Altap Salamander Support Forums

https://github.com/RedSalamanders/RedSalamander/

I love Salamander I'd used it for many many year bought it in the past several time
I could not thanks enough their creators for this tools I'm using everyday

As other I was sad the open source version did not have more traction, even if in the last weeks there is wonderful work from 0xeb to modernize it

So I decide to start something new and crazy, rewrite everything in modern C++ and modern dependencies on Windows
You could find in the GitHub and alpha version
If you are crazy enough to try it, any feedback is welcome
the doc is there https://github.com/RedSalamanders/RedSa ... /main/Docs

you could have:
- theming
- long path support
- Unicode support
- FTP/SFTP/SCP/S3/IMAP support
- view picture and Raw picture
- ....

of course still a lost of feature missing and a lot of polish needed, don't have to high expectation yet

Wow!
The year 2026 will see the return of Altap Salamander to life!

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I would like one main branch to enhance the functionality of the existing stable 4.0 (5+) version.

Now we have 3 forks at least:
- Open Salamander 5 (official, main/base reposity): https://github.com/OpenSalamander/salamander
- Open Salamander 5, now (renamed today to) Sally: https://github.com/0xeb/sally/releases/latest
- Open Salamander: Samandarin - https://github.com/KRtkovo-eu-AI/salamander/releases
- RedSalamander: https://github.com/RedSalamanders/RedSalamander

Thanks to the developers.

I'll just note that Red does not run on Windows 7.

Now we have 3 forks at least:

Wonder if a mod can create a sticky post with that information?

You know, I could pin it, but wouldn't it be actually more awesome if you ACTIVE devs would cooperate and work on one fork together? That would be so much more efficient.

Yes, RedSalamander is built for Windows 11. It relies heavily on DirectX and modern Windows APIs.

If you need something that runs on Windows 7, OpenSalamander or another fork is the better choice.

To answer @SelfMan: I’m more than happy to accept contributions and collaboration on RedSalamander.

There are two different paths here:

* The legacy path, focused on broad compatibility and proven solutions refined over years of development and use.
* My current path, which targets the latest Windows versions and integrates new capabilities, accepting reduced backward compatibility where necessary.

I am for moving on. These days running on old OSs is dangerous. There are too many vulnerabilities.