AROS Vision - the free alternative

AROS is a open source implementation of AmigaOS, vastly compatible to AmigaOS 3.1 API. It is open source and you can easily help when you are a developer. More informations do you find here. AROS is crossplatform including X86, AMD64, PPC, ARM and 68k. Currently most active platforms are X86/AMD64 and 68k. Because it is adaptable and without legal problems AROS 68k is now used in different amiga related projects.

The 68k version of AROS (called AROS 68k) is binary compatible to Amiga binaries. This means you can extend or replace components with amiga 68k binaries. In future there will also be a linux branch of aros with aros software and components compiled to linux. 

AROS Vision is a distribution that is based on AROS 68k and AROS software but also adds many components and software from 68k amigaos platform. There are three different desktops in aros 68k: wanderer (native aros desktop), scalos and magellan. You can easily change between all three in aros vision, all three are preconfigurred. Screesnshot above is from Magellan, screenshot below Scalos.

AROS - a solid foundation

AROS is a complete NG OS based on AmigaOS 3.1 API. This means it includes many known components like datatypes (24bit), network stack, AHI, MUI-Implementation (Zune), USB-support, Themeing, window out of screen and RTG. The default desktop (Wanderer) is functional similar to old 3.1 workbench.

Additions

Addition there are Scalos and Magellan desktops. Both are highly configurable what I made extensive use of. Also Aros Vision is extended with additional commodities in WBStartup, handler and devices, libraries, commands in C and lots of software including many applictations, guis, games, demos.

Useable on both WinUAE and Apollo V4