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

[swift240]

For me well hmmmmmmm let me see now.............

1:- Dopus 4.17

2:- Dpaint IV

3:- Amplifier

If this went up to 6 then its............

4:- PageStream 3.0

5:- FinalWriter 97

6:- IBrowse for any HTML

Mike.

[xeron]

1. Simplemail
2. Codebench
3. AmiUpdate

Mostly I'm just coding when i'm at the Amiga.

[Franko]

Noticed most folk seem to have DOpus in their list, never liked DOpus meself wasn't as configurable or as flexible as DirWork in my opinion especially the version that sorta let you "replace" workbench...

Reckon if you like the original "FileList Style" version of DOpus you should check out DirWork Ver 2.1 and see just what you can make this wee gem of program do...

[paul1981]

1. Multiview
2. Clock
3. More

[Franko]

1. Multiview
2. Clock
3. More

2 & 3... :eek: You're having a laugh aint ya... (I hope)... :eek:

[MobbyG]

Well, here are mine:

1. DirOpus - I mean, it was so simple to use and create buttons!
2. SnoopDOS - Where was it hanging up again? OH YEAH!!
3. LHA and LHZ - I knew the command lines backwards and forwards. Ask me now and you'll get a blank stare.

[redfox]

On my OS4 system I use the following ...
Web browser ... currently use OWB the most
Editor ... NotePad
Word Processor ... Final Writer 97

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redfox

[djrikki]

OS4 user here.

Filer
OWB
Jack (shameless plug ;p)

[Pentad]

Back in the day I loved:

1. cmon (the BEST monitor I thought)
2. Disk Master
3. LHA

-P

[Azryl]

Mine are

1. Brilliance2.0 for pixel art
2. SID directory utility
3. AsmOne for 68k programming

Az

[Brian]

Noticed most folk seem to have DOpus in their list, never liked DOpus meself wasn't as configurable or as flexible as DirWork in my opinion especially the version that sorta let you "replace" workbench...

Reckon if you like the original "FileList Style" version of DOpus you should check out DirWork Ver 2.1 and see just what you can make this wee gem of program do...

I've always felt like it's DirWork that have been the less configurable solution of the two but seeing your video it seem to be able to be configured more than I thought (can you have more buttons though?). Likely it's due to me comparing DOpus4.x with DW1.6 but that's cause I've not been able to find DW2.1 as a free download (does it exist?).

Likely it's a question of what you're familiar with and I think you'll have a hard time convincing die hard DOpus fans to replace it with DW and vice versa (though I've used DW1.6 on "rescue disks" due to it's small footprint).

[Retro_71]

1. DirOpus 4.22 and i have every button filled up.. super configed
2. Diskwiz used to be ADFBlitz but Blitz doesn't have error checking
3. WHDLoad Games, Games and more games.

Tried Dirworks but didn't like it.. sorry Franko.. :lol:
speaking of which can you send me your DVD writing tools please.

[TiredOLife]

@Franko

Just watched the video of DirWork.
Looks pretty similar to DOpus.
Everything you did using DirWork could just as easily be done with DOpus.
It didn't seem any better.
It didnt seem a worse either for that matter.

If DOpus didn't exist, I would happily use DirWork.

[Franko]

@ Brian

DirWork 2.1 was a commercial product sold by Chris Hames of Quaser Products (Australia) way back in 94. I'm pretty sure it was given away free at a later date on a magazine coverdisk/cd at some point (can't remember which but I'll find out)....

You can have as many or as few buttons as you like in DirWork and they can be placed horizontally or vertically or anywhere you choose in fact. DirWork can be a window that opens at any size on your Workbench screen or it can open on it's own screen with whichever number of colours you choose...

You can use DirWork in a way that you can't with DOpus, for example you could configure DirWork to be an app or game launcher on you're Workbench screen as it's down to the person using it just what you want it to do or how you want it to look...

DirWork would be best thought of as a GUI or frontend for any program or app you want on the Amiga and not just a file manager...


@ Retro_71

My DVD burning tools have been on AmiNet for the past year...
They might not work on your set up though as they were really only written for my own use but you can give them a try...

ADVDutils on AmiNet

[Brian]

I'm pretty sure it was given away free at a later date on a magazine coverdisk/cd at some point (can't remember which but I'll find out)....

Yes please :-D

You can have as many or as few buttons as you like in DirWork and they can be placed horizontally or vertically or anywhere you choose in fact. DirWork can be a window that opens at any size on your Workbench screen or it can open on it's own screen with whichever number of colours you choose...

Looks like I've missed something, belive it might be due to I've looked at an older version. Will have to take another look at it if you find me a copy or info on how I can obtain it for free (maybe on one of many CoverCD's I got) but I've used DOpus forever so I doubt it can be more than a complement. Does 2.1 retain the small footprint of earlier versions?

[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...