We are really excited to announce the immediate availability of the new "point release" of Icaros Desktop, the most known distribution of the AROS Research Operating System.

Wanderer

Delta Nine

Krzysztof Smiechowicz

OWB for MorphOS

FryingPan

Davy Wentzler

Audio Evolution 4

Icaros Desktop

Jason McMullan

printer.device

a2ps

copytopar

GhostScript

PortablE

fpc

Pascal

Extras

Two screeenshots from Odyssey Web Browser 1.16, running HTML5 games and applications



What's New from Icaros 1.3

Improved Wanderer

printing

printing-to-file

PostScript printers

a2ps, copytopar

print

Odyssey Web Browser 1.16

ZUNE GUI

new directory organization

LoView

FPC and PortablE

complete support for Iconification

ScummVM

DosBox

AmiFig

Amiga games and demos on ADF files using AROS ROM

Mark Sheeky's Games

full edition of Audio Evolution 4

full edition of FryingPan

Delta Nine

direct access to MyWorkspace drawer

simplier boot menu

VIM

SDL-Quake

3D acceleration

updated libraries

Insolit Dust graphic effects and tutorials

DirectoryOpus

SCANdal

Flipbook

AbkViewer

FlexCat

Net-Bubble and Dragon Memory

AviBuild, Convierteme and PXDrum

mp3player

AVAILABILITY

For now, only the full Icaros Desktop Live! package is available for download. The smaller "Light" version will be ready later

New OWB running Google Maps (on the left) and Audio Evolution 4 (on the right)



Simple Mail (on the left) and Overlander (on the right), a public domain game running in Janus-UAE



This release represents a little milestone for us, because it has been the result of months of work in many areas. We have now a full working(Icaros 1.4 includes all the patches that were released for version 1.3.3), a generally more stable and suitable system, better artistry (new wallpaper has been drawn by Deviantart's artist), but most important of all we have now two programs which are absolutely astounding:'s port of(with all the Zune class that were needed, and still improving), the full version ofand's, the most professional music studio program available for the Amiga platform, now running full and free on. And that's only the beginning: another great news is that AROS can now finally print.has implemented, printer preferences and everything is needed for printing. For now, only PostScript printers are supported and a few programs are ready to use them, but it's just a beginning (and you can print to file...). Icaros also provides some other ways of printing withandcommands, not forgetting the good oldwe had since version 1. Coders and programming amateurs will also find the latestand(a freeimplementation), while a general rationalization of directory structure has been done to avoid eccessive nesting in. We will discover in the next days all the features and little gems included in this release. But, for now, just download Icaros Desktop v1.4 and enjoy!- AROS system files from March 2, 2012experience: all "papercuts" bugfixes now included- added initial support to- support to- support for parallel, serial and USB- addedandcommands- added(ported from MorphOS)- improvedtoolkit and default themein Extras with less drawer nesting- updatedto version 2.37- updatedto latest version- added- updatedto version 1.3.0- updatedto latest AROS version- updatedto latest version- added support to- addedfor Amiga m68k- added freeware(music studio app)- added open source(media burning app)- desktop wallpaper by Deviantart artistfrom other computers on the network, with just three startup options- updatedto version 7.3- addedexecutable with launch script- moved games that needon a proper drawerfor coders- added, with sources- improved default configuration for- addedwith support for epson2 and gt68xx scan devices- added(slide viewer)- added(AMOS sprite viewer/manager)- updatedto latest version- added(games)- addedto media editors- addedto media players