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<div style="font-size:162%; border:none; margin:0; padding:.1em; color:#274572;">Welcome to the MorphOS Library,</div>
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<small>This page in other languages: [[Strona główna|Polish]]</small>

==About MorphOS==
MorphOS - The Lightning OS
* [[What is MorphOS?]]
* [[Hardware Platforms]]
* [[Installation]]
* [[Characteristic features]]
* [[MorphOS integration]]
* [[MorphOS Development]]
* [[Developer tools]]
* [[3D graphics]]
* [[Games]]
* [[MorphOS key applications]]
* [[Platform expansion]]
* [[Who needs MorphOS?]]
* [[Conclusions]]
* [[Useful links]]
* [[F.A.Q.]]
* [[Historical notes]]
* [[Contributors]]
A five minute read for users familiar with the Commodore Amiga
*[[MorphOS in 5 minutes]]

==Articles==
The core of the MorphOS Library can be found here. Along with the provided manuals, there are several documents designed to help users get the most out of their MorphOS powered computer.

* [[Fundamentals of MorphOS]]
* [[Dictionary of Terms]]
* [[Shell Commands|Shell: Commands]]
* [[Pattern matching|Shell: Pattern Matching]]
* [[Volume Names]]

==Tutorials==
Welcome to the Tutorials section of the MorphOS Library. In this aisle of the library you can find examples and step by step instructions to help get the most out of your MorphOS experience.

*[[Modifying the User-Startup file]]
*[[Dual-boot MorphOS and MacOS X on a Mac Mini G4]]
*[[How to write Mails with SimpleMail]]
*[[MorphOS External USB Drive Backup Guide]]
*[[Scanning with SCANdal]]

==Development==
In the development section of the MorphOS Library, you can find a collection of helpful articles and tutorials focused on MorphOS software development.

*[[First steps in MorphOS programming]]
*[[Magic User Interface Programming]]
*[[In-depth: The New MorphOS Memory System]]
*[[Reggae: MorphOS multimedia framework]]
*[[An Introduction to MorphOS PPC Assembly]]

==Benchmarks, Reports & Reviews==
*[[jPV's MorphOS 2 Review]]

==Links==
The MorphOS Link Database is a collection of websites that are of interest to all current and potential future users of MorphOS. For easier navigation, we have separated the list of websites into multiple categories.

*[[Links#Community_Portals_.26_Forums|Community Portals]]
*[[Links#File_Repositories|File Repositories]]
*[[Links#Software|Software]]
*[[Links#Developers|Developers]]
*[[Links#Misc|Misc]]

==Work in Progress==
*[[ReTooled]]

Links

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==Official MorphOS Website==
http://www.morphos-team.net

==Community Portals & Forums==
* http://www.meta-morphos.org

* http://www.pegasosforum.de

* http://www.pegasos.org

* http://www.pegasos.hu

* http://www.ppa.pl

==File Repositories==

* http://www.morphos-files.net - MorphOS File Hosting Service

* http://morphos.lukysoft.cz - MorphOS Software Database

* http://mos.aminet.net

==Software==

Emulation

http://www.amidog.com/amiga/fpse/ - Free PlayStation Emulator, ported by Mathias 'AmiDog' Roslund

Internet & Network

* http://www.amipodder.com - AmiPodder, free podcast client

* http://www.heightanxiety.com/AmiSSL/ - Port of OpenSSL

* http://amitradecenter.net - AmiTradeCenter, FTP client

* http://www.students.tut.fi/~komsa/amiga/beehive/ - Home of Beehive, a BitTorrent client

* http://www.sand-labs.org/owb - Origyn Web Browser

* http://www.hd-zone.com/rdesktop/ - Remote Desktop client (control your network Windows system via MorphOS)

* http://sourceforge.net/projects/simplemail/ - SimpleMail, open source email client

* http://www.yam.ch - YAM, open source email client

* http://khtml.ppa.pl - Sputnik web browser

Music

* http://www.digiboosterpro.de - Home of Digibooster Pro

* http://jahjah.free.fr/morphos/ - Home of Ripper, a CD music ripping and conversion tool

* http://amigadev.free.fr/songplayer/index_en.html - Home of SongPlayer, a music player

