While ScummVM so far did not yet work (it links, but crashes) I also have some good news:

I got RetroArch for AROS 64 Bit working!!!!

The number of cores is still - very limited. But I started recompiling the Cores for AROS now.

As was said - Beta Versions for all who send me a PayPal donation. If you already did send a donation in the past months, refresh my memory by sending me your email address ;-) Mine is tirionareonwe@gmail.com

AROS 32 Bit version will come also later, but for now I concentrate on 64 Bit. I was also told that 64 Bit is the one were you guys need content, especially emulators, most importantly, as most emulator ports right now would be for 32 Bit.

Best regards,
Steffen

That's great news! Good to see 64-bit version coming along.

Before the 32 Bit Version actually you told me time ago 64 bit would be more important for AROS so I started on 64 Bit ))

Will be interesting how the Playstation Core will run (will look after that one Tomorrow probably). Have already more than half a dozen cores running on AROS 64 Bit.

Also with aros getting „recent Mame“ (0.2xx) might be possible. For os4 and morphos this did not work due to maximum 2 gb ram on them (on os4 Mame 0.174 runs, on MorphOS 0.139). Mame recent gives Dragons lair etc. in Emulation

I in meantime got an Installer (requires InstallerLG or something like it though) for the first Beta ready. Or an archive for an already installed version for people who prefer this.

Please check RetroArch screenshots shared by @MagicSN!

Thanks for posting, and thanks for retrofaza making those Screenshots ;-)

In meantime NeoGeo CD Core is also working, and Mame 2015 (Mame 0.160, so the most recent Mame AROS ever had!) is working (Mame 2015 compiled several HOURS). Right now I am compilling Mame 2016 (Mame 0.174) and will check if this will run too, once finished (everytime I find an issue where the config is bad, I need to do a complete reconfigure and rebuild - doesn't make the compile time shorter ^^). There is a reason why no more recent Mame compiles appeared for Amiga-oid operating systems...

Mame 0.174 (Mame 2016) now Runs on AROS 64 Bit. It was massive work though to get it running.

Thank you MagicSN, you are doing a great job. I hope there will be more contributions from you for AROS in the future.

Whow, this is great. I will donate and test.

I now also have a 32 Bit Version compiled. It needs testing if it works (same conditions as for the 64 Bit version - if you already donated for 64 Bit version no need to donate for 32 Bit Version again of course).

@AMIGASYSTEM: Depends on the project. Commercial projects (which is what I do mainly) usually are "tied" to the OS Name. Basically AmigaOS and AROS would cost twice the licence cost compared to only AmigaOS (while under "AmigaOS" I can do AmigaOS 4, AmigaOS 3 68k and AmigaOS 3 WarpOS).

For Open Source projects it is of course possible.

Interesting might be:

- Trying to get ScummVM 3.0.0git running on AROS (I have it compiled but it crashes, I need to debug it)
- Once AROS has both SDL2 *and* 3D Drivers on one branch - possibly a Serious Sam port
- MAME current port (that is Mame 0.257). While on OS4 and MorphOS this fails due to those systems having max 2 GB RAM, on AROS it would be possible. But like Mame 0.174 (Mame 2016) a lot of work. I still think I will try it eventually. Would make stuff like Dragon's Lair etc. possible. And some nice "Bullet hell" shooters.

MagicSN

OK, thank you. There is no commercial software on AROS One. If users want commercial software, they will install it themselves.

I know. Just wanted to Ortline that only my OpenSource projects would be an option.

Personally I actually would find „Mame 0.2xx“ The Most interesting one especially as aros is the only Amiga-like operating system which could run it (due to os4 and morphos not offering enough free memory for it).

Serious Sam of course would also be interesting but it would be a challenging port - for one it needs both SDL2 and 3d drivers and currently you have sdl2 Beta on 64 bit and 3d on 32 bit only. Also it has a lot of name conflicts for datatypes with Aros stuff which would need resolving.

[quote name=MagicSN post=9675]@MagicSN Also it has a lot of name conflicts for datatypes with Aros stuff which would need resolving.[/quote]
What kind of conflicts, can arise when creating specific descriptors to associate each file type?

Mainly stuff like BYTE and WORD, some of them defined with different signedness inside Serious Sam. And sadly either sdl2 or mesa pulls the aros includes in (I suspect it is those). As no SDL2+GL on the same AROS target yet I did not have a closer look though.

BTW: RetroArch for AROS 32 Bit is now confirmed to work fine ;-) All Cores recompiled already, but not all of them tested yet in 32 Bit (Retrofaza working on it)

You are doing a great job, thank you. I don't play, I release a light distribution. The users who use it can install whatever they want.

I have a Sega Saturn Core Running. It is unplayable slow but I have reason to the hope this might be a bug instead of a Performance problem