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This is another interesting collection of utilities.
First up, AddPovver, is yet another do-it-all
commodity. Many of the features found in
MultiCX, MCP, YAK and all the others are here
too, as well as some novel ideas like automatic
centedng of workbench windows and minor
menu enhancements. It also manages Assigns,
CLI Aliases, and so on. It's all nicely done,
although to be honest you'll only ever need
one of these programs and I'm personally
still an MCP fan. If the author Ian Einman
continues to develop AddPower, though, that
situation could change.
Associate is a handy program for assigning
icons to files. Selecting 'Show All Files' then
d . ng one or more files onto the Associate
Applcon will create icons based on the file
type, so, for instance, all picture files could
have the same icon and all sound samples
another. If the program can't recognise a file
type, a requester pops up and asks you to
select an icon.
Then there's Autostart, which acts effectively
like a more powerful version of Workbench
3.0's WBStartup drawer, Workbench tools,
shel commands and scripts, and ARexx scripts
can all be started. It's also slightly more versatile
than WBStartup because pressing the
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mouse button allows you to skip the loading of
certain programs. With a pleasant interface and
some excellent documentation, Autostad is
definitely worth a look.
Surveymem is - hurrah! - another memory
monitor program. Still, it's a very good one
which runs as a commodity, has a highly configurable
display, and can be popped onto the
frontmost public screen at any time. It also has
a groovy graphical memory display.
TrashIcon dumps a trash can on the
Workbench screen, and all files dragged onto
this Applcon are deleted. It also rather usefully
updates the Workbench window so you can
see what's been wiped.
Of course, nothing's perfect: there's a nicely
presented screenblanker, Multiblank, which
includes all the usual screen savers (staifields,
flying toasters, etc), but seems worryingly
unstable for a terminate and stay resident
program.
And there is also Colors, which might be
marvellous but I haven't the foggiest what it
does because the documentation was totally
garbled and the program crashed my system.
But apart from these two slight disappointments,
this is an excellent collection of
Workbench utilities.
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An Amiga Club International compilation disk consisting of carefully
selected Lha archives and their accompanying ReadMe files, this disk
attempts to provide a handy workbench utility for everyone.
There's lconlmage and Iconinstaller which, unsurprisingly, allow
you to do fancy things with icons. Both have nice drag and drop
interfaces and are capable of changing icon images without altering
the tooltypes, amongst other handy features. MUI-Join is a file splitting
and rejoining program making use of Stefan Stuntz's Magic User
Interface_ RAMicon allows you to install a nice icon for the RAM Disk,
instead of the dull standard floppy disk icon. ReKeylt allows you to
redefine the keyboard shortcuts for Workbench menu functions.
XToolbox creates a little window containing pull-down menus
which can include all sorts of programs - a little like Toolmanager,
plus a rather attractive 3D interface but minus a friendly configuration
program and the more fancy features. Still, it remains probably the
most useful archive on the disk.
As ever, there are a couple of little workbench memory monitor
programs - useful to programmers, but surely there are enough of
these around by now. There are also OS 3,0 datatypes for Windows
Icons, and Macpaint, PCX and .BMP picture files, as well as a processor
preferences program, and some odd inclusions such as the
occasional Swedish or Italian catalog file. Varied then, but scarcely
indispensable.
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There are separate 68000 and 68020 versions of the all-singing,
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MI, giving it an attractive interface which makes configuring MCP to
your tastes a swift and simple task, MCP v1.10 is freeware, and is
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