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- From: adrn@netaxs.com (Adrian Demarais)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Ultimate AmigaDOS enhancements?
- Date: 4 Jun 1994 06:56:13 GMT
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- Elof: Amiga Advocate (en2prmm@midge.bath.ac.uk) wrote:
- : I have an A4000/030 and I am trying to customise AmigaDOS to produce the
- : ultimate OS. I have an ulterior motive: I am trying to impress my friend
- : (who owns an Acorn Archimedes) with the Amigas general wonderfulness.
- : Therefore I would be grateful to hear what programs other people are
- : using. I currently have the following:
-
- : MagicWB: New icons, patterns, fonts.
- : MUI: OO system to create and maintain GUI's
- : CTM: Patch cycle gadgets to give drop-down menus
- : Toolsdaemon 2.1: Add tools to the WB menus
- : Kingcon 1.3: Shell enhancer w/ filename completion + much more
- : Icon Manager: Give iconless files icons according to filetype
- : Magic Menu: Popup menus, nice new look
- : Addpower: Multipurpose utility
-
- : Can anyone add to this list?
-
-
- I like the ParM/BrowserII combo. The same handler takes care of
- menuing for both, and adds mouse acceleration, pointer blanking,
- window to front/back clicking, and screen flipping by mouse click,
- sunmouse, etc. Browser II is the superior file management util, with
- as many windows open as you want, filetype recognition, internal
- multitasking (continue while file copying is proceeding, etc), window
- iconification, etc. Browser II's windows are app-windows, so you can
- drag a disk or drawer icon from WB into them to open them within
- Browser.
-
- Which reminds me, the Iconify/menufy package is nice. A
- ctrl-double.click collapses a window into a small icon (or menu entry)
- on WB, saving much more space than a mininized window, and looking
- better at the same time.
-
- An impressive screen blanker is important. I'm using Garshneblanker,
- but Midnight sounds good also, with some new modules recently posted
- such as Flying Toilets. A blanker that comes with Garshneblanker will
- run the command of your choice, so you could use a slide show or
- animation as a blanker. I've seen another blanker do this, but
- Garshneblanker's one will run a second command to stop the process. If
- you grab breakname while you're at it, so that you can kill the
- process without knowing its number (almost impossible to know in
- advance), it should work witth everything you can throw at it.
-
- Lastly, if you use public screens at all, PubUtils will open new
- public screens for you, oversized autoscrolling ones if you wish. I'm
- running Workbench on a 1600 x 1000 Super72 screen, and Terminus on a
- 850 x 600 Super72 opened by Openscreen from the PubUtils package. I
- used CliAnywhere to induce Terminus to open on this screen as if it
- were the Workbench screen, so that now any program that would have
- opened on WB, will open here instead, IF it's the frontmost
- screen. That is the way public screens SHOULD have been designed,
- instead of this stupid MSoft-like "Make default/shanghai on"
- nonsense. If you get PubUtils, also get SM (screenmanager). It
- performs the same function as openscreen, but will also tell you the
- screenmode ID numbers needed to open the more exotic screen types
- (such as Super72). You can then use the number SM gives you (in hex)
- in Openscreen, once you convert it to decimal. The problem SM has is
- that it won't open an autoscrolling screen, making anything larger
- than the default overscan size useless. Personally, I think one of the
- most impressive things Amiga can do is run a large, autoscrolling
- screen. Macs & X-Windows boxes have screens you can push windows off
- the edges of, but still limit you to the real estate you see. Only
- Amiga lets you move off the edges...
-