Your Top 3 Favourite & Most Used Amiga Utils....

[Franko]

@ Brian

Searching right now, I'll pm you when I find it...

Dirwork 2.1 was a vast improvement over earlier versions and is just a tad bigger but it's entirely self contained and only requires a small configuration file that you create with it's configuration editor...

Like I say it's way more configurable and flexible than DOpus and I often wonder why it never caught on as much by Amiga users...

[TiredOLife]

It's on CU Amiga Cover CD17

I'll give it a try now.

[Franko]

It's on CU Amiga Cover CD17

I'll give it a try now.

Forgot to mention...

The original DirWork Ver 2.1 has a major flaw... :eek:

It can only handle filenames & path of up to 256 characters. The author at the time this was written (about 94) obviously thought that this was more than enough (and it was for the time) but with CDs/DVDs and bigger HDs path names kinda grew in some cases to really silly lengths which DirWork Ver 2.1 cant handle....

Solution- I disassembled it years ago into it's source code and fixed this bug and the version I now have can handle the longest filenames/ pathnames you can throw at it...

I doubt it would be ok for me to give away this version as it was after all a commercial product but I suppose I could  write a patch that would solve the problem by patching the original to the bug fixed version I use...

If anyone is interested in using DirWork and thinks it would be worthwhile me writing a patch for this bug so you can use it like I do then let me know and I'll start writing a patch for you to fix this bug...

Also if anyone would like my own config file that I use in the video send me a PM with an email address and I'll send you my config file and my own font sets that I use to give it the look it has in the video...

[mechy]

Can't narrow this down to three things... i just can't do it...it can't be done

1> Ibrowse 2.4 - still use this daily.
2>YAM - This handles about half a dozen email addys pointed to it on the A4000
3>Dopus 4x   Cant live without it.

4>Picshow - excellent ppc pic viewer
5>ImageFX 4.5 - quick and handy for so much
6> rc-ftpd - robin c's great ftp server
7>Amirc (and jabberwocky) but i am partial to amirc,always on irc!
8>Apdf
9> miamiDX1.0c - Most of us forget this handy item
10> amitradecenter
11>frying pan for cd/dvd burning
12> makecd - still handy for basic cd burning needs
13> sabre MSN - msn client
14> FXpaint - great under ppc side
15> fxscan - another good ppc scanner prog.
16> WET - for keeping tabs on the weather
17> supertv for watching tv on workbench with the mediator tv card
18> turboprint - couldnt live without this fine prog.
19> twin vnc - amiga VNC client
20>VHIstudio
21>pagestream
22> amplifier
23>whdload

argh! too many more things i use. this list is not in order of importance!
@franko does anyone ever understand you in person )

[Franko]

@ Mechy

Come off it... we could all write a never ending  list of our favourite/ most used Amiga stuff... (that's why I restricted it to 3)...

The locals from the west cost (Glasgow) where I come from understand me no bother but the east coast mob (Edinburgh) have a wee bit of a problem sometimes. Where I live now Livingston is kinda in the middle and so is a mixture of the two...

But since the Scottish Parliament came into being we seem to be getting out numbered by the bloody English Civil Servants who came up here to work and nicked all the jobs...

Good thing though is we can insult the silly buggers all day long and most of them haven't a scooby doo that we're taking the p!ss, they just smile and say "oh really, that's nice"...

[gizz72]

Greetings,

Here's my top three list:
• Dirworks - It works for me whenever I need to flip between windows.
• Argue -. Best GUI maker I use for commands like transadf ,zip, rars and such.. to make life easier, less typing on the cli window.
• AmosPro - Best game maker for me, specially AMAL.. if you consider amospro as a util or a util maker.

Regards,
GiZz72

[mechy]

@ Mechy

Come off it... we could all write a never ending  list of our favourite/ most used Amiga stuff... (that's why I restricted it to 3)...

The locals from the west cost (Glasgow) where I come from understand me no bother but the east coast mob (Edinburgh) have a wee bit of a problem sometimes. Where I live now Livingston is kinda in the middle and so is a mixture of the two...

But since the Scottish Parliament came into being we seem to be getting out numbered by the bloody English Civil Servants who came up here to work and nicked all the jobs...

Good thing though is we can insult the silly buggers all day long and most of them haven't a scooby doo that we're taking the p!ss, they just smile and say "oh really, that's nice"...

haha i couldn't help it franko, i have trouble prioritizing them.Its a bit like asking which of the 4 wheels on your car is most important.
i can imagine that if the english cannot understand you it could be a benefiet!

