Quoi de neuf dans MorphOS 3.10 par jPV

Préface

MorphOS 3.10 est une des plus importantes mises à jour de MorphOS depuis la version 2.0. La liste officielle des notes de version est longue et détaillée, mais voyons voir les principales nouveautés et changements les plus visibles ci-dessous.

Encore une fois, la mise à jour est gratuite pour les utilisateurs MorphOS 2.x et 3.x enregistrés, et le prix de l'enregistrement avait diminué lors de la sortie de la précédente version.

Si vous êtes nouveau sur MorphOS, n'hésitez également à lire les autres articles disponibles dans la bibliothèque MorphOS.

Kernel and Hardware Support

• Support for AmigaOne X5000 computers
• 2D support for MANY new graphics cards from R600 to Northern Islands series
• Abox's memory mapping allows 192 MB more memory
• Disables the second CPU on PowerMac7 machines
• Isochronous transfers support with USB
• New PPD based printing system
  
• Support for Dualshock 4 and Xbox One controllers
• Drivers for new audio cards, USB serial devices, network cards, scanners, etc.
• System time is now stored in UTC to be more compatible with other operating systems on the same machine
• Automatic DST adjustment
• Touchpads can be disabled

Ambient

• Support for Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) icons. SVG files can be used like normal icons by renaming them as .info files, and they can be scaled without quality loss.
  
• Icon files can be created without embedded graphics, and they will use graphics from system default icons. This saves disk space and makes theming easier.
• Create icon and Get default options for easier icon creation
  
• Filesystem based virtual trashcan implementation
• Faster file copying routines
• Inline editing of date, time, comment, and protection attributes
  

Screenbar Modules

• New consistent monochromatic look for all modules to work better with all kinds of skins
• New Key input, Grabber, and Preferences modules
  
  
• Calendar for the Clock module
  
• Many modules have been rewritten or redesigned, and have new themes
  

Skins and MUI Presets

There are four new skins with accompanying MUI presets. To take these into use, change the skin from Settings -> System -> Screens -> Ambient and the MUI preset from Settings -> MUI -> Settings -> Presets.

• Albulus
  
• Ater
  
• Niteo
  
• Origo
  

Besides the whole themes, several new MUI button sets are available for custom configurations.

Blankers

• Game of Life
  
• Icon Wall
  

Applications and Utilities

• Clock with multiple fancy looking skins
  
• Flow Studio is a full-featured IDE based on the feature-rich Scribble text editor, which was previously shipped with MorphOS
  
• LogTool for viewing and analyzing MorphOS debug logs in real-time
• Updated Odyssey Web Browser
  
• AudioRecorder
  
• CSVViewer for viewing CSV files
• KeyExplorer replaces the old Keystroke utility
  
• MIDI Piano
  

Games

• Pixel Cross
  

Shell Commands

• LoadLib - loads libraries and classes into memory
• PlayMidi - CAMD Midi player
• RunFS - mounts network filesystems
• Ssh2FS - mounts a remote filesystem using SFTP/SSH
• WaitForNotification - waits for file notifications
  

Misc

• Extensive Objective-C support
• Many new MUI libraries and Reggae classes
• HarfBuzz library for text shaping
• lzma.library
• sqlite.library
• vgraphics.library for vector graphics
• xattr support for ixemul.library, which enables, for instance, storing Amiga's protection bits and file comments in tar archives