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Re: Magellan licensed for AmigaOS 4.0
« on: April 01, 2002, 08:01:18 PM »
Choice is always good when it comes to software. However, consider the following:

Point 1: Dopus5 is much, much, *much* more powerful than workbench or opus4: more powerful in almost every way. It makes using an Amiga a much nicer experience, whether you are a beginner or an advanced user. It is much better than the many utils used to prop up WB, such as deficons and suchlike. If you say you tried Dopus once and didn't like it, please try it again. It is my honest and heartfelt opinion that no-one in their right mind could prefer wb or d4 over dopus5, having used both for a long while. I think you just haven't given it a chance. You might be pleasantly surprised!

Point2: Dopus5 can be set up to look like and act like the workbench, or even opus4, if you so desire.

Point3: Dopus5 isn't bloated. It comes on one floppy disk (with an optional add-on disk). It also uses less RAM while in operation than wb3.9. It is a little slower, it must be said, than WB; but under a native PPC port, are you likely to notice?

Direct integration of dopus into OS4 would improve the Amiga user environment enormously. Giving the choice would probably make dopus as it is now - having too many patches into the OS just to work.
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Re: Magellan licensed for AmigaOS 4.0
« Reply #1 on: April 02, 2002, 04:17:23 PM »
C'mon, this is the 21st century. All of these things you mentioned as bloated or sucking memory are clockspring tight compared to modern OS's like Linux and XP. And a difference of 200KB seems rather less significant when computers are now being sold with 512MB of RAM.

If you use a plain vinilla 1993-style Amiga setup, that's completely up to you, but you are certainly missing a lot.

PS: Reaction gadgets are hardly ugly. And at least they aren't nearly as bloated or unstable as a certain other Amiga GUI system if could mention...