Magellan licensed for AmigaOS 4.0

[Kaminari]

Dr Greg Perry stated on the official Opus 5 mailing list:

"We are pleased to have come to an arrangement whereby Hyperion are able to continue the development of Directory Opus for OS4.0. Hyperion are an ideal company with the knowledge, expertise and enthusiasm to migrate Directory Opus to the PPC software and OS4.0."

[Chathurawind]

but it dosent say much about what will happen to it! will it be intergrated into the OS? will we have a choice NOT to use it? etc! anyone know more on this subject?

4pLaY - to bored to register yet again...  :-?

[System]

They should integrate Magellan with any new OS. And with integrate I don't mean just adding it on the cd.

[System]

Why would anyone choose not to run Magellan? :-?

[System]

Yeay!....I was hoping my Magellen 2 disks would work, but i`m guessing if its going to be part of the new OS, it's going to be even better!.

Way!!!

~Betajaen :-D  :-D  :-D  :-D  :-D  :-D  :-D  :-D

[Chathurawind]

Why? ive tired it several times and i REALY HATE it! im in love with V4.x! and im sure im always will be! so to be able to choose it or not is an important feature for me and im sure other also! if not hyperion does something with it that makes me like it but i doubt it will happen in OS4.0 at least.

4pLaY!

[Chathurawind]

yeah.. i hated it too at first.. but after i configured it like i want, and used it for a while i couldn't live without it.. the idea with listers is really great and so on..

[carls]

[color=0000FF]Why? ive tired it several times and i REALY HATE it! im in love with V4.x![/color]

I agree. I think Magellan is kind of bloated. The Workbench UI is small and fast an this is what makes it so usable. Magellan feels too much like Windows (and I really don't like the Explorer). What I'd rather see is the kind of multi-lister windows available in NeXTStep and MacOS X.

[KrasH]

Hello There,

I agree.. If it wasn't for Dopus Magellin, life would be alot harder that's for sure.. One of the reasons why I still use my Amiga 4000 on a regular basis. Opus 6 on my windblows boxes is one reason that makes that OS a little more barable.. Much more powerful and intuitive to use than windblows explorer (which for some stupid reason, I have to learn to use for my Network Engineering Diploma). Oh well would be interesting to install it on one of the lab computers and show the teachers that there's an easier and better way.. :-)

[scorchio]

I use the words "look at the big picture" quite often, and I think we should all take a step back here and perhaps like me, we should all see this as productive (rather than the odd negative comment i have seen).

What we are seeing now, are elements of the community forming "strategic" partnerships.

In the long term, i think this is a damn good thing, I don't see there being any point with random OS's being made competing with OSx.0, DE etc, this partnership only stands to  help bring balance and stability in a pretty shaky envirnoment.

[redrumloa]

I agree. I think Magellan is kind of bloated. The Workbench UI is small and fast an this is what makes it so usable. Magellan feels too much like Windows (and I really don't like the Explorer).

I couldn't DISagree with you more! The *ONLY* thing that slowed down Magellan with it's depency on ChipRAM. With regular WB you can use WB2FAST or TweakWB etc to mostly disable the S_L_O_W ChipRAM access, but this wasn't possible on Magellan.

I ended up not buying Magellan for this one reason, I'm a speed freak. There will be no ChipRAM on the AmigaOne so it will FLY. I was always very impressed with DOPUS, especially Magellan.

[Rodney]

Well, thats nice. I went to Opus 6 site today, and had a look at Opus 6 for windows and Magellan for Windows...

Looks less then $#@!, i must say... I couldnt understand why it looks so, ummm.. hrmmm. i dont want to say bad things about them, but you know! didnt look all that eyecandy to me. But it did seem to have some nice features.

I would also be good to know weather Opus is going to replace workbench or what!! Infact that leads to my next question. I know what workbench is, but not technicaly.

Is workbench Intuition/Reaction and heaps of other things all grouped into one?

Or is it just a desktop that sits on top of all these other things and API's to provide the desktop feel? - i think its my second choice.

So in that case Opus would not replace Intuition and all that, just the workbench!! - its freak;n weird...

I wish they would tell us, as they just about have told us everything else.

My view on 3rd party apps is not a good one. In that, i dont believe Opus 6 should be used in AmigaOS, unless there is a choice to remove it. That is, workbench should be default and if we want something else, Opus is there for that reason.

From all this talk, im starting to feel AmigaOS is a very very modular system. Everything can be pulled out, and yanked replaced or put back in again, is this the right way to look at it?

[redrumloa]

Well, thats nice. I went to Opus 6 site today, and had a look at Opus 6 for windows and Magellan for Windows...

Bad example, DOPUS for windows is a completely different beast. Dopus for Amiga retains the WB atmosphere but adds alot of functionality.

[System]

>I would also be good to know weather Opus is going to replace workbench or what!!
>Infact that leads to my next question. I know what workbench is, but not technicaly.

I'm going to contradict what I posted on another thread:)It sounds as though Dopus
isn't going to be part of OS4,just that Hyperion will update Dopus so that it takes
advantage of the ppc and it is compatable with OS4.Either way(part of OS4 or not),
I'm just glad that I'll be able to still use Dopus in the future:)

[Crispy_Beef]

I think people are freaking out about this too much, DOpus on Amiga has always been about choice.

You could use it as a complete WB replacement, or just a file manager.  I always went with the file manager option, as I wanted my system to boot faster for other things, and only use DOpus when I needed it.  As long as this choice remains then all will be cool.

At the end of the day that's what we all want right, choice?