We are happy to announce availability of initial stable bootable ISO of 64-bit AROS. Switching to 64-bit architecture will allow AROS to keep up to date with technology and other open source projects which are more and more favoring 64-bit as well. In coming months Odyssey Web Browser will be updated with more powerful and modern versions of WebKit engine, utilizing larger amounts of RAM and 64-bit JIT compilation allowing today's websites to be used on AROS in comfortable way. Latest Amiga emulation cores, again with 64-bit JIT, will also become available and better integrated into the system.

If you'd like to try this initial release, please visit this page: arosworld.org

Distributions using this base system are already in development and should be available soon.

On Amiga's 40th anniversary, join AROS community as we migrate this year to 64-bits!

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Steps into the future...

@deadwood

Marvelous news. Congratulations to all involved on this landmark achievement.

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And the ability to seamlessly run all AROS software one roof! If only michalsc worked on MUI for it, we would have a perfect world!

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@deadwood

Great news, I will certainly give a 64 bit distribution a go sometime, when they appear. Sounds like the start of very good things for AROS.

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Well done

Well done!

@deadwood

Congratulations & well done on this update

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Thanks! It was an effort of many AROS developers over several years and I'm personally happy that we are finally doing this migration.

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@deadwood

Nice!

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This is a nice coincidence. 0x40-bit for the 40th birthday,
Sorry I couldn’t resist :)

@kamelito

Oh, good catch. I guess it was destined to be like that then ;)

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@pixie

Obviously Michal should make Emu68 work on 64bit AROS in the way Trance and Petunia operate on MOS/OS4.

After he fully ports MUI for the broken record guy first though 🤣

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it is waste of time.
everything below mui should be cut off and either replaced by unix or rewreitten.

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ppcamiga1 wrote: it is waste of time. everything below mui should be cut off and either replaced by unix or rewreitten.

You can use AROS hosted on Linux and maybe BSD.

It would give you a robust and secure kernel, with Amiga compatible programming API on top.

"The sleeper has awaken"

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Please don't derail this thread with the pointless discussion that had ben held over countless other threads already.

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@deadwood

To be honest, I'm asking myself if a distribution of a minimal Linux (Yocto?) with AROS hosted could be something useful on x86, AMD64 or ARM (RaspberryPI).

I don't know it AROS could run on an Linux using framebuffer only or if X11 with a windows manager is needed.

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@OneTimer1

It could and it was - there was a prototype of such approach sevaral years ago. Currently however there are developments happening in similar, but not exactly the same fashion, so stay tuned.

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deadwood wrote: ... there are developments happening in similar, but not exactly the same fashion, so stay tuned.

I'm permanently tuned in. The only interesting Amiga OS things that have been happening over the past 5 years have been in the AROS space.

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