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The "Not Quite Amiga but still computer related category" => Alternative Operating Systems => Topic started by: melott on February 01, 2004, 03:14:14 AM

Title: An alternative to DOpus for Windows
Post by: melott on February 01, 2004, 03:14:14 AM

I've gotten permission from the author
of 'FileWorks32' to put it out there.
He hasn't been supporting it for several
years so it is what it is.
I use it all the time.
If you use it and enough interest is expressed
maybe I can talk him into either working on an
updating or releasing the code.
If you try it and like it I would like some
feedback to let him know.
As of now I guess it can be considered FreeWare.
The question is 'Where to upload it to'??  

Title: Re: An alternative to DOpus for Windows
Post by: Opus on February 01, 2004, 03:27:39 AM

aminet?

Title: Re: An alternative to DOpus for Windows
Post by: Cyberus on February 01, 2004, 03:31:45 AM

err, sorry to piss on your bonfire, but isn't aminet for amiga apps?

Title: Re: An alternative to DOpus for Windows
Post by: melott on February 01, 2004, 03:33:23 AM

Aminet?? no

This is an M$ Windows file manager prg.

Title: Re: An alternative to DOpus for Windows
Post by: JoNty on February 01, 2004, 09:10:14 AM

@melott
I have a couple of ntlworld web space accounts not doing much.

Private message me if you're interested.

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JoNty

Title: Re: An alternative to DOpus for Windows
Post by: JoNty on February 02, 2004, 09:47:22 AM

melott kindly sent me FileWorks32 to upload to my webspace.

FW32.zip (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jonty_amiga/FW32.zip)

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JoNty

Title: Re: An alternative to DOpus for Windows
Post by: JoNty on February 03, 2004, 08:45:04 AM

Just gave it a try. Not a bad program, but it's quite dated. If it supported the Windows shell and had text labels for buttons I'd like it more.

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JoNty

Title: Re: An alternative to DOpus for Windows
Post by: Desolator on February 03, 2004, 11:33:40 AM

Try Total Commander.
It works the same, but is not outdated, and supports external Zip programs, image viewers etc.

Title: Re: An alternative to DOpus for Windows
Post by: StevenJGore on February 03, 2004, 11:59:13 AM

Is the Windows version of DOpus not any good then?

Title: Re: An alternative to DOpus for Windows
Post by: JoNty on February 08, 2004, 01:45:05 PM

@StevenJGore

It replaces the whole Windows shell. It's kind of good, but very bloated IMO.

What I'd like is a port of some sort of Directory Opus 4 for Windows. That I'd love.

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JoNty

Title: Re: An alternative to DOpus for Windows
Post by: zurt on February 08, 2004, 02:18:33 PM

Yup. Total Commander rules! It's far away the best filemanager for
Windows.

Forget DOpus for windows (it sucks a lot), Gnome (it sucks much more)
and Explorer.exe (it sucks EVEN more). And give a try to Total
Commander. I like it very much :)


zurt

Title: Re: An alternative to DOpus for Windows
Post by: Ni72ous on February 08, 2004, 02:19:26 PM

@JoNty

Try Magellan Explorer, its available at Enriva.com (http://www.enriva.com/)

Title: Re: An alternative to DOpus for Windows
Post by: harsh on February 08, 2004, 04:43:11 PM

>> Is the Windows version of DOpus not any good then?

For many things, the Windows version is an improvement over Windows Explorer, but it is a mere shadow of the Amiga versions in many important respects IMHO.

Complex file selection (matching files between listers) is decidedly missing and filenote support is goofy (as it not natively supported by Windows)

I use Amiga DOpus Magellan on Windows where I can, but there are some path and file name limitations.

Title: Re: An alternative to DOpus for Windows
Post by: BCP on February 08, 2004, 05:32:13 PM

Dopus 6 for Windows is a tremendous improvement over Windows Explorer, for me it makes file management on any
version of Windows bearable.  Its picture viewer is one of
my favorate features.   I've used it on laptops ranging from
PII 266 thru P4 2200 and found it to be fast and easy to use on all.  It IS a large program to be sure, but it is highly configurable and does everything I want it to do (except look like the Amiga versions.

- BCP