Directory Opus was originally developed by, and is still written by, Australian Jonathan Potter. Until 1994, it was published by well-known Amiga software company Inovatronics, when the author joined with Greg Perry and the Australian-based GPSoftware to continue the development of the product, and it has been published by GPSoftware ever since.
Features
Directory Opus has evolved since its first release in 1990 as a basic two-panel file manager. The interface has evolved significantly due to the amount of feedback that the users have given it. Some of the features include:
- Single- or dual-panel exploring.
- Folder tree (either shared or two separate for dual-display).
- Tabbed explorer panels.
- Internal zip and rar handling (browse them like folders).
- Internal [
] handling, including (for a small extra fee) advanced [] and SSH (browse these like folders also). - Flat-file display, where you can flatten a folder tree, and even hide the folders themselves.
- Powerful file selection and renaming tools, with advanced regex if needed.
- User-definable toolbars, menus, filetypes and filetype groups.
- Preview panel, and preview of thumbnails (including animated avi thumbnails).
- File collections. These are like virtual folders that contain links to the original files (unlike shortcuts, these actually deal with the files directly).
History
Release History
Amiga Release History
- Opus 1: January 1990
- Opus 2: February 1991
- Opus 3: 1991-12-01
- Opus 4: 1992-12-04
- Opus 5: 1995-04-12
- Opus 5.5: 1996-08-01
- Opus Magellan (5.6): 1997-05-17
- Opus Magellan II (5.8): 1998-11-01
Versions 1 and 2 were only available direct from the author. Versions 3 and 4 were published by Inovatronics. Versions since 5 have been published by GPSoftware (German versions were published by Stefan Ossowskis Schatztruhe). Opus Magellan is supposed to become available again from Guru Meditation some day.
Windows Release History
- Opus 6: 2001-06-18
- Opus 8: 2004-10-04
- Opus 9: 2007-04-27
All Windows versions published by GPSoftware (German versions published by HAAGE & PARTNER Computer GmbH)
Open Source Release History
- GPSoftware released the older Amiga Directory Opus 4 source code in 2000 as open source under the GNU General Public License.
See also
External links
- The official site of Directory Opus
- Directory Opus 4 Research Project
- Opus Resource Centre Forum
- Getting to know Directory Opus (Guide)
- Information on the acquisition of Directory Opus for Amiga
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