I'll be chipping in some $ soon.

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While I fully support this project and I hope it goes well, am I the only one who prefers DOpus 4?

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@Darrin

Nope, I'm a big Opus 4 fan as well.

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Me too, started using DOpus at version 1, fell in love with it, it is getting old though.

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Me too. While I upgraded to to Magellan when it was originally released I still preferred the simplicity of DOpus. However, DOpus was an excellent File manager, Magellan was a complete desktop replacement system. So really the two products were totally different.

TrevorD

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Me too. While I upgraded to to Magellan when it was originally released I still preferred the simplicity of DOpus. However, DOpus was an excellent File manager, Magellan was a complete desktop replacement system. So really the two products were totally different.

Actually, I never understand people saying they prefer the really old-fashoned, norten-commander style Dopus4. Dopus5 Magellan II is in *every* aspect superior -- even to the point that you can run Dopus5 in *exactly* the same way as Dopus4. :)

cheers,
nexus

P.S. Finally donated, from my point of view, some huge amount.

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I used Dopus 4 for every day stuff and used Dopus 5 for heavy duty tasks, it was much faster then Dopus 4 at most things.

I've never used Directory Opus Magellan, so I found this old review of it with screenshots to be helpful in making my decision to donate to this project...

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@ mihcael

i still use DOpus4 evry day..was never much for Magellan.

My donation is in

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Love Magellan II but i will not donate to this project as i know there ain't enough developers to port this to my preferred platform.

btw, i am pretty sure i read in earlier threads that this project would reach its goal in matter of hours/days (this was between the djnick and spotify bounties which both reached its goal in matter of hours).

And i know the reason, people know how much work it really is to port/update dopus mag2 and most would rather like to see work on excisting workbench/wandered/ambient solutions.

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@jingof

oh god. My Dopus5 looked much better ;)

nexus

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@Toaks

It sounds as if you would like to prevent people from donating?
Actually, no desktop environment I ever used on any system was as powerful and useful as Dopus5 Magelan II. So, Workbench, Wanderer and Ambient will not become as good in any near future :)

cheers,
nexus

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@Toaks
The reasons are :
They prefer the WB or
They prefer Dopus 4 or
They prefer Ambient or
They prefer Scalos or
They Prefer Opus Magellan II
But in the end no matter their choices they can use it now and don't see why they need to pay for it.
IIRC Hyperion had it's chance and they blew it away same for the confidence they had with GPSofware...

Kamel

I promise will donate as soon as possible.
Not that I used Dopus back in the day, I think it was Filemaster.

The more Amiga code we can get open sourced the better. That's why I donate.

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@Darrin

Opus4 fan here as well. Though I must admit my favourite filemanager should have dual-windows *and* tabs (like ClassAction or AmiDisk)...

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I will add what I think.
Even I was extremly big fan of DOpusMagellan, it is a nonsense to convert another Operative System to replace Operative System WHEN we can have DOpusMagellan stuff implemented into the AmigaOS.

DOpus is so powerful that OS3.9+ will be never close to it.

Now I would donate $$$ just to implement all stuff from Magellan to AmigaOS4.2 or upper.

It sounds more reasomable. I don`t want to mess with 2 integrated OSes when I can have just ONE that works perfect.

Think about it. Better invest into something very serious and usable:

- support OS4 and make it better than Win7 or MacOS
- support Word-like programs
- support for good video players with GUI
- support native Youtube player integrated into OS browser
- support Drag&Drop where ever it is possible
- IF there is no KingKON: implemented into AMigaSHell - implement it - it is something the best I have ever tried on any platform
- support Photoshop-like programs [native GIMP or upgraded ArtEffect that is the closest to real world! Needs DragAndDrop from file to file or from layer to layer to make it realy competitive
- support for native Video program

I will $$$ for all this. Not Magellan, even it was my biggest love. Magellan is replacement for at that time old and outdated OS3... Dont waste money, please.

And OS will be more than joy to use!

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@ thread

Not sure if everyone is aware of the fact that as someone who purchase magellan back in the day, when you install it, you could select the option to either use it as a desktop replacement or customise it to function and look just like version 4, with the added bonus of being able to open and interact with multiple windows.

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One of the best and most usable things I loved a lot on Amiga is calling something like "MyComputer" [from PC] but on Amiga by doubleclicking with mouse anywhere on the screen. Then lister will appear and you will have "MyComputer" or Lister where you clicked.

I miss this opportunity in real AMigaOS. As I still don`t have Amiga I can`t imagine how much it evolved, but - how do you call "My Computer"? How do you open a lister? I hope it is not needed to click on RAM: disk to open a lister?

Anyway, SAM is FINALLY on my way and I hope to get it during next week. Thank you Troels :)

I will try my best to make perfectly usable machine that will attract anybody. I doon`t want Amiga to look like another Linux clone. I wish more.

All best.
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Those who can't make up their mind could donate just a tiny sum.
5-10 $ everything counts. I'm not convinced myself that I would start
to use an eventual port but I think it's all for a good cause.

Also if the code is open sourced it might help new developers in the
future to see how things was coded/solved within the application, and
as a result maybe adopt parts of it into a whole new application.
Who knows ? And you could be part of it for a fiver.

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Actually, I never understand people saying they prefer the really old-fashoned, norten-commander style Dopus4. Dopus5 Magellan II is in *every* aspect superior -- even to the point that you can run Dopus5 in *exactly* the same way as Dopus4

Well, Magellan was great as WB replacement until other one arrived.

As file manager, its a huuge advance from v4 and there is no reason to argue furthermore do we need it. Simply as just file manager its a way better.

And neither is the time. Bounty first, porting comes later.

While would like to $20 donation, problem DJ Nick, me and few more users have is that Serbia isn`t on PayPal list. Any other method (credit card, bank transfer) to aid this nice Power2People initiative?

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