26 March 2003, 06:02 | #1 |
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Essential "must-have" Amiga programs.
I know know there are some people who are perfectly content with the default Workbench setup, and then there are those who want to load it up with everything they can.
My question is, what are those additional programs (or even commands) for Workbench that you simply must have, and what do they do? |
26 March 2003, 07:36 | #2 |
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SnoopDOS - for monitoring the Amiga
DOpus 4 - file management (natch!) WHDLoad - for running games from hard disk |
26 March 2003, 07:56 | #3 |
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Cygnus Ed - The best text editor
Resource - Disassembling software ToolsDaemon - Add all your commonly used stuffto the menus Zap - Great hex editor |
26 March 2003, 09:59 | #4 |
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Well, it's not actually a program but MUI is essential.
DelitrackerII is a must to listen to any music file available out there. Just make sure you download all available plugins from Aminet... |
26 March 2003, 11:15 | #5 |
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To deal with most amiga archived files:
LHA LZX DMS All commands which go in C directory. |
26 March 2003, 12:47 | #6 |
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Just a few I regularly use
Dopus 5.82 Snoopdos MiamiDX/IBrowse/YAM/Jabberwocky Eagleplayer (but don't try to register it, I sent off the cash twice and never got a keyfile, using pir8 one now) MakeCD Cybershow/Photoalbum AdPro SNDmon (P4 users) AmiBlitz Protext 6 Pagestream 4 or 2.2 if your systems limited SoundFX AmigaAMP Scout XPK |
26 March 2003, 15:16 | #7 |
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MagicMenu.
I cannot live without MagicMenu |
26 March 2003, 17:59 | #8 |
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yes magicmenu LHA LZX DMS
virusz directory opus and D-copy has also been a good tool through all my amiga days |
26 March 2003, 18:28 | #9 |
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MCP - The ultimate patcher
DOpus4.xx Lha/Lzx/Dms/XFD CygnusED Blitz/Amiblitz SasC Zap! Toolsdaemon |
27 March 2003, 14:57 | #10 |
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I would have to choose:
Magic Menu Directory Opus LHA LZX DMS I would view these as ESSENTIAL Other things I have found Useful are tools like: Xcopy Dcopy Relokick |
27 March 2003, 16:23 | #11 |
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now i never did take a good look at x-copy
is there much difference between x-copy and d-copy ? |
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Cosmetically: D-Copy looked alot nicer. It was all gold Price: D-Copy is on Aminet if I recall. X-Copy wasn't free Copying: I found D-Copy to copy just as well as X-Copy |
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27 March 2003, 16:33 | #13 |
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I found this link with Screenshots and some info on Various versions of X-Copy hope it helps:
http://borrowedtime.emuunlim.com/his...ers/X-Copy.htm |
27 March 2003, 17:36 | #14 |
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Benchtrash
Blacks Editor (BED) Classaction Delitracker Deluxe Paint 4 Drawersize/Filesize (both sit in end WB menu under ResetWB) Filemaster Iconcopy LHA/ZIP command line MUI MultiCX Tinymeter WHDLoad |
27 March 2003, 17:37 | #15 |
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Im not using XCopy anymore. Last time I tried it, it freezed up me machine, had to reset. And that produced a checksum error in the HD
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27 March 2003, 19:05 | #16 |
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if i check my startup-sequence i see few necessary tools
- Blizkick (to relocate kickstart and more) - Val (speed up to validated partitions when needed) - BlazeWCP (Chunky2Planar speedup patch) - CMQ030 (Copy Mem Quick) - EnvHandler (to safe memory usage and fragmentation) - FBlit (speedup some gfx operation) and Scalos (workbench remplacement) others tools : - MiraWizArc and Voodoo-X (for packing/unpacking) - Visage, Frogger and Moovid (gfx/anim viewer) for WWW except already said : amFTP or ATC, rc-ftpd, DCTelnet, SimpleMail |
27 March 2003, 21:31 | #17 |
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On top of the cool progs already mentioned, I would add:
- DiskSafe (Prevents disks from becoming non-validated by accidential resets) - BootManager (Select from multiple startup-sequences with key or mouse button press) - Fat95 (Mount and use Windows filesystem volumes as if they were Amiga volumes) - RndWbPix (Neat little WB background/window picture randomiser) |
28 March 2003, 02:18 | #18 |
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thanks you both
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29 March 2003, 14:32 | #20 |
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Great thread this guys
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