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Introducing the Tyche PPC board
Power Progress Community and ACube Systems are happy to announce the new Powerboard Tyche motherboard. This board was created to bring 64-bit Power Architecture performance to the desktops of enthusiasts, developers, and supporters of the Open Source...
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Until we meet again, Icaros Desktop
Dear friends, as you’ve probably noticed, Icaros Desktop has been “frozen” for quite a while. Although I’ve occasionally checked in on the community and its forums, no new release has appeared in over five years. Yes, I’ve made a few small updates here and...
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It's been a long love story, but it had to stop
If you click on the DOWNLOAD button or links on this site, you will get a 404 ERROR. This is not my will, of course. Google's operators took this decision, disabling and hiding my download page, because they think Icaros Desktop violates I-don-t-know-what...
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New support forum
With a little delay we should apologize for, but also to make sure we were doing the right thing, we moved the support area to the "ICAROS" forum on Arosworld.org. We would like to thank 4play for hosting and managing Aros-Exec.org for all these years, and...
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Downloads work again as expected
A long standing issue has finally been fixed. There was a security setting which automatically "promoted" http requests to https, and while this could not be a problem for other links, it prevented all file links to work when left clicking on them. You may...
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Say welcome to SiMBa
You know how it works: "make it work first, then make it better". I restarted toying with LUA to write a little configuration editor for Windows shares, making creation of share DOSDrivers files really quick and easy, but I wasn't satisfied at all. The...
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Accessing modern Windows shares
I can't deny Icaros Desktop, for the last 2 years, got a lesser priority in my schedule. Some other projects and real life events drew my attention far away from this distribution, but I never stopped lurking into Amiga forums and still followed AROS...
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New year, new Icaros Live! beta
Hello dear Icaros users, supporters and friends. We sincerely hope 2023 will be an amazing year for AROS and, to let it begin the best possible way, here is a new beta of its most complete distribution. It includes all the 3rd party applications from the...
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A new beta
Hello our dear followers, here is a new build of Icaros Desktop for you. Our friend Deadwood has backported several new AROS features introduced into system files in the 2018-2019 time frame and I have integrated them into the distribution. That's not the...
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Fix audio on current VMware virtual machines
You might have noticed that listening to audio under latest releases of VMware can be difficult, and that following instructions on the user manual will not bring the desired result. Well, it seems that some changes occurred in the way current version of...
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Icaros Desktop @Mupin - Umani e Macchine
If you speak Italian, don't miss this event. This evening at 21:30 UTC+1, Paolo Besser will be hosted in the first episode of "Umani e Macchine" (Men and Machines), a series of interviews about technology with smart guys in the IT scene. We will talk about...
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Amiga strikes back on Linux Format #271
Our friend John Knight has written a lovely article for Linux Format, which has been already published on issue 271, about using a PC "the Amiga way" with AROS. And, guess what? He's using Icaros Desktop in the "classic Amiga environment" you may choose...
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Icaros Desktop 2.3 now available for download
A brand new version of Icaros Desktop is finally ready for everyone. What you have under your eyes is the result of a very long work of analysis and revision, which covers different aspects of the distribution, in its native soul and in the hosted one. We...
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Is it Xmas before Xmas?
It's an amazing time for AROS. Our great friend Deadwood has started refreshing ABIv0. This means that, for the first time in 3 years, Icaros will be able to provide new system files. The good news is I have already burnt an experimental ISO with new code...
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Windows icons now resized correctly
Another little step in the right direction has been done. Windows programs icons are now resized to a 50x50 pixel square while being imported by the automatic script. I now have to do the same for the usual, manual scripts (hbadd). Isn't this much...
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Windows hosted enhancements almost complete
Works on Windows hosted mode of Icaros Desktop are almost complete, at least for my side of things: although I couldn't in any way enhance the way AROS itself behaves under Windows (so: no 3D acceleration, no sound support, no networking, less stability...
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Windows programs now automatically imported
Great news, people, great news! Windows hosted Icaros is now able to parse Windows Start Menu entries and automatically add to HostBridge almost all installed programs:The import procedure is a little slow, but with some luck you'll have to launch it just...
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Serving a GUI to HyperV Server 2019
This is funny. While I was still working on Hostbridge, I had to test a procedure on Windows Server 2019 Hyper-V Core, which is a interface-less stripped down version of Windows Server acting only as hypervisor. But, after all, it's always Windows and, if...
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Windows volumes now get a good icon
Windows hosted mode is getting some love. When started this way, Icaros mounted all the Windows volumes it found without giving them a proper icon, using Wanderer and Magellan default disk icons for them. Well, I've added some icons for this purpose to...
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Windows hosted mode is now a little better
People running Icaros Desktop on Windows might be interested in the latest developments of their Icaros hosted mode. First of all, the icaros.cmd launch script has been improved.As promised, the launch script now accepts several switches and allow...
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Goodbye old site!
Hello and welcome to the new Icaros Desktop's website. Starting from today, this will be the new look of our home in the Internet. We've changed our old blog template with a new one, because it didn't behave well with Blogspot's new interface and preview...
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Hostbridge works again on Windows hosted
In the latest months, HostBridge for Linux gained several new features, among them the ability to scan your Linux distribution for installed applications and integrate them automatically. This led to a huge quantity of changes to HostBridge scripts and,...
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Porting .\icaros to Windows
One of the best commodities of Icaros 2.3 will be the fact that the 'icaros' launch script for hosted version will be able to accept parameters. Unluckily, I could not work on linux hosted and windows hosted features at the same time, but after releasing...
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New beta of Icaros Desktop 2.3
Hello, I am very happy to announce that a brand new beta version of Icaros Desktop 2.3 is now available. As usual, the direct download link has been sent to our beta testers, to interested 3rd party application coders and patrons pledging $5 or more. You...
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Integrating unrar 5.90
Today I've been testing some new components of Icaros Desktop, including unrar 5.90. I had to modify ZuneARC'c configuration file, because the stack I already set for version 5.80, 400000, wasn't enough. I raised it to 800000, and now RAR archives can be...