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That's an elaborate gimmick: 1. double-click "System"; 2. double-click "Shell"; 3. type in "C:" and press [RETURN]. And the gimmick falls apart, revealed fo
by Annatar 8y ago
That's an elaborate gimmick:
1. double-click "System";
2. double-click "Shell";
3. type in "C:" and press [RETURN].
And the gimmick falls apart, revealed for what it truly is. For bonus points, open "Utilities" and try to launch "MultiView". Good luck with that.
- NeedMoreTea 8y agoSingle letter drives weren't the default on Amiga. System: and RAM: work as expected.
- chriswarbo 8y ago> Single letter drives weren't the default on Amiga. IIRC "C" is one of the default 'assigns' (top-level links which point to drawers), so "C:" would point to the "C" drawer inside whichever drive Workbench is installed on.
- puzzle 8y agoYeah, C: was the virtual volume where commands lived. L: had handlers, S: startup scripts and T: temporary space (think /tmp). There were also longer assignments, e.g. DEVS:, FONTS: and LIBS:.
- NeedMoreTea 8y agoAhh, I'd only remembered libs, devs, s and fonts. Which don't work in this sim btw.
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- Annatar 8y agoC: is the equivalent of /bin and /sbin, it's an assign, not a drive! AmigaOS isn't Windows!!!
- NeedMoreTea 8y agoSorry, my mistake. I could never, ever confuse AmigaOS with Windows, as my first decade of having to use Windows kept reminding me. AmigaOS was nicely designed, and worked. ;) As I mentioned in the parallel subthread, I'd forgotten c, l, and t in the 15 years since I last touched one.
- vidarh 8y agoThe best part being that assigns can point to multiple directories at once. Sort of like $PATH, except built-in to the OS and not just for executables. I guess a union filesystem is the closest you get on modern systems.
- Annatar 8y agoThat's exactly right.
- TickleSteve 8y agogimmick (in a good way), art and a whole lot of hard work.
- welly 8y agoWhat's the gimmick? It's a simulator. I'm struggling to see what the point you're making is. It may well be incomplete but it is what it is, a simulator. So what exactly is your point?
- kyberias 8y agoWell the gimmick is that it looks like an emulator/simulator but isn't. The OP merely pointed out where it fails and shows the cracks.
- laumars 8y agoIt doesn't call itself an emulator though. A simulator doesn't have to share the technologies nor even be 100% accurate recreation. It just needs to imitate it.
- welly 8y agoIt's a simulator. An emulator and a simulator are two very different things.
- Annatar 8y agoIt doesn't simulate anything.