Ambient desktop
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Ambient is a MUI-based desktop environment for MorphOS that is meant to be simple and fast. Its features include:
- fully asynchronous, multi-threaded design
- does not use icon.library
- built-in old style icons support, automatic remapping
- built-in newicon support
- built-in "OS" 3.5 Glowicons support
- new true-color versatile icon format (Ambient PNGicon)
- file notification
- direct true-color rendering (no pen allocations)
- support for deficons (devices)
- 64-bit arithmetic to handle big storage devices
- localized
- fast file I/O functions
- ARexx port (optional)
- built-in disk formatting
- built-in commodities manager
- support for appwindows/appicons
- visual effects: transparency, blurring, color imposing, alpha channels...
- built-in wbstart.library
- panels
[edit] See also
- Amiga Workbench
- Ambient homepage http://www.ambient-desktop.com
- Morphos#MUI http://www.stuntz.com/muibeta_20070425.lha
- Scalos http://scalos.noname.fr