Office

* http://amigadev.free.fr/pointrider/ - PowerPoint viewer application

* http://ignition.berlios.de - Home of Ignition, the unfinished open source spreadsheet application

* http://www.grasshopperllc.com - Home of Pagestream, a commercial desktop publishing / page layout software

* http://maxworld.free.fr - Home of Homebank, the personal accounts management tool

* http://muibase.sourceforge.net - Home of MUIBase, Steffen Gutmann's relational programmable database (with GUI)

* http://shinkuro.altervista.org/amiga/software/nowined.htm - Home of NoWinEd, text editor

* http://www.winfield.demon.nl - Free MS Word reader

System

* http://morphosambient.sourceforge.net - Ambient 'desktop' environment

* http://scalos.noname.fr - Scalos desktop, an alternative to Ambient

* http://sourceforge.net/projects/snoopium/ - System monitor application.

* http://sourceforge.net/projects/backman/ - Backman, open source backup program

* http://amigazeux.net/diavolo/ - Diavolo Backup, formerly commercial backup program

==Developers==

* http://amigazeux.org - AmiNet Radio, Dragon, Wetter, SkinClock, and much more.

* http://polymere.free.fr/index_en.html - Home of PolyNet (icon bar), PolyOrganizer and PolyGlot (MSN messenger)

* http://members.shaw.ca/realstar/ - Developer of the Aqua, Eve and HyperCannon game titles.

* http://fabportnawak.free.fr - MPlayer, ScummVM, Orygin Web Browser, MAME, and more.

* http://krashan.ppa.pl

* http://tbs-software.com/morgoth/

* http://khtml.ppa.pl

* http://bigfoot.morphos-team.net

* http://dreamolers.binaryriot.org

* http://tokai.binaryriot.org

* http://www.biclodon.com

* http://www.iki.fi/sintonen

* http://www.tbs-software.com/stefkos/

* http://home.elka.pw.edu.pl/~mszyprow/programy/ - Author of SFSDoctor.

* http://kiero.binaryriot.org

* http://www.geit.de

* http://yellowblue.free.fr - Home of Yomgui, who maintains Blender, Python, PyMUI and Helios (Firewire)

* http://www.orel.rekom.ru/~imax/ - Maxim Ilyin ported VirtualJaguar, Mike Steed's FlashPlayer, and more.

* http://natmeg.stamey.at - Creator of MorphUp packagement system, ported VLC, MLDonkey, and more.

* http://www.amirus.org.ru - Various utilities such a KeyMorpher, a MUI-based key mapper. (Website is in Russian.)

* http://tbs-software.com/mark/ - Developer of PowerD, various utilities.

* http://tbs-software.com/powerd/ - PowerD programming language

* http://www.lukysoft.cz - Home of Lukáš Stehlík (AmiGod benchmark)

* http://dasixk.free.fr - Home of SixK, who ported a multitude of apps

* http://alfie.altervista.org - Home of Alfonso 'alfie' Ranieri, creator of RxMUI, AmRSS (RSS client), and much more.

* http://morphware.schwarzes.net - Various small tools made by Andreas Schwarz.

* http://www.onyxsoft.se - Home of Onyxsoft who have released a number of applications and games.

* http://www.mguc.ppa.pl - Marian Guc's website, developer of PciTool, AutoDoc Reader and the unfinished Nemesis desktop.

* http://brain.umcs.lublin.pl/~rzookol/ - Michał Żukowski's website, developer of SCANdal (scanner software)

* http://www.igracki.de

* http://www.morguesoft.eu - Various screen savers.

==Misc==

* http://www.via-altera.de/mid.htm - some documents about MorphOS (German/English)

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MorphOS in 5 minutes

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== MorphOS in 5 minutes - a brief introduction for users familiar with the Commodore Amiga ==
''Ulrich Beckers'' - article originally published [http://via.i-networx.de/wim.htm]

MorphOS basically *is* an Amigaish operating system in the sense of the Commodore Amiga OS 3.x.
It started a bit more than 10 years ago with the aim to write an OS that is fully OS3.x compatible, shares the same API and the same logic to use. On top of a new microkernel (which is completely invisible to the user) there are the same OS compounds present like under OS 3.x.<br>
The base of the system is build around exec, intuition and dos. The system is disk based. Harddisks use the RDB, filesystems as FFS, SFS, PFS work with MorphOS. Of course there is a Ram Disk. The layout of the system disk (sys:) basically is the same as under OS3.x and comes with these directories:

