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Re: Having Fun: Me and the Amiga operating system in 2011
« on: February 08, 2011, 10:04:40 AM »
Quote from: mbrantley;613618

I've dabbled with MorphOS, registering the current version that's on my aging eMac. Very nice, very polished. It runs LightWave v5 so very well, and Titler and ShowGirls are quite worthwhile. I could make a home there, but the butterfly is a little too different for me. No screen dragging? Really? DH0: seems to be something I shouldn't touch, with the stuff I'm looking for to be found on DH1: where Work: should be. Show all files? Not where I expect it -- have to right-click somewhere else. The drawers? They are folders! And the hardware is getting old, with a CRT going soft and capacitors showing slight bulges to worry me.


Couple of points...

I don't have screen dragging on real Amiga either as I'm using RTG there. From two options (CGX and P96) only other one supports it, but if it's enabled, screen switching becomes too slow because of memory swapping, so in practise you can forget it there too.

DH0: and other partition device names can be whatever user wants. If you don't happen to like default scheme, you can modify it yourself. On classic Amiga everyone used what they preferred too.. many used for example HD0: etc.. or QDH0: etc depending the HD manufacturer. Same can be done in MorphOS too. I for example have hidden boot image partition called BI0: on my Pegasos and real partitions starting from DH0: (sys).

Show all files then, yes, bit different place, but easier IMHO. Either RMB, cycle gadget or keyboard shortcut. I have it on same keyboard shortcut like on old Amiga and used to use it from there instead of slow navigating to pulldown menus.

Drawers are still called as drawers in Ambient ("New Drawer..." etc) :) Icon images can be replaced. There are PNG icon packs with drawer like images, but even old Amiga icons do work if you prefer them.
Daily MorphOS user and Amiga active.