Getting Odyssey set up

A couple people told me I should quit using mui-owb and use Odyssey instead, so I installed it. And I was totally astonished and baffled to find that it opened with my muiowb home page! How did it know? But the accompanying readme doesn't answer that or some of the other questions I have.

The Odyssey/ drawer has in addition to an Odyssey icon something called OdysseyLauncher. Sure enough, clicking on it launches Odyssey, but so does clicking on the Odyssey icon. What's the point?

The readme says one can use bookmarks from IBrowse. It's been a few years since I added bookmarks to IBrowse, so I was hoping I could use something newer.

For Timberwolf, I use "Open file" on my muiowb bookmarks, which works well as a substitute for actually having a bookmarks file set up. (My SAM installation had proper bookmarks, but so far no luck on the X1000.) The first time I tried that with Odyssey, it didn't work -- I got a blank page titled "Bookmarks." I just tried it again, and it works now, but I'd rather get the real bookmarks menu item working.

So I went back to the IBrowse method. After considerable searching I finally found my IBrowse bookmarks in ibrowse-hotlist.html, copied it into my Odyssey drawer and changed the name to "bookmarks.html," trusting the readme promise:

"Odyssey can import IBrowse bookmarks. Just copy it to Odyssey directory as bookmarks.html. If you wish to make an entry appear in fastlinks or pulldown menu, just check the relevant option in bookmark editor."

Maybe I was expecting too much, but it looks like I have to add the bookmarks one at a time after all after getting the website that I want to bookmark via the method I use on Timberwolf. Or am I missing something?

@kilaueabart

I tested this here and importing from IBrowse worked as described.


Only thing you should take care: make the changes (copying renaming hotlist when Odyssey not running.

If it is running it will overwrite the imported list

@kilaueabart

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Its the same program, only newer version.

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Program used to start slowly, but last one does not, so this was so where able to see that something was going on.

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But it is in a different drawer. How did it come up with "http://www.staradvertiser.com/" in Settings > General > Start Page:?

I find that site referenced in Internet:Odyssey/Conf/LocalStorage, but no hint as to how it got there.

@kilaueabart

It's not uncommon for Amiga programs to save its settings in ENVARC: so I guess they find the settings outside the folder. New programs might find its settings by the using APPDIR:, but they should not depend on it.

If does look in APPDIR: then I guess that's a bug, it should be look for new program name not the old program name.