Editing MorphOS (section)

==History==
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The project began in 1999, based on the [[Quark (kernel)|Quark]] [[microkernel]].<ref>{{cite magazine |date=January 2000 |title=Nový projekt OS: MorphOS |magazine=Amiga Review |publisher=Atlantida Publishing |pages=7 |language=cs |issue=52 |issn=1211-1465}}</ref> The earliest versions of MorphOS ran only via PPC accelerator cards on the Amiga computers, and required portions of [[AmigaOS]] to fully function.<ref>{{cite magazine |date=July 2000 |title=MorphOS? What's that, then? |magazine=Amiga Active |publisher=Pinprint Publishing |pages=14–17 |issue=10 |issn=1467-3533}}</ref> A collaborative effort between the companies bPlan (of which the lead MorphOS developer is a partner) and Thendic-France in 2002 resulted in the first regular, non-prototype production of bPlan-engineered Pegasos computers capable of running MorphOS or Linux.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Schröder |first=Carsten |date=July 2002 |title=Pegasos-Verfügbarkeit steht möglicherweise kurz bevor |magazine=Amiga Future |publisher=APC&TCP |pages=4–5 |language=de |issue=37}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |last=Dvorak |first=John C. |date=2004-04-06 |title=Inside Track |magazine=PC Magazine |publisher=Ziff Davis |pages=53 |volume=23 |issn=0888-8507 |number=6}}</ref> Thendic-France had financial problems and folded; however, the collaboration continued under the new banner of "[[Genesi]]".<ref>{{cite magazine |date=Spring 2003 |title=MorphOS Update & Pegasos |url=http://www.totalamiga.org/pdf/totalamiga_14.pdf |magazine=Total Amiga |publisher=South Essex Amiga Link |pages=8 |issue=14}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=November 22, 2002 |title=bplan and Thendic merge to GENESI (update) |url=http://www.amiga-news.de/de/news/AN-2002-11-00192-EN.html |access-date=December 29, 2016 |publisher=Amiga-News.de}}</ref> A busy promotional year followed in 2003, with appearances at conventions and exhibitions in several places around the world, including the [[Consumer Electronics Show]] (CES) in Las Vegas.<ref>{{cite web |date=February 4, 2003 |title=Weitere Bilder von der CES 2003 |url=http://www.amiga-news.de/de/news/AN-2003-02-00028-DE.html |access-date=December 29, 2016 |publisher=Amiga-News.de |language=de}}</ref>

After some bitter disagreements within the MorphOS development team in 2003 and 2004, culminating with accusations by a MorphOS developer that he and others had not been paid,<ref>{{cite web |date=November 15, 2004 |title=Unklarheiten bezüglich der Veröffentlichung von MorphOS 1.5 für den Pegasos |url=http://www.amiga-news.de/de/news/AN-2004-11-00063-DE.html |access-date=December 29, 2016 |publisher=Amiga-News.de |language=de}}</ref> the Ambient desktop interface was released under [[GPL]]<ref>{{cite web |date=January 22, 2005 |title=Ambient source code under GPL released |url=http://www.amiga-news.de/de/news/AN-2005-01-00122-EN.html |access-date=December 29, 2016 |publisher=Amiga-News.de}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Gerber |first=David |date=2005-01-22 |title=Ambient, the MorphOS desktop, becomes free |url=https://www.osnews.com/story/9476/ambient-the-morphos-desktop-becomes-free/ |access-date=2024-05-30 |website=[[OSNews]] |language=en-US}}</ref> and is now actively developed by the Ambient development team. Subject to GPL rules, Ambient continues to be included in the commercial MorphOS product. An alternative MorphOS desktop system is ''Scalos''.<ref>{{cite web |last=Haynes |first=Chris |date=March 21, 2007 |title=Scalos: The Amiga Desktop Replacement |url=http://scalos.noname.fr/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180922220139/http://scalos.noname.fr/ |archive-date=2018-09-22 |access-date=2007-03-21}}</ref>