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==                    Workbench 2.0 Utilities Compilation                    ==
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  DATE:1-12-91
  COMPILED BY:STP
  FOR:WB2.0

  NOTES:Roll on WB3.0?


 Well Workbecnh 2.0 is here at last. After such a long wait and many rumours to
the contrary we now have a new Amiga, the A-500 plus, sporting not only the all
singing all dancing WB2.0 but the enhanced chip set as well, great news eh ?
 Despite groans of incompatability from the majority of the industry, I for one
am more than pleased with the beast. Workbench has not only become a useable
alternative to the CLI and Shell, but also a real pleasure to use for the
majority of tasks (and it looks good!). Yet despite the many improvements over
Workbench 1.3 there are still a few options that have been left "for future
developement." and until we see these new features many of us will turn to the
public domain for a whole new breed of WB2.0 utilities. Commodore has
effectively killed a great number of the smaller Workbench hacks with its
rather brilliant commodities program, so now we are looking for new ideas such
as PowerSnap and AssignX which take advantage of the new system features and
improve even further the capabilties of the Workbench.
 I have included on this disk Super Duper which is one of only a few disk
copiers which behave themselves in a multitasking environment, this one in
particular can handle FFS and still looks good when you mess about with the
default font settings. AssignX is here because the idea is so simple, yet we
have all met with the problem of "please insert volume..", thanks Steve for
that one (How long before SID 2.0 I wonder ? Soon please..8^). View80 is here
because I like it, and it opens a screen of its own so if you`ve messed about
with the overscan of the Workbench, the text still reads properly. There are a
few AREXX bits and pieces on here, but you will have to track down some extra
libraries (Fish disks somewhere..). The greatest WB2.0 utility I have come
across so far is Tool Manager, it is totally brilliant and no one should be
without it; more utilities like this please.
 Of course there are many utilities that I could have included on here but most
of these are already easily availiable on collection disk so there was really
no point, utils like Zap, Eye, Fenster, ppmore (>v1.7 looks best.) and so many
more.
 The one utility I should most like to get my hands on is SID 2.0 thanks Steve
for the original SID 1.6, but doesn`t it look awful under WB2.0 (and fails too
work properly I am told ?)
 Anyway enough of my dribble, try the utilities, if you like em then consider
the authors, if you can do better or have some fab WB2.0 stuff then send it to
me, address at bottom of textfile.
 I will in time do more of these collections, as the need arises so keep an eye
open for them.


 Here are a few A-500 plus type notes:


 Get some fast ram, this has cured a few incompatability problems for me, and
 money spent on ram is never wasted.

 Wouldn`t it be great to play LLAMATRON 2112 on the plus ?

 Try holding down both mouse buttons when you switch on or reset your plus.

 Why is Deluxe Paint IV sooo slooow ?



 Bye for now 8^(


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