What programs do you regularly use on your AmigaOS 4 system?

Hi Friends,

I'm looking at the wonderful OS4Depot and our extensive software collection. Unfortunately, many of those programs are pretty old and could be updated. While I'm not offering to do that work, I would be interested in seeing what people use daily or weekly.

I was looking at my system. I most often run:

Odyssey
rVNCd
ZitaFTP
SMB2FS
MediaVault
eGame
iGame
AmIRC
AmiFIG
Emotion
MPlayer
FFMplayer
AmigaAMP
IFS Screenblanker

What do you run?

Cheers,
Bill "tekmage" Borsari
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@tekmage

AmigaAmp
AREXX
Odyssey
ScummVM
SMB2FS

DOpus5
AmIRC
RNOComics
Odyssey
IBrowse
AmigaAMP
TuneNet
MPlayer
Emotion
MediaVault

Also I just updated to latest versions of Hollywood and Designer and am planning to get some new games and revisit some older ones.

Also planning to get back to SketchBlock, ImageFX, LightWave, FinalWriter et al.

Seq
CompilerGUI
Notepad
gcc
SDK Browser
Shell
Viivi
Mplayer-GUI
Mplayer
AmigaAMP
pftp
UnArc
pgp

(Edit 26.1.2025: Added SDK Browser)
(Edit 28.1.2025: Added UnArc, pgp and Mplayer-GUI)

Just off the top of my head:

Odyssey
YAM (latest dev build)
DOpus4
Shell
ARexx
SMBMounter/SMBFS
LimpidClock
AmiUpdate
RNOXfer
NotePad
MultiViewer
SGrab
<a GUI program you haven't seen yet>
<a Shell program you haven't seen yet>
Rave
AmigaAMP3
Term
Snoopy
JHead
NetPBM
Ignition
Docket
PGP
CodeBench/The SDK

Best regards,

Niels

Hey tekmage,

My collection of apps breaks down as follows:

All of the time:
- ARexx
- Shell
- AmIRC
- IBrowse
- SSHTerm
- AmigaAmp
- rVNCd
- SMBFS
- rnoXFer
- AOrganizer
- Notepad
- Multiview

Every day or two:
- Unarc
- AIOstreams
- YT.rexx
- MPlayer
- FFPlay
- unreleased YT search script
- Finalwriter
- AmiPDF
- PDFtoolkit.py
- Multiviewer

Weekly usage:
- ImageFX
- Mediavault
- Ignition
- Pagestream
- Gnumeric
- Abiword

Occasional usage:
- Codebench
- Cadepad
- DeepL tranlator
- Oddity
- Netsurf
- ADRipper
- Cranu
- ADripper
- PicView

Of course there are so many other miscellaneous things I use even more
sporadically and things I honestly don't get the time to play with.

Geez, I keep stumbling on thimgs with the OS I haven't played with yet!
Anyone customized their ENV:ContectMenu.cfg/ ??

;)

PJS

These are my favourites under AmigaOs4.1 which I also use regularly.


Odyssey
SMB2FS
MediaVault
Emotion
AmigaAMP
Video Vortex/YT.rexx for YouTube
TwinVNC
RNOXfer
AmiTranslate
imp3
ScummVM
DosBox
E-UAE
SnapIT
A-Live (liveTV streaming)

not too many,

Netsurf
Amiphoto
finaldata
sylpheed
Odyssey
Ibrowse
ScummVM
Emotion
PPaint

Usage of course depends on what you want to do when power on your os4, but usually apps which i use always is:

Amidock with cpu/ram/gfx/temp/time/network/keymap dockies
Shell
Dopus4
ZitaFTPd (to transfer anything i need to/from PC to/from os4)
WB2Filer (+filer itself)
Notepad
Multiedit
SGRAB
DiskImageGUI
AmigaAMP
Odyssey
VPDF
Ranger
DvPlayer and Emotion
Sketchblock

And all other stuff depends on what need to do.. Like if play games which not native, then:

UAE
DosBox
ScummVM
Snes9x

If coding going on then:

GCC and co
latest gdb
db101/spotless
snoopy
glsnoop
hexsee
tequila
profyler

if some music tinkering, then Rave only

and so on

Filer
Codebench + GCC
SDK Browser
Odyssey
ZitaFTPServer
MediaVault
AmigaAMP3
Rave (of course)
MilkyTracker
Emotion
ADRipper

Too many to report, but often i use:

Software:

Odyssey
AmiCygnix
AmigaAMP/Tunenet
MPlayer/DvPlayer
AmiPDF
AmiFTP
IconEditor
NotePad
FlexCat
GCC for recompiling a few Shell based softwares (f. ex. Deark)

Emulation/Games:

Dosbox
FinalBurn Neo
FPSE
Snes9x/WarpSnes
GnGeo
mGBA/VBA
DGen
RunInUAE
Doom ports/Quake/DukeNukem ecc.

Edit to add a few more programs ...

These are the software programs I use the most:

AmiUpdate
AmiDock
Shell
ARexx
NotePad
MultiView
AmiDVD
BackUP
IBrowse
UnArc
Ignition
Final Writer 97
AmigaAMP3
Soliton
Shisen-Seki

I like to tinker with ARexx, RxMUI and ProAction, and use Ranger and Snoopy for trouble-shooting.

I use the old E-UAE uae-sdl emulator to launch AmigaOS3.1 or AmigaOS3.2 in full screen mode to run my old favourites:

Shanghai
Conquest
Appetizer suite
Microfiche Filer


Cheers,
redfox

The one program I use every day all the time is WookieChat.

Other programs I use are:

NewsCoaster

I use the following programs regulary:

AmiDock
IBrowse
Odyssey
TwinVNC
IMP3
TuneNet/AmigaAmp3
DiskImageGUI
Filer
AmiPDF
CubicIDE
gVim
CyngusEd
SDKBrowser
Clock
Calendar
Shell
GCC/VBCC/VASM
SSH2-Handler
SMB2FS

I'm surprised that Unarc isn't on here more often, and disappointed that Avalanche isn't at all (admittedly I've never really promoted it, I wrote it for OS3.2 but I think it's better than Unarc on OS4 now)

With that in mind, is nobody unarchiving files? What are you all using?

@Chris

I uses Avalanche too, or DirOpus4 (not mentioned)

@Chris

I use lha in the shell. I am more of a keyboard/command line guy.

@Chris

I updated my previous post to include AmiUpdate and UnArc.

I use AmiUpdate from the Workbench menu and UnArc from the icon on my AmiDock. I thought they were just part of OS4, but of course they are actual programs that are updated and supported.

Thanks Rigo and Chris.

Cheers,
redfox

@Chris

Quote:I do use UnArc now and then, but mostly all my unarchiving is done in DOpus4. I have several buttons set up with ARexx scripts to unpack various types of archives into various destinations (other lister, other lister in new subdir, stuff like that).

Creating archives (LhA or ZIP) is also done with customized DOpus4 buttons.

It's all mostly a matter of habit.

Best regards,

Niels

@Chris

Quote:
Used on a daily basis here of course; I didn't include it in my list because I thought (wrongly, as it appears) that standard OS components don't count