Anyone ever use AROS/ICARUS or any other OS based on AMIGA. Its a trip

Posted by DrRedmondNYC@reddit | vintagecomputing | View on Reddit | 11 comments

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DilapidatedArmadillo@reddit

I have a number of Amiga machines as well as a couple Amithlon machines and a laptop that runs Icaros. I also have a desktop that boots straight to OS 4.1 in emulation. Without question Amiga OS is my favorite operating system. It was light years ahead of anything else when it was released and will come back to the mainstream I think with the huge recent resurgence of interest and popularity of retro gear etc.

Hats off to those who have made AROS a reality, please support them https://aros.sourceforge.io/ these guys have spent many years building this and deserve so much credit!!

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Batou2034@reddit

what do you use to emulate OS4?

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DilapidatedArmadillo@reddit

Running in winuae on an i7 with 32g of ram. To be honest I rarely use it since Caffeineos and pistorm have been available.

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deleted_by_reddit@reddit

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DrRedmondNYC@reddit (OP)

So Odyssey is the main browser or only browser ? That's the one thing I'm confused about is there other browser options.

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TheJazzButter@reddit

Not familiar with Odyssey, is it new or for pre-4.0? I use Aweb or OWB, mostly, but there's not any really good choices... which comes to the point of my X5000.

I am *SLOWLY* porting a two-year old version of Firefox. Should be a 4 year old version by the time I can get it done. There was a port of Firefox (Timberwolf) some time ago, but when the guys doing it released a preview, the toxicity of the responses to an in-progress build encouraged them to abandon it.

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DilapidatedArmadillo@reddit

Is there a repo or link for the port you are working on?

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TheJazzButter@reddit

Not yet, still getting everything to compile on Linux first, while doing a review of library code that will need to be ported/altered. Maybe about 10% of the way through my dev plan.

I was planning on getting a public repo set up first week of the new year.

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