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Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga Software News => Topic started by: bhoggett on September 15, 2002, 01:45:24 AM
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Scalos beta version 40.22 has just been uploaded to the downloads page of the Scalos home site (http://scalos.striatum.org/). A full list of changes can be found in the "Version history" section of the News page.
Scalos is a Workbench replacement project for AmigaOS.
Source: Scalos home site (http://scalos.striatum.org/)
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hmmm - As far as I know AROS is all but there with the exception of a complete desktop environment.
AmigaOS 4... well I showed the latest screenshots to a few graphic design friends of mine. They thought it minged.. really hummed.
But Scalos doesnt look to bad. Why dont they talk to these people. I mean interface design is gonna be king. You couldn't sell a car with the gear stick under the seat.......
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What annoys me about Scalos is that, in the wake of OS3.5 and 3.9, it still (AFAIK) insists on being a total replacement...and on using MUI. I played with it a year or two prior to OS3.5 when it was a little unstable, and it did some nice things, but today I don't WANT to replace things like window scrolling and icon dragging, which work reasonably well right now. I'd be pleased if they could find a way to transparently patch only the things the OS updates missed, like the window text modes (ie. View By -> Name, Date, Size, Type). On the other hand, I haven't tried it in a while...
Todd
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Wow, didn't know that Scalos were still around!!
Last I heard of them was on a CU Amiga cover CD a few years ago, so I automatically thought that they were about to sink without trace ;-)
I suppose that this is the nearest that the Amiga Community have to and alternative window manager/gadget set like in th Linux community.
I wonder if the AROS guys ever talked with them? Would save a lot of GUI design time if Scalos sould be ported! :-D
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David A Cox
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what can offer scalor nowdays?
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We don't *want* to patch existing things - that just turns Scalos into a big old stinky hack...
Currently Scalos can do everything itself - and in many cases much faster. Keeping it totally independant from any OS3.5/3.9 updates allows Scalos to
a) run on OS3.0/3.1
b) run on MorphOS without any legal mess
c) be totally self contained
We do support the newer features of OS3.5+ by offering plugins and compatible APIs.
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The Scalos feature list is a little out of date, but reading the recent history page can provide some incite into what we're working on.
More to the point - what do *you* guys want out of Scalos?