[lionstorm]

@ Franko : does DW handle archives the way DOPUS does ? thats the most beautifull thing I like in DOPUS (which is non existent in most files managers) being able to browse lha or zip, double clic to see a picture or a text without having to extract the archive first !

[Franko]

@ Franko : does DW handle archives the way DOPUS does ? thats the most beautifull thing I like in DOPUS (which is non existent in most files managers) being able to browse lha or zip, double clic to see a picture or a text without having to extract the archive first !

It actually handles archives for both un-archiving and archiving much better than DOpus due to the fact that you can configure it to use any archiving program on the Amiga...

You could even just create a config file with it solely for the purpose of handling all types of archives that would open up on your WorkBench screen just an easy way to archive or un-archive any files that you have the archiving program for on your Amiga...

Like I say DirWork should thought of more as a highly configurable GUI/ frontend for any program that you can run on an Amiga, it's down to the user to decide on how it appears and just what you want it to do, to me it's the most useful program ever written for the Amiga...

PS: You can launch as many different version of it as you want all at the same time with different config files you create fro different purposes...

[Mugo]

My Top 3 would be:

DirWorks - Yes, it´s amazing. Unfortunately people usually don´t like to get out of their comfort zone, and take the time needed to configure it properly or learn how to do it.

WHDLoad - Come on, unless you consider it a patch (then i´ll have to disagree), it´s absolutely impossible to live without it nowadays.

SnoopDOS - An amazing little tool, so usefull that i use it just to check what i already know is causing me problems ;-) Seriously, i´m also shocked that there´s no program like this in any other platform (except for the Amiga-alike OSes).

Now, talking about your video, man! I´m surprised no one has commented yet about the amazingness of your Workbench! It´s really beatifull! Also your DirWorks configuration is very cool. I would appreciate if you share it. And that patch would be amazing as well!

And talking about sharing, what´s that interface you launch at the end of the video, that lists Amiga games? Can i have it too? :D:D

Seriously, any chance you share your system partition in an HDF file?? Pretty please?!?!

[Thorham]

1) Diro 4.16
2) Diro 4.16
3) Diro 4.16

[Franko]

My Top 3 would be:

DirWorks - Yes, it´s amazing. Unfortunately people usually don´t like to get out of their comfort zone, and take the time needed to configure it properly or learn how to do it.

WHDLoad - Come on, unless you consider it a patch (then i´ll have to disagree), it´s absolutely impossible to live without it nowadays.

SnoopDOS - An amazing little tool, so usefull that i use it just to check what i already know is causing me problems ;-) Seriously, i´m also shocked that there´s no program like this in any other platform (except for the Amiga-alike OSes).

Now, talking about your video, man! I´m surprised no one has commented yet about the amazingness of your Workbench! It´s really beatifull! Also your DirWorks configuration is very cool. I would appreciate if you share it. And that patch would be amazing as well!

And talking about sharing, what´s that interface you launch at the end of the video, that lists Amiga games? Can i have it too? :D:D

Seriously, any chance you share your system partition in an HDF file?? Pretty please?!?!

Yup... all 3 you mention I couldn't be without (especially SnoopDOS, if you aint got that installed on your Amiga then your simply making things hard for yourself)...

Leave it with me regarding DirWork and I'll see what I can do...

The Games Launcher is a small program I wrote myself that'll launch and run any games from HD on my Amiga's, people have asked for it before but to be honest unless you have your Amiga's set up like mine then it would be very difficult to use...

It requires you having a separate partition with all your games in ADF format and archived with LZX and the program simply lets you select your game, unpacks it into RAM: and runs it with WHDLoad or JST or whichever way you have configured it to run from HD...

It's pretty neat but you'd really have to set aside a special partition or dir to hold all your games in and to store saved games & high scores...



This is the one I wrote for launching C64 games on the Amiga

[lsmart]

IconEd
Clock
CycleToMenu
ToolManager

[Retro_71]

Franko i would like a Dir works patch as well.
Also can you take a snap shot of your hard drives (i.e. HDD name and what dirs it has) :lol: i want to try and recreate your Hard drives please.
Many Thanks

[Franko]

Franko i would like a Dir works patch as well.
Also can you take a snap shot of your hard drives (i.e. HDD name and what dirs it has) :lol: i want to try and recreate your Hard drives please.
Many Thanks

Seeing as so many folk have asked here and via PM, I'll write a patch today for DirWork Ver 2.1 and include my config file as used in the video along with the fonts I made which that config requires...

If I were to make a "SnapShot" of my HD's/ Partitions it would be almost 1TB in size so I think that ones out of the question...

[TiredOLife]

Thanks Franko, look forward to trying that.