Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!mtunx!whuts!mhuxh!mhuxu!mhuxt!mhuxi!mhuhk!mhuxo!ulysses!thumper!faline!bellcore!tness7!tness1!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Light and Smoke (was: The Right to Flame) Summary: constructive comments from an Amiga owner. Keywords: constructive discussion Message-ID: <1951@sugar.UUCP> Date: 9 May 88 00:58:42 GMT References: <11855@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX Lines: 36 I own an Amiga. It replaced my Atari ST. Enough of that... here are a couple of comments... > 1. File Formats. > IFF is a good idea, in theory at least. IFF is a great idea, and you can get all sorts of good code from comp.sources.amiga. > I think that a > 'clipboard'-type interface (like the Mac) would be an welcome > addition. Well, we've found that the clipboard isn't used much on the Amiga. Scratch files in RAM: are just as useful and a lot more versatile. Think of them as named clips. > 2. Desktop. > How come no one has come out with a better Desktop? Well, apparently someone has. It's not PD though. It's *hard*. One thing you could do would be to look at something other than the Mac for inspiration. I wish Commodore had. Maybe someone would like to port my Browser to the ST? > 3. Multitasking. This is vital, particularly in combination with #1 and #2. -- -- Peter da Silva `-_-' ...!hoptoad!academ!uhnix1!sugar!peter -- "Have you hugged your U wolf today?" ...!bellcore!tness1!sugar!peter -- Disclaimer: These aren't mere opinions, these are *values*.