Directory Opus

Directory Opus
Original author(s) Jonathan Potter
Developer(s) GPSoftware
Initial release January 1990 (1990-01)
Stable release 11.18 / March 17, 2016 (2016-03-17)[1]
Operating system Microsoft Windows, AmigaOS
Type File manager
License Proprietary
Website www.gpsoft.com.au

Directory Opus (or "DOpus" as its users tend to call it) is a popular file manager program, originally written for the Amiga computer system in the early to mid-1990s. Development on the Amiga version ceased in 1997, but an entirely re-written version of Directory Opus is still being actively developed and sold for the Microsoft Windows operating system by GPSoftware.

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:

History

Release history

Version 4.17 (GPL release): design circa 1992
Version 8: design circa 2004

Amiga release history

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). The full version of Magellan II is included for free with AmiKit package.

Windows major release history

All Windows versions published by GPSoftware. (German versions published by Haage & Partner Computer GmbH.)

Open source release history

See also

References

External links

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