Introduction to AROS - Revision history

Molly: /* What hardware does AROS support ? */ Correction for Arm processors

2016-11-06T21:26:55Z

What hardware does AROS support ?: Correction for Arm processors

2015-07-01T10:30:12Z

What hardware does AROS support ?: Changed 64-bit status from no to experimental

2015-07-01T10:26:42Z

use plural form when addressing multiple questions

2015-06-24T10:33:25Z

Where can I find/download AROS ?: shortened links

2014-12-16T22:13:15Z

What license does AROS use ?: integrated link to license

2014-12-16T22:11:29Z

What hardware does AROS support ?: added emulator tidbits

2014-12-16T21:57:24Z

Molly moved page AROS for newbies to Introduction to AROS: Title was too negative

2014-12-14T06:54:37Z

consistent use of M68k

2014-12-14T06:52:24Z

Why was AROS created ?: reader-friendly links

2014-12-14T06:48:34Z

What is the relation between AROS and Amiga ?: added some links + removed typo

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 ! Processor !!  AROS runs <br/> native <br/> on this hardware !!  AROS runs <br/> hosted <br/> on these operating systems. !!  Free Pascal support
 |-
-| ARM (v6 + VPF) ||  Raspberry Pi ||  Android, Linux ||  No (ABIv1)
+| ARM (v6 + VPF) ||  Raspberry Pi ||  Android, Linux ||  Yes, At least Pi linux hosted is proven to work
 |-
 | i386 ||  PC 32-bit ||  Darwin / MacOS X, Linux, Windows ||  Yes (ABIv0)

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 | PowerPC ||  Efika-chrp <br/> Sam-440 ||  Darwin / MacOS X, Linux ||  No (ABIv1)
 |-
-| X86 ||  PC 64-bit ||  Darwin / MacOS X, Linux, Windows ||  No (ABIv1)
+| X86 ||  PC 64-bit ||  Darwin / MacOS X, Linux, Windows ||  Experimental, requires FPC from trunk (ABIv1)
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−	If you are a Free Pascal programmer that landed here but never heard of AROS before, then you might have a few questions. Although the answers to those ~~question~~ can be found (scattered around), this page tries to answer some of those questions in a somewhat organized matter.	+	If you are a Free Pascal programmer that landed here but never heard of AROS before, then you might have a few questions. Although the answers to those questions can be found (scattered around), this page tries to answer some of those questions in a somewhat organized matter.

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 == Where can I find/download AROS ? ==
-AROS' homepage can be found at http://www.aros.org. More interesting information about AROS can also be read in AROS' wikibook at (http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Aros).
+The AROS website can be found [http://www.aros.org here]. More interesting information about AROS can also be read in the [http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Aros AROS wikibook].
 == Which AROS distributions are there ? ==

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 == What license does AROS use ? ==
-AROS is published under the APL license. The full text of the license can be read here (http://aros.sourceforge.net/license.html)
+AROS is published under the APL license. The full text of the license can be read [//aros.sourceforge.net/license.html here].
 == What hardware does AROS support ? ==

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 The main supported target of which is pc-i386 (e.g. other supported platforms might lack behind in features/support).
+A special note concerns the M68k version of AROS. Besides being capable of running on real classic Amiga hardware, AROS also runs in the amiga emulators [http://www.winuae.net/‎ WinUAE] and [//fs-uae.net/ FS-UAE]. (unmodified UAE/E-UAE is not capable of running AROS).
 == Where can I find/download AROS ? ==

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 | i386 ||  PC 32-bit ||  Darwin / MacOS X, Linux, Windows ||  Yes (ABIv0)
 |-
-| M68K ||  Amiga-68k ||  N/A ||  Use classic amiga target
+| M68k ||  Amiga-68k ||  N/A ||  Use classic amiga target
 |-
 | PowerPC ||  Efika-chrp <br/> Sam-440 ||  Darwin / MacOS X, Linux ||  No (ABIv1)
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 <!--
-| AROS ORCA      || Native                            || Classic m68k Amiga || sun68                           || Other
+| AROS ORCA      || Native                            || Classic M68k Amiga || sun68                           || Other
 |-
 -->
-| [//www.aros-platform.de AROS Vision]    || Native                            || Classic m68k Amiga || Olaf Schönweiß (OlafS3)         ||
+| [//www.aros-platform.de AROS Vision]    || Native                            || Classic M68k Amiga || Olaf Schönweiß (OlafS3)         ||
 |-
 | [//www.aspireos.com AspireOS]       || Native                            || i386               || Niko “nikolaos” Tomatsidis      || netbooks / programmers

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 == Why was AROS created ? ==
-To secure the legacy and future of the classic Amiga operating system.  More can be read here. (http://aros.sourceforge.net/introduction/).
+To secure the legacy and future of the classic Amiga operating system.  More about that can also be read on [//www.aros.org/introduction/ the introduction page] of the [//www.aros.org AROS website].
 Besides that, programming an OS and programming on/for AROS is just pure fun.
 == What license does AROS use ? ==

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 == What is the relation between AROS and Amiga ? ==
-The API of AROS is source-compatible with classic Amiga OS and its m68k implementation is also ABI compatible. The latter circumvents the requirement of having to need copyrighted ROMs (better known as kickstart) in order to be able to run Amiga OS 3.x or AROS on classic hardware (or emulator).
+The [//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interface API] of [//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AROS_Research_Operating_System AROS] is source-compatible with classic [//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AmigaOS Amiga OS] and its [//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M68k M68k] implementation is also [//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_binary_interface ABI] compatible. The latter circumvents the requirement of having to need copyrighted ROMs (better known as [//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kickstart_(Amiga) kickstart]) in order to be able to run Amiga OS 3.x or AROS on classic hardware (or emulator).
 == Why was AROS created ? ==