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it290

Mar 18, 2005

I'm about to install AROS on a machine I tossed together from spare parts.

Yes! Let me know how it is. Also, are you installing it under another OS, or natively?

		mal	Mar 18, 2005
		I've been trying to connect a PC and a Mac wirelessly. It worked briefly and then stopped.

Mask of Destiny

Mar 18, 2005

Originally posted by it290@Fri, 2005-03-18 @ 07:06 AM

Yes! Let me know how it is. Also, are you installing it under another OS, or natively?

Natively. It's a pain to install. The installer needs a lot of work so you have to partition the drive manually (which is a little funky because they stick an RDB inside a PC MBR partition). That's about as far as I've gotten. The nightly build I have seems to be missing the format64 command so I haven't been able to format the drive.

There seem to be some drawing bugs either in Intuition or Zune. Widgets don't seem to un-grayout properly and sometimes you'll end up with artifacts from other windows on buttons. I'm currently limited to only 16 colors in 640x480. It seems that the old SVGA card I grabbed doesn't have a proper VESA BIOS. Biggest thing I'm looking to try out is the new networking support as that's what's kept me from using it at all before. Overall, it still has a ways to go before it's ready for prime time, but it's getting more useable all the time.

		it290	Mar 18, 2005
		Hmm, well I hear the version running under Linux is a lot more usable, but of course that's not what I'd refer to as a real OS. Also, now that the GUI layer from MorphOS has been open-sourced, maybe the AROS team can incorporate that. edit - hey, 16 colors, 640x480 - no worse than running Workbench on an ECS machine! Probably a bit slower, though...

		Cloud121	Mar 18, 2005
		Getting ready to watch Iowa State play Minnesota in the NCAA Tournament. Go Clones! :thumbs-up:

Mask of Destiny

Mar 18, 2005

Originally posted by it290+Fri, 2005-03-18 @ 04:51 PM--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(it290 @ Fri, 2005-03-18 @ 04:51 PM)</div><div class='quotemain'>Hmm, well I hear the version running under Linux is a lot more usable, but of course that's not what I'd refer to as a real OS. Also, now that the GUI layer from MorphOS has been open-sourced, maybe the AROS team can incorporate that.[/b]

I'm pretty sure that the license on that GUI layer is incompatible with the AROS license. It could be added to the contrib section, but it can never be a part of the core operating system unless it gets a new license.

Still, the GUI in AROS isn't that broken. I would imagine if there weren't so many other things that need attention that it would get fixed relatively quickly.

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t290@Fri, 2005-03-18 @ 04:51 PM

edit - hey, 16 colors, 640x480 - no worse than running Workbench on an ECS machine! Â Probably a bit slower, though...

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Except that the old Workbench releases were designed to run in 16 colors. Aros has all the;se pretty hi-color icons that look absolutely terrible in 16 colors.

EDIT: Turns out the rendering errors I refered to only occur in VGA mode. I threw my Voodoo 3 3000 from my Amiga in my AROS box and the problems went away. Still haven't managed to format the drive yet.

		Drenholm	Mar 21, 2005
		AOLing my gorgeous girlfriend. :thumbs-up:

		joe81	Mar 22, 2005
		entertaining myself (see below pic)(titled chinese food dont take offense if you're chinese the girl in the pic is also it was all good humored fun)

		Dud	May 10, 2005
		(BUMP) One of my new favorite hobbies is reading up on crimes at http://www.crimelibrary.com/... the serial killers section in particular. So far my favorite is the Issei Sagawa story. He went to France and murdered then ate a woman who lived there. Back in Japan his rich father totally bailed him out, since then he has been a guest on various talk shows, has his own website, starred in mangas and pornos and is just generally regarded as a celebrity. Check the site out, there are some interesting reads.

		lordofduct	May 10, 2005
		Isn't that ironic... ermm, I just started my next Calculus class in my long treck towards a masters in Mathematics. It's fun integrating things! We are doing definite integration of inverse triginometric functions... ermm that sounds so pompous. Wait no, it sounds pompous when I say the my teacher thinks I'm a nut case because I can do them in my head. I bought new clothes today, I look sexy, I look REALLY sexy... to bad I don't have pics to show you how sexy I am. Because I am just so damn SEXY!

		mal	May 21, 2005
		I was at the airport yesterday and they checked me out for explosives residue. What the fuck has the world come to?

		Raijin Z	May 21, 2005
		Waiting for the pain to stop, listening to One Piece dub in the background.

Dud

May 21, 2005

Originally posted by mal@Sat, 2005-05-21 @ 09:27 PM

I was at the airport yesterday and they checked me out for explosives residue.

What the fuck has the world come to?

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I know what you mean, when I was in London last, they thought I was some sort of IRA terrorist or something--just because I have an Irish sounding last name. And possibly because I tend to look like I'm up to no good.

I just got done "pwning" the little kids on Xbox Live playing TimeSplitters 3; the last game I thought I'd be good at. How are these damn little kids getting credit cards and signing up for Live anyway?

		RockinB	May 21, 2005
		I've been racing montecarlo cirquit on F1 Challenge for Saturn. Ferrari, of course. Later I'll watch Formula 1 and Montoya starting from the last place :banana .

		mal	May 26, 2005
		I'm watching Big Trouble in Little China.

		schi0249	May 26, 2005
		Dud, how old are you? My 8 year old niece had the extensive search as well. 8 years old; and she couldn't be confused as any other nationality. She may be a trouble maker, but not THAT troublesome.

Dud

May 27, 2005

Originally posted by schi0249@Fri, 2005-05-27 @ 10:39 AM

Dud, how old are you? My 8 year old niece had the extensive search as well. 8 years old; and she couldn't be confused as any other nationality. She may be a trouble maker, but not THAT troublesome.

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18, but that comment was referring to an event....wow almost 9 years ago now. So I would have been about the same age actually.

Today was my last day of school. Yay.

		mal	Jul 25, 2005
		I just watched the Space Shuttle launch live for the first time in 10 or 15 years. :banana

		Kuta	Jul 26, 2005
		Desperately looking for new posts on this forum because my job is hell boring! :/

		lordofduct	Jul 26, 2005
		Mal: What happend to that funny song you posted in here last night??? it was FUNNY! I just got to work, I am "Live Monitoring" right now.... I took my Calc2 exam earlier. I think I did well although I missed one question because I forgot the damn formula for Maclaurin series... DAMN IT! Well I'm here to hang out all night! heh heh, y'all must be gettin' tired of me! Wait a second... is that a girl on SX? How strange (or am I being rude?)

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