Scalos

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Scalos
Original author(s)Stefan Sommerfield
Developer(s)Satanic Dreams Software Team
Initial releaseNovember 1999; 24 years ago (1999-11)
Stable release
41.8-rc1 (on Sourceforge) / August 25, 2012; 11 years ago (2012-08-25)
AROS
PlatformAmiga
Available inDanish, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Swedish, Czech
Typewidget toolkit + window manager
LicenceOpen Source (BSD License)[1]
Websitescalos.noname.fr

Scalos is a desktop replacement for the original

APIs and its own front-end window manager of the same name. Scalos is NOT an AmigaOS replacement, although its name suggests otherwise. Its goal is to emulate the real Workbench behaviour, plus integrating additional functionality and an enhanced look.[2] As stated on its website, the name "Scalos" was inspired by the fictional time-accelerated planet Scalos in the Star Trek episode "Wink of an Eye
".

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

Macintosh and Linux) took over. The release versions 1.1 and 1.2 (internally versions 39.2) came out in 2000 as freeware. These may be found on the Amiga Aminet
official online repository. Scalos was finally open sourced in 2012.

The last release candidate is version 41.8 RC1; it is compatible with AmigaOS 3 for the

Intel 80386 onwards.[1] The Scalos project can be found on SourceForge
.

Versions

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

API and its own plug-in
system for the benefit of developers who want to create software for Scalos and enhance the system.

Scalos supports as standard icon sets the Amiga

truecolor
-compliant.

References

  1. ^ a b "Scalos – News, 15-04-2012"
  2. ^ "Scalos – About Scalos"
  3. ^ "Scalos – Version History"
  4. ^ 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.

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