Due to almost no activity except myself and few other folks this site will close when the domain expires on February 15th. I apologize for any inconvenience but there are no justifications to maintain this site any longer. Please visit www.aros-exec.org for any AROS information.

Milkytracker is a fully compatible clone of ProTracker and FastTracker II but has a highly improved editor. Paolo Besser has now compiled the program for AROS/x86 (screenshot).

Download: milkytracker-0.90.80-aros-i386.tgz

Christopher Handley's Metacompiler PortablE translates the programming language E to other ones. Through this big E-programs are supposed to be converted in such a format that they can be compiled on more platforms.

The program is now available in version r3 and was written in E, compiles itself and works under AmigaOS, AmigaOS 4, AROS and MorphOS.

Based on sources of MorphOS port maintained by Fabien Coeurjoly, Krzysztof Smiechowicz prepared a compilation of MPlayer for AROS i386. The binaries and source can be downloaded from AROS Archives

The current state of the application is 'an early beta'. While most file formats supported by original MPlayer work (both video and sound) there are still features missing like support for network streams and DVD. The application will be further developed in 2009, bringing full multimedia experience to AROS users. :)

PS. We would like to thanks Fabien and other people involved in MorphOS port for letting us use their work to enrich AROS :)

archives.aros-exec.org/video/play.

AROS has now a page on popular social networking site facebook. Become a fan and share with others the news, pictures, videos and ideas.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/AROS-Research-Operating-System/42571762684?ref=s

Krzysztof 'Deadwood' Smiechowicz has adapted Fabien 'Fab' Coeurjoly's MorphOS-port of the video play program MPlayer to AROS/x86 (screenshot).

The AROS-version supports 3dnow and recognizes the used processor. SSE/SSE2 is being not supported. The sound output also is limited: The modi s16be and s17le work while others (24, 32, ac3) does not. If you have some "problem videos" then please send them to the author. Furthermore the WMV- and ASF-files can be played in the native AROS-version but cannot played on hosted versions.

Fabio Falcucci writes: As a final test for the ScuiLib functionality, I have released the version 1.1 of HFinder , a tool you can use to search files. With the resulting files you can make basic operations like copy, move or erase.

This version has been compiled with the latest ScuiLib version, now the application has a resizeable GUI, an optimized search routine and, thanks to Micha, a German translation.

VICE 2.1 has been released.

VICE is the Versatile Commodore Emulator, it emulates the Commodore C64,
C128, VIC20, PET, PLUS4 and the CBM-II, as well as the C64 DTV, and it
runs on Win32, Unix, DOS, RiscOS, OS/2, BeOS, QNX, SkyOS, AmigaOS and
GP2X systems.

VICE is *free* software released under the GNU General Public License,
and as such it comes with full source code.

It took almost a whole year, but the first point-release of VmwAROS has finally seen the light!

This new release includes many demanded and anticipated features like support for 68K applications trough AmiBridge, multiple archive types decompression, PDF reading support, Ken Lester's iconset and many, many improvements over standard AROS nightly builds.


VmwAROS provides the best AROS experience to everyone interested in using it. Former AmigaOS users can use their applications until an AROS one will be ported or re-created from scratch, AROS users can enjoy a completely pre-configured desktop and developers will find a complete development chain waiting for them, which includes Murks!IDE and a whole set of examples, languages, compilers, libraries and interpreters. People coming from other operating systems will find a smart, not-invasive, niche environment they can help improving too.

As usual, VmwAROS comes in two versions: Live! and VE. Live! provides a bootable DVD which can be launched and installed on real hardware and, for the first time, it includes also a Qemu based virtual machine for safer (but slower) testing. VE is the same environment, but already installed on a VMware virtual machine. For any further information, screenshots and download links, just contact VmwAROS official website at www.vmwaros.org.

Stanislaw Sszymczyk, after the completion of the bounty for the self-compilation decided to take a break killing some aliens (its own words).

Once the pile of alien bodies reached the ceiling and blocked the corridor way out, he decided to do something else... that you can see here:

http://aros-exec.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=3053&start=10

The next release of VmwAROS will include a new feature called AmiBridge, a powerful scripting tool which will allow running AmigaOS applications straight from AROS, using E-UAE.

On the VmwAROS website there is a video which explains how AmiBridge works.

Users will have to provide a legal Amiga ROM image and install their old AmigaOS files and applications in the right directories (they won't be included in VmwAROS). Users of Amiga Forever will be even happier, since AmiBridge supports Cloanto's environment and applications directly. Once files are properly installed, adding launch scripts to AROS and running applications is matter of a few mouse clicks.