AROS
The Amiga Research OS
(C) Copyright 1996 AROS - The Amiga Research OS
- 15.3.1999 The user can now move Windows in AROS' screens around.
- 11.3.1999 Added a new status report.
- 7.1.1998 Updated FAQ: Read the status between AROS and Amiga Int/Inc.
- 22.12.1997 50% of AROS are completed and the homepage has now about 200hits/day (more than 13'000 in all)
- 1.12.1997 These pages are available as tar.gz archive
- 18.11.1997 Removed the source from our FTP server until Amiga Int./Inc. make a decision whether we can continue AROS or not and if we can under what conditions.
- 15.11.1997 Talked to Jeff Schindler about AROS
- 14.11.1997 Talked to Petro Tyschtschenko about AROS
- 28.10.1997 Our first HIDD: The UnixIO.hidd
- 23.10.1997 BOOPSI.library and HIDD.class have been committed.
- 17.10.1997 AROS has two new mailing lists: aros-gfx and aros-user.
NOTE: This is beta. If you want this code, then have a look at our Links. See also the Section about CVS.
The source is 6.5MB right now.
- Bugfixes (Do I really need to mention this every time ? ;-)
- New libs: layers, expansion, asl, boopsi
- The following items are complete: iffparse, mathffp, mathieeesingbas, utility
- The following items are in work: alib_stdio, arp, asl, battclock, commodities, console, datatypes, diskfont, dos, exec, expansion, gadtools, graphics, icon, intuiton, layers, locale, mathffptrans, mathieeedoubbas, mathieeedoubtrans, mathieeesingtrans, mathtrans and timer.
- New CLI tools
- Andreas Kleinert's CLib integrated
- A new standard: HIDD - Hardware Independent Device Driver. First HIDDs are available.
- AROS has its own build tool now: MetaMake
- AROS runs now on Linux/m68k. First Amiga programs can be run.
- listview, checkbox and mutualexclude BOOPSI and GadTools classes have been added
- BOOPSI code has been split from intuition.library into boopsi.library (intuition.library now uses the functions from boopsi.library).
Released 13.8.1997
- 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
Things we currently work on:
- ANSI C library for AROS
- A own C compiler for AROS (VBCC)
- diskfont.library, math libs,
datatypes and gadtools
- AROS on Amiga (maybe even bootable)
- CLI commands
- Splitting AROS into small packages
- Small developer package for Amiga
- Bugfixes
- Worked on docs
- Many (50+) new functions in c.lib and amiga.lib
- Big endian IO functions in aros.library
- Amiga native and Linux/m68k versions. Amiga is still alpha.
- A *pre* alpha of VBCC with i386 support. This is only loosely connected to AROS. See the README in the directory AROS/compiler/vbcc/.
- iffparse.library completed
- Exec 90% completed, DOS 50% completed, Graphics 15%, Intuition 25%. All in all 30% of the whole work is completed.
- Real preemptive multitasking like on Amiga
- Many files were missing in the dev distribution :-(
- Some bugfixes
- FreeBSD/i386 support
- Amiga users can now participate. Read README.CVS for more info.
- Much easier to port to a new hardware. Moved OS specific files from the various directories to AROS/config/$(ARCH) and the CPU specific files to AROS/config/$(KERNEL).
- HTML docs
- Renamed " openwin" to " demowin".
- Implemented PROPGADGETS
- Even more bugfixes (librarytest works now :)
- Many new README's. Developers should have a look at README.porting, README.contents, README.CVS and README.jobserv depending on what they want to do.
- Many new function from M. Fleischer (we have now 236 funcions in all)
- Many new function from I. Templeton (Utility.library)
- NIL: and RAM: devices from M. Fleischer
- AROS now uses the AFD-COPYRIGHT
- ***Developers: If you update from 1.7, you *MUST* call "make clean" because some headers have been added.
- New CLI commands: Mount, Assign, MakeDir, Delete
- The demo " openwin" gets more and more complex
- First steps to introduce Resource Tracking and Purify into the AmigaOS
- Intuition supports now Gadgets (well, only GTYP_BOOLGADGET for now)
- We have a console for RawKeyConvert().
- Some small bugfixes
- First small steps on graphics and intuition.library. You can open a window and render in it - Due to a bug, the rendering won't be visible every time. A small demo is there which open a window, renders something (sometimes) and then waits for a key ress.
- The includes and scripts were missing. They are here now.
- More things are generated now (function tables and prototypes)
- Some bug fixes.
- Everything changed :) Throw away the 1.4 and below.
- Most of Exec and much of DOS
- A shell is available and some 10 commands to test it (like Dir, List, Echo, etc).
- CVS is used to allow multiple people to work on this at the same time. Look into README.CVS for how to participate.
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digulla@aros.fh-konstanz.de.
24. Jul 1999