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One little thing that I always liked about the Amiga was that it could show human dates. I never owned one, but my friend had an Amiga 1000, and I remember the directory listing had dates like "Last Thursday," or "Christmas, 1990," or "An hour ago." I don't know if that was part of the stock Amiga OS, or an add-on, but it was awfully cool.
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Systemd is nothing new, Linux copying comercial UNIXes and Windows/VMS, with the community dumping hate left and right on the authors. cgroups has been a thing on mainframes for decades.
SystemD is like Solaris service manager, but far worse. And, on cgroups, I think AIX has something like that but much, much, MUCH better.
It’s not the wrong type of solution but systemd is somewhat stinky compared to what we could have had.
A big "Yes" to proportional scroll bars. I didn't have an Amiga, but rather an ST. The ST also had proportional scroll bars and for years, I could not understand why the major platforms (Windows, MacOS) did not. It was a pet peeve that really bothered me when I would sit down to use someone's Mac or PC of the time. I should have realized it could be worse. With the modern era's "mobile first" UX regime, we now have m…
but you can't interact with them except by bringing the mouse over the right side, and you can't see them so you literally have lost a visual cue of the very thing you want to interact with. It's just amazing.
I just can’t get over how those original Amiga screenshots always look stretched vertically. That would have driven me insane.
I just can’t get over how those original Amiga screenshots always look stretched vertically. That would have driven me insane.
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It is pretty crazy to think that Babylon 5 had better special effects than TNG (in my opinion) and did it for cheap on the Amiga compared to Industrial Lights and Magic that TNG used.
It's a weird comparison. Babylon 5's special effects were very early CGI, but TNG has almost no computer graphics at all. (Nearly) everything was done practically, and with models. Personally I think TNG stands up better, and the fact that it was done practically and shot on film now allows a high-definition version to exist, which can never happen for B5.
>And we were fierce: if you think Apple fanboys are annoying today, be very happy you didn't meet an Amiga zealot in 1995. I was an Atari 8-bit guy, but I have a friend who was an Amiga zealot, and to this day every time we have a conversation he make an Amiga reference.
The Amiga was so far ahead of its time that there hasn't been anything else comparable. I lived through that time and I reference it a lot as well because so many things today are based on the Amiga or still aren't done as well as they were done on the Amiga.
ARexx was pretty cool - I had written up an AmigaGuide glossary (index) maker; was quite slow, but became quite speedy when I rewrote it in C.
I’m surprised it still has some advanced features that some OS’s lack (like system-wide desktop customizable fonts, which macOS still lacks)
No CD While AmigaDOS does have a CD command, it's usually not needed. Any command that evaluates to a valid path will automatically change the current working directory to that path How is that useful?
It just means you don’t have to type cd before the path to change directories. It’s not a big deal at all, especially in the context of the DOS shells of the day or modern *nix shells. eg: > Quarantine/Trojan Will dump you into the Trojan directory relative to the current path. Unless.... Trojan is a binary, then it will run it. Oops.