GPSoftware to Demo Two New Releases at Cologne

GPSoftware is proud to demonstrate its continuing support for the Amiga with the release of the DOpus PLUS CD companion for Opus Magellan II.

The DOpus PLUS CD is now in production and will be demonstrated on the Schatztruhe stand at the Cologne Amiga show, November 13-15th November 1998 by Dr Greg Perry and Jon Potter.

It is available world-wide from good Amiga dealers and GPSoftware distributors. Or you may support the developers by purchasing direct.

For further information and a sneak peek at the DOpus PLUS Tutorial see the GPSoftware website at www.gpsoft.com.au

Check out the new features of Magellan-II on our web site at

http://www.gpsoft.com.au

DOpus PLUS

The Essential Companion to Opus Magellan II

To coincide with the release of Opus Magellan II, GPSoftware has commissioned a new CD specially for Opus users. It gives you custom written tutorials to complement Opus Magellan and collects hundreds of megabytes of images, sounds, icons and scripts and other utilities to complement your Opus installation.

• Specially commissioned tutorials in html and AmigaGuide by some of the leading DOpus experts in the world covering such diverse topics as :-
  • The definitive Opus tutorial - the ideal companion for the new Opus Magellan II that gives you the much more depth than the manual ever could!
  • Superfluous glitz - and how to make the most of it. Advice on how to make your DOpus look and sound as good as it can without the strain.
  • Coding - the ins and outs of the extensive DOpus ARexx port and SDK by the best programmers around. Includes the indispensable Opus Arexx guide and tutorial and the Opus C programming guide.
  • Filetypes - We explain how to really get the most from the internal power of Opus.
  • FAQ - All the questions you ever wanted answered about Opus - and some you didn't know about!

• Themes galore! Special DOpus Themes can be immediately installed on your Amiga, plus megabytes of freeware and shareware Windows 95 Themes which you can load into Opus Magellan II and convert to Amiga formats.
• Lots and lots of icons for StartMenus, Button banks and Amiga files and folders etc, plus specially designed sets of Toolbar icons from DOpus experts.
• Lots of predefined Filetypes to support almost any Amiga program or file.
• Complete collection of all Opus related files from Aminet and other sources.
• Indispensable Opus Arexx utilities and scripts including:-
  • Enhanced ArcDir - open archives directly in an Opus Lister. . BatchFTP script - automate your FTP downloads. . ImageConvert - a custom script to convert Windows Themes and associated files to Amiga formats.
  • DirTree - view directories in Tree style.
  • AppLauncher - custom launcher for your favourite programs.
  • plus many more essential items to make your Opus the envy of the neighbourhood!
• Includes many other utilities to support your Opus Magellan II installation.

Contact your local Amiga dealer or distributor for availability and pricing information. Or contact us directly for further information.

GPSoftware
PO Box 570, Ashgrove,
Australia 4060
Phone/Fax +61 7 33661402
email: greg@gpsoft.com.au
WWW : http://www.gpsoft.com.au/

GPSoftware is proud to demonstrate its continuing support for the Amiga with the release of the Directory Opus Magellan II.

Opus Magellan II is now in production and will be demonstrated on the Schatztruhe stand at the Cologne Amiga show, November 13-15th November 1998 by Dr Greg Perry and Jon Potter.

It is available world-wide from good Amiga dealers and GPSoftware distributors. Or you may support the developers by purchasing direct.

Check out the new features of Magellan-II on our web site at

http://www.gpsoft.com.au/

Opus Magellan II

The Essential Workbench Replacement and File Management system for the Amiga!

Summary of Enhancements

The Magellan-II version not only upgrades many of the earlier functions but also involves an extensive re-development of many components of the Opus 5 system to give you enhanced usability, especially in the Workbench Replacement Mode. Amongst other features, in this version we have concentrated on providing greater user control over your custom Environment with a more powerful but easier to use configuration section, plus many new features such as custom Themes, custom sounds and scripts, improved User and Start Menus, greater Lister functionality, and a dramatically enhanced OpusFTP system where you can now tailor custom setting for individual remote sites and even leave out the site or remote files on your Opus desktop for instant access.

