What are your pet hates? - Amiga related

[ElPolloDiabl]

Hi,
What are some of your pet hates about AmigaOS, Amiga games, AROS, WinUAE etc?
Leave out anything that is likely to cause blue vs red battles plz. :madashell:


My first one: The A1200 is nice and sleek, but it is also flimsy and can break.

[Thorham]

AmigaOS's terrible desktop and GUI system. This needs replacing badly, as in something new made from scratch that's incompatible with existing software. The problem is of course having to write new software, too It could've been so nice Still interesting as an experiment to see how good it can really be

[Tenacious]

Fishing for negatives.  :p  Life is too short!

[commodorejohn]

x86 supremacists.

[ElPolloDiabl]

Why don't you just admit that PowerPC really isn't that good?
There are awesome (or lousy) CPU's under any architecture. PowerPC has plenty of negatives. ARM is powerful, but it might chop out things you would find in a desktop CPU.

68k died a premature death.

btw. How good was the PA-RISC which Commodore would have adopted?

[Darrin]

My PET hates?  Those tiny green monitors.

[commodorejohn]

Why don't you just admit that PowerPC really isn't that good?

Because, personally, I find that my 1GHz G4 is actually quite usable for most tasks up to and including modest web-browsing, and actually better at them than a higher-clocked x86 contemporary?

There are awesome (or lousy) CPU's under any architecture.

There are indeed - which is exactly why I find x86 supremacists to be so aggravating.

68k died a premature death.

That it did...

btw. How good was the PA-RISC which Commodore would have adopted?

Good question. Guess we'll never know, since PA-RISC was one of many architectures that got the shaft when everybody decided Itanium was The Future Of All Computing and it never made it past 1.1GHz, but considering that HP still sold them (even while pushing their Itanium line) through 2008, it can't have been that bad.

[ElPolloDiabl]

No. 2 (More of a gripe though)
 The Amiga 500 could look ridiculous with external expansions hanging off it.

No. 3. Back in the day you would have been el supremo having the giant Amiga 3000 tower. Nowadays nobody would want a 20kg monster as a computer.

[Faerytale]

No. 2 (More of a gripe though)
 The Amiga 500 could look ridiculous with external expansions hanging off it.

No. 3. Back in the day you would have been el supremo having the giant Amiga 3000 tower. Nowadays nobody would want a 20kg monster as a computer.

Thats why we use the a1200.

[commodorejohn]

No. 3. Back in the day you would have been el supremo having the giant Amiga 3000 tower. Nowadays nobody would want a 20kg monster as a computer.

I would...

[magnetic]

I have 3 main pet peeves right now

1. Fanboy users who have no clue about really goes on behind the scenes or in the Amiga past but yet post definitively about it.

2. Amiga HOARDERS guys who have 5x this amiga 8x this amiga.. that crap. They have all those classic amigas armed to the teeth and DONT EVEN USE THEM. Just brag on forums and sigs.. beyond lame

3. AMIBAY: run by a bunch of ego maniacs that must have very little personal power in real life.

[mikrucio]

I second that.

Amibay sux the big one.

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

The user base?  Haha, just kidding, although +1 to Magnetic's comment about hoarders above.  

And hey, I love the look of an A500 with the GVP sidecar hanging off it's side, it's the only one that was designed with any sort of style, and was my dream system back in the day and I'm thrilled to own one today (and use it nearly every day).

Another complaint?  Lack of user's groups, or any sort of "AmiWest" style gathering anywhere near the Washington, DC, area.  :p

Also I hate that I need to edit my posts 20 times to find the right combination of characters to make emoticons here on amiga.org.  Why when I click "go advanced" doesn't it give me a chart showing what all the emoticons are, and allowing me to easily click them to add to posts?  Ugh!  

[EvilGuy]

The user base?  

Heheh +1 for this :-)

[slaapliedje]

I have to agree with the comment about the Hoarders.  They're the ones that really cause the prices of the hardware to sky rocket like they have!  For the price of an 060 accelerator I could have upgraded my PC to a 16 core processor and quadrupled the ram.

But it's not as FUN!

I'd have to say my biggest annoyance is the design of the A4000D's case.  Specifically the front plastic piece that makes it a pain anytime you need to really get in there!

I think it'd be nice if we could either get someone with a 3D printer or access to some CNC machines to start building either new case designs for classic Amiga hardware, or at least replacement parts...

slaapliedje