MorphOS

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The project began in 1999, based on the Quark microkernel.{{cite magazine |date=January 2000 |title=Nový projekt OS: MorphOS |magazine=Amiga Review |publisher=Atlantida Publishing |pages=7 |language=cs |issue=52 |issn=1211-1465}} The earliest versions of MorphOS ran only via PPC accelerator cards on the Amiga computers, and required portions of AmigaOS to fully function.{{cite magazine |date=July 2000 |title=MorphOS? What's that, then? |magazine=Amiga Active |publisher=Pinprint Publishing |pages=14–17 |issue=10 |issn=1467-3533}} A collaborative effort between the companies bPlan (of which the lead MorphOS developer is a partner) and Thendic-France in 2002 resulted in the first regular, non-prototype production of bPlan-engineered Pegasos computers capable of running MorphOS or Linux.{{cite magazine |last=Schröder |first=Carsten |date=July 2002 |title=Pegasos-Verfügbarkeit steht möglicherweise kurz bevor |magazine=Amiga Future |publisher=APC&TCP |pages=4–5 |language=de |issue=37}}{{cite magazine |last=Dvorak |first=John C. |date=2004-04-06 |title=Inside Track |magazine=PC Magazine |publisher=Ziff Davis |pages=53 |volume=23 |issn=0888-8507 |number=6}} Thendic-France had financial problems and folded; however, the collaboration continued under the new banner of "Genesi".{{cite magazine |date=Spring 2003 |title=MorphOS Update & Pegasos |url=http://www.totalamiga.org/pdf/totalamiga_14.pdf |magazine=Total Amiga |publisher=South Essex Amiga Link |pages=8 |issue=14}}{{cite web |date=November 22, 2002 |title=bplan and Thendic merge to GENESI (update) |url=http://www.amiga-news.de/de/news/AN-2002-11-00192-EN.html |access-date=December 29, 2016 |publisher=Amiga-News.de}} A busy promotional year followed in 2003, with appearances at conventions and exhibitions in several places around the world, including the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.{{cite web |date=February 4, 2003 |title=Weitere Bilder von der CES 2003 |url=http://www.amiga-news.de/de/news/AN-2003-02-00028-DE.html |access-date=December 29, 2016 |publisher=Amiga-News.de |language=de}}

After some bitter disagreements within the MorphOS development team in 2003 and 2004, culminating with accusations by a MorphOS developer that he and others had not been paid,{{cite web |date=November 15, 2004 |title=Unklarheiten bezüglich der Veröffentlichung von MorphOS 1.5 für den Pegasos |url=http://www.amiga-news.de/de/news/AN-2004-11-00063-DE.html |access-date=December 29, 2016 |publisher=Amiga-News.de |language=de}} the Ambient desktop interface was released under GPL{{cite web |date=January 22, 2005 |title=Ambient source code under GPL released |url=http://www.amiga-news.de/de/news/AN-2005-01-00122-EN.html |access-date=December 29, 2016 |publisher=Amiga-News.de}}{{Cite web |last=Gerber |first=David |date=2005-01-22 |title=Ambient, the MorphOS desktop, becomes free |url=https://www.osnews.com/story/9476/ambient-the-morphos-desktop-becomes-free/ |access-date=2024-05-30 |website=OSNews |language=en-US}} and is now actively developed by the Ambient development team. Subject to GPL rules, Ambient continues to be included in the commercial MorphOS product. An alternative MorphOS desktop system is Scalos.{{cite web |last=Haynes |first=Chris |date=March 21, 2007 |title=Scalos: The Amiga Desktop Replacement |url=http://scalos.noname.fr/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180922220139/http://scalos.noname.fr/ |archive-date=2018-09-22 |access-date=2007-03-21}}

Developed for PowerPC CPUs from Freescale and IBM, it also supports the original AmigaOS Motorola 68000 series (68k, MC680x0) applications via proprietary task-based emulation, and most AmigaOS PPC applications via API wrappers. It is API compatible with AmigaOS 3.1 and has a GUI based on the Magic User Interface (MUI).

Besides the Pegasos version of MorphOS, there is a version for Amiga computers equipped with PowerUP accelerator cards produced by Phase5. This version is free, as is registration. If unregistered, it slows down after each two-hour session. PowerUP MorphOS was most recently updated on 23 February 2006; however, it does not exceed the feature set or advancement of the Pegasos release.{{cite web |url=http://www.amiga.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=6671 |title=Announcements: Updated MorphOS for PowerUP Users |author=Piru |date=February 23, 2006 |work=Amiga.org |access-date=2007-03-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070314010244/http://www.amiga.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=6671 |archive-date=2007-03-14}}{{cite news |last=Holwerda |first=Thom |date=August 24, 2005 |url=http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=11668 |title=MorphOS 1.4.5 Released for Classic Amiga |work=OSNews |access-date=2007-03-21}}

A version of MorphOS for the Efika, a very small mainboard based on the ultra-low-power MPC5200B processor from Freescale, has been shown at exhibitions and user gatherings in Germany.{{cite news |last=Holwerda |first=Thom |date=October 17, 2006 |url=http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=16209 |title=MorphOS 1.5 Running on Efika to Be Shown |work=OSNews |access-date=2007-03-21}} Current (since 2.0) release of MorphOS supports the Efika.

{{See also|List of MorphOS bundled applications}}

MorphOS can run any system friendly Amiga software written for 68k processors. Also it is possible to use 68k libraries or datatypes on PPC applications and vice versa. It also provides compatibility layer for PowerUP and WarpUP software written for PowerUP accelerator cards. The largest repository is Aminet with over 75,000 packages online with packages from all Amiga flavors including music, sound, and artwork. MorphOS-only software repositories are hosted at [http://morphos.lukysoft.cz MorphOS software], [http://www.morphos-files.net MorphOS files] and [http://www.morphos-storage.net MorphOS Storage]. MorphOS is delivered with several desktop applications in the form of pre-installed software.

