After a long time I have decided to revive the AROS World Gift Shop. The site is hosted on Cafepress, so all the transactions are secured under their web portal. There is a variety of items to select from with the AROS Kitty and the AROS eye. The small percentage of money that will come from the sales, will go towards AROS development and bounties. If you have any suggestions, ideas or you don't see an item, please feel free to contact me via PM on this site.

admin on February 20 2010 06:10:15 · 1 Comment · 295 Reads ·

Great news for AROS folks and Amiga followers in general: the latest update of Icaros Desktop adds some new fancy features like playing videos from YouTube, and a more reliable 3D/2D graphic support for most Nvidia cards (from GeForce FX to GTX200, with various degree of compatibility and support). This new release adds also some new applications, like the music editor BigBand or the vector-graphic program AmiFig, just ported to AROS by Yannick Erb, or the desktop-grabbing tool Screenrecorder, while many other applications have been updated to the latest version. Icaros Desktop 1.2.3 is available in two formats: the complete Live! edition and the usual update-CD which must be installed over a pre-existing 1.2.2 installation with Icaros LiveUpdater. Screenshots and more details here:

paolone on July 06 2010 15:25:24 · 0 Comments · 47 Reads ·

I just finished my second screencast tutorial for AROS and i decided to aggregate together all tutorials on a vimeo channel, here is the address:

http://vimeo.com/channels/100556

requires flash to be viewed but videos can also be downloaded from subscribed users.

The single new tutorial instead, that describes how to modify GRUB parameters, is here:

http://vimeo.com/11013489

Flash is required, but is possible for subscribed users (free) to download the clips.

saimon69 on April 20 2010 17:23:53 · 0 Comments · 136 Reads ·

Steve Jones has instructed developer Ian Gledhill to write a driver for Catweasel-MK4-cards. Thus it is supposed to make possible reading and writing Amiga disks with the AROS complete system (iMica).

The development of the driver was almost finished. Therefore all those users who want to test it may write a mail to the developer which is available HERE.

admin on April 16 2010 15:57:22 · 0 Comments · 135 Reads ·

Bernd Rösch's "AROS für AmigaOS" (AfA) is a port of single AROS-components to AmigaOS 3 (screenshot, available themes). 

If you install AfA, none of the AmigaOS-files are overwritten. You can turn Afa on or off by changing the startup-sequence. A detailed documentation is included in the archive.

Direct download: AfA_Binaries/AfA_OS_V4_7.lha (2,2 MB)

admin on April 16 2010 15:56:21 · 1 Comment · 200 Reads ·

We are happy to announce the AROS port on Sam440 is now fully up-to-date, and will stay updated.

From now on, AROS updates are usable immediately on Sam440 through the nightly builds available on AROS website.

Get your ISO and use AROS now:
http://aros.sourceforge.net/download.php#nightly-builds

admin on April 16 2010 15:53:25 · 0 Comments · 112 Reads ·

Krzysztof 'deadwood' Smiechowicz has published an update of his port of the video play program MPlayer. This update only includes the main application. An existing installation of the program package is required.

Changes:

• Update to the latest mplayer source codes
• Enabled use of SSE
• Use of native pixel format (must be running a 24bit screen)
• Movie window correclty refreshes when movie is paused and other windows are moved on top of movie window
• MPlayer window no longer visible in fullscreen mode
• Scalling in fullscreen mode to fill the total width or height of screen

Download: mplayer-20100411.zip (5 MB)

admin on April 12 2010 08:08:02 · 0 Comments · 114 Reads ·

The latest version 7.8.1 of the Mesa3D-library is now part of the AROS-Nightly-Builds. This version uses the Gallium3D-driver system which meanwhile is integrated to the operating system.

Additional to the nVidia-driver for hardware accelerated output there is also a software version. The appropriate driver is chosen automatically at the start of the 3D-subsystem.

The nVidia-driver requires a GeForce 5xxx, 6xxx oder 7xxx as well as a start in VESA-mode.

admin on April 12 2010 08:07:08 · 0 Comments · 105 Reads ·

From today DOpus got a new dress. Neil took the bounty and delivered it before the deadline date :) This should be exciting news for all AROS users. Get if from here: HERE.

nikos on March 18 2010 03:40:28 · 0 Comments · 137 Reads ·

Starting from the March 9 nightly, it is possible to install AROS in a usb stick using the included InstallAROS program and to boot AROS from it (if your BIOS supports this functionality). There is a topic ongoing in Aros-Exec at this link and also icaros desktop blog talks about it.

saimon69 on March 16 2010 03:44:54 · Read More · 0 Comments · 495 Reads ·

As promised, the first update for Icaros Desktop 1.2 has been released. This update CD includes the most updated system files (up to march 6, 2010 nightly build) and some interesting new features like (still work in progress) 3D hardware acceleration on GeForce 5, 6 and 7 cards (both AGP and PCI Express versions supported), changeable pointers, .backdrop file support for placing icons on the desktop and many, many others.

Please notice that this release won't include new 3rd party software (with the only exception of YAM and some games to test hardware 3D), but will only bring the current ones to their latest versions. So you will enjoy OWB 1.0 RC2, SabreMSN 0.67 and the latest beta of WookieChat. Developers will also find the latest version of AROS development files. This release should fix also some annoying bugs like the Theme prefs wrongly handled on 1.2, while system stability and hardware compatibility has noticeably improved.

http://www.icarosdesktop.org

admin on March 08 2010 12:02:34 · 0 Comments · 143 Reads ·