A brand new version of Icaros Desktop is now available to everyone.
V2.2.4 includes new brilliant features and applications, small but important fixes and, for you Amiga lovers, a vintage GUI that can be selected after installation, which reproduces the plain old Amiga OS 3.1 interface. First of all, I wish to thank
JPV for porting
RNO Effects to AROS. He sent me v1.0 during last summer, and in order to make it work I had to fix a long standing mis-configuration of Icaros'
OpenURL settings.
RNO Effects is a image editing program which allows applying different special effects to image, one per image or in a programmed sequence. Moreover, it features a very useful batch conversion option which allows to convert many images (and to apply the same effects) to a different format, in a single passage.
RNO Effects has been included in Extras/Design software, so it is availabe in Icaros Live! edition only. It's not the only addition to Icaros Desktop. We finally have a working NTP client so, if you're connected to the Internet and you wish to keep time correct without messing so much with the Date/Time preference program, you can use
TimeKeeper instead (which has been placed in Prefs). The
VICE emulator has been finally
updated to version 3.1, and configured to keep a pleasant speed on most PC configurations, virtual machines included. But this release also brings some
new datatypes and command line tools. It also brings the exceptional
UHC Tools, a collection of handy scripts that should make our AROS life easier. Obviously, Icaros wouldn't be Icaros without its funny side: so we can now play some new games, like
Stunt Car Remake (a remake of a little masterpiece by
Geoff Crammond),
Open Gladiators, Super Mario War and others. Coders will also find a new version of
VIM in Extras/Development/Tools.
New from Icaros Desktop 2.2.3
- fixed OpenURL preferences to correctly forward URLs to OWB
- added GlJewels to OpenGL/Games
- added AmiTimeKeeper (Internet time NTP client) to Prefs
- updated AmicastPlayer
- updated AMath
- updated FIG datatype
- added INFO (Amiga icons) datatype
- added ModExplorer to MultiMedia
- added Open Gladiators to OpenGL/Games
- updated OpusTools
- added sox utilities to MediaEditors
- added sfxr sound generator to MediaEditors
- added Targa (TGA) datatype
- added ZuneBrot to Misc
- updated Vim to version 8.1 (now with graphical interface)
- replaced AROS installer with InstallerLG on both i386 and 68K
- added Super Mario War to Games
- added Stunt Car Remake to OpenGL/Games
- added UHCTools
- updated ZuneView
- updated ZunePaint
- added WHD_Menu to FileSystem
- added ICO (Windows icons) datatype
- added vic script: shows current Icaros Desktop release
- replaced SysMon with SysMon-XPT, which shows CPU-time too
- updated VICE to version 3.1 and optimized for speed and sound
- added icon to music and video examples in MyWorkspace
- fixed (increased) default stack size for some file types
- added RNOeffects to Design
Screenshots
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Once installed, Icaros Desktop will ask inital behaviour: modern Icaros or classic Amiga |
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Some applications included with Icaros 2.2.4. Please notice CPU time shown in SysInfo, on the right |
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VICE now emulates many other 8-bit systems from Commodore |
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ZunePaint and ZuneView have been brought to latest versions, and can now use many more datatypes! |
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RNO Effects can apply several special effects to images, and convert them all in a batch! |