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No, please keep on track. "Mac-like" is a perfect fit for the "Daddy, what's (a) computer/programming?" vibe crowd. Even The Company itself thinks so, as evidenced by relevant adve…

> I suppose what I'm trying to say is that it's ironic that the one guy providing these consumer-friendly features is considered anathema by many of the people clamoring for those …

> [...] if only for lack of two thumb sticks. Certainly one of the most devisive controller designs, but the lack of two thumbsticks is precisely what I like about it. The pad cent…

> I am nuanced enough to appreciate that these qualities are present in the products being produced and still not buy from this producer because of their industry ties. ModRetro pr…

> So you know, either go all in and live like you mean it or stop pointing fingers at only very select individuals. Careful. You're one step away from playing out the "Yet you part…

> It's ironic, in another world HN commenters would be lauding Luckey and ModRetro for all these virtues. Lot's of HN (and "social" media) commenters in this world evidently are; n…

That is patently false as a look through the company's wiki page(s) will confirm [1]. 1. [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anduril_Industries ]

> [...] and it required a massive PC to run at all -- a Pentium with 16MB was entry level [...]. Minimum was a 386 (12 MB RAM, 16 MB RAM for the ASE); seems the recommended minimum…

> [...] because I also feel dubbing in Germany comes out pretty much right. You've got to be kidding me, lol. Anyway, voice (character) mismatch is the first thing I often notice. …

I wanted to leave this Faden for all the immigrant voices but this misinformation simply cannot stand, lol. Dubbing for foreign movies is an art long lost in Germany; the East Germ…

> Partially agree, but I also think that they were victims of the graphic cards revolution where each year you could have shiny new GFX and visuals, and that drove new games develo…

> The famous post https://www.oldmanmurray.com/features/77.html illustrates how the genre became too contrived and self-referential (even poking fun at those who blame “television-…

If you have no serious problem to wrap your head around the columnar presentation of data than "intuitive" is not an unapt way to describe the whole deal. Say, where music theory a…

> I can verify that modern AI's, even the frontier ones, are absolute crap at producing ASCII art or ANSI art. That's good. > We need models to be better trained on digital fine ar…

> To the best of my knowledge, the scene never produced a pixel painter for the Amiga (except later ports of Grafx2), [...]. The 86ers got one, on the other hand. It's from Sweden.…

> The fact that the corpses are kept upright as open source projects doesn’t really change anything. Bit harsh, lol. And you invited agriculture poetry! Albeit I've heard that many…

> The Amiga had a superior and hardware and software combo [...] All things considered, no. It didn't. It had, for quite a while, a better bang-for-the-buck appeal, hardware- and s…

> It’s close enough. 1990 was pretty much the start of the end of Commodore and Atari. I got the same impression from the German trade press in 1991, which emphasized the openness,…

> Flat design is so ridiculous. Flat, or quasi-flat (minimalistic/brutalist), design is fantastic if one makes use of appropriate visual discriminators, e. g. shadows, outlines, co…

> Amiga was basically the poor man's UNIX-like workstation when you couldn't afford to shell out somewhere between 10k and 100k for a NeXT, Sun or SGI workstation. Or 6K (1.5K used…

The PC made it. Decisively and on all accounts. Save one. You Amiga nerdlingers got adequate enough hardware in them nice wedge-style keyboard computer cases (i. e. not counting Am…

> The A3000 had a ficker fixer. That's demonstratably false. But the A3000 was a ficker fixer.

> But, the counterargument to this is if it helps people start books, [...]. It certainly doesn't. Not that it matters to people who love reading books, for they know judging a who…

Another day, another rotten candy apple for giggling postliterates.

The average user didn't have "to mess much" with that in DOSland either. Most of that is just false memory. IRQ settings? Pffft. Cards came factory-configured to a default that was…