Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.

Author Topic: Icaros Desktop 1.2 has been released!  (Read 3979 times)

Description:

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline paoloneTopic starter

  • Sr. Member
  • ****
  • Join Date: Dec 2007
  • Posts: 382
    • Show all replies
    • http://www.icarosdesktop.org
Icaros Desktop 1.2 has been released!
« on: December 09, 2009, 01:16:20 AM »
New "point release" for the most popular AROS distribution. The new version provides direct ADF support for old games and demos in AmiBridge, adds dozens of new features, games and programs, and has a completely new look! A incomplete list of improvements from version 1.1.5 includes:

- new official Icaros Desktop themes and theme manager
- Updated SDL, MESA and many other libraries
- Grub2 hack to use netbook resolutions on Intel GMA900 GPUs
- Poseidon now available as kernel module
- Improved 68K apps integration in AmiBridge
. no double pointer anymore using workbench applications
. added more uaegfx resolutions in full integration mode
. Added Amiga games/demos ADF support with sound
- added ZuneARC to manage zip, lha, rar, tgz and other archives
- updated PortablE
- updated development chain with newer include files
- updated wookiechat to latest beta
- added support for audio CDs (PlayCDDA)
- added desktop wallpapers from artist Wilhelm Steiner
- added desktop wallpapers from abraXXious
- added many new games and emulators
- updated DosBox to latest revision
- added BOH demo from Simone Bevilacqua
- updated NoWinED to latest version
- added first Gallium3D demos for GeForce cards
- updated OWB to release 0.9.9
- added SDLBasic 1.0.2
- system files updated to December 2nd, 2009

For more informations, screens and download links please follow this link to the Icaros Desktop web site.
p.bes

 

Offline paoloneTopic starter

  • Sr. Member
  • ****
  • Join Date: Dec 2007
  • Posts: 382
    • Show all replies
    • http://www.icarosdesktop.org
Re: Icaros Desktop 1.2 has been released!
« Reply #1 on: December 09, 2009, 04:59:42 PM »
Quote from: buzz;533156
on virtualbox 3.0.12 it seems to reboot just after the amiga mouse pointer appears at least on my system.

Have you used the VE version, or have you installed live/light on a new virtual machine? in this latter case, please set up a better virtual machine (eide drive, 256 MB ram minimum, single core processor, pcnet II card, etcetera).
p.bes