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Amigaworld.net News   Amigaworld.net News : Icaros Desktop 2.0 now available for dowload!
   posted by paolone on 31-Oct-2014 9:18:02 (3311 reads)
The second "major release" of Icaros Desktop, your beloved AROS distribution, is now available for download. After 18 months of hard work, many internal beta releases and countless of additions and bug fixes, it brings a completely new interface based on DirectoryOpus 5 Magellan, a more polished M68K environment for classic Amiga games and applications, many new applications (among of them: ZuneView and ScalOS), and the faster TLSF memory manager recently introduced in AROS.

Icaros Desktop 2.0 is based on Deadwood's ABIv0-on-trunk backport and is available, as usual, in two flavours: the self-executable Live! package, which includes DVD ISO for installation on real hardware and a refreshed QEMU virtual machine for Windows™, and the Light version, which includes the core files only, but will fit on a CD-ROM or on a 1GB USB pendrive.


For more informations, full-size screenshots and downloads, please follow this link on www.icarosdesktop.org


Icaros 2.0 can run on Windows as self-contained virtual machine, albeit slowly.

Click READ MORE for additional screenshots ===>




ADF and ISO images can be mounted and unmounted with a few mouse clicks.


Faster and stabler 68K environment allows execution of classic Amiga applications.


OWB 1.23 enhances Icaros web-compatibility with current sites.


No need to wait. Be among the first ones to try Phoenixconsole's appstore!


Management of image files has greatly improved in Icaros Desktop 2.0.
    

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amigang 
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Posted on 31-Oct-2014 12:45:08
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Finallly, been kinda of waiting for this to try out Aros again! Many thanks!


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Yehaa! This is badass!

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Posted on 31-Oct-2014 14:08:22
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Great work!

Weird:
just noticed that the news order is wrong on aw.net.
This news from today appears below the "A-EON Technology Amiwest 2014 News Releases" from two days ago.

EDIT: placed a bug report in the website's feedback forum area.

Last edited by Daytona675x on 31-Oct-2014 at 02:48 PM.
Last edited by Daytona675x on 31-Oct-2014 at 02:14 PM.


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Wonderful work! the future of the Amiga platform is finally here!

Congratulations to all involved! all these work and wonderful features for FREE. You guys are heroes.

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I bet the "bug" won´t be solved, fear and envy are such strong feelings ;)

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Very impressive work ^^

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Thanks!

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CONGRATULATIONS!


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Great news!
I'm installing it now as I write here, looks very good and the speed is awesome (even though I just using the CD/DVD atm) =)


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Sadly, this is one drawback when the site is in the hands of non independent party =(

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Hey hey, don't worry. News from oct 29 has been updated this afternoon, and this may have impacted on the news order. That's surely odd, but please don't rush up to wrong conclusions: it might be just a coincidence.


Let's see if there will be other coincidences in the future, before getting angry...

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Respect ; ) great work and thank you to all involved for making Aros even better.


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Now if only the AMD/ATI drivers would understand that despite my video card supporting 1920x1600, my monitor is only 1920x1080... /sigh

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here my contribute ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0l9wJnPBB2o&feature=youtu.be


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@tslom

Nice video! I'm amazed QEMU is running so fast for you: on my A8 powered laptop I can only dream a similar speed! Anyway, let me give you a hint.

This time I configured QEMU to use VMware SVGA virtual card, which should give more freedom about video modes (and general speed) than the emulated Cirrus Logic which Icaros used in the past. You should surely try using a widescreen resolution on your QEMU as well. Try modifying the 1024x768 entry in GRUB with, for instance, either 1280x720, 1280x768 or 1280x800 (one of them should work good). Also 1920x1080 should work. If you see the first screenshot published in this news, you'll notice a 1280x720 AROS screen running in QEMU, on top of a 1366x768 Windows™ resolution.

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The first try with it via VirtualBox : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUKCjhwvX6s
It's much faster native on my machine but I need to fix the eth-driver first to make it complete =)

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On Qemu on LinuxPPC i can use VMware Vga, on macos x there is a problem with colors if i use it or the std options too :(

PS: it is running on VirtualPC and is FAAAAAAST!
the only prolem im facing if i install Aros on vhd (for now) if i install on vhd Vpc crash (dho!)
i have to check lan and audio too..
but overall experience is great i can use all sdl programs and is great!


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Thank you paolone...


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@paolone

This is Aros on VirtualPc on PowerMac G5 ... and is incredible!!!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGGMOsTqh70&feature=youtu.be

Look like it is not compatible with audio (sb16?) and lan (intel)
but work really great!


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@Daytona675x
That Amiwest news item being above this news item is intentional, but not for the paranoid reason some suggest:
http://amigaworld.net/modules/news/article.php?storyid=7229#93460
http://amigaworld.net/modules/news/article.php?storyid=7229#93468

P.S. I'm just waiting for some people to start claiming that Trevor doesn't like AROS or MorphOS... (Or maybe they already have - I don't have time for the AW.net forums.)

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hmmm if i plan to post multiple things together.. why don't just put it in one news item? Whatever I see no bad conspiracy stuff here as well. Coincidence.
Meanwhile I am also sure that the a.org debate about unreleased news items was just caused by one or two of there mods and i interpreted it false. Shit happens.
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