The problem is the installer won't partition the drive. VMware provides an IDE drive which could be changed to SATA which the AROS installer also recognizes. It began to copy files over but would stop and complain the drive was ejected OR it would throw checksum errors. I could not get the installer to work with the virtual HD which shows up on the Bench after starting-up the Bench as "HD0:NDOS." At one point, I got it to install by choosing "use existing AROS partitions" which of course, didn't sound right, not without formatting. I suppose once you start installing other Amiga 68k apps utilizing AmiBridge, the experience might well improve. I liked it but I have to say - and this is a personal bias that has nothing to do with anyone else's experience with this - it just wasn't the Amiga. I was tickled that it had DOpus and Protrekker with some included MODs along with some other familiar apps. It has boot options for screen resolution and I went with 1920 x 1080. I don't have a spare PC to try this on so I tried it in VMware Fusion on my Macbook. Right off the bat, the download link on Aminet was broken but the link is there for:
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