Das AmigaOS 3.2 ist die neueste Version des Amiga-Betriebssystems für den klassichen Amiga Computer mit 68k-Prozessor.

Es ist für Amiga 1000, 500, 600, 1200, 2000, 3000, 3000T, 4000, 4000T, CD32 und CDTV auf CD-Rom verfügbar.

AmigaOS 3.2 kommt vollgepackt mit weit über 100 neuen Funktionen, dutzenden von Updates und Bugfixes, die fast alle AmigaOS-Komponenten abdecken. AmigaOS 3.2 ist das Ergebnis von mehr als 2 Jahren intensiver und unermüdlicher Arbeit eines Teams von über 60 Personen, um einen neuen Meilenstein in der AmigaOS-Geschichte zu setzen.

Die CD-Rom der AmigaOS 3.2 enthält alle Disketten und AmigaOS-Kickstart-ROMs für alle jemals produzierten Amiga-Maschinen. So kann der Amiga-Benutzer AmigaOS 3.2 auf viele verschiedenen Amigas gleichzeitig installieren, ohne weitere Lizenzen erwerben zu müssen.

Systemvoraussetzungen

• Amiga Computer oder Emulationsumgebung (wie WINUA, EUAE)
• Mindestens Kickstart 3.1 / oder höher (3.1.4). Kickstart ROM 3.2 (empfohlen, da geringste Bootzeit und geringster Speicherverbrauch)
• 2 MB Gesamtspeicher (Chip-Ram + Fast-Ram). Sollten Sie kein physisches Kickstart-ROM 3.2 verwenden, dann wird insgesamt 2,5 MB Gesamtspeicher benötigt
• 10 MB freier Festplattenspeicher

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1. REACTION GUI TOOLKIT INTEGRATION

• The incorporation of the ReAction GUI Toolkit not only opens up a plethora of existing applications for AmigaOS 3.2 users, it also ensures much easier portability and cross-development between different versions of AmigaOS
• No additional installation required, it just works, even on low-end 68000 systems
• A new multi-file text editor called "TextEdit" is included as a show-case
• ReAction has its own Preferences editor which lets you set backfilled patterns for ReAction based programs
• Fresh and bug fixed Classes backport from AmigaOS 4.x with many exclusive characteristics and brushed up aesthetics

2.BUILT-IN ADF (AMIGA DISK FILE IMAGE) MANAGEMENT

• DAControl & trackfile.device provide unprecedented functionality, as they enable users to create, mount, insert and eject ADF files
• ADF images are handled just like any physical floppy disk
• On "Workbench" you can mount an ADF image by double-clicking on it
• ADF handling can be accomplished via Shell through the use of an extensive set of available options
• Accessing such mounted ADF disk image files is fast and requires very little memory
• Multiple ADF disk images can be mounted at the same time
• A shared cache system is available in order to speed up ADF operations

.INTEGRATED HELP SUBSYSTEM

• A complete "Reference Manual" covers all commands and most complex topics
• An AmigaGuide based central "Help hub" is available by simply pressing the HELP key
• The Help database can be quickly queried from the Shell/CLI
• Preferences and many other programs contain Help menu items
• In the WBStartup folder, MenuTools adds the "Help" menu item to the "Tools" menu but can be customized to add other Tools as well

4.UPDATED DATA TYPE SYSTEM

• New AIFF uncompressed audio data type
• New GIF image data type
• New WAV audio data type
• New JPEG picture data type
• New PNG multi-platform image data type
• New BMP data type for Windows/OS2 bitmap images
• New Icon.datatype enables use of ".info" files as images
• New ACBM picture data type (used in AmigaBASIC & SpectraPaint)
• The AmigaGuide data type can now display inline images
• Text data type with search functionality
• Faster and more configurable CDXL and ANIM data types
• Sound.datatype manages bit rate samples of 8, 16, 24 and 32 bit
• Picture.datatype is now stunningly fast even on low-end 68000 processors

5. AMIGAOS WORKBENCH AND OTHER USER INTERFACE IMPROVEMENTS

• Resize windows from any border
• Window iconification
• Workbench title bar customization
• Maximize a window by holding down the SHIFT key and clicking on the window zoom gadget
• The [ESC] key quits easy requesters
• Scalable "GadTools" user interface adapting to different font sizes
• Workbench menu "Open volume"
• Menu Window -> Sort Order (Forward or Reverse)
• Off-Screen windows is a built-in default that is now configurable
• Scrollers and sliders now feature 3D-style embossed knobs and a darker container background
• Newer Look menus: Palette Prefs "Menu Bright Edges" + "Menu Dark Edges"
• Newer Look menus: sub-menu indicator changed from "»" to a black filled triangle
• Newer Look menus: checkmark glyph replaced by a black filled circle in mutually-exclusive options
• Workbench Prefs defines drawer placing in text mode

6.IMPROVED TOOLS, UTILITIES AND SYSTEM APPLICATIONS

• Interactive partition "Mounter"
• "Find" allows you to quickly search for file names or file content
• "ShowConfig" now has aesthetically pleasing user interface and displays AutoConfig hardware in a human readable form
• HDToolBox can now operate from read-only media if needed

7.ENHANCED SHELL BEHAVIOR

• Configurable TAB autocompletion
• Ability to drop icons into Shell windows
• Shell error redirection
• "Execute" is now an internal Shell command
• "History" is a new internal Shell command
• Shell operators && and || for AND plus concatenation operations
• A debug variable sends executed commands to the serial port
• Shell-startup has been adjusted for easier customization

