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Re: Top 3 worst ideas in Amiga history?
« on: February 10, 2010, 06:48:50 PM »
My 2 cents:

1   The toy-like color scheme and preferences of OSes before 2.x.  The early Amigas were never taken seriously by business and corporate types the first 5 years of production.  Only the TI-99's color scheme was more toy-like and hideous.

2   The strange font system.  The Amiga, despite it's many strong points, is still not the best for producing documents and printing.

3   There should have been a networking solution built-in from the beginning.  Hindsight is 20/20.

4   Hard drive solutions, when they appeared, were too expensive.  Already said.

5   Paula should have been improved as early as possible to CD quality sound.  Also, already said.


People always mention the gaming ability or the multitasking (still excellent), or video output.  I still love the dynamic ram disk and RAD:.  The Amiga was the first comparitively inexpensive computer that could display photographic quality images in color.  The OS was beautifully engineered to be near "real-time" and extensible and it is still unique and relevant in 2010, at least to me.
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Re: Top 3 worst ideas in Amiga history?
« Reply #1 on: February 10, 2010, 07:39:42 PM »
Quote from: Karlos;542497
There used to be a pretty cool networking solution that used an adapter on the floppy drive port. Not exactly a speed demon but IIRC it had very little CPU overhead as Paula did most of the work.


I forgot about that.  IIRC it was able to link more than 2 Amigas, but was spendy everytime you wanted to add a node.  What was it called and has anyone seen them on the used market?