C
Classes
Devs
Fonts <br>
L
Libs
Locale
Prefs <br>
S
Tools
Utilities
WBStartup

The installation adds also the following directories to sys:. <br>
Applications
Docs
Games
MorphOS
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The directory MorphOS/ is a special one and rated as private. It contains a draft mirror of the sys: directory tree that includes the actual OS files. To keep the system clean it must not be touched by the user. The "kickstart" of MorphOS is included in a file called boot.img.
<br>
The DOS shares the same commands and syntax, but the shell console is MUI based and highly improved. E. g. it supports tabs, more commands, command completition, scrollbar, backdrops and so on.
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MorphOS is directly compatible to most non custom chip banging 68k software as well as to PowerUp and WarpOS software. It is written by many of those folks who actively kept Amiga alive when noone else was there in the late 90ies. Early this millenium the MorphOS-Team was in negotiation with Amiga Inc. to make MorphOS the official successor of AmigaOS 3.x but eventually the conditions were unacceptable. MorphOS supported initially the P5 CyberstormPPC and BlizzardPPC expansion boards (support for these ceased with the 2.0 release), later the various Pegasos computers and the Efika5200B. Since recently MorphOS happen to support some Apple PowerPC gear (Powermac G4, Mac mini G4 and some eMacs). For a complete list of supported hardware refer to http://www.morphos.de/hardware.html. Maybe in some future MorphOS will shift the supported ISA, but not too soon.
<br>
'''For installation no 3rd party software is required''' (neither compounds of AmigaOS nor OS X). The demo version of MorphOS is freely available and can be used as live CD or for installation to a hard disk/usb stick.

'''Amiga compability'''

Regardless of the actual hardware, whether it is a BlizzardPPC card or an Apple Powermac, MorphOS doesn't need a dedicated Amiga emulation - it just executes Amiga programs exactly as if they were MorphOS native programs. With one difference: the 68k code is translated to ppc code on the fly by the 68k JIT (code runs about more than 50 times as fast as on a 68040/25 with the MorphOS JIT on a G4/1500 - [http://via.i-networx.de/bench_en.html some more benchmark results]).<br>
Compability includes for example Photogenics, TV paint, Turbocalc, Wordworth, Amiga Writer, DOpus Magellan2, Imagine, Maxon Cinema, GoldEd, IBrowse, WipeOut 2097 to name just a few. But even very old applications like the program write from an old appetizer disk of AmigaOS 2.0 work on MorphOS. And there are also MorphOS versions of many well known Amiga applications provided - e.g. there is YAM, SongPlayer, AmIRC or AWEB. <br>
Software that directly bangs the Amiga custom hardware (many older games or DPaint IV) usually doesn't work on MorphOS, but can be run with E-UAE. While E-UAE is not part of MorphOS itself it is freely available, (requires a 68k kickstart file though) and well integrated into Ambient (the Workbench replacement): adf files can get launched with E-UAE straightly. But you need UAE *only* for hardware banging stuff, non banging stuff is executed directly (even old 1.x programs).

'''Differences and enhancements'''

The biggest difference to AmigaOS 3.x in everday usage is probably between Ambient and Workbench. Ambient is MUI based and offers really a lot, but looks a bit different to Workbench (but since MorphOS is fully skinable it can easily be adopted to any taste) and offers a bit different usability. This may need a little time to get familiar with, but after using Ambient for some time most people feel way more comfortable on Ambient than on Workbench 3.x. <br>
The OS preferences are centralized in one application now with MorphOS. The datatypes concept is present also in MorphOS, but with Reggae there is a media streaming resource available which comes in handy where the datatypes are limited. It is especially made for media streaming. MorphOS comes with MUI 4.x, AHI and the usb stack Poseidon. The ARexx reimplemantaion is not complete yet, but the 68k rexxsyslib.library (obtainable from aminet) fills this gap. Icons are compatible, but MorphOS supports also png icons (stored as .info file). <br>
The graphic system includes Cybergraphics (CGX) and provides hardware acceleration functions. For 3D graphics there is TinyGL which is a subset of OpenGL, Goa provides a compability to Warp3D.<br>
There are a few applications included with MorphOS: The great webkit and MUI based internet browser OWB, Sketch (a drawing program), ShowGirls (a powerful picture viewer), a remote shell, kryptos (disk encryption tool), Elements, calculators, an editor and the games Diamonds, Morphtris and Shuffle.

