Lollypops and chocolate cakes

[EDanaII]

@ Cecila

Nope, you're not the only one. I learned a number of things from my Amiga, some I use for work and some I use for personal use. For example, on my Windows boxes, I always partition my drives thus: C: for System, W: for Work: and P: for Programs. This particular method of configuring my drives has saved my bacon a number of times. At work, on the occasions that I need to use graphics, techniques I learned on my Amiga are often applied. It was a smartly designed machine used by some very smart people. I've never forgotten that.

[adz]

am I the ONLY one that actually learned something from using an Amiga (my First Computer) and that this knowledge translated into how I use Every single other device I have ever used since?

I honestly don't understand this attitude. (meaning that a person is not a true Amiga user unless his finger are actively on an Amiga)

Frim my Amiga I learned how to be frugal using my programs (started out with bare bones A2000, booting from floppy with the smallest amount of memory you could get at the time. ) I still learned how to use DPaint with that set up.

A few years later when I moved to LA and was looking for work at an animation house they "tested" me on their proprietary paint program.
It was a sad little affair where you had to exit out of Every tool to Enter another tool. and you could only use ONE tool at a time. recall DPaint let you use several tools at once. I picked this up in literally seconds because it was WAAAAAY easier to figure out than DPaint.
The person testing me was absolutely astounded at my prowess - I kid you not.

I wasn't trying to show off. Amiga just taught me very important techniques in figuring out how software worked and because it was WAY ahead of it's time made ME ahead of my time.

This gave me an edge that others did not have.

laugh all you wish, but I am an Amiga Snob for a really good reason. I carry Amiga with me in my brain even if I have not touched my old Amiga 2000 is a long time. It exists where it counts. And continues to inform my work no matter what device I use.

+1

One particularly important thing my Amiga's and C64's taught me was patience

[cecilia]

@ Cecila

Nope, you're not the only one. I learned a number of things from my Amiga, some I use for work and some I use for personal use. For example, on my Windows boxes, I always partition my drives thus: C: for System, W: for Work: and P: for Programs. This particular method of configuring my drives has saved my bacon a number of times. At work, on the occasions that I need to use graphics, techniques I learned on my Amiga are often applied. It was a smartly designed machine used by some very smart people. I've never forgotten that.

Thank the standing stones I'm not the only one!  

I have done similar organizing on my windows systems.

At this point because I spend 90% of my time in Ubuntu I haven't separated my new Windows laptop, but then I also use a portable drive to backup all my sensitive data. (That and data DVD's).

All that is from learning to back up and backup again that came from my Amiga experiences (I never lost data in all these years). In fact the whole notion of having complete control over MY system is very very Amiga-like. The idea that I CAN know what is going on is completely from my Amiga days. Most windows users have no flipping idea how their computer files are arranged. When I look at other people's HD it's nothing but chaos.

yuk!

[cecilia]

+1

One particularly important thing my Amiga's and C64's taught me was patience

Another Excellent point!.
same here.

patience and learning how to LOOK at what is actually happening on one's computer screen. I found myself tutoring people over the years - and for a short time even teaching computer Animation 101 at Cal Arts (using their Amigas which, I am sorry to say they have since gotten rid of).

Many new computer users just don't LOOK and remain confused. I know this sounds simple, but I have seen it for myself. People get this blank look on their faces. Usually a good Hit to the back of their head starts the marbles moving about  

:roflmao:

[drHirudo]

laugh all you wish, but I am an Amiga Snob for a really good reason. I carry Amiga with me in my brain even if I have not touched my old Amiga 2000 is a long time. It exists where it counts. And continues to inform my work no matter what device I use.

You are Amiga enthusiast, no matter that you use other devices. Back in 1997-1999 I did not had Amiga at home for a while. (I had PSX with very nice games), but I was pure Amiga enthusiast back then. I was reading about all the developments, visiting Aminet from the university, getting magazines, etc.. Collecting software, even if I did not had the hardware. I did not trash Phase 5 back then even if their PPC accelerators were practically unaffordable for me with not much software and games compared to the games for Sony Playstation.

[drHirudo]

+1

One particularly important thing my Amiga's and C64's taught me was patience

The Amiga loading was not that bad. After I got used to the slow disk loading of the Amiga, I got C64 with disk drive and original games. I expected to be faster as my Oric clone disk interface, and the Apple II disk interface, but the C64 interface was terribly slow. I expected 8 bit games to load faster. Then I tried loading original C64 tape from Cassete drive - that was sloooooow. A friend of mine told me about the slow loading times of ZX Sinclair, but I never had such machine at home. Only saw people playing Sinclair game at club. Most of the time during my half hour visit at this club was the players talking to each other while waiting for a game to load next stage. Now I see why we did not had facebook back then. We were socializing while waiting for a game to load.

[gertsy]

Off topic but ZX Spectrum tape is slow but not as slow as the C64. Jeeze Louise go and make a coffee, a sandwitch, eat it and come back.  Sometimes to the dreaded "Tape Loading Error"  nooooo!  
Fun times my arse!

[Darrin]

Off topic but ZX Spectrum tape is slow but not as slow as the C64. Jeeze Louise go and make a coffee, a sandwitch, eat it and come back.  Sometimes to the dreaded "Tape Loading Error"  nooooo!  
Fun times my arse!

The worst game I remember for loading off tape was Arcadia64 which took over 20 minues to load.  To think that today we sit there cursing programs that take a couple of seconds to load.