AROS News

The most exciting news in March is the start of work on a prototype emulator ABIv0 for the 64-bit version of AROS. Deadwood is not resting on its laurels and is consistently delivering on its earlier announcements. A working emulator would enable a smooth transition to the 64-bit version of... [Read More]

February brings good news for the AROS community. After nearly two months of intensive work, we now have a new base version of the AROS x86 system. As promised, this iteration includes a transition to a new C library. While this change may not immediately result in many visible differences... [Read More]

Cross-compiling is the process of developing software on one system that is intended to run on another system. You can compile software for AROS using an AROS port hosted on Linux. Under Windows, this is possible using WSL2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux 2). [Read More]

January was marked by the implementation of a new C library in AROS x86. This change is intended to make life easier primarily for AROS developers themselves. The 32-bit version will be more compatible with the 64-bit version, so maintaining two development lines will become easier. In the long run,... [Read More]

You can download AROS ABIv0 as an .iso file and prepare a bootable CD from it. But what if we do not have a CD drive in our machine with AROS, or for other reasons we prefer to create a bootable USB flash drive with the system? Nothing simpler -... [Read More]

In December, the AROS system received many interesting changes and improvements that increase its functionality and performance. The most important news is the release of a new base version of the 32-bit system for x86 (ABIv0) by deadwood, which introduces nearly 1000 changes from several AROS developers, including hardware support... [Read More]