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Unfortunately GEM on Atari ST didn't have a restart dialog. Otherwise I'd be loudly complaining the page being badly incomplete.
by jzzskijj 13y ago
Unfortunately GEM on Atari ST didn't have a restart dialog. Otherwise I'd be loudly complaining the page being badly incomplete.
- mnw21cam 13y agoNeither did the Amiga, but that didn't stop it appearing. Note, the "restart Workbench" dialog there was for restarting the gui, not the operating system. It you wanted to reboot, you just did a three finger salute. I like how the mouse pointers change according to which window you are hovering over.
- jzzskijj 13y agoFunny detail about Amiga/Workbench in this page: Restart dialog is from version 2.x, but in reboot scene you'll see version 1.3.
- pistle 13y agoBig ups from the 1040ST part of the peanut gallery!
- kabdib 13y agoA few years ago I pulled my ST out of the closet, hooked it up to a hard drive and turned it on. Blammo. Within about a second I was looking at the desktop. This was so much fun to see that I hit reset about 30 times in the next minute or so. Reset. Desktop. Reset. Desktop. Wheeee! Most BIOS-based computers won't get to a single desktop in that amount of time. I don't know what they're doing, but most of it is not useful to me.
- jzzskijj 13y agoI wish I had a hard drive for my Atari back in the day :) Had to survive with extra SF314 drive. Fortunately there was a SM124 monitor to accompany my Philips CM 8833 at least. 1040STFM is still stored inside a waterproof plastic box along with few hundred floppy disks and extra floppy drive. Seemed to be working a few years ago.