The story of X-Copy on the Amiga
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The story of X-Copy on the Amiga
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#2The Amiga was so, so cool. So sad it couldn't keep up.
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#3An interesting feature of getting old is when you see something you haven't in 30+ years and it suddenly snaps into focus. X-Copy was invaluable.
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#4Albeit it sort of worked for the kidlets on their lo-rez screens, demoscene- and/or game-style visual aesthetics were (and often still are) a bad choice for good application UI design. But that's of course mostly just preference talking.
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#5An interesting feature of getting old is when you see something you haven't in 30+ years and it suddenly snaps into focus. X-Copy was invaluable.
I had the same feeling when I read the interview along with the attached screenshots. A nice way to start a Sunday morning.
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#6Albeit it sort of worked for the kidlets on their lo-rez screens, demoscene- and/or game-style visual aesthetics were (and often still are) a bad choice for good application UI design. But that's of course mostly just preference talking.
Back then (no Internet for most and scarce documentation) learning proper coding wasn't easy; I recall when a good number of games, demos and some utilities too stopped working because programmers ignored or simply didn't know the guidelines (RKM books were costly for demoscene kids) and used address registers to store data. The plain 68000 CPU had internal 32 bit address registers, but physical address bus was 24 bit only, so one could use the most significant 8 bits to store data that wouldn't affect at all the working on a 24 bit bus, but when CPUs with full physical addressing came out, any program using that trick would point to other locations than those intended and thus would fail.
Re: The story of X-Copy on the Amiga
#7Albeit it sort of worked for the kidlets on their lo-rez screens, demoscene- and/or game-style visual aesthetics were (and often still are) a bad choice for good application UI design. But that's of course mostly just preference talking.
Back then (no Internet for most and scarce documentation) learning proper coding wasn't easy; I recall when a good number of games, demos and some utilities too stopped working because programmers ignored or simply didn't know the guidelines (RKM books were costly for demoscene kids) and used address registers to store data. The plain 68000 CPU had internal 32 bit address registers, but physical address bus was 24 bi…
Even AmigaBasic (by Microsoft) did this, so it also broke on 68020+.
Re: The story of X-Copy on the Amiga
#8Albeit it sort of worked for the kidlets on their lo-rez screens, demoscene- and/or game-style visual aesthetics were (and often still are) a bad choice for good application UI design. But that's of course mostly just preference talking.
One thing to remember is that these pixels looked a lot different when rendered on a typical CRT of the time.
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#9Is this sentence true, or should just sound important?
"Cachet created the word «usability» for that, meaning «start it and be able to use it right away.»"
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#10Ah, the famous tool everyone used to share their "acquisitions" back in Portugal.
Back in the 1980's even regular computer stores used to sell pirated software.