for the whole system and executables, and AFAIK, no 680x0 emulation layer is planned within this system. (AOS4 and Morphos are powerPC based, with 68k emulation layers.) But I guess there is some UAE under AROS.
It sounds like another wrong direction for amiga to me. Freezing the os at a certain version.. it just makes it outdated, without having the fun hardware that was half of what made the original good.
OS4 sounds pretty good, but it's only available on PPC, and not on any of the widely available PPC platforms, meaning you have to buy an expensive and slow board to run it.
If there was something like OS4 for x86, perhaps with something like apple's rosetta stuff for ppc compatibility, I'd have a proper look at it. Or at least it I could run it on an old mac, which I could pick up for almost nothing.
OS4 sounds pretty good, but it's only available on PPC, and not on any of the widely available PPC platforms, meaning you have to buy an expensive and slow board to run it.
If there was something like OS4 for x86, perhaps with something like apple's rosetta stuff for ppc compatibility, I'd have a proper look at it. Or at least it I could run it on an old mac, which I could pick up for almost nothing.
