Dave Haynie Talks About Developing The Commodore Amiga

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Dave talks about the past again.
Ever notice he never has anything good to say about the present?

Well, quite a few of us, amigans and in general, do have a certain degree of intrest in the past.
On my harddrive there are tons of historical documentary being narrated by the heros/innevators of the past.

Jim Lowell, Chris Kraft, Gene Kranz....long list (yes, I have a semi-unhealthy admiration of the old NASA crew).

They still do documentaries and speeches on their past developments and expiriences. I for one find it intresting to listen to, even tho its "anicent" history, with archaic technology.

The same could be said about people like Haynie, the guys that have first hand information about the research and development of Commodore technology. I would not be suprised him (like others) are invited with a speech on the birth of Amiga in mind.

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Iggy, why rate their "worth" in that way?

And either way, Jay Miner has been dead for a good while, so Im sorry to say they "have to settle" for Haynie.

Gene Kranz gets tons of attention for example thru the Apollo 13 ordeal, while Chris Kraft was his mentor and "inventor" of Central command/mission control. Its not until you watch some documentaries/read some history you realise each of them are important parts of the whole construct.

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I wouldnt say it was "too late" already by 90-92. At that time I had Amiga only while a few friends got the PC, and it was much more userfriendly than what my buddies had.
They had no problem agreeing with that back then, but in quite short period of time after that Amiga was left trailing in the dust.
I still remember tweaking the autoexec.bat and config.sys or whatever it was called when I needed to get hardware to work on the old PCs.
PCs was horrible back then, but it almost feels like Amiga has traded places with the PCs now in that regard, requiring some level of OS knowledge to get exotic (or programs with bad installers) programs to work.

Then again, Ive probarly become so spoilt with everything being plug and play these days, that I consider the minimum of tweaking requirement to be "horrible userfriendliness". The "problem" with this is that IF something doesnt work as expected the general OS/Hardware knowledge is so low that the user is left with a blank stare at the monitor instead of knowing how to work around it.