Classic Amiga Design Pet Hates

[mpiva]

Hi,

@Kthunder,

The reason Commodore had the disk drive constantly running was to recognize the insertion of a disk, then it would automatically load. Thanks to a smart programmer he was able to shut down the drive, and still have it determine if a disk was inserted. Workaround emmm yes, but then when you reload the Amiga Os the machine was really fast because you didn't have to hit the OK on the Insert disk 2 question like you did on other machines.

smerf

IIRC, NoClick came out during the AmigaOS 1.3 days and I think 95% of Amiga users used it.  It always amazed me that Commodore never thought to implement NoClick's functionality as standard in AmigaOS 2.x or even 3.x

[mpiva]

Well my main complaints are basic AmigaOS related ones:

What the hell were they thinking when they created a Prefs folder with a million preferences program piled in it (actually fifteen prefrences programs on 3.0/3.1)?
Couldnt they simply created a centralized one with all the details much like ProDad p.O.S. or MorphOS have?
BTW, this complaint remains valid on 3.9 and even in 4.1. No one seems sane enough to fix this, or even acknowledge all this. They even make it worse. I hope no one ever releases OS5 or OS6, because we will need to take an internship just to get the grips on all the different preferences programs alone!

  I don't really mind the number of Prefs programs.  To me, having a Prefs directory with a dozen different programs is really no different than having a Prefs program with a dozen different Tabs.  The real issue, I think, is the names of these programs.  Unless you've been an Amiga user for a while, the names are complete gibberish.  You have to rely more on what the icons look like than anything else.

  I understand there may be some legal issues with trying to change the names of some of these programs but, at the very least, Prefs should have subdirectories like, "Graphics", "Sound", "Printers", "Input", etc.  That would help a little bit.