Quote:Yeah, the joys of State of the Art, even now - a full music video on 1 floppy, needing 1Mb of ram, and 7MHz processor.

Then I look at Doom 3 and wonder when the fun got sucked out of just messing around with computers ... and retreat back into AROS

A floppy image would be nice too because just imagine if aros could do quite a lot even on just a floppy disk image; people might see it and think "Hey, that must take up a CD or two" but then you tell them it's *one* floppy disk(!). Then if they're hooked you can point them towards a more complete version, i.e. the cd image.

Even right now though aros does quite a fair bit on a disk :) (and the major part: a gui) - most other OSes don't even have a GUI if they're run off a disk! Right now as far as I can tell aros is one of the few OSes that can actually have any sort of GUI off-a-disk; I do not want to "knock" linux (I prefer linux over windows any day of the week! :) ) but any linux bootdisks are text only (and very hard to produce manually too); DOS is command line and the chances of being able to run a modern version of windows on disk are about the same as hell freezing over x.x

Prehaps btw something like mozilla or firefox is a bit "too high up the scale" to start off with; what about something more simple like 'dillo' (http://www.dillo.org/) -- though I am guessing even that wouldn't work (dillo uses gtk) ?

:)

ljones

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That's actually how the current one works.

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As soon as we get a TCP/IP stack, it will be added to the floppy version, your dream will be forefilled

A nice floppy img would be great for people that have older systems with no cd drive. Like my laptop :)

Nah the ISO's fine it's just for a first-time user maybe a disk image would be easier as it's a smaller download? If someone downloads an ISO who has never used AROS before they're gonna be at their download if it dies halfway through downloading, but if it's a disk image, they might try it again if the downloading messed up.

SP

Yeah, Doom hauls ass ... once it's loaded

TCP/IP first though, please

IMO, we really need a faster filesystem!!! (it is a botleneck for the overall performance)

Well, first we need the TCP/IP driver. When it's ready, we can think about things like this. But i don't see why you need a floppy version of AROS? Is there any problems with the ISO?

One idea I thought of the other day is this - I'm not sure if its possible or really a very good idea though: A Bootable floppy disk containing aros. But instead of the normal downloadable one add a few simple bits 'n' pieces and somehow compress the whole lot and load it into memory.

A While back - a few years ago I think there was a bootable floppy demo of the QNX OS which could connect to the internet via a network, and it had a gui and a simple browser. Might that be one aim for any future AROS bootdisk? :)

ljones

That or start a bounty for whatever driver he wants created.

Dammy
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