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The original Atari Control Panel was released as an accessory and would not allow separate modules for each task. Fortunately Atari did realize that it would be a good idea to allow the Control Panel to be able to load a module only when it is executed. With this solution you won´t have to lock up a lot of memory by keeping modules RAM-resident. Atari therefore released xControl, which was able to handle the new module format (CPX-files). Since then a couple of other Control Panels have been introduced (which all use the CPX-format) and they differ somewhat in looks and features. Take a look below and try to figure out which one you fancy!
|  Freedom is both a fileselector and a control panel, and it does indeed perform both these tasks very well. You are allowed to have several modules opened at the same time and you can resize the window showing the modules entries. It has a quite neat look, but that is compensated by the somewhat slow redraws. Author: Kolja Koischwitz and Christian Krüger |
 Cops is the only control panel that shows the modules as icons in both rows and columns. This is something that I believe makes it a lot easier to get an overview over the installed CPX-modules. It is worth mentioning that at least when running under TOS this program might want NVDI installed to work properly. Since I have NVDI installed this is my preferred control panel. Author: Sven & Wilfried Behne, Thomas Much |
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This clone looks a lot like the original xControl but will in addition allow several modules opened at once. It also has support for the most important languages built-in. Unfortunately you can´t resize zControl by dragging the corner of its window, but by altering values under options you can make it view between 3 and 9 module entries at once compared to 4 for xControl. This version (0.25a) is released to fix the problems that earlier versions had with Y2k.
Author: Ralf Zimmermann |
 Well, what can I say? This is the original control panel and it has no real advantages over the clones mentioned above, except being true Atari Corporation software! Author: Atari Corporation |
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| About this page: I believe all these files to be shareware or freeware and thus free to distribute. However, if you are the author of one of these programs and want them removed from this site, please get in touch! Additional information on the various programs mentioned would also be welcome. Joakim Högberg (gokmase@bigfoot.com) |
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