Directory Opus
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| Developed by | GPSoftware |
| Latest release | 9.1.0.6 / May 2, 2008 |
| OS | Microsoft Windows |
| Genre | File manager |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | http://www.gpsoft.com.au |
Directory Opus (or "DOpus" as its users tend to call it) is a popular file manager program. Originally it was 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 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.
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[edit] 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:
- Single- or dual-panel exploring.
- Folder tree (either shared or two separate for dual-display).
- Tabbed explorer panels.
- Internal zip and rar handling (browse them like folders).
- Internal FTP handling, including (for a small extra fee) advanced FTP and SSH (browse these like folders also).
- Flat-file display, where you can flatten a folder tree, and even hide the folders themselves.
- Powerful file selection and renaming tools, with advanced regex if needed.
- User-definable toolbars, menus, filetypes and filetype groups.
- Preview panel, and 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).
[edit] History
[edit] Release History
[edit] Amiga Release History
- 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
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). Opus Magellan is supposed to become available again from Guru Meditation some day.
[edit] Windows Release History
All Windows versions published by GPSoftware (German versions published by HAAGE & PARTNER Computer GmbH.)
[edit] Open Source Release History
- GPSoftware released the older Amiga Directory Opus 4 source code in 2000 as open source under the GNU General Public License.
