What do you miss when using your Amiga?

[Tenacious]

When using an Amiga:

I miss a simpler external world (www, file formats, etc).  It seems to me that many things have been made more complicated and proprietary but not always better.  I do miss CD writing apps like Toast.  Until recently, I missed USB (I have not installed Deneb yet.)

I don't miss registry files, desktop files, swap files, virtual memory, vast hidden parts of an OS, spyware, user log-in, tragic hippness (Macintosh).


When using any other machine:

I miss the Amiga philosophy, ie: simplicity, multiple ways to accomplish things, an OS so logically organized it seems transparent to me.  I miss Amiga directory utilities.  I miss near realtime responsiveness.  I miss the ram disk.  I miss the machine's dedication to me alone. I miss anonymity (increasingly more precious all the time). I miss the belief that only I am running the show.


When using XP:

I miss not being a target on the net. I miss being the only one in control.  I miss the OS needing my permission to commit something the hard drive or other media.  


When using a Mac:

I miss the OS treating me like an intelligent being.  I miss flexibility, obvious and consistant functionality.


When using Ubuntu (on PS3):

I miss understanding. I miss simplicity. I miss product maturity. I miss a decent flash player and other codecs.



With my Amiga getting older, I will have to rely upon many different machines.

I seem to be a sucker for threads like this one, grin.

[stefcep2]

motorollin wrote:
Right click drop-down menus can be added with MagicMenu. Personally, when I'm using an Amiga I miss:

- Consistent copy and paste
- Consistent keyboard controls
- Exposé
- The ability to actually put files on the desktop rather than putting them somewhere else and having to "leave them out"

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moto

doesn't snap on aminet let you copy and paste text from anywhere to anywhere?

[Tenacious]

@ stef

Snap works much of the time but not all.

It would be great to find a new app that allows multiple clipboard strings.  



EDIT: I should not have spoke.  Turns out that I've been using Powersnap.

[RRunner]

What do I miss when I use my Amiga? Mostly... my youth!

A modern web browser wouldn't hurt either...

[persia]

A decent video editor
HD
A decent photo editor that can hand raw images
XCode, I can build a fair number of applications with out much of my own Obj C
USB 2.0
the BASH command line
iPhoto
Pages, Numbers, Keynote
Podcast producer
Xgrid
The ability to seemless share drives and resources
Speed
Reliability
Memory Protection
Youtube
Bluetooth connection to my phone
The ability to query MySQL databases
Coda
The ability to test my PHP code locally
Working SFTP
Printing to my networked color laser
The ability to Sync my calendar and address book - Work, Phone and Home
Skype
Torrents
The ability to listen to and transfer MP3, MP4 and the like between my phone, computer and PMP.
The ability to burn DVDs
The ability to download and add a new codec
Widgets

That's all I can come up with off the top of my head...

[KatManDEW]

Tenacious wrote:
@ stef

Snap works much of the time but not all.

It would be great to find a new app that allows multiple clipboard strings.  



EDIT: I should not have spoke.  Turns out that I've been using Powersnap.

I just tried PowerSnap, and it kinda works. Is there any way to get rid of the window it opens at startup? I tried running it from Startup-Sequence with Powersnap >NIL: and it still pops up it's window when Workbench loads.

[KatManDEW]

persia wrote:
A decent video editor
HD
A decent photo editor that can hand raw images
XCode, I can build a fair number of applications with out much of my own Obj C
USB 2.0
the BASH command line
iPhoto
Pages, Numbers, Keynote
Podcast producer
Xgrid
The ability to seemless share drives and resources
Speed
Reliability
Memory Protection
Youtube
Bluetooth connection to my phone
The ability to query MySQL databases
Coda
The ability to test my PHP code locally
Working SFTP
Printing to my networked color laser
The ability to Sync my calendar and address book - Work, Phone and Home
Skype
Torrents
The ability to listen to and transfer MP3, MP4 and the like between my phone, computer and PMP.
The ability to burn DVDs
The ability to download and add a new codec
Widgets

That's all I can come up with off the top of my head...

That's a pretty extensive list  :-o

I take it you're a Mac user? Were you ever an Amiga user "back in the day"?

I may be an old fart, but I have an iPod and I have never understood the value of Podcasts?

[persia]

I was an Amiga user back in the day, yes, Amiga taught me to push technology, when Mac and PC users were pushing documents I was editing video and music.  I've never lost that desire to push the limits, actually to no longer even see the limits.  Had I just been a PC or Mac user in 1989 I wouldn't even understand my previous post

So 20 years later I'm still pushing the envelope, thanks to my beginnings in Amiga.  

Widgets, brilliant, put a few pieces together, write a little Objective C and you've got a web aware app that sits on your desk AND AND AND you can take that code, make a few modifications and run it one your iPhone.

I couldn't stand limits in 1989 and I can't stand them today.

I agree podcasts are over rated, but if you want to demo something on a Mac or put together a "radio" show they're good.


 

[klx300r]

RRunner wrote:
What do I miss when I use my Amiga? Mostly... my youth!

A modern web browser wouldn't hurt either...

 :-D ..took the words right out of my mouth ;-)

[Tenacious]

@ Kat

Go into PowerSnap's icon.  In Tooltypes, edit the line "(CX_POPUP=YES)".  Change YES to NO.  The statement should not be surrounded with parenthesis.

I think this will do it.

Night-night

[KatManDEW]

I removed the parenthesis and that did it. Thanks!

Any idea how to stop ClassAct (required for NewIcons) to stop displaying a screen when Workbench loads?

Thanks again.

[yssing]

Developers.

Personally I am looking into buying Hollywood, as it seems to be an "easy-to-use" tool. Correct me if I am wrong.

But I simply don't have the time to develop in C Any more, alas, I have also forgotten much of it.