OS3 was allways better with TurboPrint, Ibrowse,DeluxePaint and Final Writer. With the all expensive camera from Malaga was good too. DigiView. It was funny to select the different colours. My Nokia has huge megapiksels compared to the A500-times..

Not talking about the games.. North&South,Super Cars,Deluxe Galaga,It Came From The Desert,Giana Sisters...


Stupid me. Just waiting for the laptop;)

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@Nibu..

It was never in AspireOS. The reason for this is that AROS is working on a new ABI that is even more compatible with original OS 3.1

The problem with this new ABI is that it is far from finished. I can not upgrade AspireOS to use the new ABI yet, and therefore no ScaleOS.

So easy answer. ScaleOS is only for AROS new ABI.

Some of you haven't mentionned a great functionnality in Dopus Magellan II (I'm registered user with original disks) which I found very very useful and easy of use :

The FTP function ! I used it a lot because it acts like a simple lister without any progress bar or transfers informations like in ATC or PeteFTP, etc.

For me, Magellan should be a piece of software for the AOS4 even if I wouldn't use it as a Workbench replacement.

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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...

the whole philosophy behind aros is to have open source components, that may be freely distributed and updated. even if its a good sign that workbench works on aros (i didnt try) as a compatibility proof, it doesnt fall into this category being a spoken for commercial product. otherwise we could leave it at that and happily continue using workbench, y know.
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Just a thought... if Magellan works as it should then there should be no problem running it already on AROS...

if you mean aros68k, it works. though if you want to have it native on other architectures and update it, you need the source.

btw that dirwork looks not bad for a dopus4 clone, perhaps better that doscontrol i ever liked. is it freely available?

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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.

Huh? That's clearly not the Morphos version of the 'official' AWeb port, amd more than half of it is missing, no aweblibs no awebconf etc etc.
The aweblibs were where most of the porting work was BTW.

I wonder if whoever did that fixed all the issues with argument execution order and stuff like that.

Anyway this is off topic for this thread.

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some of the aweblibs are there but all mixed up with the main source, didn't recognise them as the source tree has changed so much
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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)

scalos is being worked on but not yet available to test, but you just remind me that i wanted to try the last available 68k version on aros 68k again. last time ive came only till splash screen, its a little difficult since aros has no appropriate instal tool yet.

edit: scalos on aros68k: just tried it again. installed alright with geits installer. it runs but not very well. prefs missing, displays no icons, perhaps some lib missing, we willsee.

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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.

Yes. Addon packages always existed. I don't see config as a detriment. I see it as a strength.
The opportunity for users to create various configs for upload might draw out some creative individuals from the community. I don't mean just themes, icons, and/or artwork. I also mean effective config of buttons, filetypes, etc.

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@Nic

Fully agree. Ftp functionality was very useful. I also only used Dopus5 Magellan II for accessing ftp servers in good old os3 days. I'm also a registered user and a big fan since the first Dopus5 version.
Actually, I never foud Dopus4 as valuable as Dopus5 :)

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Some of you haven't mentionned a great functionnality in Dopus Magellan II (I'm registered user with original disks) which I found very very useful and easy of use

It starts to be frustrating to repeat same things over and over again. If there are people not knowing those points they'd better use search function :) Or someone could save the links for later use...

Anyway, I was diehard dopus4 fan earlier, claiming two view lists are the best and Magellan is too much and complicated etc etc still typical arguments. Until I was forced to try Magellan2 out and learn it. After few weeks I couldn't turn back. Two view filemanagement became very limited ancient relic from floppy based filemanagement compared to what Magellan2 offered... traditional way just wasn't up to heavy filemanagement and other uses. I just couldn't use any Amiga system without Magellan2 after late 90's and still can't. Magellan2 is just the best piece of software ever written to Amiga and it shouldn't be left in the limbo.

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Ahh... I see now... I suppose that makes some sort of sense...

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btw that dirwork looks not bad for a dopus4 clone, perhaps better that doscontrol i ever liked. is it freely available?

Dirwork was given away for free many years ago on a Magazine coverdisc CD (Cant recall which one for now) and I can't remember which version was given away for free (I'll need to check)...

The version I showed a snapshot of is a version I created myself after disassembling the original into it's source code and bug fixing it and adding new features then re compiling it...

It can be configured endlessly and doesn't have to look like a file manager, you can for example use it as a workbench launchbar or as frontend for other progs utils you have, it is really only limited by your imagination just how you want to configure it and the purpose you want to use it for...

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Therefore I prefer two-view-tabbed-filemanager... For my personal taste it's the best of both worlds...but I assume it's still a matter of taste and personal workflows...

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Yeah ! Now we at 2300 ! 3300 left ! Soon we will at 50%, and then, everything should looks like "soon we will reach the goal". Sadly that some ppls just do not want one more piece of SW to see , and do not understand that its only better, that we not have any free developers who will do something really modern for any of the os, that is better to spend time on porting and fixing , in compare with nothing (because no one will write anything from scratch in general, as no time, no resources, no motivaion and other crap). And that 5600 is nothing in terms of "commercical stuff".

Sure, app old, but as all the other stuff on amigas and all the oses. But do we want everything for free ? All that crying about summs, only kill any kind of commercical stuff on all the oses. We buy HW for 3000, but we do not want to spend 5000 to have one more good app ! Of course we will reach summ in end (even if only who already donated, will donate montly for next 6 monts), but its all can be faster ..

ps. Donated as well

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By the way, forget to add, that we will contact GPSoft once we will reach only 3000, with wods like "hey, we alrady have 3000, its not 5600, but its better than nothing, maybe lets deal for 3000?". There is some chance that they will agree (as they step by step lower to summ till 5k in end, so it will worth of try to ask even on the 3k stage).

What i mean : lets collect 3000 faster and try it. Worth of shot. If they will say no, then we will collect 2600 more, but maybe we will lucky enough.

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