Magellan

[Solid Snake]

Now, before everyone thinks I mean DOpus...NO. I saw this application listed under utils in an Amiga Format supplement 'The best of the Amiga 1991' (free with issue 27/Oct'91).

It is described as an expert system: basically, a very sophisticated database which you teach certain facts and you are later able to interrogate it by asking simple questions, whereupon it will draw conclusions. Fascinating (as Spock would exclaim)

This sounds like a great teaching aid. Anyone come across it? If anyone has it can they please put it in the zone. Many thanks.

[mully]

Did this application ever turn up? I could not find it on the disks for the Amiga Format #27 1991 supplement above. There was an article about in in Amazing Computing Dec 1988 but no scan found yet.

Googling also turned up a manual addendum and a supplement but not the original manual - see
ftp://arnold.c64.org/bombjack.org/co...l_Addendum.pdf
ftp://arnold.c64.org/bombjack.org/co...kit_Manual.pdf

Does anyone know what language Magellan was based on - Prolog maybe?
Maybe someone has it lurking and could load it into the zone please? Thanks

[mully]

Update: Paul Overaa reviewed Magellan (Publisher Emerald Intelligence) in AUI Vol 3 No 1 (Jan 1989) but no scan at http://amr.abime.net/review_15840 .

[Solid Snake]

Its nearly 6 years since my original post on this topic!

Has no-one come across "Magellan" for the Amiga?

Another contender for Amiga Apps That Weren't.....

[gulliver]

Hey, here it is. You can buy it and share it with the rest of us

http://www.ebay.ph/itm/VINTAGE-AMIGA...item519dec5958

It is too expensive on shipping for me

[tomse]

I'm in the process of scanning the manuals which I got in a box with other books. Unfortunately there weren't any software with this.

The software was developed by Emerald Intelligence.
and the version of the package I have here is v1.1.

If anyone has this software, scans and dumps of the disk is highly requested.

[gulliver]

I believe it has been recently added to TOSEC.
There is a recent post somewhere in EAB about this.

[tomse]

hi gulliver.

yeah, thats only disk 1 of 2 of version 1.0, I did see the thread ;-)

[emufan]

another treasure hunt is over, i would say:

Magellan 1.1 (1989)(Emerald Intelligence)(Disk 1 of 3).dms
Magellan 1.1 (1989)(Emerald Intelligence)(Disk 2 of 3).dms
Magellan 1.1 (1989)(Emerald Intelligence)(Disk 3 of 3).dms

i found them on the Softgallo Collection provided by D4Ni3L3 - thanks again mate

uploaded to the zone (Magellan 1.1 (1989)(Emerald Intelligence)-not.yet.in.TOSEC.zip)

edit: it's a 3 disk version, zoned uploaded replaced

[Solid Snake]

Sterling work emufan. Thank you and everyone involved in the hunt for this application. It took 8 years, but hey it finally arrived, and thats what counts!

[emufan]

Originally Posted by Solid Snake

Sterling work emufan. Thank you and everyone involved in the hunt for this application. It took 8 years, but hey it finally arrived, and thats what counts!

np, I'm glad I could find it - now we need to wait for the manual, tomse is scanning

[Solid Snake]

Found a link to the manuals...

www.retro-commodore.eu/amiga-software/

[emufan]

Originally Posted by Solid Snake

Found a link to the manuals...

thanks

edit: Bombjack has some more documents for version 1.1 ( look in Applications ):
Magellan_V1.1_Function_Keys.pdf
Magellan_V1.1_Manual_Addendum.pdf
Magellan_V1.1_Read-Me-First_and_Warrenty.pdf
Magellan_V1.1_Toolkit_Manual.pdf

[tomse]

way to go emufan!!

but the hunt is not over..

Disk 2 of version 1.0 is still missing.

and preferably diskette/label scans (600dpi png)

And to make things clear
What bomjack has on his site extra is the Warranty card.
Though I have box scans, the full manual, manual addendum 1.0.
I do think I have the warrenty card as well + registration card.
Though it's good for preservation, I didn't add it to the site yet.. it might come if I start making some redesign

@solid snake, just look at my signture ;-)

[studio460]

Magellan 1.1 from Emerald Intelligence:

Originally Posted by emufan

another treasure hunt is over, i would say:

Magellan 1.1 (1989)(Emerald Intelligence)(Disk 1 of 3).dms
Magellan 1.1 (1989)(Emerald Intelligence)(Disk 2 of 3).dms
Magellan 1.1 (1989)(Emerald Intelligence)(Disk 3 of 3).dms

Woohoo! Thank you, emufan! I've been looking for these disks FOREVER! I used to own a licensed copy of the software in the 1990s, but sold my Amiga 2000HD + Toaster for a good price and included all the Amiga software I had.

Has anyone downloaded/installed this? I remember from my Amiga A2000HD that it would only run on 1.3 ROMs, not with upgraded 3.1 ROMs installed. Maybe that's the reason this thread has no updates? This is the only reason I just bought a used A1200 with 3.0 ROMs.

Originally Posted by tomse

. . . but the hunt is not over..

Disk 2 of version 1.0 is still missing . . .

When I originally bought Magellan it was already in 1.1 (I never saw an earlier version at retail). Is there a reason anyone would need version 1.0 disks?

[studio460]

Originally Posted by Solid Snake

Now, before everyone thinks I mean DOpus...NO. I saw this application listed under utils in an Amiga Format supplement 'The best of the Amiga 1991' (free with issue 27/Oct'91).

It is described as an expert system . . .

Yes, OFTEN confused with "Opus Magellan" (i.e., "Directory Opus," or "DOpus"), the Amiga file-utility application from Inovatronics. "Magellan 1.1" is an "expert system" app from Emerald Intelligence and is really cool. Nothing else like it. It's a reverse-inference engine, natural-language, textual-based database with a GUI.

As in other AI languages (e.g., Prolog, LISP, etc.), you input a bunch of rules (e.g., "The sky is blue; blue is cool; cool is melancholy"), then you can ask Magellan questions, and based on those rules, Magellan will infer the answer from the database. There is no "programing" whatsoever. All inference/algorithms are performed "under the hood." Really quite cool.