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My advice to people with more brains than money - just buy a MiSTer.
The thing I miss most about Amiga is the filesystem.
I know, that's a weird assertion. Amiga had so much going for it in terms of graphics, sound, video, etc. You could call it "ahead of its time" but it was right on time; the market dominance of the crap made by IBM and Apple was behind the times.
The filesystem, though ... no one else did such a good multi-root filesystem. DOS/Windows "drive letters" didn't, and still don't, get this right.
I loved how you could reference a pathname like "volume:/path/to/file" and if "volume:" wasn't mounted, it would simply prompt the operator to resolve it, either by mounting the volume or by aliasing it to something else. I only had floppy disks on my Amiga, but I dreamed of being able to attach hard disks and even network filesystems that way.
You should pick up a MiSTer, if only for the experience of having a fully loaded 68ec020/100mhz 384mb Hard Drive based Amiga with ethernet.
You think you love the file system now. Yeah... I also like how you can access the device by Volumename: or VolumeAssignment:
So, DH0: may be Workbench: and DH0: Basically, drive label and drive assignment. Likewise, System: will take you right to the /System directory on the boot drive... so System: takes you generally to DH0:System. If there is a /bin folder in system, "System:bin" will take you right to DH0:System/bin...
It is pretty awesome. The GUI Windowed system shows a little dated. You can't click to maximize or minimize windows. You can send to the back... they didn't really have OLE cut and paste in windows, between windows. But overall - it set the stage for the modern GUI on a CLI paradigm of Linux, Mac and Windows and all the key components are there.
I'll cover MiSTer on the FPGA room in some detail at some point here. I would like to start attracting a retro-gaming clientele as users.
What kind of Amiga did you have, Ig?
I owned an Amiga 2000. Today I've got several accelerated A500s and an A600.
Wed Jul 29 2020 14:02:29 MST from IGnatius T FoobarThe thing I miss most about Amiga is the filesystem.
I know, that's a weird assertion. Amiga had so much going for it in terms of graphics, sound, video, etc. You could call it "ahead of its time" but it was right on time; the market dominance of the crap made by IBM and Apple was behind the times.
The filesystem, though ... no one else did such a good multi-root filesystem. DOS/Windows "drive letters" didn't, and still don't, get this right.
I loved how you could reference a pathname like "volume:/path/to/file" and if "volume:" wasn't mounted, it would simply prompt the operator to resolve it, either by mounting the volume or by aliasing it to something else. I only had floppy disks on my Amiga, but I dreamed of being able to attach hard disks and even network filesystems that way.
I've got to remember about this device if I have keyboard problems with my Amiga 500 that has the Panasonic keyboard that doesn't have a replacement membrane.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Connect-favourite-wired-or-wireless-USB-keyboard-to-Amiga-500-500-and-other/232364977565
Subject: Amiga SSL 4.7
About:
This is version 4.7 of the open-source based AmiSSL library for Amiga based operating systems. Version 4.x is a new major release which comes with full compatibility to the OpenSSL 1.1.x line which includes important security related fixes and comes with new encryption ciphers which are required nowadays to connect to modern SSL-based services (e.g. HTTPS).
https://github.com/jens-maus/amissl/releases/4.7
Syco - this is my retro collection