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The Atari version was pretty neat - especially when compared to the Amiga of the day. It looked quite a lot like the Mac though the underlying API was nothing
by OnlyMortal 3y ago
The Atari version was pretty neat - especially when compared to the Amiga of the day.
It looked quite a lot like the Mac though the underlying API was nothing like the Mac.
The DOS version was dreadful.
Source: Amiga then Mac owner
- golem14 3y agoProgramming for GEM seemed so much easier than Windows, too. One or two fairly small books did the trick.
- lproven 3y ago> The DOS version was dreadful. Not at first, and not later. Apple sued DR and won, and DR had to cripple PC GEM. No overlapping windows, no icons on the desktop, drop-down menus instead of pull-down, and much more. When it went GPL, all the removed functionality was put back, plus most of the stuff from the vendor-specific runtime-only versions 4 and 5. IMHO it looked great: https://www.seasip.info/Gem/History/freegem2.html https://www.seasip.info/Gem/History/freegem2.html Also, some of the GPL code went into EmuTOS, an all-FOSS TOS+GEM, so it wasn't wasted or lost.
- ptek 3y agoAmiga owner here too, I would have brought a Atari ST for 1985-1987, then got the A500 in 1987. My parents brought the family a Amiga 500 in 1990
- orionblastar 3y agoI got the Amiga 1000 in 1985. I never did get into the Atari ST but I had friends who did. The next computer after the Amiga was a 386DX PC clone with VGA and a sound card.