AmiDock: One-Click Application Launcher for Early Amigas
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- čas přidán 6. 02. 2020
- In this video I demonstrate how to install and customize a Workbench mod for Workbench 1.2, 1.3 and 2.0 that allows launching any program from your desktop in a single click.
Detailed Instructions in Article Form: amigalove.com/viewtopic.php?f...
Intro Music clip from "Our Time" provided with permission by the SUPREMELY talented musician: Waveshaper (with permission):
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Soundtrack music is the track “Speed Zone” and “Octane Rush” used with permission by the ULTRA bad ass: Axion.
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AmiDock by Gary Knight, 1991 - Věda a technologie
Great little utility, especially for 1992!
Excellent video Eric! That dock is great. I need to load something similar on my 3.1 and 3.1.4 machines. Would be very handy.
Thanks, Todd. There is such a thing, albeit from a different author. I know there was an Amiga Format cover disk that offered a similar tool (with the exact same name) for 3.0. It's out there somewhere! Also, there's a program called ToolManager which is based off the same concept, too, with even more features. You can find that one on Aminet.
Todd's Nerd Cave you’re looking for DockBot! works great with the latest AmigaOS3.1.4!
as always for us amigans Aminet is your friend :-)
Best Workbench from Gulliver includes a really nice dock for 3.1.4
10 Minute Amiga Retro Cast Really? I have 3.1.4 installed on the 4000 and don’t remember seeing that. Hmmmm...
So - you guys should absolutely, 100% also check out the dock written by my friend bwldrbst. His is called DockBot, and looks almost exactly like a NeXT machine. It's for 2.05 and above. Looks gorgeous and has a lot of very cool features. More here: amigalove.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=609&p=8686#p8686
It's always a good day when intric8 uploads a new video! Great stuff as always :)
Thanks, Nevil. I took a break since November to recharge my batteries. I'm back, baby! =) Thanks for your support. Really means a lot.
@@AmigaLove And I have to add; You really manage to make 1.3 look exceptional! I've still to get my A1000 set with internal HDD (CF), and I gave up on installing 1.3 on my A3000 (with dualBoot rom), but I really have to get a Workbench 1.3 setup going..
@@nevilovermann797 Do you have an A3000 with the ROM Tower? If so, I have step-by-step instructions that will get you up and running if you have the disks. If I can do, I know you can, too. Let me know if you'd like those steps.
Nevil Overmann : agreed. Looks fantastic. Really brings back those memories.
@@AmigaLove No ROM-tower but 1.4-roms. But when I gave up I just installed 3.1.4 roms and now have a really nice setup going. A guide would be great though, if I decide to go back to the 1.4-setup. I'll be installing an 8mb/IDE/kickstart solution in my A1000 in a couple of weeks though, so I'll finally have a cool 1.3 setup there. :)
Great stuff, Eric. I seem to remember discussions back in the day whether it was "C.L.I" or "Clee" - but I think we all settled on Shell after 1990. It was always C.L.I. to me.
I like this Dock for 1.3 - nice stuff! I use something similar for Amiga OS 3.1.4 that works very nice.
It was a sideways joke with a British Twitch streamer friend of mine. It is weird, tho, right? There's no real rhyme or reason as to why we sometimes say an acronym, and sometimes spell it out. And the British seem to the exact reverse of whatever we do for the same terms.
Lovely video.
I wish I had this back then. It would’ve been my favourite commodity. Sadly it didn’t appear on my radar.
Thanks for sharing.
Thank you, Richard. Yes - the software is just SO handy it's kinda shocking when you first get it going. Thanks for watching.
Great stuff. Back in the day when I had my original A1200, I didn't know this existed, but I used I believe it was ToolsDaemon to add extra menus to my Workbench menus, and launched tools that way. This looks like it will be perfect to add to my A600 which still has KS/WB 2, so thank you so very much for how much detail you went into here!
Very cool, Troy. Thanks for the kind words. I know there was also a ToolManager program which was very full-featured, but a few folks have told me it was difficult to configure. A friend of mine - very recently - created something called AmiBot, which is also inspired by NeXT. It's for 3.0+ machines. You can read more about that here (and download it, should you feel the urge). =) amigalove.com/viewtopic.php?p=8643#p8643
My A1000 definitely needs this.
Im like on my 5th time watching this video. Yeah I got issues (with myself not the video)... Great job Eric!.. I am itching to try this out in wb1.3
Oh man - if you have any questions let me know! Once you try it, you'll be hooked I'm sure.
Truly great video. Thoroughly enjoyed it. I have been using the OS 3.9 version by different author ( I didn't know there was an earlier one!) The original would be nice to use one day. Thanks.