'''For further information please refer to these resources:'''

*[http://www.morphos.de The official MorphOS website]
*[http://library.morphzone.org/Main_Page MorphOS the lightning OS] by Fulvio Peruggi.
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MorphOS MorphOS at the wikipedia]
*[http://via.i-networx.de/docs/glimpse_2_MorphOS_p1_V1.0SE.pdf A close glimpse to MorphOS] - that one is referring to MorphOS 1.x and from 2005. Anyway, there's still something in.
*[http://via.i-networx.de/docs/mid-German-2.5.pdf MorphOS im Detail] (German)

'''Screen shots'''
[[File:Wim1.jpg|200px|thumb|left]] [[File:Wim2.jpg|200px|thumb|right]]
[[File:Wim3.jpg|200px|thumb|left]] [[File:Wim4.jpg|200px|thumb|right]]
[[File:Wim5.jpg|200px|thumb|left]] [[File:Pdf_prefs.jpg|200px|thumb|right]]

File:Pdf prefs.jpg

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Zylesea: MorphOS 2.x running pdf viewer and system preferences

MorphOS 2.x running pdf viewer and system preferences

File:Wim5.jpg

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Zylesea: uploaded a new version of "File:Wim5.jpg": MorphOS 2.x running several word processors - AmigaWriter, Wordworth and the online word processor Google documents.

MorphOS 2.x running several word processors - AmigaWriter, Wordworth and the online word processor Google documents.

File:Wim5.jpg

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Zylesea: MorphOS 2.x running several word processors - AmigaWriter, Wordworth and the online word processor Google documents.

MorphOS 2.x running several word processors - AmigaWriter, Wordworth and the online word processor Google documents.

File:Wim4.jpg

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Zylesea: MorphOS 2.x running the web softwares Odyssey (web browser) and YAM (mail client)

MorphOS 2.x running the web softwares Odyssey (web browser) and YAM (mail client)

File:Wim3.jpg

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Zylesea: Screenshot of MorphOS 2.x running soem games.

Screenshot of MorphOS 2.x running soem games.

File:Wim2.jpg

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Zylesea: Screenshot MorphOS 2.x showing Ambient with shell and several file manager windows with different list views.

Screenshot MorphOS 2.x showing Ambient with shell and several file manager windows with different list views.

File:Wim1.jpg

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Zylesea: Screenshot MorphOS 2.x with transparency

Screenshot MorphOS 2.x with transparency

Hardware Platforms

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[[File:Hardware_tn.gif|left]]MorphOS runs exclusively on PowerPC processors. Four specific hardware platforms have been supported so far: the PowerPC accelerator boards for Commodore's Amiga line of computers (developed by the former company Phase5 in the1990s and known as [http://www.amiga-hardware.com/showhardware.cgi?HARDID=225 CyberStormPPC] and [http://www.amiga-hardware.com/showhardware.cgi?HARDID=154 BlizzardPPC]), which were supported until MorphOS 1.4.5, the [http://www.bplan-gmbh.de/output.php?PAGE_ID=125 Pegasos I & II] and [http://www.bplan-gmbh.de/output.php?PAGE_ID=124 Efika] mainboards (developed by [http://www.bplan-gmbh.de/ bplan] and distributed by [http://www.genesi-usa.com/ Genesi]) and also selected PowerPC based Apple computers, particularly the [http://support.apple.com/kb/SP65 Mac mini G4], [http://www.apple.com/support/powermac/g4/ PowerMac G4] and [http://www.apple.com/support/emac/ eMac G4 1.25 and 1.42 GHz]. Pegasos and Efika boards are initialised by an HAL/OF (Hardware Abstraction Layer / Open Firmware) called [http://www.bplan-gmbh.de/output.php?PAGE_ID=127&LANG_ID=2 SmartFirmware], a BIOS-like software created and maintained by bplan for its PowerPC products (and available under license for every designer/manufacturer of PowerPC-based products).