AROS One x86 Work In Progress

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Besides being able to customise every single application, on the next version of AROS One also Wanderer will have its own default themes, I've created 4 "light" themes to make the Application windows more pleasant, to replace them just click on the icon and the script will do the rest, again no system reboot is necessary.

In the screenshot you can see the 4 themes created on Zune that will be used by default by all Applications, except those where the user has already chosen and saved the "custom" theme.

MUI/Zune works like this, if there is a preference the Application will ignore the system setting, furthermore customised Zune configurations for individual Applications can be edited and saved without any problems, while customising and saving Wanderer configurations is more complicated, to do this you first need to delete the configuration file in ENV and in ENVARC.

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Almost there, AROS One 2.7 if there are no unforeseen events will be released in the coming weeks.

In this new version I've set as default a ZUNE/MUI configuration with a "White marble" background that will be visible on all System Applications and most third party applications, 90% of the AROS One software makes use of ZUNE/MUI.

I write ZUNE/MUI because many applications have been ported from the Amiga and therefore always carry the MUI entry in the Menus.

Of course, as mentioned above, the user can replace this Zune configuration by simply clicking on a pre-configured Icon, where he can also choose to set the standard White default of Aros One, a native AROS Grey background, or a slightly striped White background.

For some Applications such as HDToolBox and others that you see in the screenshot the general Zune configuration change will not work because these Applications have a custom ZUNE/MUI configuration, to change this requires a special procedure, explained in the previous post.

From the screenshot you can see the change I made on the InstallAROS GUI and the AROS One Info GUI!

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From previous versions I had added "Early Startup" in the GRUB Menu for Emergences to run uCommander from the Shell.

uCommander is a small Menu that allows you to run some Applications including Dopus4, this is to be able to intervene in case AROS doesn't start, most of the functions of Dopus4 are available even without the support of the started Operating System.

Now, as someone had difficulty understanding how to start uCommander I have modified the string and it should now be better understood, see screenshot.

Any advice is welcome to improve the string so that it is better understood.

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In the coming weeks, as soon as some software 'in the works' becomes available, I will start building the ISO of the new AROS One 2.7.

By now there are too many updates even on the Core, and it is not worth waiting for the brand new Core that will arrive in January, these are all the updates at the moment.


Update AROS One Core
- Camdusbmidi.class
- IconDrawerList.mui
- IconList.mui
- IconVolumeList.mui
- i8042.hidd
- pc105_s
- pcnet32.device
- rtl8139.device
- ahci.device
- ram-handler
- camd.library
- crt.library
- debug.library
- muimaster.library
- stdlib.library
- workbench.library
- Update Catalogs
- Wanderer
- WBRename (Wanderer)
- DiskInfo (Wanderer)

Update AROS One Apps:
- OWB v2.1
- Acuario Final Version
- AmiTranslate v0.4
- BeeBase v1.1
- Image2PDF 2.7
- SilkRAW v3.0
- IconSplitter
- Legadon v0.2
- VAMP v3.10
- AGet (Version UHC-Tools)
- Unshield v1.51
- GLFW v3.4
- RayLib 5.0
- Malibu.hwp v1.5
- Rapagui.hwp v2.2
- Sid.hwp v2.0
- Neandertaler (Demo Scene)
- Organica (Demo Scene)

Update AROS One OS System:
- SMB2 (Update Script)
- Amiga-Games (Emulation Games)
- Amiga-Games (Amibridge)
- New Transparent Versions of Pointers
- CAB-I (Descriptor Datatypes + Def_Icons)
- CAB-M (Descriptor Datatypes + Def_Icons)
- M4A (Descriptor Datatypes + Def_Icons)
- MKV (Descriptor Datatypes + Def_Icons)
- WEBM (Descriptor Datatypes + Def_Icons)
- AmiStart (Update Config)
- Aros One About (Update Theme)
- InstallAROS (Update Theme)
- ArosPDF (New Buttons)
- DOpus4 (Update Config)
- MPlayer (Update Theme)
- ZuneARC (Update Config)
- Set ScreenMode
- Config-Apparence (Update)
- Config-Wanderer (Update)
- Config-Zune (Update)
- Wanderer Themes (Update)
- New Config Folders (Skins-Apps, Patterns-Skin)
- WeatherBar (New Theme Prefs)
- WGetGUI (New Theme)
- DOSBox (Manual Multilanguage PDF version)
- aMP3ToWAV (New Theme Prefs)
- AROSAmp (New Theme Prefs)
- AyPlayer (New Theme Prefs)
- MeteMP3 (New Theme Prefs)
- ModExplorerCE (New Theme Prefs)
- ModExplorerNG (New Theme Prefs)
- RNOTunes (New Theme Prefs)
- ZAMP (New Theme Prefs)
- ZuPaPlayer (New Theme Prefs)(New Theme Prefs)
- VAMP (New Theme Prefs)
- AmiFox (New Theme Prefs)

