Your Top 3 Favourite & Most Used Amiga Utils....

[Brian]

1. DOpus 4... can't live without it. Have so many banks of buttons for just about everything.
2. HippoPlayer/EaglePlayer,SmartPlayer... something to play some noise.
3. CygnusED.

Don't know if VirusZ counts cause it's up there too running in the background all the time... SnoopDOS and DiskSalv not used so much but must tools for when things go wrong.

[Brian]

Noticed most folk seem to have DOpus in their list, never liked DOpus meself wasn't as configurable or as flexible as DirWork in my opinion especially the version that sorta let you "replace" workbench...

Reckon if you like the original "FileList Style" version of DOpus you should check out DirWork Ver 2.1 and see just what you can make this wee gem of program do...

I've always felt like it's DirWork that have been the less configurable solution of the two but seeing your video it seem to be able to be configured more than I thought (can you have more buttons though?). Likely it's due to me comparing DOpus4.x with DW1.6 but that's cause I've not been able to find DW2.1 as a free download (does it exist?).

Likely it's a question of what you're familiar with and I think you'll have a hard time convincing die hard DOpus fans to replace it with DW and vice versa (though I've used DW1.6 on "rescue disks" due to it's small footprint).

[Brian]

I'm pretty sure it was given away free at a later date on a magazine coverdisk/cd at some point (can't remember which but I'll find out)....

Yes please :-D

You can have as many or as few buttons as you like in DirWork and they can be placed horizontally or vertically or anywhere you choose in fact. DirWork can be a window that opens at any size on your Workbench screen or it can open on it's own screen with whichever number of colours you choose...

Looks like I've missed something, belive it might be due to I've looked at an older version. Will have to take another look at it if you find me a copy or info on how I can obtain it for free (maybe on one of many CoverCD's I got) but I've used DOpus forever so I doubt it can be more than a complement. Does 2.1 retain the small footprint of earlier versions?

[Brian]

Does anyone have a manual or a like for DirWork 2.1?