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ASiegel at 22:04, 1 December 2009

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ASiegel at 22:03, 1 December 2009

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ASiegel at 22:02, 1 December 2009

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ASiegel at 11:51, 29 November 2009

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ASiegel at 11:48, 29 November 2009

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ASiegel at 11:44, 29 November 2009

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ASiegel at 11:42, 29 November 2009

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ASiegel at 11:27, 29 November 2009

2009-11-29T11:27:29Z

ASiegel at 11:27, 29 November 2009

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 The core of MorphOS is compressed and stored inside a boot.img file which must reside on some storage medium accessible by the  Open Firmware (OF). This file is loaded by the OF and starts up the Quark microkernel, as well as a number of other low-level basic components of the OS. The rest of the OS is formed by hard disk based files and runs on top of this software layer.
-<center><gallery width=90px perrow=4>
+<center><gallery width=90px perrow=3>
 File:UAE_SuperFrog.png|UAE on MorphOS
 File:UAE_Workbench.png|UAE on MorphOS
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 The native compatibility of MorphOS with Amiga legacy software, instead, has a different target. Users can run almost all the most recent and advanced Amiga applications, which are able to manage additional GFX and audio boards created for the latest Amiga computers. The relevant software layers that were initially developed by third parties for the AmigaOS, known as CGX (CyberGraphX) and AHI (Audio Hardware Interface), mask and manage the retargetable hardware and are fully integrated into MorphOS.
-<center><gallery width=90px perrow=4>
+<center><gallery width=90px perrow=3>
 File:ShowGirls.jpg|ShowGirls - Picture Viewer
 File:Shell.png|Shell Window

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 The core of MorphOS is compressed and stored inside a boot.img file which must reside on some storage medium accessible by the  Open Firmware (OF). This file is loaded by the OF and starts up the Quark microkernel, as well as a number of other low-level basic components of the OS. The rest of the OS is formed by hard disk based files and runs on top of this software layer.
-<center><gallery width=100px perrow=5>
+<center><gallery width=90px perrow=4>
 File:UAE_SuperFrog.png|UAE on MorphOS
 File:UAE_Workbench.png|UAE on MorphOS
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 The native compatibility of MorphOS with Amiga legacy software, instead, has a different target. Users can run almost all the most recent and advanced Amiga applications, which are able to manage additional GFX and audio boards created for the latest Amiga computers. The relevant software layers that were initially developed by third parties for the AmigaOS, known as CGX (CyberGraphX) and AHI (Audio Hardware Interface), mask and manage the retargetable hardware and are fully integrated into MorphOS.
-<center><gallery width=100px perrow=5>
+<center><gallery width=90px perrow=4>
 File:ShowGirls.jpg|ShowGirls - Picture Viewer
 File:Shell.png|Shell Window
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 Filesystems for hard disks are very important components that must take care of precious data. MorphOS is provided with an implementation of FFS, the standard Fast File System of the Amiga, that is present mostly for compatibility reasons. SFS (Smart File System) is a much faster and more reliable filesystem, that keeps track of the last transactions before they are applied. In other terms it is a journaling-like filesystem that guarantees the integrity of the data even in the case of computer crashes during write operations. SFS has been adopted by MorphOS as its default filesystem, but MorphOS  also supports other filesystems including PFS (Professional File System) available commercially for Amiga computers, the ubiquitous FAT (File Allocation Table) of MS-DOS environments, NTFS from Windows (read-only), EXT2FS and EXT3FS from Linux, SGIXFS from Silicon Graphics (read-only), Mac HFS+ (read-only) and, since the release of MorphOS 2.4 for Apple's Mac mini G4, Mac HFS. Salvage utilities are available both for SFS (SFSDoctor, included with MorphOS) and PFS (commercially available) and handle operations like retrieving deleted data, file system structure repair, and even reorganisation to decrease fragmentation. Old salvage tools for FFS can still be used as well, but they support partitions upto 4 GB in size only.
-<center><gallery width=125px>
+<center><gallery width=90px>
 File:morphos_personalized_1.jpg|MorphOS - Personalized UI
 File:morphos_poseidon_1.jpg|MorphOS - USB Driver Settings

