Directory Opus
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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 Potter joined with Greg Perry and the Australian-based GPSoftware to continue its development, and has since been published by GPSoftware.
FeaturesEdit
Directory Opus has evolved since its first release in 1990 as a basic two-panel file manager. The interface has evolved significantly due to feedback given by its users. Some of the features include:
- Single or dual-panel exploring.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
- Folder tree (either shared or separate for dual-display).
- Tabbed explorer panels.
- Ability to maintain date created/modified timestamps for both files and folders.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
- Internal handling of ZIP, RAR, 7Zip and other archive formats (browse them like folders).
- Internal FTP handling,<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> including (for a small extra fee) advanced FTP and SSH (browse these like folders also).
- Internal MTP handling for portable devices like phones and cameras.
- Flat-file display, where you can flatten a folder tree and even hide the folders themselves.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
- Powerful file selection and renaming tools, with advanced regex.
- User-definable toolbars, menus, filetypes and filetype groups.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
- Preview panel, with 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).
HistoryEdit
Release historyEdit
Amiga release historyEdit
- 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
- Opus Magellan II GPL (5.90): 2014-05-11
Versions 1 and 2 were only available direct from the author. Versions 3 and 4<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> were published by Inovatronics. Versions since 5 have been published by GPSoftware (German versions were published by Stefan Ossowskis Schatztruhe). The full version of Magellan II is included for free with AmiKit package.
Windows major release historyEdit
- Opus 6: 2001-06-18
- Opus 8: 2004-10-04
- Opus 9: 2007-04-27<ref>Template:Cite press release</ref>
- Opus 10: 2011-04-30<ref>Template:Cite press release</ref>
- Opus 11: 2014-03-03<ref>Template:Cite press release</ref>
- Opus 12: 2016-09-05<ref>Template:Cite press release</ref>
- Opus 13: 2024-01-23<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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All Windows versions published by GPSoftware. (German versions published by Haage & Partner Computer GmbH.)
Open source release historyEdit
- GPSoftware released the older Amiga Directory Opus 4 source code in 2000 as open-source under the GNU General Public License.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
|CitationClass=web }}</ref> AmigaOS4, AROS and MorphOS ports of this version were made available. Magellan II was released as open source under the AROS Public License in December 2012.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The open source Worker (file manager) is heavily inspired by the Directory Opus 4 series.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>