Amongst many other features, the Magellan version gave you:-

• Enhanced Lister functionality including:- command functions which act on icon mode Listers; new popup menus; optional Space Gauge showing free space on drives, Inline Editing for Name mode Listers and the ability to drag and drop files directly into sub-directories.
• A new integrated system of Start Menus.
• A new Desktop Folder mechanism: Drag and drop items to the desktop with the support of optional popup menus.
• A new Icon Positioning system. Configure areas where icons will appear and their priority.
• Improved Icon dragging routines plus global control of icon labels and borders; icon label splitting for long labels; a new Icon Command function for special "command" files; and the ability to use traditional Workbench icon positions for icons or exclusive Opus positioning.
• New Popup menus with shadow look.
• Integrated NewIcons support not just for icons but for all system images including graphic button banks plus support for image and animation file formats including DPaintV/PPaint AnimBrushes.

The new Magellan-II version refines and extends these features further. The new features include:-

• Custom Themes - customise your system with your favourite images, sounds, fonts and colours.
• Improved Lister layouts including proportional fonts, resizable fields, sort indicator, better in-line editing.
• An amalgamated Options and Environment editor to give you a more intuitive layout for better management of the display and program operations.
• Background pictures in button banks and start menus.
• Random Background images.
• New Outline and Shadow font options for Workbench display.
• Fully user configurable screen title for display of used and available memory, OS versions, processes etc.
• New Sound events for Opus and system events - attach a sound to inserting and removing a disk! USe Random Sounds
• New Opus Path List settings allowing you to easily set the system paths for commands etc.
• Support for Filesystems with filenames up to 107 characters.
• New graphical layout and better configurability of Button banks and start menus including an 'auto-close' feature. Buttons now support "Active Popups" - an extended popup menu feature where each button act as a start menu.
• Revised internal commands with many now replaceable by user-defined scripts and functions.
• Enhanced Scripts system with more events and linking to internal commands and OpusFTP.
• Improved Start Menus. You can now have multilevel menus and start menus are now always 'sticky'
• Improved filetype identification system with better control of multitasking for large directories and CDs and new filetype matching functions to match foreign disk types.
• New and extended icon and Lister popup menus.
• Improved Snapshot ability for Listers, Icon modes and Groups.
• New Icon Information requester with more detailed display plus new functionality such as ability to change icon type and edit the icon images.
• Improved support for Drag and Drop functions.
• Better Icon support with faster displays.
• Many new ARexx commands to control Opus.

• Completely revised GUI with new FTPAddressbook, FTPOptions and FTPConnect requesters.
• Individual configuration Options for each site including custom format and custom tool bars on a site-by-site basis.
• Enhanced Drag and Drop allows you to create shortcuts to your favourite FTP sites, directories and files by leaving them out on the Opus Desktop for instant access.
• Full recursive directory copying. Copy whole directories in a single operation!
• More support for normal Opus commands including Getsizes, FindFiles and the Copy command now supports the UPDATE and NEWER flags. Great for web site maintenance!
• Protect is fully supported with a new GUI allowing you to set remote protection bits in either Amiga or Unix fashion.
• Seven new Scripts exclusively for FTP events on a site by site basis.
• Automatic reconnection on failure or lost connection.
• Better site-to-site transfer capability - transfer files between two remote sites without going via your Amiga.
• Optional transfer and progress displays with more detailed information.
• Support for firewalls and IP Masking with PASSIVE transfer mode.
• Lister path gadgets accept industry standard URL syntax.
• Inline editing of Name and Protection fields now supported.
• Synchronous command structure so interactive ARexx scripts are now possible! Write BATCH files to transfer selected files.
• Speed and efficiency improvements with better management of socket options and improved support for all AmigaTCP stacks.
• Special popup menus for FTP Listers to access custom Options and Add the current site entry details and custom options directly to the address book.

Contact your local Amiga dealer or distributor for availability and pricing information. Or contact us directly for further information.

GPSoftware
PO Box 570, Ashgrove,
Australia 4060
Phone/Fax +61 7 33661402
email: greg@gpsoft.com.au
WWW : http://www.gpsoft.com.au/

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