Have any developer tried to compile DOpus 4 for OS4 yet?

It would be great to have this util fully working as IMHO it has the best
file manager UI I have ever come across.
As it is now some of the internal functions don't work properly and causes
crashes. Also some of the GUI needs to be fixed. Otherwise it has most of
what you would ever want in a file manager.

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@Samwel

There are several threads on Dopus, just use the search function (top right) on thr front page.

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@Swoop

Yes I know but this gives no info on any tries to actually compile it natively for OS4.

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@Samwel

As far as i know, there is/was an os4 native version as a contibution on one of the cd's. There is also an 'Opus' yahoo group.

I think the demo was v17, and the last build is about v21.
I use the one from the contributions drawer, not as extensively as I would like, but it does offer options not available in workbench.

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@Swoop

It is not native.

@hotrod

Yeah. it's not native.


@Swoop

I know of that version. I have had it installed also but it doesn't fully work
with OS4. It has some serious bugs in some critical parts.

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@Samwel

Why would you want a PPC native version of DOpus? It really doesn't do anything that requires much processing power. Doesn't the 68k version work properly on OS4?

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@AMiGR

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Why would you want a PPC native version of DOpus?

Why rally against it?

Yea, I use 68K version and haven't notcied any serious problems. It doesn't seem to crash, and seems to perform OK. But ther's no reason to specifically desire to leave it to the emulation engine. I'd be happy to see a native one. Would you actually be unhappy of that happened? Why?

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@Samwel

I don't have DOpus on any of my disks so what version are you using? I'm using v4.17_b20, I have b21, but it would crash my classic if I tried to print & I haven't tried it on os4.

I was on the DOpus mailing list & development stopped when the author had a HD crash & lost the source code or at least the latest source code.

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@Samwel

a few reasons,

1. whats the point?
2. it is littered with asm code.
3. it aint developed further.
4. Dopus Magellan OS4
5. 68k version use near but no cpu power on both my classic os4 and a1 os4.

anyway if ure really wanting it, i suggest u pay someone to convert it to c/c++ code but beware..it will be a looooooooooong project even for thoose experienced asm /c/c++ guys out there.

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@Toaks

Directory Opus does not contain anymore any portion of 68k asm, proof of this is the port for Aros:

Aros video of DOpus

I haven't verified this, but I always have the feeling that the copy operations under 68k DOpus are slower than the ones under Workbench. Can anyone confirm this?

Varthall

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@Toaks

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4. Dopus Magellan OS4

Sorry, but DOpus 4 and DOpus Megellan are very different. I never really got used to Magellan but used DOpus 4 all the time. On OS4 I use ClassAct because it works better.

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5. 68k version use near but no cpu power on both my classic os4 and a1 os4.

I think we should try to get as much native software as possible, and if there is a (much) used software and the sourcecode is available, it's better to get ported, isn't it?

Ciao, Alfred

@Samwel

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Have any developer tried to compile DOpus 4 for OS4 yet?

I stopped using DOpus4 on my MicroA1 and A1-XE. I kept getting GR's on both systems when reading a text file? I've switched both system to AmiDisk which is OS4.0 native and is far superior IMHO.

TrevorDick

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@TrevorDick

I was used to see GR from time to time displaying file with the internal viewer (both Hex or Plain Text) but that's no more the case since upd#4...

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