Thanks for the kind words and I've really glad you enjoyed it! Since this video was published I've learned how to install WShell into the Amidock, which REALLY takes 1.3 to a whole new level of awesome. =)
I'm a bit surprised it didn't come with some kind of installer/shell script since the process of putting it on an HD manually seems a bit fiddly, but it's definitely an awesome little tool. Nice!
Agreed. An installer would have been sweet and probably not too difficult. That being said, the "Icon" feature was never implemented, either, so maybe Gary Knight was busy. =)
A lot of the 1.3 programs did not come with an installer as Commodore had not settled on a standard installer yet. A majority of people were still on floppy only systems with 1.3, so an installer to another floppy would have been tricky.
@@10MARC That's true in the 80s, but this came out in 1991. By then, a lot of folks in the US had moved to HDDs. It struck me as a little odd, too - but then again Hippo Player requires the same type of fiddling (even more) which was designed for 1.2, and it came out in 2000! So... yeah, who knows? Amiga Installers are kinda Wild West as it is. Shit - even Black Dawn Rebirth (2020) had serious install issues for my 3000.
I promise we say c_l_I and l_e_d here in the UK 😊
LOL!
@@AmigaLove ps great video 🥰
@@leejacksondev thanks man, I really appreciate it and thanks a bunch for taking the time to watch.
Thank you Eric for this nice presentation ! I think that I used something similar on a A1200 3.1 OS but I don't remember the name of the app... and always when try to made adjustments on icons, everything was mess up ! So, I was stick with the stock icons ...
I wonder if that was ToolManager (which was made for 2.1 and above). I've heard it is very full of features, but difficult to configure.
@@AmigaLove Well done ! This is the name
@@rtype4930 You should also check out my friend's version, which is rather new. It's for 3.0+ and has TONS of features. Check this out, called AmiBot amigalove.com/viewtopic.php?p=8643#p8643 Looks just like NeXT.
love it! thanks for the vid
So glad you liked it!
Amiga Love looking forward to trying it out on my A1000 as I’ve never had the heart to upgrade past WB1.3 on it ....everything else looks and feels off on it
@@f1lupo Totally agree. Does yours have a hard drive solution of any kind?
Amiga Love yup she has an external XT-IDE whoping 33MB hard drive since 87 I believe still going strong though I did lose my Workbench ‘boot’ partition a few years back but luckily the bad block was fixed with DiskSalv (if I recall correctly) and had a back up with QuarterBack re-installed.
I have a scsi2sd card ready to go but honestly I don’t think I can ever use my A1000 without the hum of the HD and the familiar noise from the floppy...’quiet’ computing is for my work PC lol
@@f1lupo Out of curiosity, are you using a bridgeboard/sidecar for that XT-IDE? How are you hooking that up?
Kudos :)
Thanks, TheLemminkainen. Glad you enjoyed it!
For me sometimes glitchching amidock 45.14, if i press left mouse button when click on top of screen in hotbar menu in classic workbench in emulator by pressing left click button of mouse then mouse just frezz, but emulator still working and clock ( clock apps with time also continue work, but mouse cirsor just freez ), and when try change on hotbar menu of workbench or amidock, 50 on 50... btw, in emulator , in ClassicWB_OS39_v28 version, i do not know why... In Amiga OS 3.9 all fine...
interesting video! :) Hmm, Maybe CLI would be pronounced C L I and Cli is pronounced as a word? If one wanted to be pedantic (which is so unlike computer people), CLI is all caps and thus an abbreviation, while Cli only has the first letter capitalized and is thus a name :D
Hey Dusted! Good to see you here, man - thanks for watching! Yeah, I was just joking about the LED stuff. I'd had a conversation with Hayesmaker and his chat group at some point where people were arguing over how to say LED lights which in the US we say "El-ee-dee" and in the UK they say "Lead" even though it's an acronym for light emitting diode. Anyway... Obviously there's no rhyme or reason to it all because we cal it the "klee" and that's an acronym, too. =)
Do os3.9, os4 and enhancer dockies
Hey there! Thanks for watching and commenting. I've seen screenshots of those docks. They look very nice. They are enhanced versions of what I'm running for sure. I do like to give 1.3 a lot of love, though. It often gets forgotten and can do a lot more than some remember. Thanks again, Ras Voja!
@@AmigaLove Well, yes enhancer can be animed like temp meters, and much more customization is avail. Only bug is it crashes with old 1.3 style icons or loses them. But would love these classes backported as Enhancer for Classics. Nice baseline that should be part of standard OS. Fragmenting to AEON licences is stupid, same goes for Octamed, Personal Paint, not to mention Libre Office "Still in beta"