@danwood

I asked the person who tried to port it to OS4. He only said that Opus is going deep in the system and they faced some problems there. He said he cannot say more about it.

On MorphOS runs the 68k version. As far as I know there are no ports to any other Amiga-platform.

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@OlafS25

If it works on morphos, then its 101% can be solved. Just when it open source, you can talk with any other devs, and ask any questions in public , and someone for sure will bring a solution.

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@OlafS25

Way not bounty the orginal developer an Sam an some work then He can team up with hyperion

@OlafS25

If a programmer is needed I am more than willing to work on the DOpus Magellan II sources once
I have obtained my own AOS4.x machine and update it as needed.

Id be more than willing to work from whatever the original source state is and update as needed.

the only question I have would be what system components I would need to hook into or otherwise
use system native means of accessing...

there are certain things I would prefer to "banish unto their own module" for specific features
so they are options.

DOpus Magellan II was a treat to work with on the occasions I needed to deal with it,
the only "interesting" part for me was why it was not using DataTypes on OS3+ underneath
the FileTypes it used... maybe just that radically different an engine.

anyway it had me thinking about how to impliment parts of polymorph more towards using a
DataTypes approach to non-native program types

That was the only bit that had me questioning what was going on under the hood :)

@kas1e

I'm pretty sure it uses GadTools with a few custom bits and pieces. You could install it on a bare 3.0 installation and it would work just fine.

I used Magellan as a full Workbench replacement for a long time. I never upgraded to Magellan 2 though which meant the icons and a few other things broke when I got OS3.5 and then 3.9. I'm sure a couple of other things were broken by 3.9 as well, but it got relegated to a file manager then for me. I still miss a lot of the things it had, but to be honest most of the features I used are either included in OS4 now (e.g. deficons, nice tooltype editing, Amidock), or available as add-ons (e.g., Filer, FTPMount).

I guess the only things I really miss are the truly excellent FTP integration and the ability to assign different areas of the screen for different icon types (drives, AppIcons etc.)

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@Belxjander

I have given the information to power2people, they will setup a bounty and then the source will be free available and everyone can work on it.

@OlafS25

Way not bounty the orginal developer an Sam an some work then He can team up with hyperion

@retro

I do not understand? What do you mean?

@OlafS25

I think he means send a Sam 440 to GP Software to write a version for OS4, I can't see them being interested tbh.

@danwood

oh thankyou. No they have left the market. For them it is a business-decision (investment and earning). So I do not think anything could change their mind. Perhaps there is a developer who would do the OS4 port for a SAM. But first Magellan-Source must be released.

@retro

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retro wrote: @OlafS25 Way not bounty the orginal developer an Sam an some work then He can team up with hyperion

Because that would limit the scope to AOS4 only? OlafS25's proposal would indeed help all of the systems.

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@terminills

yes it is about releasing code for everyone. Then every camp can use it for what it wants.

@danwood

I can't either see why they would be interested in supporting an OS which they think the company behind are "dishonest and untrustworthy".

The closest bet is to buy the source code and go further with it in the community.

@Develin

after releasing everyone can use the source including Hyperion (if they want) similar to f.e. Poseidon

@OlafS25

to set up a bounty an exact amout of money needed is neccessary to be clear as well as the clearly specified bounty targets. hope they are.

@wawa

It is about opensource of magellan. I have passed the informations to power2people and they will communicate directly and create the bounty.

minimum is 5000$ (Australian). That are about 4000 EUR (0,80 EUR=1 $)

name can be used for Amiga, for other ports after permission (they are still selling it under the name for Windows)

"The agreement would be that you can use it on the Amiga under the name
"Directory Opus Magellan" with an acknowledgement but not on any other
platforms without prior permission."

So under "Amiga" I understand all Amiga-platforms.

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@wawa

I always used DOpus 5 as a filemanager only but what I miss most about it is SPEED! No other program that I've used has been able to list and sort files as quickly as DOpus 5. I like the unbuilt FTP functionality and AFAICR it used arexx scripts to let you look inside archives and extract files using the commandline tool instead of XAD. The toolbar at the top of each lister was usefull too. Very stable and powerfull, really well done.

There was also some preconfigured setting to make it look similar to DOpus 4 for those who prefer that look.

@OlafS25

Oh. That version is terrible! I'd prefer to have DirOpus4 ported. Oh wait.

Wasn't it meant to be ported by some OS4 outfit already? Like OCtaMED. Whatever else...

@Hypex

I do not understand "OS4 jokes" because i am in a different camp

@OlafS25

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So under "Amiga" I understand all Amiga-platforms.

What *you* understand is not good enough, you must sure of what *GPSoft* understand by that. Some phrasing like 'AmigaOS and it's derrivatives', possibly even explicity naming Morphos and ARos and OS4 to avoid confusion.

$5000 is alot of money for a bounty so legal fussines is essential!

For me I not so sure about the need for Opus 5 any more, filer fulfills much of my old uses for DOpus, I only ever used it as a file manager never as a WB replacement, now with filer , amidock FTPMount etc, pretty much all I used to have is there....

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