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Re: Twenty-Five
« on: August 04, 2010, 07:50:18 PM »
Gource FTW :)
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Re: Twenty-Five
« Reply #1 on: August 04, 2010, 08:59:57 PM »
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Wow! That was neat.  I like the programmers looking like busy little worker bees zapping the source tree and growing it.


I didn't realise they had repository information going back that far in order to visualise it.
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Re: Twenty-Five
« Reply #2 on: August 04, 2010, 09:43:45 PM »
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The first check-in in our log is by "kodiak" (Bob Burns) and is dated 29th of January, 1985 at half past twelve ;-)


Blimey. What where they using back then? RCS or something?
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Re: Twenty-Five
« Reply #3 on: August 04, 2010, 10:09:16 PM »
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Yep, RCS.


And to think I complain about subversion :)
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Re: Twenty-Five
« Reply #4 on: August 04, 2010, 10:17:43 PM »
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http://hyperion-entertainment.biz/media/video/eLAP_AmigaOS.mpg <-how cool is this, an amigaos4 version for an handheld!!! i want it!!!


It's certainly a lot snappier than I expected. I guess a major problem would have been creating a more suitable touch-driven user interface for such a device. As nice as Workbench is, it's very much a desktop UI, to my mind.
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Re: Twenty-Five
« Reply #5 on: August 04, 2010, 11:12:26 PM »
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I had actually started to work on a new file manager/program launcher type of application for the eLAP version, which ran on an AmigaOne and which was used to make screenshots form. It could use normal AmigaOS icons but presented them in a different way.

I stopped working on it when the project was canned.

AmigaOS was actually quite responsive on the device. It's a shame it never came to be.


Quite. Such is life, I guess.
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Re: Twenty-Five
« Reply #6 on: August 05, 2010, 08:48:03 PM »
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It had everything that the normal version had except for an audio driver. Thom had written a driver for the touch screen and case buttons, and it had a LED that could actually output RGB values that was controlled via some resource. It even had the emulator running, and it ran WBSteroids and SuperBase - you were a bit restricted to the software we had on the image since the CF and Memory stick interface didn't work yet.

It's hard to convey how cool it was to boot from the thing the first time and suddenly see a "Please insert volume Workbench" requester pop up, or the boing ball with animated floppy disk :)


Presumably, though, you still have it, right? Would be nice to see it in action.
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Re: Twenty-Five
« Reply #7 on: August 06, 2010, 06:47:50 PM »
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The eLAP? No, unfortunately we don't have them anymore. They were returned after the work was finished.


That's a crying shame. Having a portable AmigaOS compatible really appeals to my inner geek.
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