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Short: v1.4, Supports over 46 archive formats (via XAD).
Author: andrew.ab2000@bigfoot.com (Andrew Bell)
Uploader: andrew.ab2000@bigfoot.com (Andrew Bell)
Type: util/arc
Requires: AmigaOS 3.0+, MC68020, 2-4MB of RAM recommended.
util/arc/xadmaster.lha - version 6.1+
util/libs/mui38usr.lha - version 3.8+
dev/mui/MCC_NList0_89.lha - version 0.89+
Optional: util/virus/xvslibrary.lha - version 33+
============================================================================
Quick Introduction
============================================================================
Voodoo-X is an MUI based archive browser and extractor that uses the XAD
unarchiver engine. This means it doesn't depend on external archiver
commands being in the C: (etc.) drawer.
The following archive types are supported:
Ace, Ace MS-EXE, Amiga Plus Unpack, Amiga Standard FS, AmiPack, Arc, Arj,
Arj MS-EXE, BZip2, CompDisk, Compress, CrunchDisk, DMS, DMS SFX, GZip,
LhA, LhA MS-EXE, LhA SFX, LhF, LhPak SFX, LhSFX, LZX, Marc's DiskCruncher,
MXM-Simple Archive SFX, PackDev, PackDisk, PCompress PACK, RAR, RAR MS-EXE,
S-Omni, S-Pack, S-Pack SFX, SanityOS FS, SDS Software SFX, Shrink,
SuperDuper3, Tar (including .TGZ/.TAR.GZ variants), WinZip MS-EXE, xDisk,
xMash, XPK Archive, Zip, Zip MS-EXE, Zoo, Zoom, Zoom 5 plus many more
in the future.
============================================================================
Long Introduction
============================================================================
Voodoo-X is an MUI based front-end for Dirk Stoecker's powerful unarchiving
system xadmaster.library (Shareware). Unlike other dearchiver front-ends,
Voodoo-X doesn't depend on external archiver commands (such as LZX, LHA,
DMS, etc.) being in the C: drawer nor does it require complicated command
line setups for these commands. This is because XAD does all the hard work.
:-)
Voodoo-X allows you to quickly browse an archive's contents and view
individual files (with filetypes) like pictures and documents just by
double clicking your mouse. This method of browsing archives proves to
be highly effective since you don't need to get your hands dirty by
extracting files to temporary locations such as Ram:. Voodoo-X does all
that for you.
xadmaster.library is a modular system and will support even more archiver
formats in the future.
Note: Voodoo-X doesn't actually write disk based archives (like DMS, xMash,
etc.) back to disk, but instead examines them to see if they are
OFS or FFS formatted, if they are, it then allows you to browse
through the contents of them and retrieve individual files.
Voodoo-X can also retrieve files from inside standard FFS formatted
(i.e AmigaDOS) ADF files like those used with WinUAE. OFS, FFS,
DirCache, International, double-density and high-density disks
formats are all supported.
============================================================================
New things for Voodoo-X 1.4
============================================================================
o Small updates and bug fixes.
o Optimizations.
See history file for more details.
============================================================================
Features
============================================================================
o Browse many archives very quickly. Voodoo-X contains an archive history
list, much like the URL history list of a web browser. This allows you
to switch between archives VERY QUICKLY with only three clicks of the
mouse button.
o Retrieve files from within DMS archives (and other disk based archive
formats too) without having to extract the entire archive to disk or
a virtual disk device like FMS.
o Browse archives inside archives. Quickly gain access to that document
inside that LHA inside that LZX inside that DMS. ;)
o Quickly view pictures, documents or similar files that are inside archives
simply by double clicking on a file. Voodoo-X will then extract it and
start the viewer of your choice.
o Drag one or more archive icons from Workbench into the main window to
browse their contents.
o Support for multipart archives.
o Virus checking. If you have Georg Hoermann's xvs.library system installed
then you can check archives for file viruses. You can also specify if
every file extracted should be checked.
o Lots of archiver formats are supported (common ones and obscure ones).
Disk image formats are also supported, so you can treat AmigaDOS
formatted ADF files as normal archives under Voodoo-X.
o Fast decompression, thanks to xadmaster.library. Note that this really
depends on the client being used. Some clients are coded in C and might
noticeably slower than the original archive program on older CPUs.
o Very easy-to-use user interface, thanks to MUI.
o Quickly copy, move or delete archives using pull down menus. This can
be highly convenient when going through download directories.
o Search window. Search for strings or filename patterns inside archives.
Uses assembly optimized string search routines for greater speed.
o Nice progress bars. :-)
============================================================================
Copyright
============================================================================
Voodoo-X is Copyright © 2000 Andrew Bell. All rights reserved. Voodoo-X
is uncrippled GIFTWARE and is provided "AS IS". Please refer to the
documentation for more information.
Although Voodoo-X is uncrippled GIFTWARE, xadmaster.library and MUI are
SHAREWARE. Please consider registering XAD/MUI and show your support for
Amiga software.
Voodoo-X wouldn't be possible without the following third-party software:
xadmaster.library - Copyright © 1998-2000 Dirk Stoecker.
muimaster.library - Copyright © 1992-2000 Stefan Stuntz.
NList MUI custom class - Copyright © 1996-2000 Gilles Masson.
Listtree MUI custom class - Copyright © 1995-1997 Klaus Melchior.
xvs.library - Copyright © 1997-2000 Georg Hoermann.
Special thanks to the above programmers, for their hard work.
Another special thanks goes to Dirk for allowing me to access to the beta
versions of XAD to test with Voodoo-X. Thanks again!