Disk Master Clone

[Daniele]

Hello Guys

I am looking a program to move,copy file and enter into directories like Total Commander for PC bcoz the only Disk Master I got for Amiga and it's the V2.1 seems not working when I click upon device and directories.

Any Advice?

Thanks in advance!

Amiga Rulez!

[Brian]

I'd cuse either DOpus, DirOpus or DirectoryOpus. v4.17 Pre 21 is nice although 4.12 will probably do it and will likely be less buggy (I actually ended up using 4.17 with the 4.12 DOpus_disk modules and left some specific program preferences alone to get around some bugs I was experiencing).

[Ilwrath]

Why not just try the new version of Disk Master?

(BTW, that link is a bit hard to find, Rudi could use some search-engine optimization. ;-) )

[amigean]

for a no-frills approach you can also look at DirWork:

http://aminet.net/util/dir/DirWork162.lzh

Version 2.0 went shareware, but AFAIR it was given away with some amiga mag back in the day...

[arkpandora]

You can find Directory Opus here : http://dopus.free.fr/download.php.

[Amiduffer]

Ilwrath wrote:
Why not just try the new version of Disk Master?

(BTW, that link is a bit hard to find, Rudi could use some search-engine optimization. ;-) )

By the way, I've tried the new version 2.7 or so, and its got some bugs in it which Rudolph is working on. A safe and relatively unbuggy version is 2.5. When he gets the problems worked out, it going to be more easy to modify than the old script method.

[motrucker]

Go with the DM2 link and get the newer version. It's an excellent program.

[stopthegop]

Here here to that.  DM is much better than Opus, imho.  

[Brian]

In the genaral setup I'd guess they are pritty even matched but once you've configged your 3-6 banks of buttons and custom banks to all your nice little CLI commands, Arexx scripts to your programs etc and configured all your filetypes there's simply nothing like DOpus imho.

Then of cause I can see some people preffer one applications layout but the power of DOpus isn't in it's layout (although I like it).

[A4000_Mad]

Yep! Once you've got your buttons configured Directory Opus 4 is "Probably the best program in the world"  :pint:  :pint:  :pint:

A4000 Mad

[Brian]

Glad someone's in my boat. I for a long time used to have DOpus4.12 startup on boot... had all my stuff configed... had multiple banks of buttons to start my differen WB programs aswell so didn't need to use Workbench for about anything. Nowadays I've cut back some... still uses DOpus for ALOT of stuff but doesn't use it as a "workbench replacement" anymore.

Also to rock the boat a little (many boats coming tonight) I preferr the 4.12/4.17 version over 5.x... have Magellan CD aswell as Magellan Extras CD but they are hardly ever at work, can honestly say I can't remember when I last used 5.x.

[Brian]

No one with me on this DOpus4 better than DOpus5?

[gazgod]

Personally never got on with Dopus but by the time I tried it I was already used to Dirwork1.6.
I have been using Dirwork2 for about 13 years.
The only bad thing about it is the config editor, moving the buttons about is a pain especially when I decided to increase the screen res to 800x600.  
It even works well under Morphos.

Gary

[Tenacious]

I never tried Dopus5.xx.  I didn't want to pay for it and I didn't want to 'replace' Workbench.

Dopus 4.1x is the most sophisticated dirutil that I've used, it is still my main workhorse.  I have used other utils listed below.  I like sampling other peoples config files to learn new tricks.  Grin

Warning: repeated message follows.

Clickdos II: small and light, configured with a text file, nowhere near as sophisticated as Dopus.

Ordering: optimized in assembler, easy-graphical configuration, much faster than Dopus especially when running at 7 Mhz, very nearly as flexible as Dopus (customizable menus, buttons, datatypes, etc), better looking than Dopus, small resource footprint.  I still use this one too. Has a minor bug on disk sizes, I ignore it.

[McVenco]

Brian wrote:
No one with me on this DOpus4 better than DOpus5?

Absolutely. DOpus5 was a nightmare. DOpus4 is THE most useful tool I ever used on my Amiga. It also was the first program I installed when I bought my A1200HD last year. CLI is nice, but DOPus is sooooooo easy :-)