Amiga Icaros Desktop 2.2 arriva finalmente sui nostri schermi. Si tratta di un sistema operativo AROS per PC dedicato al mondo Commodore Amiga. Il precedente rilascio risale allo scorso Natale. Tra le novità introdotte dagli sviluppatori spicca una interfaccia grafica utente (GUI) ampiamente rivista e corretta, davvero benna da vedere. Tutto, dalle finestre agli gli sfondi ai colori e agli strumenti appare completamente nuovo.
Amiga Icaros Desktop 2.2 offre anche alcuni programmi incorporati molto interessanti, come quello per disegnare, ZunePaint scritto da Yannick Erb, davvero ben realizzato. Da notare anche l’implementazione della nuova tecnologia HostBridge, in grado non solo di lanciare i programmi per e Windows e Linux direttamente da AROS, ma anche di usarli per aprire file ed anche impostarli come tool standard qualora ad AROS venissero a mancare le risorse disponibili.
Amiga Icaros Desktop 2.2 può essere usato come sistema operativo principale ma anche, se non vogliamo dargli troppo spazio, come se fosse un semplice programma per Windows e Linux.
Ecco, nel dettaglio, le caratteristiche diffuse sul web per il nuovo Icaros Desktop 2.2:
NEW FROM ICAROS DESKTOP 2.1.3
– Updated AROS system files to feb 20th nightly build, plus some further updates here and there
+ introduced more than 16 Months of changes from AROS developers
– Added Windows hosted environment option
+ installation script for Windows 2000/XP/7/8.x/10/Server 20xx
+ Documents directory automatically mounted on AROS
– Added HostBridge for Icaros in hosted mode
+ users can access Windows and Linux programs
+ use Windows or Linux apps to open AROS files from GUI and AROS shell
+ transparent path conversion from AROS to native format
+ use Windows or Linux apps as default tools
+ add whatever Linux or Windows application you like
+ you may use Icaros Desktop as GUI to drive your host OS
– Updated Windows hosted installation script
+ easy access to Windows volumes and Linux filesystem
+ added warning about current status of Windows port
– New desktop theme with modern “flat-white” decoration
– Updated user interface using Magellan
+ no more confusing toolbar on the top right corner
+ new lister toolbar with labels for common file operations
– Added MuiMapparium and updated Mapparium
– Added ZunePaint, a handy brilliant AROS image editor
– Added minipicolisp to development languages
– Updated ZuneView to latest version
– Updated ZuneFig to latest version
– Updated (again) user manual to reflect latest changes
– Added icoutils, wput, gsar and other utilities in C
– Updated MUIRoyale to version 1.6
– Updated Zune MCC classes to latest release
– Updated HFinder to latest release
– Updated SnapIT to latest release
– Added ogg encoder-decoder to utilities
+ integrated HFinder in Magellan to search for files
– Fixed: Zune prefs now shows class icons on the left
– Fixed: OWB now displays images correctly
– Fixed: AROS 68K in coherency mode now works again
– Added Linux hosted environment option
+ ubuntu/mint-based distros compatible installation script
+ network and audio setup automatically performed on the AROS side
+ user Home directory automatically mounted on AROS
+ implementing Icaros-daemon for Linux (still work in progress)
– Updated SFSundelete to a newer version
– Updated SYSmon to a newer version
– Updated dgen and MAME to latest releases
– Added protracker to multimedia tools
– Added complete AISS package to distribution
+ Installation performed only under user request, within Icaros installation
– Changed directory structure in Extras
– Moved FryingPan and Cinnamon Writer back to Extras
+ this makes them available on Icaros Live! edition only
– Moved Protrekkr and LunaPaint to Utilities
+ this makes them available on Icaros Light edition too!
– Cleaned some parts of S:icaros-sequence startup script
– Updated user manual to version 2.2
– Fixed some little bugs in Icaros installation procedure
