Free Magellan!

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Oh... that would be the day!

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I like boobs, just for the note.

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I would MOST CERTAINLY chip in.

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I'm poor too, but I'd do what I could, especially when it comes to one of the greatest pieces of software ever to grace the Amiga. I understand Magellan has failed to impress everyone, but  as for me, when I was running Amiga in the 90's and sized it up to Windows 95...

...well it made me feel quite superior and wise in my choice of computer hardware and software. And still yet today, I am able to do things that even Windows 7, and Mac OS X still don't offer, I.E. being a complex filing system that is capable of SOOOO MANY things, and yet uses up so few system resources. It's fast, it is responsive, highly configurable, and it's FTP friendly!

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What are those things I can't think of a single one? Probably best open a new thread to reply as this is a bit offtop
IMHO Windows and Ubuntu really surpassed the Amiga mark around 2002/Windows XP - that's being generous, a lot of people think Windows 98/2000. I blame the Amiga magazines for the inferiority complex/delusion (no pun intended) and that made readers think that the Amiga was somehow technically superior to a 128MB PIII 500 with 32 channel sound and a 32MB 3D card because the Amiga could multitask back in 1985. It's like saying the Ford T first pushed 15 MPH and had no complex parts it's the best and simplest car - it the original, but not the best, since we've improved on the design.

1: I can quickly and smoothly navigate my folders without the random pauses that Microsoft is so keen on.

2. I can double click on the desktop to access my drivers.

3. I can open up an FTP site as a drive.

4. No Explorer crashes.

5. I don't need much more than 4Mb of RAM to do this.

6. I can totally configure my file types to be double click, right click, or interactive with a button.

7. There's more I'm sure.

Granted, OS X or Windows can probably emulate a few of these features with a concoction of 3rd party software (I.E. Dopus), but it ain't no where near the same as on an Amiga, just slower, bulkier, and less responsive, and out right impossible on a machine with the same specs of an Amiga.

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What are those things I can't think of a single one? Probably best open a new thread to reply as this is a bit offtop
IMHO Windows and Ubuntu really surpassed the Amiga mark around 2002/Windows XP - that's being generous, a lot of people think Windows 98/2000. I blame the Amiga magazines for the inferiority complex/delusion (no pun intended) and that made readers think that the Amiga was somehow technically superior to a 128MB PIII 500 with 32 channel sound and a 32MB 3D card because the Amiga could multitask back in 1985. It's like saying the Ford T first pushed 15 MPH and had no complex parts it's the best and simplest car - it the original, but not the best, since we've improved on the design.

You have to remember that Magellan2 is much more than just a file manager. It replaces whole desktop and thus brings lots of other functions too.

For example icon positioning: you can draw areas where icons will appear on desktop and give priorities to them. Like "appicons go there and when it's filled they go there, while drive icons appear here".

Very configureable startmenus to launch everything. You can have multiple instances of them and positioned anywhere. As well as user configurable screen pulldown menus.

Global hotkeys which work everywhere, not just when program itself is activated. You can do anything with them, not just filemanagement things. Launch apps, scripts, internal functions, anything.

Windows in icon mode are improved from Workbench ones (better scrolling, caching, font styles etc), as well as icon information windows etc. You don't have to use zillion patches & commodities like with WB.

Better background image settings with randoming, scaling etc.

Very comprehensive function editor makes possible to do anything with consistent way no matter if you want it happening with pulldown menus, startmenus, button banks, hotkeys, double clicking, context menus, automated script on certain event (disk insert for example). Drag&drop works almost anywhere if you want to copy functions to different places etc. Drag site from ftp address book for example to starmenu or hotkey for easy connecting.. no problem.

Extensive arexx and modules system lets you expand the program endlessly and there's tens if not hundreds 3rd party modules available to add all kinds of features. For example copy/cut/paste functionality known from Windows for files.

And of course filemanagement itself and lister handling options are way more comprehensive than with anything else on Amiga at least. In-line editing for example. You can edit filenames, dates, times, protection bits, comments etc just in the lister just like you'd be in the text editor (even go up/down without having to select new files) <3 Good file find and string search options. Pattern renaming. Recursive attribute applying. Nice internal hex viewers etc. Internal ftp and archive browsing. File name or path copying. And lots of other stuff which would need more time to write, here's just couple came in my mind


Magellan2's integration on the desktop makes it really unique. You don't use separate program, you just use your solid system without needing to give a think for it. You have the freedom to open as many listers as you want and resize them for each need. No need to browse back and forth and swap dirs constantly like on two view managers. You can even copy from one source to several destinations at once. I feel pretty claustrophobic with static two view managers nowadays.

And what he said! Great points!

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brownb2: Do you mean to say that you can double click on the desktop to access your drives in Windows, or that you can just put short cuts to the drives as icons and click on those? If you are talking about the latter, I'm aware of that. It's the idea of not having to have any icons that I really like, though that's not to say I don't have a couple short cuts to games sitting there.