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 The core of MorphOS is compressed and stored inside a boot.img file which must reside on some storage medium accessible by the  Open Firmware (OF). This file is loaded by the OF and starts up the Quark microkernel, as well as a number of other low-level basic components of the OS. The rest of the OS is formed by hard disk based files and runs on top of this software layer.
-<center><gallery width=125px perrow=5>
+<center><gallery width=100px perrow=5>
 File:UAE_SuperFrog.png|UAE on MorphOS
 File:UAE_Workbench.png|UAE on MorphOS
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 The native compatibility of MorphOS with Amiga legacy software, instead, has a different target. Users can run almost all the most recent and advanced Amiga applications, which are able to manage additional GFX and audio boards created for the latest Amiga computers. The relevant software layers that were initially developed by third parties for the AmigaOS, known as CGX (CyberGraphX) and AHI (Audio Hardware Interface), mask and manage the retargetable hardware and are fully integrated into MorphOS.
-<center><gallery width=125px perrow=5>
+<center><gallery width=100px perrow=5>
 File:ShowGirls.jpg|ShowGirls - Picture Viewer
 File:Shell.png|Shell Window

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 The core of MorphOS is compressed and stored inside a boot.img file which must reside on some storage medium accessible by the  Open Firmware (OF). This file is loaded by the OF and starts up the Quark microkernel, as well as a number of other low-level basic components of the OS. The rest of the OS is formed by hard disk based files and runs on top of this software layer.
-<center><gallery width=125px>
+<center><gallery width=125px perrow=5>
 File:UAE_SuperFrog.png|UAE on MorphOS
 File:UAE_Workbench.png|UAE on MorphOS
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 File:morphos_mui_1.jpg|Magic User Interface
 File:morphos_mui_2.jpg|Magic User Interface
 </gallery></center>
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 The native compatibility of MorphOS with Amiga legacy software, instead, has a different target. Users can run almost all the most recent and advanced Amiga applications, which are able to manage additional GFX and audio boards created for the latest Amiga computers. The relevant software layers that were initially developed by third parties for the AmigaOS, known as CGX (CyberGraphX) and AHI (Audio Hardware Interface), mask and manage the retargetable hardware and are fully integrated into MorphOS.
 MorphOS makes two very compact, efficient, and fully integrated interfaces available (Command Line Interface and Graphic User Interface) for shells and applications. For the latter MorphOS has adopted an object-oriented software GUI layer called Magic User Interface (MUI), which originated as a third-party AmigaOS product as well. MUI not only provides the programmer with more sophisticated GUI interactions and layouts, but also allows users to more fully customise these GUIs to their individual tastes. Actually MUI is one of the most distinctive components of MorphOS, both in terms of features and aesthetics.
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 Filesystems for hard disks are very important components that must take care of precious data. MorphOS is provided with an implementation of FFS, the standard Fast File System of the Amiga, that is present mostly for compatibility reasons. SFS (Smart File System) is a much faster and more reliable filesystem, that keeps track of the last transactions before they are applied. In other terms it is a journaling-like filesystem that guarantees the integrity of the data even in the case of computer crashes during write operations. SFS has been adopted by MorphOS as its default filesystem, but MorphOS  also supports other filesystems including PFS (Professional File System) available commercially for Amiga computers, the ubiquitous FAT (File Allocation Table) of MS-DOS environments, NTFS from Windows (read-only), EXT2FS and EXT3FS from Linux, SGIXFS from Silicon Graphics (read-only), Mac HFS+ (read-only) and, since the release of MorphOS 2.4 for Apple's Mac mini G4, Mac HFS. Salvage utilities are available both for SFS (SFSDoctor, included with MorphOS) and PFS (commercially available) and handle operations like retrieving deleted data, file system structure repair, and even reorganisation to decrease fragmentation. Old salvage tools for FFS can still be used as well, but they support partitions upto 4 GB in size only.
 The USB stack of MorphOS is called Poseidon, and is probably the most efficient USB stack existing on every computer platform. The best description of its features is certainly given by its author, whose words are reported in the following lines:

