Editing MorphOS (section)

====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>