Comments on: Remember the Amiga?

By: stefan Kraft

stefan Kraft — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 23:12:02 +0000

So if OSX originally came out in 2001, you are saying they did then steal from Longhorn, which in fact is still not released in 2006?
Yes, OSX did have a lot of updates, but if elements are stolen from Windows, how come no one has seen them on a windows machine?

By: qrayg

qrayg — Sat, 29 Jan 2005 20:39:41 +0000

Some of the GUI designers for the Amiga actually helped out in the design of some of the Windows 95 UI (menu bevels, etc).

I’m pretty sure that Xerox was the first to come up with the Windows UI idea.

Don’t get me started about MS stealing from Apple. It is alomst 100% the oposite of what you think. Most of the OSX UI ideas were originally from Longhorn… that’s why MS closed the open Alphas… Aplle accusing MS of stealing ideas from Tiger… bahhh… i’ve lost all respect for Apple because of this.

By: Jeremy Curry

Jeremy Curry — Fri, 28 Jan 2005 21:19:34 +0000

Isnt the Amiga where Apple got the idea for the mouse and GUI, and the in turn, Microsoft stole from Apple? I may be wrong.

By: Scrivs

Scrivs — Fri, 28 Jan 2005 19:51:56 +0000

The only interaction I had with an Amiga was the one my grandmother had (she is a computer nut). I don’t remember what kind it was or the name of it, but I know it was Amiga.

I would always go over there and play this sweetass Sinbad game. The graphics blew everything else out of the water. Even though the game was damn near impossible for me I played just so I could look at the pretty (yeah I said that on purpose…’the pretty’).

By: MacGeek

MacGeek — Fri, 28 Jan 2005 17:06:31 +0000

I had 1MB in my 2000 and it also had extra graphics ram, so it was pretty sweet. I also had a card in it, named something like “Flicker Fixer” that allowed hookup to a VGA monitor at high res without that damn interlace flicker. It was just such an awesome system and so easy to use. I think it really set the stage for GUI OS.

Oh man, Lemmings was the shizzle. My dormmates were addicted to Earl Weaver Baseball and some days we would spend hours having one on one tournaments. Those were the days.

By: Si

Si — Fri, 28 Jan 2005 13:46:29 +0000

I had an Amiga 500 with the one megabyte upgrade. It came in the “Cartoon Classics” pack – Lemmings (addicted, yes), Bart Simpson vs The Space Mutants (anyone remember that the intro took up the whole of the first disk), Captain Planet (awful game) and the fantastic Deluxe Paint 3. Man, I loved that system, but got really hit hard by a virus :( I gave up on it when I got my first PC back in 1995, and by the time I dug it out of the loft the disk drive was ruined. I died a little that day… Haha.

By: qrayg

qrayg — Fri, 28 Jan 2005 12:50:33 +0000

Oh, man! I still have an A500 in my garage somewhere. I loved that machine. I eventually upgraded to a A3000 33MHz. The cool thing about the 3000 was that it had a built in Flicker Switch that could be used to convert the video out to a standard VGA frequency. I used my 3000 on a decent Nokia Monitor till 1999-ish. I sold it to some Amiga nut in my local area and now I really miss it. The Amiga OS is still one of the best OS’s to ever have been created. So easy to use and plug and play compatible (before that term ever even existed).