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 The core of MorphOS is compressed and stored inside a boot.img file which must reside on some storage medium accessible by the  Open Firmware (OF). This file is loaded by the OF and starts up the Quark microkernel, as well as a number of other low-level basic components of the OS. The rest of the OS is formed by hard disk based files and runs on top of this software layer.
-<gallery width=125px>
+<center><gallery width=125px>
 File:UAE_SuperFrog.png|UAE on MorphOS
 File:UAE_Workbench.png|UAE on MorphOS
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 File:morphos_poseidon_1.jpg|MorphOS - USB Driver Settings
 File:morphos_turboprint_1.jpg|Printer Driver Settings
-</gallery>
+</gallery></center>

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-[[File:UAE_SuperFrog.png|125px|thumb|UAE on MorphOS]] [[File:UAE_Workbench.png|125px|thumb|UAE on MorphOS]] [[File:morphos_installation_1.jpg|125px|thumb|Installation]] [[File:morphos_mui_1.jpg|125px|thumb|Magic User Interface]] [[File:morphos_mui_2.jpg|125px|thumb|Magic User Interface]] [[File:ShowGirls.jpg|125px|thumb|ShowGirls - Picture Viewer]]
-[[File:Shell.png|125px|thumb|Shell Window]] [[File:morphos_ambient_1.jpg|125px|thumb|Ambient - 'Desktop']] [[File:morphos_ambient_2.jpg|125px|thumb|Ambient - 'Desktop']] [[File:MorphOS0.jpg|125px|thumb|MorphOS UI]] [[File:morphos_personalized_1.jpg|125px|thumb|MorphOS - Personalized UI]] [[File:morphos_poseidon_1.jpg|125px|thumb|MorphOS - USB Driver Settings]] [[File:morphos_turboprint_1.jpg|125px|thumb|Printer Driver Settings]]
+[[File:MorphOS0.jpg|125px|thumb|MorphOS UI]] [[File:morphos_personalized_1.jpg|125px|thumb|MorphOS - Personalized UI]] [[File:morphos_poseidon_1.jpg|125px|thumb|MorphOS - USB Driver Settings]] [[File:morphos_turboprint_1.jpg|125px|thumb|Printer Driver Settings]]
 The core of MorphOS is compressed and stored inside a boot.img file which must reside on some storage medium accessible by the  Open Firmware (OF). This file is loaded by the OF and starts up the Quark microkernel, as well as a number of other low-level basic components of the OS. The rest of the OS is formed by hard disk based files and runs on top of this software layer.
 Amiga was characterised by advanced low-level software features provided by its microkernel, Exec, like pre-emptive multitasking, inter-process communication, etc., that were absent in any popular computer of the late 80s (early Macs and PCs, Atari computers, etc.). Of course all these features and more are also provided in MorphOS by its own reimplementation of the exec.library. In theory Quark is also able to provide a number of sandboxes where virtualised operating systems could run independently. Currently the low-level processes of the QBox do start only one box, though: the ABox, which is actually just a single Quark thread that provides a special API for programs and applications. Indeed this API is fully compatible with AmigaOS 3.1 (the last operating system created and distributed by Commodore for its Amiga computers) and, together with Trance (a powerful JIT compiler for Amiga executables), guarantees a high degree of compatibility for a large set of Amiga legacy applications. The complex operations executed by Trance are instantaneous and invisible: Trance detects automatically any launched Amiga executable, converts it into a PowerPC executable, and runs it on the spot.

