Icaros Desktop 1.2.1 update has been released

[paolone]

The first update for Icaros Desktop 1.2 has been released. This update CD includes the most updated system files (up to march 6, 2010 nightly build) and some interesting new features like (still work in progress) 3D hardware acceleration on GeForce 5, 6 and 7 cards (both AGP and PCI Express versions supported), changeable pointers, .backdrop file support for placing icons on the desktop and many, many others. Please notice that this release won't include new 3rd party software (with the only exception of YAM and some games to test hardware 3D), but will only bring the current ones to their latest versions. So you will enjoy OWB 1.0 RC2, SabreMSN 0.67 and the latest beta of WookieChat. Developers will also find the latest version of AROS development files. This release should fix also some annoying bugs like the Theme prefs wrongly handled on 1.2, while system stability and hardware compatibility has noticeably improved.

http://www.icarosdesktop.org

[Gulliver]

Excellent work! Congratulations

[Cammy]

Thanks Paolone! I've downloaded the update ready to burn to disc, I'll post back from OWB once I've updated my Icaros installation on my Acer laptop and A1600 netbook. I can't wait to try out some of these updates!

[jagoche]

Icaros is getting better (and more useful) with every update. Nice work!

One small issue in my case... I cannot change icons font. Preferences/Font doesn't change anything. I didn't have this problem with 1.1.5.

[Manu]

Thanks Paolone! I've downloaded the update ready to burn to disc, I'll post back from OWB once I've updated my Icaros installation on my Acer laptop and A1600 netbook. I can't wait to try out some of these updates!

A easy way to update if you don't want to burn the iso to disk is this :

Download and extract the ISO file somewhere on your Icaros installation.
Open a shell and copy the ISO to sys:diskImages, rename the ISO as Unit0
type in shell : mount cd0:

Now you can go to LUPD and choose CD-ROM as you now have the ISO mounted
as a virtual CD ROM.

Thanks to Paolone for writing about this and thanks for the update.

[paolone]

You don't even need to do all this: just extract the ISO file anywhere you like in your Icaros system from the tgz archive, open LiveUpdater, click on "ISO" and point to the extracted ISO file: it will be copied to sys:DiskImages and mounted automatically.

x Jagoche: IIRC, you should use the advanced options for Wanderer to change Icon fonts.

[jagoche]

@Paolone
Thanks for the hint. I didn't know about this option.

The problem at the end was somewhere else. While I copied preferences files from 1.1.5 to 1.2.1, somehow the file attributes were changed.

Afterwards the Font couldn't write to the preferences file, so nothing changed. Now it is fixed and works again.

[Fats]

The first update for Icaros Desktop 1.2 has been released.
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http://www.icarosdesktop.org

Here is a torrent for those who like it

[haywirepc]

Great work Paolone, and just in time for some extra pcs I just got to add to my horde of 'puters.
 
I can't wait till the uae integration is finished with joystick and sound working, but your adf runner is a good workaround for now.
 
If Aros gets uae integration finished with joystick and sound, and then screen dragging, I'll be so happy. Its awesome to see Aros with no schedule and still rocking...
 
I can't wait to see aros reach 1.0 I've been following aros for several years now. Okay I've been following it since they had a webpage, more than a few years now

Steven