Classic Amiga Design Pet Hates

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make the damn floppy drive stop clicking!

Hi,

Did you ever hear of the program called noclick.

I believe it came on some of the old Software Hut disks when you purchased something from them in the old days.

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Hi,

@playgeneration,


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2MB chip ram limit on 1200 and 4000, having an oboard simm socket with 2mb in as standard with the option to upgrade to 4MB or perhaps more would have been great. Perhaps then I could actually play games that expect to use all the chip ram like T-zero.
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Can't really answer about the ram except that in those days ram was very expensive. Somehow Commodore saw expansion, and limited it to 2mb of ram. Probably an engineering design flaw, ask Mr. Haynie on this one. (Probably something planned for the future to make Commodore money).

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Black and white composite output on the 2000, seriously, why?
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I know that you are going to find this hard to believe, but Commodore brought out the A2000 to compete with the IBM business machine and Unix machines, back in those days Color monitors were very expensive and most business's used either B&W, Amber or Green monitors.

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No scandoubler/flicker fixer in the 4000, a backwards step from the 3000
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The original design had that and a lot more, Thanks to Mr. Ali on this one, he had the A4000 butchered to meet cost expenditures.

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stupid yellowing plastic cases

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Come on now, you guys will blame Commodore for everything, the yellowing case is actually your fault, you are the one that kept your machine out in the sunlight, now aren't you? I kept mine in a dark room with no lights, and my A1200 is still white. You have only yourself to blame for this one.

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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.

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no kerning, makes all of your printing look amaturish

Hi,

Ever try Final Copy or Final Copy II.

I was accused of having a laser printer back in the 80's because of these programs.

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Hi,

@ Karlos,

Once again Karlos, leaking battries is your fault, do you not check your car battery at least once a month for water, the reason you do this is so that the battery does not get hot from being dry and crack and leak the remaining acid out on your car. You should of read Commodores bulletin no. 234 on how to check your Amiga's battery, and bought the special refilling kit. This would have prevented this problem.

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Thought I'd post a new thread to celebrate my 500th anniversary.
There are many little "things" about classic Amiga's that p*** people off.
In the spirit of positive feedback: It's the way products become better: CIP.  Not that that will help with classics.  But:

Why on the A500, A600 and A1200 is there a lip on the back that makes it impossible to see the connectors from above....Grrr...?

Any other pet hates ?

Hi,

What really makes me angry about my Amiga's is the way they were put together, you had to have an engineering degree on "How to take apart an Amiga" when you wanted to change or look at something, the A3000 was horrible, the A4000 was worse, the A2000 was just hard, and the A1200 had a course on "How to bandaid your hands after popping all those sharp tinny tabs" As a matter of fact Commodore came out with band aid instructions after the A1000. How many of you put off something on the Amiga to the week end because you know you had to pull it apart to put something in it?

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