AROS-Exec :: Forum

Re: Hello, I'm new. [by nikolaos]

Thu, 20 Sep 2018 12:01:19 -0500

Introduce Yourself::Hello, I'm new.
Welcome and good to see interest other than from classic Amiga users. For old classic Amiga games you still have to run them under emulation in AROS unless you have some real Amiga hardware where you could install AROS 68k.
We have games for AROS too but they are most open source games or would require real hardware with accellerated 2D and 3D.

Re: Back to the future ;) [by oGALAXYo]

Sun, 09 Sep 2018 13:48:27 -0500

Introduce Yourself::Back to the future ;)
Quote:

snurf_T wrote:

After I tried the Rufus-tool which delivered a stick with a bootable fat32-partition, I had a look at the MBR (dd if=/dev/MY_DEVICE of=~/temp/mbr_test count=1 bs=512 and than used GHex) I found a table of primary partitions (0x1BE to 0x1FD and the "55 AA" at the end, but nothing in the code-area (0x00 to 0x1B7).

Usually the BIOS loads the first bootable device that has the magic number 55AA written at the end of the first 512 bytes of the first sector at the address 0x7c00 in real mode 16bit.

From there you can use the BIOS int 13 funktion 2 to load a second stage bootloader (grub2) or simply single stage trackload your kernel directly into memory and have it executed.

So yes! If there is just the magic number and no further "code" that loads anything, then you end up getting a blinking underscore on the screen.

Re: Hello Im a newbie member [by 4pLaY]

Mon, 27 Aug 2018 21:08:38 -0500

Introduce Yourself::Hello Im a newbie member
Spam Account guys :).

Re: New to AROS/Old to Amiga [by wawa]

Wed, 16 May 2018 20:19:03 -0500

Introduce Yourself::New to AROS/Old to Amiga
but as far as ive been able to test it it worked surprisingly well, considering lack of maintenance. apart from non working keyboard as ive mentioned elsewhere, that is. btw, there was a topic on dev ml about how to debug that, but so far none has done that.

iggy, here i third post are my directions about how to compile i mentioned on aorg:
http://aros-exec.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=10828&forum=2

other than that refer to aros compile page. you can either pull the sources from jasons githib or main svn repo.

Re: Mind if I stay a while? [by elwis]

Wed, 31 Jan 2018 14:41:09 -0500

Introduce Yourself::Mind if I stay a while?
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Re: Hello Community [by serk118uk]

Thu, 06 Jul 2017 05:26:44 -0500

Introduce Yourself::Hello Community
Welcome on board...

Re: Hi :-) [by Superchicken]

Mon, 29 May 2017 10:15:30 -0500

Introduce Yourself::Hi :-)
Welcome!

Re: Time to say "Hello" [by jeffrey1138]

Mon, 08 May 2017 00:40:03 -0500

Introduce Yourself::Time to say "Hello"
Hi,

Welcome, installing on usb is the best option at the start. Have fun.

Jeff

Re: Programming for AROS [by origami]

Sun, 07 May 2017 08:28:59 -0500

Introduce Yourself::Programming for AROS
Quote:

miker wrote:
Is the AROS PNG Library the same as Libpng?

According to its readme in sources, yes

Re: Happy to be here... [by sabbate]

Sat, 06 May 2017 17:46:13 -0500

Introduce Yourself::Happy to be here...
hi welcome!!