Scalos
Original author(s) | Stefan Sommerfield |
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Developer(s) | Satanic Dreams Software Team |
Initial release | November 1999 |
Stable release | 41.8-rc1 (on Sourceforge)
/ August 25, 2012 |
AROS | |
Platform | Amiga |
Available in | Danish, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Swedish, Czech |
Type | widget toolkit + window manager |
Licence | Open Source (BSD License)[1] |
Website | scalos |
Scalos is a desktop replacement for the original
History
Scalos is a former commercial product originally written in 1999 by programmer Stefan Sommerfield for a software house called AlienDesign. The purpose was to recreate the mouse-and-click experience on Amiga, offering an alternative to the Workbench interface present in versions 3.0 and 3.1 of AmigaOS (at that time already considered obsolete).
A group of English programmers known as Satanic Dreams Software (a software firm developing for
The last release candidate is version 41.8 RC1; it is compatible with AmigaOS 3 for the
Versions
- v1.0 (V39.201) – November 1999
- v1.1 (V39.212) – 1999 (?)
- v1.2b (39.220) – June 6, 2000
- v1.2d (39.222) – 2000 (latest public beta executable)
- v1.3 (40.7) (beta) – August 2, 2001
- v1.3 (40.22) – September 25, 2002
- v1.4 (40.32) (beta) March 31, 2005
- v1.6 (41.4) – March 27, 2007
- v1.7 (41.5) – August 12, 2007
- (41.6) – March 12, 2009
- (41.7) (beta) – March 15, 2010
- (41.8) (RC1) – August 25, 2012[3]
Features
Scalos is a Workbench-compatible replacement which is declared by its developers 100-percent compatible with the original Amiga interface. It features internal 64-bit arithmetic which allows support for
Scalos supports as standard icon sets the Amiga
References
- ^ a b "Scalos – News, 15-04-2012"
- ^ "Scalos – About Scalos"
- ^ "Scalos – Version History"
- ^ Elena Novaretti. "PowerIcons. Icone a 32 bit sui nostri Amiga" (in Italian). Bitplane Magazine, Italia. Retrieved December 4, 2017. Italian programmer Elena Novaretti, author of ZoneXPlorer fractal software, stated in the article she donated source code for loading and viewing 32-bit PowerIcons based on PNG files to the developers of the Scalos desktop environment.
External links
- Scalos Homepage Archived September 22, 2018, at the Wayback Machine
- Scalos on SourceForge
- Scalos 1.2 Info Page at Aminet Amiga Official Repository
- Scalos article at AmigaHistory site.
- Satanic Dreams Software – old Homepage at the Wayback Machine (archived March 11, 2009)