8.NEW AND REWORKED COMMANDS

• C:Eval properly groups operations
• C:Copy gains a FORCE option to overwrite targets
• C:Protect gains USER, GROUP, OTHER, CLONE, CLEAR, FILES, and DIRS
• C:SetDate can copy the date FROM a file
• C:List provides FLAT, SORT, USERS, GROUP, LFORMATQUOTE options
• C:Mount SHUTDOWN attempts to shutdown handlers
• C:Assign incorporated DENIED and DISMOUNT switches
• C:Type supports AUTO, TEXTONLY, WIDTH and BUFFER options
• C:Reboot restarts your Amiga but waits for any ongoing write operations to prevent validation issues
• C:Group and C:Owner commands added for networked environments
• C:MD5Sum calculates and compares checksums of files and volumes
• C:MountInfo command helps in the creation of MountLists
• C:Break and C:ChangeTaskPri NAME handle wildcards options
• C:DefIcons identifies files and applies a default icon to them
• C:AssignWedge allows users to create or deny an assign on the fly
• C:LoadMonDrvs simplifies and quickly starts monitor drivers.

9.TOUCHED UP PREFERENCE EDITORS

• Custom printer output device and unit number
• WBPattern has layout options for Backdrops, Screens and Windows which include both color and dithering
• PointerPrefs has been overhauled to support 40 different pointer types
• Font Preferences comes with Shadow and Outline font options
• IControl received a massive makeover which introduced new functionality such as Window and screen border aspect ratios customization

10.POLISHED MULTIVIEW

• A new "Edit/Paste" menu item opens the contents of clipboard unit 0 (thus complementing "Edit/Copy")
• The "About" window now reports the width, height and depth of the currently displayed picture or animation
• The names of ARexx scripts for user menus can now be up to 40 characters long and may contain "spaces"
• Pressing the [Shift] key while the "Save as..." menu item is selected, forces MultiView to save the displayed document in IFF format
• Now lists pattern matching in its ASL requester that, if removed, can also display icons (useful in conjunction with the new icon.datatype)

11.REVAMPED COMMODITIES

• "RAWBInfo" is an improved replacement of the icon information tool
• "AsyncWB" is an AmigaOS Workbench enhancement Commodity with divers functionality
• "AutoPoint" KEEPSTRINGS prevents this Commodity from automatically stealing focus from a window with an active string gadget
• "ClickToFront" TOBACK_QUALIFIER selects a qualifier for sending windows back (with a single click)
• "ClickToFront" no longer brings Workbench windows to the front when double-clicking on an icon
• "NumericPad" allows numeric pad keys to be remapped to the standard keyboard
• The "AutoArrangeIcons" Commodity-like set of scripts automates the ordering and snapshot of icons in the active window

12.EXPANDED BOOTMENU

• An option to trace the Startup-sequence line by line is now available
• The user can disable ROM Module updates by clicking on a gadget
• The hardware expansion screen displays expansion board addresses and sizes
• A new option to redirect serial port output to a file is available with the "Enable System Log" option
• The "Failsafe" boot gadget starts the Amiga in a robust and safe environment to carry out maintenance and troubleshooting tasks
• More keyboard shortcuts for the majority of options
• Displays AmigaOS Kickstart version numbers

13.INCLUSION AND REFINEMENT OF THE AMIGAOS 3.1.4 FEATURE SET

• Support for storage media bigger than 4 GB
• Modernized AmigaOS Workbench
• DiskDoctor for disk diagnostic and salvage operations
• Native support for pipes, softlinks, hardlinks and long filenames
• CrossDOS supporting FAT 32 and long filenames
• CD-ROM file system that supports Rockridge and Joliet extensions as well as UDF and now also Macintosh HFS
• Both FFS (FastFileSystem) and the CD-ROM file system are now smarter, faster, and multi-threaded
• Fully reworked and bug-fixed printer drivers
• Built-in GlowIcons support as an installable option
• More than 2100 icons in GlowIcon style included on the AmigaOS 3.2 CD-ROM

14.FLEXIBLE DELIVERY MEDIA

• The distribution AmigaOS 3.2 CD-ROM contains ADF disk images that can be transferred to physical floppy disks or Gotek-type drives
• All Modules disks perform as emergency boot disks too
• The DiskDoctor disk can help users to quickly get back on their feet when facing disk failures
• The AmigaOS 3.2 CD-ROM content can be copied "as is" to an Amiga formatted hard drive and booted right away for installation thanks to the "Amiga Preinstallation Environment" (AmigaPE)
• All Amiga model disks and AmigaOS Kickstart ROM set images are available on the AmigaOS 3.2 CD-ROM
• Attractive printable labels are available for all your favorite AmigaOS 3.2 storage media variants (AmigaOS 3.2 CD-ROM version only)
• Experimental CD-ROM-based Amiga CDTV and Amiga CD32 support

15.MANY REMARKABLE ADDITIONS

• Wheel mouse support for scrolling on AmigaOS Workbench windows
• IPrefs stacks multiple changes and refreshes the screen only once
• IPrefs points out names of blocking windows when refreshing
• No more DF0:???? icons as disk.resource now does proper checking
• Increased ROM Modules flexibility by loading more modules from disk without requiring an additional reboot for them
• "HappyENV/ENV-Handler" functionality reimplementation incorporated
• No more MaxTransfer values required for built-in Commodore and other well-known hardware controllers from various manufacturers
• "Installer" is more compatible with previous AmigaOS versions
• Multiple input events are supported by input.device
• Two new alerts report module issues for easier system diagnosis
• New API features for developers
• Optional generic processor support libraries for 68K CPU boards