BetterWB - release 2.0

[Amigoat]

Hi - my A1200 is still WB 3.0. Will "Better--" work on 3.0?

Thanks.

Ernie

[Gulliver]

Hi - my A1200 is still WB 3.0. Will "Better--" work on 3.0?

Thanks.

Ernie

Hi, yes it should work. I havent tested it though, but I believe there is no 3.1 specific dependency, so give it a shot.

[TheBilgeRat]

Gulliver - your site is down.

[Gulliver]

Thank you for reporting that.

Anyway the person in charge of hosting my site is performing a serve change. Hopefully, everything will be back soon.

[TheBilgeRat]

Thank you for reporting that.

Anyway the person in charge of hosting my site is performing a serve change. Hopefully, everything will be back soon.

Hot diggety dog!  I need to pick your brain on boing bag 3 and 4.  I always seem to hose my install after installing them.

[Gulliver]

BetterWB 2.1 - Minor update

Many cosmetic changes
Installation requires less disks swaps
The fastest Amiga filesystem, PFS3 and its associated tools are now included

http://lilliput.amiga-projects.net/BetterWB.htm

[sledge]

Great to see that you update this package. I will install one of my Amigas today, and it will be using BetterWB.

Something you should include, if it's not already included, is the diskimage device that can mount ADF among other formats and use them as if they are loaded from the df0: directly. Very useful...

[Gulliver]

Something you should include, if it's not already included, is the diskimage device that can mount ADF among other formats and use them as if they are loaded from the df0: directly. Very useful...

Diskimage.device is great, but unfortunately requires a 68020 or better, which is beyond the scope of BetterWB (which is 68000 compatible).
Anyway, thank you for your suggestion.

[Gulliver]

BetterWB 2.2 - Another small update

New Exchange commodity replacement with lots of features (CX)
ToolAlias, added as a new commodity
Replacement for the C:Version command with four digit year field
Pure bit omision corrected on the default 3.1 install

http://lilliput.amiga-projects.net/BetterWB.htm

[TheGoose]

BetterWB 2.2 - Another small update

New Exchange commodity replacement with lots of features (CX)
ToolAlias, added as a new commodity
Replacement for the C:Version command with four digit year field
Pure bit omision corrected on the default 3.1 install

http://lilliput.amiga-projects.net/BetterWB.htm

Nooo I just installed 2.0 on my A1000. Do you keep a change log at the site, with links to what was added? Maybe an update disk could be done?

Thanks again

[Gulliver]

Nooo I just installed 2.0 on my A1000. Do you keep a change log at the site, with links to what was added? Maybe an update disk could be done?

Thanks again

No need to worry

If you didnt modify your startup-sequence after the 2.0 install, Just put 2.2 on top of 2.0.

If not, just backup the startup-sequence, and then re-apply it after putting 2.2 on top of 2.0.

[Gulliver]

BetterWB 2.3 - The bugfix update - 25.08.2011

Macintosh floppy format (HFS) and proper mountlist (MAC0) implementation
Highly enahnced and optimised cdrom filesystem with many new features such as: Long filename support, Macintosh HFS, multiple session, hybrid (audio+data), and iso 9660 cdrom support
Rexxsyslib.library got bugfixed (WaitDosPacket)
Mathieeedoubbas.library has now the MathIEEE comparision fixed that was broken in its earlier version
IPrefs features now an increased stack to avoid stack overflows when loading worbkench backdrop pictures
Mfm.device got a stack increase to avoid problems with some programs
New and powerfull workbench system format

http://lilliput.amiga-projects.net/BetterWB.htm

[XDelusion]

First and Odamex update, and now this!

What a great day for me thus far!

[Reptile]

This sounds really interesting.
My machine is an A500-Plus mind, so I won't waste my breath asking if it will work. But would love to see some screenshots if any are available.

[Gulliver]

BetterWB 2.4 - 20.10.2011

-Some minor components got updated
-Compact disk player with lots of great features (ACDPlay)
-SetJoyPort is a program that improves the chances of using a CD32 style joypad with all games
-ClickNot commodity prevents floppy drives from issuing those excessive clicking sounds
-Break command can now accept multiple targets, find a program by CLI number, command or task name, etc
-Copy command has increased its functionality quite a lot
-Sort command uses standard I/O channels as a default, which makes Sort quite useful in I/O pipes. It will sort as much text as fits in your RAM
-Join command has been heavily enhanced and includes lots of new options
-Avail command now has a few more options

As usual, you can grab it from http://lilliput.amiga-projects.net/BetterWB.htm

@Reptile
Sorry for the late reply.
BetterWB is not designed for eye candy, there is nothing remarkable to be "seen", as it bares a high resemblance with a default 3.1 system from a visual standpoint.
Most of the changes, and there are quite a lot, are internal and mean more stability, bugfixes and enhancements to AmigaOS.
It is just a better Workbench than 3.1. Just read its feature list on its webpage and you may have a better understanding of it.

[TheGoose]

Thanks Gulliver for keeping it going. :hammer: