@Darrin

No you are not alone, never liked Magellan, but it would be a useful pool of code.

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@Darrin

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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?

I am also on Opus4 fan. I really only used magellan 5, in lister mode, rather than desktop replacement, and currently Opus4, and Filer meet my needs.
To be honest I would like the option to have Magellan on OS4, but I probably wouldn't use half it's functions (never did). If filer could do all the things the magellan lister mode did, I would be a happy bunny.

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As it mostly in C, its not so matter in what C it was done, as it can be transfered to GCC with no problems.

I took me two months or more of solid hacking to port AWeb from SASC to gcc, that's after Fabio (sorry forget his second name) had done alot of starting work on it.

All sorts of weird issue cropped up, may as well have been a different language.

So can it be transfered to gcc? yes, without probems? no.

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@Fairdinkem

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with the added bonus of being able to open and interact with multiple windows.

That's what I mean by lister mode, just double click on the workbench background and a lister opens, in the same way as filer does now. It was quite a thing at the time to open mutiple listers, rather than the two window pane of DOpus4.
For my own usage, update filer and I would be happy.

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Quote: Quote: How much will the source have to be edited just to make it compile with gcc and the current SDK? Probably one or two weeks.

Do you plan on sleeping during those two weeks?

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@djnick

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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.

This is exactly what filer does.

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@wawa

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the comments show not much insight so far. comparing class action or amidisk to dopus?

You are the first person to mention Class Action, or Amidisk, most people are comparing functionality between DOpus4 and Magellan.

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So can it be transfered to gcc? yes, without probems? no.

We will see how it will be once sources will be over our hands. There can be the same kind of problems as with aweb, but can be not as well. Until we not have sources, we can't even do anything about. But when we will have, even step by step, bit by bit, it can be trasnfered to gcc and ported, for sure.

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I never liked Megallan either. I would much rather see DOpus 4 be updated with Zune (MUI) look and maybe new functions.

Last edited by nikosidis on 19-Mar-2012 at 06:01 PM.

DOpus 5/Magellan was brilliant, and was extremely configurable... but as I recall it didn't come with any good set-ups, so it was useless until you spent ages configuring it. That could of course easily be fixed.

Filer for AmigaOS4 is a good (but less flexible) imitation of DOpus 5. I'd be quite happy to see Filer updated a bit more, but DOpus 5 would be good too.

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Check out the power of Directory Opus Magellan II in AmiKit! It's fully configured and registered.

Q: Isn't this software really outdated? Look at those ugly icons!
We managed to force the Magellan to show modern DualPNG icons, check out the screenshots!

Magellan is a real "state-of-the-art" software on Amiga and I encourage everyone to donate to the bounty project.

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@DJnick

You might want to think before you write guy.
You, a person who had a bounty set up to be given a Sam, so you can do something of no significance at all (plenty of gfx artists around) is now suggesting that people shouldnt "waste thier money" on something that's a lot more worthwhile?

Im happy for you to have been given a free Sam by the community, but sheesh guy, pull your head out.

@ Darrin

Never liked Magellan like yourself I prefer the old style like DOpus 4 but my own personal choice is Dirwork 2 (a custom version that I made for myself after dissembling the original into it source and bugfixing it and adding new features)...



It's even more configurable & flexible than DOPus 4...

On the subject of AROS though and Wanderer, Workbench works fine on AROS considering it's development stage but I suppose Magellan would be nice for those who want to use it...

Just a thought... if Magellan works as it should then there should be no problem running it already on AROS...

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Do you plan on sleeping during those two weeks? :)

Absolutely. Here is link to AWebPPC port:

http://bigfoot.morphos-team.net/files/

It was ported in few days and included new features, too.

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I never liked Megallan either. I would much rather see DOpus 4 be updated with Zune (MUI) look and maybe new functions.

I updated Dopus 4 with MUI some years ago. I can't remember how complete it was but sources are on sf.net page.

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Mui and Magellan is ok.

I could not use a pc without Dopus.

Now PM me where to put the is it 20e ok?

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Edit. 1000 posts. Congrats?

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Just out of curiosity (i.e. it's not intended as an "which one is better"): what would be required to bring the already-free Scalos to an usable level?
I was never able to use it in a productive way (aka sometimes it badly crashes) neither on OS3 or OS4, but IIRC it was updated recently for AROS? (it was in Nikosidis' distro if i'm not mistaken)

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