Tour of D Opus 4 and other Amiga Directory Tools
81Lets take a look at DOpus 4 and the Directory Tools I have from my old hard drive. Some of these may not be too familiar to most people.
You can find a link to my setup below. (See bottom for installation)
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1S9p3-V_s7rIZXodqEpo8LSO-qeHIWkfv
Production Notes:
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Recorded: Monday 19th Aug 2019
Narrated: (Separately) - Monday 19th Aug 2019
Music arranged: - Monday 19th Aug 2019
I've wanted to do more shows on classic Amiga tools in the past, such as hard drive recovery, disk recovery, screen mode mods, etc, but never found the time. I've managed to preserved my extensive collection of commands, libraries, and tools from back in the day, although now I use it under emulation. Here is my first port of call when I load up my Amiga, Directory Opus. I think a lot of people swear by the later V5 and V6 releases, and still to this day I use a registered V12 on my home desktop PC, but for me there is nothing which beats V4. So I thought it was time to check out a few dir tools in this vid, and also the setup I've used with my Dir Opus since I got it - way back on the CU Amiga cover disk.
I wasnt in to Opus at all until a friend showed me an early version. I was used to using AmigUtil II - a handy tool I found on a disk by accident. Back then I always searched disks for hidden tools, and often there was a bit of gold like that hidden away. Opus seemed ugly; with its crazy collection of coloured buttons all over the place, blank gaps, and small lister windows. It was also a system hog, and I didnt start to think about using it until I got my Derringer 030 card and the extra memory. The first thing I did was customise it to more like how I normally had a directory set up, with larger windows, and less racks of buttons. I added my normal CLI tools as extra buttons, and expanded the archive extraction tools to include LZX. Its basically stayed that way since, however, I added Mostra recently after I rediscovered this tool.
The download package includes the CU Amiga release, plus my config, in the S directory. I put as many commands as I could find attached to DOpus in the C directory, although the AZSpell was not part of this and is a separate package along with striphtml. I included my own HTML cleanup script under **Cleanup**, but its very basic.
Installation
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Please by very careful when installing not to overwrite later versions of commands or libraries. For example, the C directory may contain older commands than you currently have. The commands in C are not needed to initially launch the installer, and the installer should only install the basics, not the extra Commands and Libraries, so you'll have to do it manually. Always check the date stamps and file size before you overwrite file, as larger and newer files are often better. There is also a 'Version' command (and library) which can help you check the versions of files.
If doing a manual installation, you must assign Dopus to where you have it located, usually by adding a line to your startup or user-startup like this:
C:Assign Dopus: "xx" - with xx being the location, e.g. "Dh0:Tools/Dopus4.12"
C:run c:dopusrt
Video
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I recorded this in one go, and then a few hours later narrated it - and then cut out my flubs over the next few days. I planned to release this much later, but when I heard the video, it felt very quiet, so I came up with a backing track from a set of mods. More on that in my next video tomorrow, when I post the soundtrack, and mods to download. As this weekend (24th-25th Aug 2019) is supposed to be the last hot day of the year in the UK, I decided to upload the music this weekend - and therefore this Opus video had to be released along with it.
Watch out for NEW game reviews happening at the end of September, and Special shows up to the festive season, so I hope you can join me for those. Stay tuned..