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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: punkyclown on April 27, 2016, 06:48:07 PM

Title: Workbench Menu system?
Post by: punkyclown on April 27, 2016, 06:48:07 PM

Hi All,I am using AmiDock on my workbench and when it is open it uses 200K chip ram.  Some programs I use do not allow me to get back to WB and iconify it.  So is there a decent working, easy to install menu system for the Amiga that will save me most of that ram?
Also on the RAR question I did mean on the Amiga and appreciate the feedback.
Thanks, Brad Hansen

Title: Re: Workbench Menu system?
Post by: Acill on April 27, 2016, 06:54:46 PM

Maybe magic menu?

Title: Re: Workbench Menu system?
Post by: Oldsmobile_Mike on April 27, 2016, 07:31:07 PM

Do you want a dock, or do you want a menu system?  They're two different things.

If you want a replacement dock program for AmiDock (that might use less memory), there's some good suggestions in this thread:  http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=63532

Title: Re: Workbench Menu system?
Post by: rockape on April 27, 2016, 07:49:17 PM

Hi punkyclown,

As acill said Magic Menu should do the job.

Magic Menu ver 2.3 works on all my Amigas.

See  https://sourceforge.net/projects/magicmenu/

For Magic Menu.

And

To enhance that there is also Tools Daemon.

See  http://ftp://de.aminet.net/pub/aminet/util/boot/ToolsDaemon22.lha

The above ToolsDaemon has been worked for use with AOS ver 3.9 however it works fine on AOS ver 3 and 3.1


Regards, Michael

aka rockape

Title: Re: Workbench Menu system?
Post by: guest11527 on April 27, 2016, 09:01:10 PM

Quote from: punkyclown;807639

So is there a decent working, easy to install menu system for the Amiga that will save me most of that ram?
Also on the RAR question I did mean on the Amiga and appreciate the feedback.

Try "ToolMenu" from the aminet. Pull it into WBStartup, and create a drawer named "ToolMenu" in SYS: (i.e. your system partition). Every icon you draw into this drawer will appear in the workbench menu, and can be started from there.

Hope this is what you looking for...

Title: Re: Workbench Menu system?
Post by: QuikSanz on April 28, 2016, 02:27:20 AM

@punkyclown,

I seem to remember running into a RAR file. I vaguely recall using ixemul to do it.

Chris

Title: Re: Workbench Menu system?
Post by: punkyclown on May 12, 2016, 09:53:59 PM

Thomas, "ToolMenu" is a winner! Perfect for what I was looking for.
Thanks to all for the advice.
Brad Hansen