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Offline marcfrick2112

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Re: Classic Amiga Design Pet Hates
« on: June 13, 2010, 05:36:32 AM »
I agree with mpiva; I don't mind the number of prefs programs.. but the naming and organisation could be confusing to a new user.
Not like Window$ is much better in this regard... I'd been trying to get a WiFi adapter to work on my WinXP machine... had endless trouble remembering if I had to check 'network connections' 'Wireless connections', the software that came with the adapter, or whatever....

About the floppy click... OK, I use 'anticlick' or similar on all my machines... But it serves one purpose for me.... I freak out when patches slow down the boot... If I hear the click (before MCP runs) I know at least the machine is trying to boot...

Kerning.... As mentioned, if you use any decent WP or DTP program, the issue should be minimal.... But, I would have loved some advice/FAQs on setting up kerning tables... Wordworth alludes to this, but helps little...

Only 2MB chip RAM.... Bummer... But, in defense of the Amiga designers, they prob. never imagined how memory needs would increase, or the types of progs. we'd be running years from that point... Man, if only the 'Free Beer' jumper actually worked :)

Printing system... yup, it sucks... I confess I've not printed under 3.5/3.9 directly.... I was already using TurboPrint then....   Related... scalable fonts should have been available the second an '020 accel. was available for any Amiga... And programs adapted for said fonts.


I'll think of other things later..... Regardless, I still love my miggies :hammer:
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Marc Frick
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A1200T / \'060, 256MB, CD-R, OS3.9
A4000 w/ WarpEngine / 82MB , OS3.1
A4000 16MB, OS 3.9
A1200 , \'030 / 10MB
A1200 (stock)

CD32 :)

...And a very sick 4000T
 

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Re: Classic Amiga Design Pet Hates
« Reply #1 on: June 22, 2010, 05:11:15 AM »
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The 4000 case isn't That bad.... I've seen worse.... :)

But yeah, the cooling slots.... a pain, to be sure.... I keep an old small bristle brush around just because it's sized just right to clean those slots....
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Marc Frick
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A1200T / \'060, 256MB, CD-R, OS3.9
A4000 w/ WarpEngine / 82MB , OS3.1
A4000 16MB, OS 3.9
A1200 , \'030 / 10MB
A1200 (stock)

CD32 :)

...And a very sick 4000T