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New to MorphOS?

Introducing Ambient

Not unlike the top surface of your desk, Ambient is what you see once you successfully boot into MorphOS. Ambient is the user interface between you and MorphOS, providing access to all it's features. Everything that you need to use on your computer can be neatly arranged only on this one screen. However, using ambient you can have an unlimited number of screens, but more about this later.

The desktop

To make this workspace less crowded, Ambient cleverly organizes all your belongings, similar to a system of neat drawers and files. On the top left corner you will see small icons, these are your actual partitions. Clicking on any of them you can open them in windows, and opening the drawers or executing your programs you can discover your entire file structure.

My MorphOS

Also in the top right corner you will find the MyMorphOS icon. Through this one icon you can conveniently access all the others icons, regardless of the partitions they are residing in. Thinking of your belongings as a tree, MyMorphOS is like the central root of your well grown tree. You can reach all trunks originating from this root (your partitions), branches (drawers) and leaves (files).

Screens and screen switching

As we mentioned before, Ambient's desktop is not the only screen you can have. Unlike most modern operating systems, where you can use a maximum of 4 screens or desktops, in Ambient you can have a virtually unlimited number of screens.

. Having more screens at your disposal has the advantage

Some programs may have their own screen, and you can also create separate screens, and tell your windows and programs to relocate to your screen. 

Compatibility

Classic Amiga

* Interpretive/JIT emulation
* WarpOS/PowerUP/Warp3D
* Various icon formats

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

• Dual booting
• Supported expansion cards and peripherals

Troubleshooting

(The MorphOS 2.0 release date is 29.02.2008.)