@cycloid
1. Mine used to get 20 seconds
(and if we're comparing fastest with fastest, I'm sure I've heard reports of more like 5-10 seconds on some Amigas).
5. It's more a limitation of implementation of the programs (especially Workbench, which doesn't seem to like opening multiple files) than a limitation of drag and drop. Dragging/dropping multiple files is certainly possible.
9a Um, yes you can copy between Amiga programs, without additional utilities. It's true that copying of non-text data isn't as well supported. Though at the same time, I feel this is badly implemented in Windows in that copying unformatted text (which I need 99% of the time) isn't the default, I have to go through a menu option then selecting through a window, where as it'd be one keypress on the Amiga.
9b. Er, replace Control with the Amiga key, and you have the Amiga's standard shortcuts. Maybe some programs, especially ten year old ones, do something different, but it's the same on Windows if programmers wish to be awkward.
9d. 'Prefs' is equivalent to 'Control Panel'. 'Sys' is equivalent to 'C:'. I don't know where you get Workbench and Work from; these simply don't exist. They're common choices for names of different partitions, but then you can have more than one partition on Windows. The only point here is that there is some redundancy between tools, utils and commodities, and that expansion seems to be useless (?), so I would agree that this situation should be cleaned up.
9f. Well you don't code for AHI/native/zorro/etc, because AHI *is* the API, and that will redirect to wherever is necessary. There is some OpenGL support in the form of Mesa (I'm doing some OpenGL stuff on Windows too, and porting it back over to the Amiga is pretty easy, without needing to create startup dialogues). Also there are other APIs, such as SDL. Certainly it's true that the APIs that Amiga has are fewer and less developed than Windows has, but you seem to think that the Amiga doesn't have anything at all here.. As for startup dialogues, some Amiga authors like to cater for more than one API and offer a choice, but this happens on Windows too.
