Every little thing she does...

[The_Editor]

Well you can always copy to Ram:

in one document

fire up second Program and load whatever you saved into ram:

fire up third/fourth/fifth/sixth/seventh/eigth/ninth etc...

Proggie (All at the same time) and access,  or even drag & drop into / out of Ram:

[Ami603]

1-. My Amiga Machine can be Booted & shutdown also in less than half of your boot time
2-.No matter what software ISP provides,Miami,Genesis or Roadshow run
it fine
3-.Same,Maybe faster & easier here.No need of reformating unless Upgrading
newer HD.
4-.It Can Be done also with the OS partition.Updates & drivers included.
No need to reinstalling.
5-.Drag & drop works here perfectly,also with ASL requesters.
6-.Virtual memory not needed
7-.Less memory works well also.
8-.You can do some Art as well without Photoshop.
Art Effect,Photogenics,PerfectPaint,DiamondBox,FXPAint
9-.Shortcuts here on amiga too and most of programs do well,Amiga C,Amiga V,Amiga X,
10-.Work? what work: you can rename it as you want and set up your partitions as you like
not needed to set an specific config,and For drawers on Sys: partition,you cannot also
complain about /windows/system files,but more accurate and well known: fonts,Libs,etc
11-.Warp3d,OpenGL have their own implementations here as well
12-.No,Zero EULA files out/deleted from your computer by someone

Amiga Still roolz!!
Started new flame war to non-MOS Campers

[Ami603]

Hey,Just noticed my first gained Boing Cube
Nice!!!
:hammer::hammer::hammer::hammer::hammer:

[420Dude]

"there is no better OS in the world for sitting down, taking a massive bong rip and getting a little crazy with. Amiga is #1 beyond doubt!" , 420Dude

[Trezzer]

I can't even put my fingers on what is so great about it other than all of the little things.

It just feels right. I tend to get extremely frustrated after working with other OSs for extended periods of time. Whenever I boot up my Amiga it just feels like home.

[Roj]

9.d.

Actually, if Amiga were done Microsoft's way, your system would look like
this:

Relabel SYS: C
MakeDir C:Windows
Assign LIBS: C:Windows
Assign DEVS: C:Windows
Assign FONTS: C:Windows/Fonts
Assign L: C:Windows
Assign ENV: C:Windows
Assign ENVARC: C:Windows
Assign S: C:Windows
Assign T: C:Windows/Temp
Assign MUI: C:Windows
Assign Internet: C:Windows
Assign #?DamnNearEverything#? C:Windows

MakeDir "C:Program Files" ; Let's put a space in a drawer name!
Assign Work: "C:Program Files"

:-D

[Roj]

Something else Windows needs to fix is the way the Apply gadget works.
Hitting Apply shouldn't make the change permanent. When I hit Apply
and I don't like the change, hitting "Cancel" should revert to the previous
settings.

[Trezzer]

Better yet: Have these choices instead...
Use / Test / Cancel

[cycloid]

..is tragic? probably applies to the PC better :-)

my point about tools/utils/etc. was that when i first got my 1200 HD going with 3.1 (this was about 4 years ago) i had no idea where to find anything... it's probably a bit moot because that was before we all got used to start menus.

it IS a bit annoying that when you open a file requester there are a million Assigns thrown at you (before i run scripts for things like vbcc too!), some assumed tree logic might have been a little nicer, e.g. SYS:c/ SYS:libs/ SYS:devs/ etc. instead of assigning them all... so they'd still not suffer the c:/windows/bloat problem but at the same time it wouldnt be as scary when all tyou want to do is find something... ?

i just thought of something!!

how about a very clever file reqester that can not only hide system files but also has the option to hide system assigns (apart from SYS:)

assigns are the best thing in the universe never to be copied by the PC though... it's so nice to not have to make a distinction between a pointer, a folder or a volume! dontchathink?

cycloid

turbo amiga nutter:
www.cycloid.biz/junk/amiga3.jpg

[Tomas]

1. my windows machine boots from power button to desktop in under 30 seconds.

I have really hard to believe that you included the detect of hd, ram and such....  But anyways, so WHAT? My amiga boots in less than 5sec and its clocked at 7mhz!!  :-P  :-P  :-P  :-P  :-P  :-P  :-P  

[Tomas]

and yeah the ram disk!! aaaahh i love that feature.

[mdwh2]

@cycloid

1. Mine used to get 20 seconds (and if we're comparing fastest with fastest, I'm sure I've heard reports of more like 5-10 seconds on some Amigas).
5. It's more a limitation of implementation of the programs (especially Workbench, which doesn't seem to like opening multiple files) than a limitation of drag and drop. Dragging/dropping multiple files is certainly possible.
9a Um, yes you can copy between Amiga programs, without additional utilities. It's true that copying of non-text data isn't as well supported. Though at the same time, I feel this is badly implemented in Windows in that copying unformatted text (which I need 99% of the time) isn't the default, I have to go through a menu option then selecting through a window, where as it'd be one keypress on the Amiga.
9b. Er, replace Control with the Amiga key, and you have the Amiga's standard shortcuts. Maybe some programs, especially ten year old ones, do something different, but it's the same on Windows if programmers wish to be awkward.
9d. 'Prefs' is equivalent to 'Control Panel'. 'Sys' is equivalent to 'C:'. I don't know where you get Workbench and Work from; these simply don't exist. They're common choices for names of different partitions, but then you can have more than one partition on Windows. The only point here is that there is some redundancy between tools, utils and commodities, and that expansion seems to be useless (?), so I would agree that this situation should be cleaned up.
9f. Well you don't code for AHI/native/zorro/etc, because AHI *is* the API, and that will redirect to wherever is necessary. There is some OpenGL support in the form of Mesa (I'm doing some OpenGL stuff on Windows too, and porting it back over to the Amiga is pretty easy, without needing to create startup dialogues). Also there are other APIs, such as SDL. Certainly it's true that the APIs that Amiga has are fewer and less developed than Windows has, but you seem to think that the Amiga doesn't have anything at all here.. As for startup dialogues, some Amiga authors like to cater for more than one API and offer a choice, but this happens on Windows too.

[N7VQM]

Ami603 wrote:
1-. My Amiga Machine can be Booted & shutdown also in less than half of your boot time

Must be nice.  It takes my A3k more than a minute to even start booting. :-o

[cycloid]

my point about the boot time was a PC thing, yeah that includes everything including me hitting the return key real quick when the network login box comes up. i was making a point though that PCs CAN work fast and efficiently if you just look after them and that getting amiga to be friendly is no easy task either (what with having to "install" all sorts of garbage like MUI Classact fulpallet etc!) ... e.g. theree's nothing in my systray but the clock and the volume control, ive seen people with hundreds of dodgy little programs running in there! eek!

[amigamad]

I agree its the little things that are the best i like the way an amiga can be reset and rebooted more than 4 times when  a pc has not even managed one  :-D  :-D  :-D

[Arney]

When I got my first Amiga, the best I liked about her was how easy it was to play games. My dad had a PC then, and when I wanted to play a game on his machine, I had to make all kinds of boot disks. EMS, XMS, Himem, Soundcard drivers, etc. etc. With the Amiga it was easy. Just pop in the game, turn on the computer and it works. If you wanted to play another game.... just pop in another disk and reset!! They should make something like that with CDs possible on the Amiga One.

One of the best utilities ever I think is SnoopDos. I don't think there's anything like that for Windows (I could be wrong though)