Victoria Krb RetroGeek BlogFeb 27
oooh !
I’m gonna tell you something super cool, but you have to promise not to tell anyone! 🤫 ... Look at this. ... No you saw nothing. I didn't show you. You keep the secret, alright ? ... Promise it.
#Amiga #AmigaOS3 #BOOPSI #Petscii #Petmate #C64
Edit... -> OMG it's alive I can read .petmate files and modify.
Show threadanjuneFeb 27
@VictoriaFerryRetroGeek That’s an excellent mouse pointer sprite!
Show threadVictoria Krb RetroGeek BlogFeb 27
@anjune 1% of the Amiga users knows, that "realistic mouse" pointer is actually embedded in each AmigaOS installation since the beginning, you just have to go to mouse pointer preference and choose it, it's in the presets. There's a lot of AmigaOS stuffs most users ignore, like "how to use commododities", the Amiga+M key, the fact that menu entries actions are stackable, etc...
Show threadBatteMan
@VictoriaFerryRetroGeek
@anjune
AmigaOS have got so many nice little, but efficient and impressive, features. I discovered stackables actions very late and was surprised to read it in my Workbench 1.3 book some years later !!
Feb 27 at 9:42amWeb
Show threadVictoria Krb RetroGeek BlogFeb 27
@batteman @anjune The first "AmigaDOS" 1.1 invented both the second mouse button , and that it would open menus, but other systems apps and OSes didn't get the full picture, that you could ask a stack of many actions in a menu movement and unleash them all in the order you asked when bt2 is released.
Show threadanjuneFeb 27
@VictoriaFerryRetroGeek @batteman I didn’t get the picture either in 1987 or so, but it’s still in the 3.1 manual. Whodathunkit!
Show threadBatteManFeb 27
@VictoriaFerryRetroGeek
@anjune
Still not yet implemented in Windows 11... 😅
Show threadJames TinmouthFeb 27
@batteman @VictoriaFerryRetroGeek @anjune funny. I read only the text "Still not yet implemented in Windows 11" and l knew it would be in reply to something about Amiga.
Show threadVictoria Krb RetroGeek BlogFeb 28
@batteman @anjune and up to 2026, Walt Disney still not have implemented realistic mouses.
Show threadBatteManFeb 28
@VictoriaFerryRetroGeek
@anjune
Not wrong, but I clearly need to use it this week and it's not implemented 😅
Show threadBatteManFeb 28
@VictoriaFerryRetroGeek
@anjune
Realistic mouse is not very useful for a cartoon but features using the mouse for an OS seems more... useful 😁
Show threadJames TinmouthFeb 27
@batteman @VictoriaFerryRetroGeek @anjune this.
Miss many of them still today.