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ABox is an emulation sandbox featuring a PPC native AmigaOS API clone that is binary compatible with both 68k Amiga applications and both PowerUP and WarpOS formats of Amiga PPC executables. ABox is based in part on AROS Research Operating System. ABox includes Trance JIT code translator for 68k native Amiga applications.

• AHI – audio interface: 6.7
• Ambient – the default MorphOS desktop, inspired by Workbench and Directory Opus 5
• CyberGraphX – graphics interface originally developed for Amiga computers: 5.1
• Magic User Interface – primary graphical user interface (GUI) toolkit: 4.2
• Poseidon – the Amiga USB stack developed by Chris Hodges
• TurboPrint – the printing system
• TinyGL – OpenGL implementation and Warp3D compatibility is featured via Rendering Acceleration Virtual Engine (RAVE) low-level API: V 51
• Quark – manages the low level systems and hosts the A/Box currently

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Ambient is the built-in MUI-based desktop environment for MorphOS,http://morphos.de/files/src/3.11//ambient.tar.bz2 Source code of MorphOS 3.11 the development was started in 2001 by David Gerber. Its main goals were that it should be fully asynchronous, simple and fast.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bhPWEAAAQBAJ |title=Linux: o guia definitivo |date=2023-09-08 |publisher=jideon francisco marques |language=pt-BR}} Ambient remotely resembles Workbench and Directory Opus Magellan trying to mix the best of both worlds.

Ambient does not strictly follow the Amiga Workbench interface paradigm but there are still many similarities: while programs are called tools, program attributes are called tooltypes, data files are projects and directories are drawers.

• support for ARexx scripting language
• default icon library for hundreds of fileformats
• fully asynchronous, multi-threaded design
• fast asynchronous file I/O functions and file notifications
• support for PNG and other Amiga icon formats
• built-in icon, workbench and wbstart libraries
• built-in applications like disk formatting and commodities manager
• panels which are used as program launchers

Ambient is localised for various languages and while it is an intrinsic part of MorphOS, it is also available separately. There are various visual effects in Ambient that take advantage of hardware accelerated visual effects within MorphOS.{{cite web|url=http://www.powerdeveloper.org/morphos-article.php|title=MorphOS: The Lightning OS|date=2006-11-22|access-date=2010-09-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725135841/http://www.powerdeveloper.org/morphos-article.php|archive-date=2011-07-25|url-status=dead}}

The native icon format in Ambient is PNG, but there is built-in support for other Amiga icon formats. Ambient introduced a special icon format called DataType Icons where the icon is simply any image file renamed to include the .info extension. Those icons are read using the Amiga DataType system.

In 2005, David Gerber released Ambient source code under GPL and it is now developed by the Ambient development team.

• Max. 1.72 GB RAM; virtual memory is not supported.
• Only Radeon cards have support; Nvidia cards are not supported.

• Amiga 1200 with Blizzard PPC accelerator card
• Amiga 3000 with CyberStorm PPC accelerator card
• Amiga 4000 with CyberStorm PPC accelerator card

• Mac mini G4
• eMac
• Power Mac G4
• PowerBook G4 (except for 12" aluminum models)
• iBook G4
• Power Mac G5
• Power Mac G4 Cube{{cite web |url=http://www.morphzone.info/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?forum=11&topic_id=6835&post_id=107647&showonepost=1 |title=MorphOS on Apple G4 Cube? |author=Frank Mariak |date=December 25, 2013 |access-date=2013-12-25 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131227012147/http://www.morphzone.info/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?forum=11&topic_id=6835&post_id=107647&showonepost=1 |archive-date=December 27, 2013}}
• iMac G5 (only model A1145 – G5 2.1 20" (iSight))

• Efika 5200B
• Pegasos I G3, II G3/G4

• ACube Systems Srl company and their Sam460 series mainboards

• AmigaOne X5000 mainboard

MorphOS 2 includes a native TCP/IP stack ("Netstack") and a Web browser, Sputnik or Origyn Web Browser.{{cite web |url=http://www.amigamccc.org/journal/0809eric.htm |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120720044010/http://www.amigamccc.org/journal/0809eric.htm |url-status=usurped |archive-date=July 20, 2012 |title=MorphOS 2.0 |access-date=2010-06-19}} Sputnik was begun under a user community bounty system{{cite web |url=http://www.morphzone.org/modules/bounty/ |title=Morph Bounties |work=MorphZone |access-date=2007-03-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070306150915/http://www.morphzone.org/modules/bounty/ |archive-date=2007-03-06}} that also resulted in MOSNet, a free, separate TCP/IP stack for MorphOS 1 users. Sputnik is a port of the KHTML rendering engine, on which WebKit is also based. Sputnik is no longer being developed and was removed from later MorphOS 2 releases.

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{{Reflist}}

• {{Official website}}
• [http://www.aminet.net Aminet Amiga/MorphOS software repository]
• [http://www.morph.zone MorphZone], [http://library.morph.zone/Supported_Computers Supported Computers]
• [http://morphos.lukysoft.cz/ MorphOS Software Database]
• [http://www.morphos-files.net MorphOS software repository]
• [https://www.osnews.com/story/15209/morphos-the-lightning-os/ MorphOS: The Lightning OS]
• [http://obligement.free.fr Obligement] – Magazine about AmigaOS and MorphOS
• [http://www.warmup-asso.org www.warmup-asso.org] – Portal dedicated to MorphOS users
• [http://www.morphos-storage.net/ MorphOS Storage] – MorphOS Software Storage

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