Editing MorphOS (section)

==Components==
[[File:Mos.svg|300px|thumbnail|System architecture]]

===ABox===
[[Quark (kernel)#ABox|ABox]] is an emulation sandbox featuring a PPC native AmigaOS API clone that is binary compatible with both 68k Amiga applications and both [[PowerUP (accelerator)#PowerUP software|PowerUP]] and [[WarpOS]] formats of Amiga PPC executables. ABox is based in part on [[AROS Research Operating System]]. ABox includes [[Trance JIT]] code translator for [[68k]] native Amiga applications.

===Other===
* [[AHI (Amiga)|AHI]] – audio interface: 6.7
* Ambient – the default MorphOS desktop, inspired by [[AmigaOS#Workbench|Workbench]] and [[Directory Opus]] 5
* [[CyberGraphX]] – graphics interface originally developed for Amiga computers: 5.1
* [[Magic User Interface]] – primary [[graphical user interface]] (GUI) toolkit: 4.2
* [[Poseidon (USB stack)|Poseidon]] – the Amiga USB stack developed by Chris Hodges
* [[TurboPrint]] – the printing system
* TinyGL – [[OpenGL]] implementation and [[Warp3D]] compatibility is featured via [[Rendering Acceleration Virtual Engine]] (RAVE) low-level API: V 51
* [[Quark (kernel)|Quark]] – manages the low level systems and hosts the A/Box currently
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===Ambient===

{{Infobox software
| name = Ambient
| title = Ambient
| logo = 
| screenshot = AmbientDesktop.png
| caption = A screenshot of the desktop with a panel on the bottom
| collapsible = 
| author = David Gerber
| developer = Ambient Open Source Team
| released = {{Start date and age|2005}}<ref name=davidrelease>{{cite web | url=http://zapek.com/?page_id=18 | title=Ambient | access-date=2008-11-21}}</ref>
| discontinued = 
| latest release version = 1.1599
| latest release date = {{Start date and age|2008|06|08}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://morphosambient.sourceforge.net/changes.html|title=Ambient Open Source Team - shorted ambient.notes|website=morphosambient.sourceforge.net}}</ref>
| latest preview version = 
| latest preview date = <!-- {{Start date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|df=yes/no}} -->
| programming language = [[C (programming language)|C]]
| operating system = MorphOS
| platform = 
| size = 
| language = 
| status = 
| genre = [[Desktop environment]]
| license = [[GNU General Public License]]
| website = {{URL|http://morphosambient.sf.net}}
}}
Ambient is the built-in [[Magic User Interface|MUI]]-based [[desktop environment]] for MorphOS,<ref>http://morphos.de/files/src/3.11//ambient.tar.bz2 Source code of MorphOS 3.11</ref> the development was started in 2001 by David Gerber. Its main goals were that it should be fully asynchronous, simple and fast.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bhPWEAAAQBAJ |title=Linux: o guia definitivo |date=2023-09-08 |publisher=jideon francisco marques |language=pt-BR}}</ref> Ambient remotely resembles [[Workbench (AmigaOS)|Workbench]] and [[Directory Opus]] Magellan trying to mix the best of both worlds.

====Features====

Ambient does not strictly follow the Amiga Workbench interface paradigm but there are still many similarities: while programs are called tools, program attributes are called tooltypes, data files are projects and directories are drawers.

* support for [[ARexx]] scripting language
* default [[Icon_(computer)|icon]] library for hundreds of fileformats
* fully asynchronous, [[multi-threaded]] design
* fast asynchronous file I/O functions and file notifications
* support for [[Portable Network Graphics#Operating system support for PNG icons|PNG]] and other [[Amiga]] icon formats
* built-in icon, workbench and wbstart libraries
* built-in applications like [[disk formatting]] and commodities manager
* panels which are used as program launchers

Ambient is localised for various languages and while it is an intrinsic part of MorphOS, it is also available separately. There are various visual effects in Ambient that take advantage of hardware accelerated visual effects within MorphOS.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.powerdeveloper.org/morphos-article.php|title=MorphOS: The Lightning OS|date=2006-11-22|access-date=2010-09-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725135841/http://www.powerdeveloper.org/morphos-article.php|archive-date=2011-07-25|url-status=dead}}</ref>

====Desktop icons====
The native icon format in Ambient is PNG, but there is built-in support for other Amiga icon formats. Ambient introduced a special icon format called '''DataType Icons''' where the icon is simply any image file renamed to include the ''.info'' extension. Those icons are read using the [[AmigaOS#Datatypes|Amiga DataType]] system.

{| class="wikitable" style="width: auto; text-align: center; table-layout: fixed;"
|-
! || Original Amiga icons || MagicWB || NewIcons || GlowIcons || GlowIcons32 || DT Icons || PNG || DualPNG || SVG
|-
! Colours
| 4 || 8 || 256 || 256 || 16M || 16M || 16M || 16M || 16M
|-
! Alpha blending
| {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{dunno|Not sure}}
|-
! Icon size
| {{N/A}} || {{N/A}} || 36×40 || 46×46 || 46×46 || 128×128 || 128×128 || 128×128 || 128×128
|-
! Second state image
| {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}}
|-
! Embedded metadata
| {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{dunno|Not sure}}
|}

====Development status====
In 2005, David Gerber released Ambient source code under [[GPL]]<ref name=davidrelease /> and it is now developed by the Ambient development team.