Directory Opus 5 — All Amigas

A maintained continuation of Directory Opus 5 Magellan II for AmigaOS, MorphOS, and AROS.

The dopus5allamigas fork builds on the 2012 APL source release with GCC/cross-toolchain support, platform fixes, and ongoing module work.

Supported platforms

• AmigaOS 3 (m68k, including OS3.9/OS3.2)
• AmigaOS 4 (PPC)
• MorphOS (PPC)
• AROS (i386 ABIv0 and x86_64 ABIv11)

Downloads

Pre-built binaries are published under Releases.

Building

The project builds with GCC-based cross-compilation toolchains for each target platform. CI uses the sacredbanana/amiga-compiler Docker images for AmigaOS 3, AmigaOS 4, and MorphOS. AROS builds use the midwan/aros-compiler:i386-aros and midwan/aros-compiler:x86_64-aros Docker images.

General flow (inside the toolchain environment):

cd source
make os3        # AmigaOS 3
make os4        # AmigaOS 4
make mos        # MorphOS
make i386-aros      # AROS/i386 ABIv0
make x86_64-aros    # AROS/x86_64 ABIv11

Release archives are built from the same makefile:

cd source
make os3 release debug=no

The FTP module can be built with SFTP support by passing sftp=yes. For AmigaOS 3, AmigaOS 4, and MorphOS this uses the bundled libssh2 build helper by default.

cd source
make os3 sftp=yes
make os3 release debug=no sftp=yes

Consult source/makefile and the module makefiles for the full list of targets and options.

Testing

The FTP parser/protocol tests run on a normal Unix-like host:

make -C source/Modules/ftp -f makefile.tests test

If libssh2 development headers are installed, the SFTP backend tests can also be run:

make -C source/Modules/ftp -f makefile.tests test-libssh2

Project Status

Active development happens in this repository. See ChangeLog for the change history, Releases for packaged builds, and GitHub Issues for open work and bug reports.

License

Directory Opus 5 is released under the AROS Public License (APL) version 1.1 — see COPYING.

Optional builds may include or link third-party components. In particular, the FTP module's SFTP support built with sftp=yes uses libssh2 and zlib; see THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md.

"Directory Opus" is a registered trademark of GP Software. The APL trademark licence limits use of the mark to Amiga-like platforms (AmigaOS, MorphOS, AROS, and compatibles); use on Windows, macOS, Linux, etc. is not permitted.

The release under the APL does not affect the commercial status of Directory Opus for Windows. See https://www.gpsoft.com.au for that product.

Credits

• Jonathan Potter / GP Software — original Directory Opus 5 / Magellan II (1993-2012)
• DOPUS5 Open Source Team — initial post-APL GCC ports and platform work for OS3 / OS4 / MorphOS / AROS (2012-2013)
• Dimitris Panokostas (@midwan) — dopus5allamigas fork maintainer (2023-present)
• All other contributors listed in AUTHORS

Special thanks to Olaf Schönweiß and the power2people.org contributors who funded the original open-source release.

Legacy

The original 2012 APL release README is preserved at README.legacy.

Links

• Issue tracker: GitHub Issues
• Historical project site: https://sourceforge.net/p/dopus5allamigas/
• Directory Opus for Windows (commercial): https://www.gpsoft.com.au