From: das9674@usl.edu (Stephenson Daniel A)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Dan flipped through an AmigaWorld, and:
Date: 13 Dec 92 18:22:24 GMT
Article-I.D.: usl.1992Dec13.182224.13346
Organization: University of Southwestern Louisiana

In article <Bz6tC4.2zD@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> kodak@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Jason 'KodaK' Balicki) writes:
>In article <1992Dec13.063021.28547@usl.edu> das9674@usl.edu (Stephenson Daniel A) writes:
>>Wow, this sort of comment REALLY points out some Amiga inadequecies:
>
>>1) Apps have private screens.  This shoots to hell an enforcement of
>>commonality between apps.  What a wild blend of software that designs its
>>own interface.  Woo woo.
>
>We have a "User Interface Style Guide" if the programmers don't use it,
>it's their own fault.  Not the OS.
>
>>2) It seems beyond me that Amigaworld, *AMIGA*World, wouldn't have shots of the
>>Workbench.  Think about it.  What a farce that the Amiga GUI is so irrelevant,
>>being some kind of program loader, that it isn't touted.  Sheesh.  You can't
>>do that with Windows or OS/2.  The basic structure of windows are all the same.
>>You can't help but see the basic of Windows/OS/2 by looking at screen shots of
>>Windows or OS/2 screen shots.
>
>I can just see "Windows World":  OOOH, look, this app puts it's icon
>on the left, and..., this one... on the RIGHT!  Ya know, magazines
>review applications, they don't go on and on about the OS EVERY ISSUE.
>But I guess CLONE users have to prove that their particular OS is the
>best too, eh?  OS/2 no Windows no OS/2 no Windows . . .

My point was that there is not anyhting common, it would seem, about the Amiga
look to things.  With Windows or OS/2, you get a consistant way of things.    
Therre couldn't be a 'look and fee' suit against Commodore for the Amiga 
because the 'look and feel' changes from app to app.  Tell me this isn't
true.  Really, I want to know.

>>Hopefully, HOPEFULLY, hires and HI color workbenchs are worth using.  And some
>>Amigans tout the BLAZING SPEED of the WB?!  Good grief! I sure would hope so,
>>to lauch a program to be able to stop looking at it.
>
>You didn't even SEE the WB.  Quit blasting it.  Gawd, one magazine and he
>thinks he's an expert.

Me?  An expert?  I never claimed I was doing anyhting investigative here. 
I DID say I 'flipped' through it. I *did* think the Amiga1200/600 looked
good, didn't I?  Oh, but I might be wrong.

>Thanks, that's much better.

Sure.  That Alex guy trimed his mondo 20-line .sigr down too.  And Jerry's is
smaller, toO!

>And one more thing:  if I see that stupid "(ya know, the ones that the
>Amiga can't run)" I'm going to kick you in the teeth till your toes
>bleed!  (Non-literaly :)

Ha! Ha! (laughs audibly)  I *love* throwing things like that in.  Just 
keeps you guys up-to-date on those great games like Ultima Underworld-by
FAR the best RPG *ever*, and Falcon 3.0 -perhaps the best fighter sim
on *any* platform.  Also, it serves to point out that bare MSDOS machines -
the OS that you AMigans bash to hell and back - is what they run 'on'. 
I'll do it more now and again to keep you guys from getting too cocky. :)

>--Jason Balicki
>kodak@mentor.cc.purdue.edu
-- 
Dan Stephenson                                                das9674@usl.edu  
"There once was a Lady from Hyde/who ate some bad apples and died/but while
we lamented/the apples fermented/making cider inside her inside!" 
                        -Member of the Court, Texas Renaissance Festival