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AFROS-Update cover two aspects.
1. Installable update to the ARAnyM based AFROS LiveCD distribution
2. Downloadable binaries of ARAnyM for PCLinuxOS and other Mandriva based distributions

Under AFROS it is intended to provide an up to date distribution that can be installed 
from either the LiveCD boot desktop, or the host OS which is currently SLAX. It is hoped that 
this update will then be adopted by the maintainers of the current AFROS and AFROS LiveCD 
distribution downloads. These additions should not be limited to AFROS itself, but the 
underlying OS's, FreeMiNT, and SLAX, to provide a smoother and more usable "everyday 
desktop" experience, while providing the basis for protable development and proto-
typing environment.

The service provided by AFROS-update is:
1. a modern usable "every day desktop"
2. supply of a supplemental development environment (FuDE for AFROS)
3. supply of a supplemental alternative which may contain non-AFROS qualified applications

AFROS - A FRee Operating System (predominantly running on)
ARAnyM - Atari Running on Any Machine

see:
 http://aranym.org/
 http://aranym.org/afros
 http://paulwratt.110mb.com/afros/
 http://paulwratt.110mb.com/aranym/
 http://paulwratt.110mb.com/atarist/
 http://paulwratt.110mb.com/afros/skins/
UPDATE - 2011/01/16

  There are new binary packages of ARAnyM v0.9.10 for PCLinuxOS available in the files section of the SourceForge project. Same format as for v0.9.9, except that now NatFeat Clipboard is enabled by default. Still no luck with SDL Blitter option, hopefully soon, needs a fix applied first. Note that you should be able to use the Mandriva packages available for download through the ARAnyM website, if you prefer them to be managed by RPM. (ARAnyM v0.9.10 for PCLinuxOS)

 

  Also newly available, as of 7-Jan-2011, is the Official 1.17.0 version of FeeMiNT dedicated to Frank Naumann, although at this time there have been some bug-fixes applied to CVS, and I am unable to compile them at the moment (later this week maybe). This release brings a LOT of bug-fixes since the version which is on the AFROS 8.12 LiveCD, and many new enhancements and bug-fixes to XaAES, which has now been bumped to v0.999a. Extended texturing is now a reality in Official XaAES release, so get to it and create a new theme. Just need to work on getting Gradients to be easily changed at compile time and swapped within XaAES at run-time. (FreeMiNT v1.17.0)

 

  With this release also comes and effort to update both FreeMiNT & XaAES documentation, as well as providing it online (very useful). The Sparemint Wiki is now the primary docs repository, all additions and edits are done online, no more need for CVS submitions. As a result, with the use of a tool, wiki docs are converted into UDO format, which can generate any number of documentation formats, including .HTML, .STG (ST Guide), .HYP, and .PDF. Also there is now a Themes and Extended Textures section in the XaAES documentation. (XaAES Wiki)

 
GRADIENTS

 

  This is an example of one of the new XaAES gradient styles that can be recompiled with the recolor.sh script. This is because the gradients are now includes, and currently come in six flavours, all based on the original blue and grey gradients, but with color tinges added to grey scales. The types of colors they generate allows them to be collectively called "The Pastel Collection", but I liked Rose, Aqua, Lime, Bronze, Peach and Mauve. (screenshots)

 
AES SKINNING

 

  There is a relatively simple way to get good quality textures to render in rez's greater than 8bit (256) color. The techniques described will gaurentee results for the highest quality possible for both XaAES and MyAES, both of which require different image formats to work with. These come from hours of painful testing, so that you dont have to, but can try undescribed techniques with those tools mentioned, or others you may have. (theme kit)

 
UPDATE - 2010/07/18

  Some of the binaries have been updated, like Teradesk v4.03p (which offers X & Y offsets for the start of the icons, a must have for certain MyAES settings), and the long awaited "official" extended texture for XaAES. These are in a new folder in the CVS, and will be in the final .ZIP download which should be available soon. This allows for incrimental update and possible rollback, as well as not having to modify scripts, do extra checks, etc.

 
OLD UPDATES

2009/12/11
  There are new XaAES title texture examples on both the CVS and my skins, with the original, if anyone wants to play with ideas for 1600x21 left aligned title presentation. 1600 may not be enough for some platforms, in the near future this need should be gone, with addition of custom title textures for TITLE_LEFT, TITLE_RIGHT and TEXT_BACKGROUND that can be used with the current title texture.