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It's amazing how something that is in the end just a computer company can be so uniformly loved (contrast with apple with equal parts of love & hate). I've neve

by Paul_S 11y ago

It's amazing how something that is in the end just a computer company can be so uniformly loved (contrast with apple with equal parts of love & hate). I've never heard anyone rag on Amiga (other than to criticize its mismanagement). And I was an Atari owner and I still wish I hadn't missed out on what turned out to be such a landmark system.

setpatchaddress 11y ago
You don't get a lot of hate for any of the classic systems now. But, there were, and still are, valid criticisms of the Amiga. Bil Herd is on record in the first edition of the Bagnall book as being unimpressed with the Amiga hardware. I think there's still widespread agreement that they really fucked up Amiga's OS layer with AmigaDOS. And the initial Amiga UI has got to win the prize for ugliest 1.0 GUI ever. The Mac looked better, even though it was limited to B&W. Etc. All classic systems had their weak points.
- ZenoArrow 11y ago
  > "I think there's still widespread agreement that they really fucked up Amiga's OS layer with AmigaDOS." That's because it was a rush job. http://www.thule.no/haynie/caos.html http://www.thule.no/haynie/caos.html > "And the initial Amiga UI has got to win the prize for ugliest 1.0 GUI ever." That's highly subjective. Many users (myself included) see that early 1.x interface as iconic. Here's another example of someone who probably liked it (as the saying goes, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery): https://www.chromeexperiments.com/experiment/chiptunecom-gui https://www.chromeexperiments.com/experiment/chiptunecom-gui One design issue with Amigas was lack of support for chunky graphics modes. I remember reading an interview with Jay Miner where he implied he'd have supported chunky graphics (alongside planar graphics) if he'd considered how much cheaper RAM would become.

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It's amazing how something that is in the end just a computer company can be so uniformly loved (contrast with apple with equal parts of love & hate). I've neve

by Paul_S 11y ago

setpatchaddress 11y ago
You don't get a lot of hate for any of the classic systems now. But, there were, and still are, valid criticisms of the Amiga. Bil Herd is on record in the first edition of the Bagnall book as being unimpressed with the Amiga hardware. I think there's still widespread agreement that they really fucked up Amiga's OS layer with AmigaDOS. And the initial Amiga UI has got to win the prize for ugliest 1.0 GUI ever. The Mac looked better, even though it was limited to B&W. Etc. All classic systems had their weak points.
- ZenoArrow 11y ago
  > "I think there's still widespread agreement that they really fucked up Amiga's OS layer with AmigaDOS." That's because it was a rush job. http://www.thule.no/haynie/caos.html http://www.thule.no/haynie/caos.html > "And the initial Amiga UI has got to win the prize for ugliest 1.0 GUI ever." That's highly subjective. Many users (myself included) see that early 1.x interface as iconic. Here's another example of someone who probably liked it (as the saying goes, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery): https://www.chromeexperiments.com/experiment/chiptunecom-gui https://www.chromeexperiments.com/experiment/chiptunecom-gui One design issue with Amigas was lack of support for chunky graphics modes. I remember reading an interview with Jay Miner where he implied he'd have supported chunky graphics (alongside planar graphics) if he'd considered how much cheaper RAM would become.