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[Matt_H]

4.16 is from DOpus's GPL era. The last commercial version I have is 4.11, but I think the absolute last was 4.12. Not certain.

I remember reading that the source code to everything later than 4.16 was lost, which might explain why the 4.17 binary is somewhat under the radar.

To install, just replace the pieces of a 4.16 installation with the 4.17 equivalents.

[Tenacious]

@ Matt

I guess my recollection isn't what it used to be, grin. Thanks for the better info.

@Kat

For me, Dopus is kind of a chicken and egg problem. I configure a menu with all of the archivers and then never think about them again (foolproof de-archiving is just a click of the mouse). When starting from scratch, I have to study all of that to get Dopus loaded and configged.

Amiga really does have the greatest variety (if not the best quality) directory utilities of any platform.

[KatManDEW]

4.17 fixed my A1200, but I lost the text in the pull-down menus until I copied the config files from my A2000 setup over to my A1200.

Anyone have a preference for any of the config files on aminet? My config is somthing I scabbed together years ago. It does most of the basic archive activities, but I never finished optimizing the setup.

[Matt_H]

Figured out a workaround for the "DOpus 4.16 opens its config screen in a low-res, non-scrolling (read: useless) screenmode" bug. The definitive solution is to use 4.17, as discussed above, but if you really want to use 4.16 for some reason, here's what you can do:

Increase the number of colors on the Workbench screen.

Having just prepped a new A4000, I discovered that the bug appeared when my Workbench was set to NTSC:HighRes, 8 colors, but not at 256 colors or PAL:HighResLaced at 256 colors. I didn't do any further testing before replacing it with 4.17, so I don't know the minimum number of colors required to avoid the bug (info that would be useful to non-RTG ECS users). I also didn't test if a HighResLaced screen at 8 colors would work.

Possible explanation: There was a bug in 4.11 (and probably earlier) that would hang/crash the machine if Workbench was set to 256 colors and the config screen was opened. It was fixed pretty early in GPL development, but my guess is that fixing that bug introduced this one. The history files for 4.17 don't seem to address it explicitly, but the change to open the config window on DOpus' screen takes care of the problem.

[stefcep2]

The "magnification bug " happens if your screenmode for workbench is NTSC, If you change this to PAL, the magnification bug doesn't happen. It only happens on the config screen in Opus.

It also happens in WinUAE