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		+	[[File:UAE_SuperFrog.png\|125px\|thumb\|UAE on MorphOS]] [[File:UAE_Workbench.png\|125px\|thumb\|UAE on MorphOS]] [[File:morphos_installation_1.jpg\|125px\|thumb\|Installation]] [[File:morphos_mui_1.jpg\|125px\|thumb\|Magic User Interface]] [[File:morphos_mui_2.jpg\|125px\|thumb\|Magic User Interface]] [[File:ShowGirls.jpg\|125px\|thumb\|ShowGirls - Picture Viewer]]
		+	[[File:Shell.png\|125px\|thumb\|Shell Window]] [[File:morphos_ambient_1.jpg\|125px\|thumb\|Ambient - 'Desktop']] [[File:morphos_ambient_2.jpg\|125px\|thumb\|Ambient - 'Desktop']] [[File:MorphOS0.jpg\|125px\|thumb\|MorphOS UI]] [[File:morphos_personalized_1.jpg\|125px\|thumb\|MorphOS - Personalized UI]] [[File:morphos_poseidon_1.jpg\|125px\|thumb\|MorphOS - USB Driver Settings]] [[File:morphos_turboprint_1.jpg\|125px\|thumb\|Printer Driver Settings]]
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	The core of MorphOS is compressed and stored inside a boot.img file which must reside on some storage medium accessible by the Open Firmware (OF). This file is loaded by the OF and starts up the Quark microkernel, as well as a number of other low-level basic components of the OS. The rest of the OS is formed by hard disk based files and runs on top of this software layer.		The core of MorphOS is compressed and stored inside a boot.img file which must reside on some storage medium accessible by the Open Firmware (OF). This file is loaded by the OF and starts up the Quark microkernel, as well as a number of other low-level basic components of the OS. The rest of the OS is formed by hard disk based files and runs on top of this software layer.
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−	[[File:UAE_SuperFrog.png\|125px\|thumb\|UAE on MorphOS]] [[File:UAE_Workbench.png\|125px\|thumb\|UAE on MorphOS]] [[File:morphos_installation_1.jpg\|125px\|thumb\|Installation]] [[File:morphos_mui_1.jpg\|125px\|thumb\|Magic User Interface]] [[File:morphos_mui_2.jpg\|125px\|thumb\|Magic User Interface]] [[File:ShowGirls.jpg\|125px\|thumb\|ShowGirls - Picture Viewer]]
−	[[File:Shell.png\|125px\|thumb\|Shell Window]] [[File:morphos_ambient_1.jpg\|125px\|thumb\|Ambient - 'Desktop']] [[File:morphos_ambient_2.jpg\|125px\|thumb\|Ambient - 'Desktop']] [[File:MorphOS0.jpg\|125px\|thumb\|MorphOS UI]] [[File:morphos_personalized_1.jpg\|125px\|thumb\|MorphOS - Personalized UI]] [[File:morphos_poseidon_1.jpg\|125px\|thumb\|MorphOS - USB Driver Settings]] [[File:morphos_turboprint_1.jpg\|125px\|thumb\|Printer Driver Settings]]

	Amiga was characterised by advanced low-level software features provided by its microkernel, Exec, like pre-emptive multitasking, inter-process communication, etc., that were absent in any popular computer of the late 80s (early Macs and PCs, Atari computers, etc.). Of course all these features and more are also provided in MorphOS by its own reimplementation of the exec.library. In theory Quark is also able to provide a number of sandboxes where virtualised operating systems could run independently. Currently the low-level processes of the QBox do start only one box, though: the ABox, which is actually just a single Quark thread that provides a special API for programs and applications. Indeed this API is fully compatible with AmigaOS 3.1 (the last operating system created and distributed by Commodore for its Amiga computers) and, together with Trance (a powerful JIT compiler for Amiga executables), guarantees a high degree of compatibility for a large set of Amiga legacy applications. The complex operations executed by Trance are instantaneous and invisible: Trance detects automatically any launched Amiga executable, converts it into a PowerPC executable, and runs it on the spot.		Amiga was characterised by advanced low-level software features provided by its microkernel, Exec, like pre-emptive multitasking, inter-process communication, etc., that were absent in any popular computer of the late 80s (early Macs and PCs, Atari computers, etc.). Of course all these features and more are also provided in MorphOS by its own reimplementation of the exec.library. In theory Quark is also able to provide a number of sandboxes where virtualised operating systems could run independently. Currently the low-level processes of the QBox do start only one box, though: the ABox, which is actually just a single Quark thread that provides a special API for programs and applications. Indeed this API is fully compatible with AmigaOS 3.1 (the last operating system created and distributed by Commodore for its Amiga computers) and, together with Trance (a powerful JIT compiler for Amiga executables), guarantees a high degree of compatibility for a large set of Amiga legacy applications. The complex operations executed by Trance are instantaneous and invisible: Trance detects automatically any launched Amiga executable, converts it into a PowerPC executable, and runs it on the spot.