The Amiga Smart File System
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The Amiga Smart File System
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#2I try not to be /that Amiga guy/, but every time I dip in to a little Amiga history it leads me deep in to a rabbit hole of things that still amaze me.
Thinking about storage now…
My favourite drop in disk hack was probably diskspr¹ to store 980k on a double-density disk, which worked by replacing trackdisk.device².
And awesome libraries like xpk³, which allowed you to add aftermarket compression/encryption support to applications. Looks like people are still writing modules too, including LZMA⁴ support(although I can't begin to imagine how slow that would've been on my Amiga ;).
1. http://aminet.net/package/disk/misc/Diskspr3#contents 2. https://wiki.amigaos.net/wiki/Trackdisk_Device 3. https://www.dstoecker.eu/xpkmaster.html#Overview 4. http://aminet.net/package/util/pack/xpkL2XZ
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#3This was introduced four years after Commodore went bankrupt. Not even Lisp Machine hackers have the dedication of Amiga hackers.
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#4This was introduced four years after Commodore went bankrupt. Not even Lisp Machine hackers have the dedication of Amiga hackers.
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#5This was introduced four years after Commodore went bankrupt. Not even Lisp Machine hackers have the dedication of Amiga hackers.
The Lisp Machine has an emulator ported to ARM64. Twenty years after it went bankrupt.
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#6I try not to be /that Amiga guy/, but every time I dip in to a little Amiga history it leads me deep in to a rabbit hole of things that still amaze me. Thinking about storage now… My favourite drop in disk hack was probably diskspr¹ to store 980k on a double-density disk, which worked by replacing trackdisk.device². And awesome libraries like xpk³, which allowed you to add aftermarket compression/encryption support t…
X-Copy [1] also bring back memories. And some guilty ones.
* [1] http://www.generationamiga.com/2016/12/23/xcopy-amiga-pirate...
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#7It wasn't diskdoctor compatible though.
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#8It wasn't diskdoctor compatible though.
The diskdoctor was anyway more like a doctor from the stone age that killed more patients than it saved.
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#9This was introduced four years after Commodore went bankrupt. Not even Lisp Machine hackers have the dedication of Amiga hackers.
https://hackaday.com/2018/12/19/thats-a-lisp-machine-in-your...
A Z80 running an implementation of lisp is not a lisp machine, sorry. Not an apt comparison.
You might want to lookup what a real lisp machine is.
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#10It wasn't diskdoctor compatible though.
The diskdoctor was anyway more like a doctor from the stone age that killed more patients than it saved.
And the doctor in diskdoctor was very forgetful, because he would not remember the name of its patients (disks) and called all of them Lazarus.
(Jokes aside, this only occurred if track 40 was corrupt, IIRC)