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Modern GUI for DOS - Aurora-inspired Desktop Environment
About Aura
Aura is a graphical user interface for DOS that comes with simple internet, image, audio and development applications. It provides a modern desktop experience while running on vintage hardware.
Aura's code is a fork of Point Mad & Likas Lipka's work from 2004's Ozone Gui 0.5.3.0 > 0.5.8.0.
Threading, TCP and other great features have been added to provide a better Desktop Experience From DJGPP + Allegro but lacks any real Preemption or multi-tasking.
Aura is no longer in active development. for now..
Key features
Aura Desktop is a fork of 2004's ozone gui with watt32, LWP, Audio and some demo applications. While its based on Allegro 4.2/4.4 for dos and linux the desktop is currently on hold in terms of development in favour of Pineapple 2 desktop.
Aura m6 https://github.com/arkwise/AuraM6-Series is available for you to compile and run using the DJGPP toolchain and allegro 4.2 or 4.4 depending on whether you are using it on linux or dos.
Originally started in 2007 after the work of Florian Xavier adding additional features like support for skins, un-skinned windows and other minor fixes to the desktop. The old releases are currently not online i need to find the original disc's to make some iso's for testing.
Around this time Chase Finn and Chelson Aitcheson Forked the code and started adding additional features like tcp and threading over the past 10+ years. Development was slow and hit bit of a dead end but will be back with a new version soon.
The last Distribution version requires 64mb of ram if you are using the live cd image. The installer doesnt work and its a half done distro but that will not change for some time.
System Requirements
Pentium 1, 64mb ram, cd-rom and thats about it.
Downloads
A rough build of milestone 5, this was a transition to newer libraries allegro 4.2 > 4.4 and DJGPP 2.03 > 2.05. wasn't a big release and not even working well so expect it to fail on older machines but Pentium 2/3/4 era machines should be fine.
Aura M3 was the first version with wattcp before the transition to watt32 in M5. Initial software installer that doesnt work.
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