os3.1 - Facelift to look/work like 3.9?

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I had "fun" patching my Amiga systems today. Spent nearly half the day upgrading all sorts of 68k resident files to be 020+ optimized. On a dead serious note, my A2500 and A3000 (especially) seem to really fly now. Both of these systems are more responsive (button clicks to applications opening and general WB stuff I am talking) than just about any other computer I've ever used.

Only thing I really miss from my OS3.1 A3000 system compared to my OS3.9 A2500 is the fact that the latter knows what to do with certain files natively. Lemme 'splain... I guess I am aware of the GUIUnarc program (although I've never used it) for 3.1... be nice if, when you double-click on an archived file, that a GUI would pop up like it does with 3.9 giving you options. Other thing I really miss is the smooth scrolling of files within a window using the vertical slider (I plopped what I thought were the appropriate Gadgets into Sys:Classes/Gadgets to no avail) and how Icons are drawn in OS3.9 (WHDLoad icons specifically). They're pretty and colorful - totally opposite in 3.1. Oh and double-clicking on a .txt file, a .jpg/.bmp, etc., for the "basics", one should never bring up a frickin' CLI requester that forces the user to edit and point directly to a program for further opening/examination. All that shit should just "work" and be viewable when I double-click on it. lol   Yes, I think I'm totally spoiled by now with using a Mac all these years. :lol:

I think I could be totally happy with an 030 system and 3.1 if a few of these issues could be tweaked. Not too far off really. I don't mind going up into the requester, backspacing before a compressed file and typing in lha e...  lol  But a lot of time is still wasted futzing around when the OS should know what to do with a certain file extension.

[save2600]

Man I've forgotten so much.

You said it! Me too man, but it is fun going back and tweaking these beasts to get 'em to do what you want 'em to do. Thanks for the tidbits. I'll have to do some more investigating. I've definitely forgotten as much, if not more as I once knew. Lots of variables why that is, but let's just say as the more time goes on - with the internet and "computing" where it is now, I'm really digging the simplicity and the 'getting back to basics' (hardly) computing experience that one receives playing around with the Amiga again - after all these years. The resources are out there to keep these things viable or damn near it. May as well use 'em and put them to work. If it wasn't for the shite coding going on in a lot of today's websites (programming techniques laden with features and advertising I could care less about), I'd be just fine computing on a REAL computer such as the Miggy's instead of being forced to have a WinTel box or Apple product