Firsty, sorry for having to start a new thread, I hoped to add to the one below but it was locked.

I have to say it is really good, if rather unepected, news that the MorphOS 5.1 version has been released; I have to say I hadn't expected any further releases for an Amigaoid system. I did purchase the 5.x version back in the day, but found the Amiga 68k version to be unstable and whilst I did purchase and briefly use the Windows verison, I'd rather stick with PS4 than use that OS. So for the last couple of decades or so I've been using PS4 via Janus-UAE on AROS every working day to prepare resources (I'm a teacher). I wouldn't have though I'm the only person to be still using PageStream Amiga, and whenever the topic pf PageStream comes up on AmigaWorld.netIther always seems to be a fair amount of respect for and interst in the program. I for one would be very happy to see a stable 5.1 for 68k or, even bette,r AROS, the latter hopefully being not too hard to derive from the MorphOS version.

In terms of a development machine (and apologies if you already know this), AROS is set up to developed via a hosted version on Linux using a cross-compiler; the details re discussed in this thread https://ae.amigalife.org/index.php?topic=976.0 and if you needed a beta tester, I would be very to volunteer.

Cheers,
Nigel.

No worries about creating a new thread. I hope in this case a good surprise is welcome

You may have seen my comments a few weeks ago where I am not apposed to an OS4 or AROS, or even an OS3, version. As I've been recently reminded, MUI is not so much the same across these platforms. Each have ventured in a unique direction. If a cross compiler can be installed, together we can discover how different things have become I will say that AROS is furthest down on my list, simple because I have no experience with it and no customers waiting for it.

Hi Deron, yes, it was a very pleasant surprise. To me PageStream is top class software, still running rings around the MS Office offerings (in my work the quaity of my resources is often commented on, and that's down to PageStream's capabilites). To see that there's still life in the Amigaoid versions is great news.

Re. a potential AROS version, I did ask over on AROS-Exec if this would be of interest to others and a couple of people have already said they would be very interested, including an AROS applications developer, so if any advice on producing an AROS verision was needed I'd imagine they would be able and willing to give it. In terms of similarities to other systems, AROS is supposed to be source compatable to OS3 and as far as I know (I'm not a developer, just an everyday user) it's U.I. Zune is pretty much an Amiga OS3 MUI clone, so hopefully any U.I. code that works with OS3 will work with AROS (aside from a few more obscure MUI methods that Zune lacks). MorphOS MUI has evolved beyond that offered by OS3, so I guess it's possible that MorphOS version of PS could use some methods not known to AROS.

One thing that might make a bigger market for an AROS version is compiling it for 68k AROS as well as x86, as 68k AROS is the core of Apollo OS on the Vampire and I'm pretty sure it will be same with Pistorm once the development of emu68 is done, so eventually I think any accelerated classic Amiga or FPGA/RPi clone will end up running AROS.

In any case, it is brilliant to even see an AROS version is some kind of a possibility, and I really look forward to following any future developments.

All the best,
Nigel.

Just to say there are three people who have expressed an interest in PageStream for AROS over on AROS-Exec.

Cheers,
Nigel.

Another person has expressed interest.

Cheers,
Nigel.

Sorry, should have been more patient, just had another expressin of interest. So, including myself, that`s eight people at the very least interested in an AROS version

Cheers,
Nigel.