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Ambient is a MUI based desktop environment for MorphOS. Its development was started in 2001 by David Gerber. Main goals were that should be simple and fast. Ambient remotely resembles Workbench and Directory Opus Magellan trying to mix the best of both worlds.
Features
- support for ARexx scripting language
- default icon library for hundreds of fileformats
- fully asynchronous, multi-threaded design
- fast asynchronous file I/O functions and file notifications
- supports PNG icons and various Amiga icon formats
- built-in icon, workbench and wbstart libraries
- built-in applications like disk formatting and commodities manager
- panels which are used as program launchers
Ambient is localized for various languages and while part of MorphOS it is also available separately. There are various visual effects in Ambient which are taking an advantage of hardware accelerated visual effects in MorphOS.
Status
In 2005 David Gerber released Ambient source code under GPL[1] and is now developed by the Ambient development team.
See also
- Amiga Workbench
- MorphOS#MUI http://www.stuntz.com/muibeta_20070425.lha
- Scalos http://scalos.noname.fr