BetterWB 3.4 03-March-2014

This is a new version of BetterWB workbench pack, that aims to be an enhancement, an updated extension to AmigaOS 3.1, without all those hardware requirement typically associated with these kind of packs. It is indeed a better 3.1 than 3.1 itself!

BetterWB works on any Amiga. It installs on top of a clean AmigaOS 3.1 installation. It is distributed as a set of floppy images and occupies about 10MB of harddrive space.

Changes since last version:

-Fixed two enforcer hits present in the Status command since CBM days
-Fixed a compatibility problem that surfaced with ClassAct (Thanks David)
-Fixed some problems with deficons when using glowicons (Thanks Jarek)
-Updated icon.library to 46.4.334
-Added a new commodity (CronTask) that can easily manage job scheduling
-Added a warning to both MagicMenu and CronTask prefs, so you can only configure them when they are actually running
-Plus Many more fixes and minor enhancements

You can download BetterWB from its homepage at:

http://lilliput.amiga-projects.net/BetterWB.htm

Once again, thank you for continuing to improve our favorite OS with the best, cleanest system improvements.  

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So...... does like anyone have any screen shots of this in action? I'd like to see it, is all.

There is not much to see, that's the point.  If anyone does a fresh install of 3.1, there is a great deal of it that has to be modernized and tweaked by the user to make it usable.   Datatypes are the most obvious example, but there is a whole lot more.  You also won't be seeing long filenames on your CDroms with a fresh 3.1 install, at least not without some well researched tweaking.  BetterWB does all of this for the user in a very thorough and benchmarking way.  If Commodore hadn't gone belly up (and if they had had any management vision left), the improvements and bug-fixes in BWB are what should have been included in OS 3.2 (and 3.3 and 3.4).

The 3rd step in a clean install can then be to add an individual's choice of eye candy, WB hacks (don't have to), Apps, etc.  The value of these is in the eye of the beholder, anyway.