Update AROS One Games:
- AmiFish
- BlackIvan (Update anf KeyReg)
- BlackjuanPoker (Update)
- Sqrxz 1-2-3-4 (4 Games)

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I have been notified by retrofaza of some problems with 3 Games included in AROS One, these Games are part of the Contrib package, and for some reason have not been recompiled correctly in the latest version of the Contrib package.
 
The games in question are LBreakout2, Soliton/Freecell and NewMasterMind, for "LBreakout2" I recovered the previous version that works fine, for "Soliton/Freecell" instead I managed to find a newer version on Aros Archive, where I totally renewed the graphics, new backgrounds and Card Sets in high resolution in HQ PNG format (see screenshot), the originals were low resolution native Amiga IFF, also the MOS and OS4 version. 1 have the old IFF format Card Sets.

On Soliton, I have also created 3 Scripts that allow you to change the background and Card Sets of the game on the fly, and added more Catalogs.

Concerning NewMasterMind actually there was no Crash, in the recompiled version of the Contrib the data was missing in the Icon Tooltypes, place where the game saves the configuration, not being able to save the configuration crashed the game.






For Italian users, but probably also for Spanish users, I have manually created a set of Italian Cards in good quality, in particular the 'Neapolitan Cards'.

In Italy each region has a different pack of cards, but the Neapolitan ones are the most well-known and used not only in Italy but also in many countries where there is an Italian community.

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At the request of a RasVoja and with the permission of the developer I ported the "Crystal" native OS 4.1 skin to AROS One.

The covering has been done manually Pixel by Pixel with the addition of some MUI/Zune Gadgets not present in the theme, the only particular change has been done on the window bar, eliminated the round part because Wanderer doesn't support transparencies yet at least on VESA screens, I didn't have the world to test them on a PC with well supported native Video Card.

Crystal can be set automatically by simply clicking on the appropriate Icon via scripts in Prefs in the 'Themes' folder. As with the other 35 Themes available on AROS One, the scripts will also install the Background and Pointer el MUI/Zune Preferences (App windows).

If instead you want to install only the Windows Theme you can use either the "Appearance" App, or "ThemePrefs", the latter allows you to preview the themes, with these 2 Apps you can also see and install other extra Themes available on AROS One

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From AROS One 2.7 (soon to be released) USB images will be created on 8GB Pendrives, by now AROS One with included 'Development' software has exceeded 3.7 GB space no longer supported by 4GB PenDrives.

On the positive side, the user can now add data to the pendrive, perhaps to test software or games.

New Theme created for AROS One name "ArosOne-BlueWave", see screenshot !

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On the next AROS One there will also be Dopus5 Magellan which like Dopus4 to use it just click on its Icon, path SYS:Tools

 Improved configurations of both Dopus4 and Dopus5 Magellan, both have the same configuration and both will be able to recognise any file even if it has no extension.

Dopus4 can now also display TXT and exe files, in the same way as Dopus4 OS3 version, thus solving the problem mentioned some time ago HERE

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For those who prefer Magellan, from the next version of AROS One, Magellan can not only be run from Wanderer, but can also be started autonomously.

In practice, there is no difference between the two modes; Magellan still makes use of Wanderer preferences even when started autonomously.

In practice, when Magellan displays a file in "Icon" mode, it will use Wanderer's settings, whereas if Magellan is used in "Detail" mode, it will use its own settings.

Example, if a Music, Graphic or Video etc file is clicked in "Icon" mode, the file will be executed by the default tool in Wanderer's Def_Icon

If on the other hand you click on the same File, but in "Detail" mode, then the tool set to Magellan will display the file.

Also in "Detail" on Magellan you will be able to see "All Archives" supported by AROS One, as if they were normal folders, just click on the archive file LHA, LZX, ZIP, RAR, 7Zip, bz2 etc... to turn it into a normal folder.

This function is also available on Dopus4, but only on the Amiga version, on the AROS x86 version it is unfortunately not available.

In addition, LHA and ZIP archives can be created on Magellan with a simple click

A few demonstration videos on what is described will follow.

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Improved Magellan configuration, same configuration as Dopus4, recreated all buttons and changed the icons to AROS One style!