Free Magellan!

[MaximvsPayne]

übercool!!!

lets start a bounty!

[brownb2]

übercool!!!

lets start a bounty!

I prefer a Snickers, chewier and a bit nutty.

[hceline]

This is a bounty I would support, even if I could not really afford it!

[XDelusion]

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!

[Gulliver]

@develin
This is indeed great, have you contacted contacted Power2People?
Lets get this thing rolling. I can provide the initial donation required to start a bounty
Go, go , go...

[Andre.Siegel]

@ Gulliver

Power2People contacted GPSoft on February 17. There appear to be several interested parties.

[Gulliver]

@Andre.Siegel

Thank you! I am glad they did. I hope the bounty is generated soon!

Cheers, and thank you for your work over there

[brownb2]

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!

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.

[kolla]

Interesting...

From the interview:

We then assigned a licence to Andreas Loong of Guru Meditation in late 2004. This was a licence to further develop the product with a three year time limit on producing a new version. While GM invested in work on the project it never came to fruition so the licence reverted back to us.

So how then, could Guru Meditation allow the inclusion of DOpus in AmiKit? Does Andreas Loong still think he owns it?

[spihunter]

I think it's a unlicensed version in Amikit. It has a nag requestor on every boot.

Interesting...

From the interview:


So how then, could Guru Meditation allow the inclusion of DOpus in AmiKit? Does Andreas Loong still think he owns it?

[Franko]

Who's Magellan and what has he/she been wrongly imprisoned for !!!

Back in the day we used to chant "Free Nelson Mandela"...

[TheBilgeRat]

Who's Magellan and what has he/she been wrongly imprisoned for !!!

Back in the day we used to chant "Free Nelson Mandela"...

I think this thread is just a subtle way for all the Portuguese amiga users to spam us :lol:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Magellan

[kolla]

What are those things I can't think of a single one?

How do you sync any given number of folders using OSX or Windows, or even Ubuntu, from the desktop? How do you make "magic" hotkeys on those systems so that if you press a given key while copying images, those images are also converted, scaled or whatever you like in the same process? How do you build a player application with queue list on those systems? How do you group icons of different types and functions on the desktop of them? There is just so many things you can do with Directory Opus Magellan and ARexx that is not only impossible with OSX/Windows/Any given *ix desktop, they are concepts that noone have even thought of on those platforms.

Directory Opus Magellan is the one Desktop this is _not_ for "most users", it would just be a dream come true to see it become open source so we finally at least can get the most obvious flaws worked on (support for large devices/filesystems, true colour support) and have much better integration in for example MorphOS, perhaps even have AROS port - that would be excellent!

[number6]

Interesting...

From the interview:


So how then, could Guru Meditation allow the inclusion of DOpus in AmiKit? Does Andreas Loong still think he owns it?

Jan probably should update his text. Since the link to GuruMeditation is dead, it's more likely this is just a matter of housekeeping needed on Amikit's part.

#6

[kolla]

Jan probably should update his text. Since the link to GuruMeditation is dead, it's more likely this is just a matter of housekeeping needed on Amikit's part.

Dead?

[kolla]

There appear to be several interested parties.

Really? Who? Some certain MorphOS developers? I hope not.