Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 13th Sep 2002 20:26 UTC, submitted by Gareth
AROS, the AmigaOS clone which is being developed by Amiga enthousiasts, and who many regard it as the real future of the AmigaOS, now includes a simple WorkBench clone. Screenshots are available.
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> What makes it compelling today?
- AmigaOS is small, efficient while still offering a featureful environment.
- Screens: With only the press of a mouse button you can switch between different screens with independent resolutions and color depths on the fly. Think about being able to test your websites in different resolutions on the fly. Think about old applications opening up in full screen windows, instead of becoming tumbnails on your currently much higher resolution desktop. (Often also possible if you prefer that, but most people won't)
- Completely modular desktop OS - Do you hear monopolistic companies claiming that integration of 3rd party applications like browser, multi-media applications, etc make the OS faster. Well AmigaOS proves this to be nonesense, on AmigaOS you can take out almost anything and replace it with an alternative and both the application and OS will fly.
- Completely customizable environment - Do you hate having a Dock? Why not delete it and install a Startbar instead? Do you want your OS to look like MacOS X or QNX or do you want to design the ultimate desktop yourself? Possible without too much effort.
Some of the advantages of using AmigaOS on classic hardware will be lost on new PPC hardware, this is sadly due to hardware limitations of modern PC technology, some of these lost features include:
- Screen Dragging (offering you the ability to see different screen resolution/color depth screens within one display). Will be possible to implement in software but will then be very slow instead of realtime and seamless on classic Amiga hardware.
- Advanced floppy controller (the Amiga diskdrive controller is far more advanced than "modern" PC diskdrives (unable to read 880kb/1720kb Amiga diskettes due to the lack of sector gaps, etc) but a third party solution may become available later on.
- Genlockable graphics, simply combine movies with computer generated graphics, example is Disney's Dinosaur animation. More advanced graphic cards may properly support this feature again in the future.