The Amiga was difficult to program and lacked easily accessible documentation. A lot of software was developed to be ported across platforms like the Atari ST and dos, and so the Amiga often didn’t get the dedicated attention it required. At the time, people would compare the Amiga to the mega drive (genesis) and SNES - it was all about the games, while the Amiga could create and not just consume. If commodore had dropped a game from the bundles and stuffed some books and a couple of dev tools then the story might have been a bit different. They bundled deluxe paint and created a long lasting legacy of artists. If they included Amos or Blitz basic they might have played more into the bedroom programmer scene of the 80s, which dipped a bit during the console years and has seen a resurgence over the last decade, which is in no small part due to the proliferation of high quality development tools. If the scorpion engine had existed for the A1200 at the time, commodore might not have needed to worry about the hardware.

Seems like the kind of numbers you would expect. Windows is the default OS for every corporate and normie desktop everywhere, followed by the graphic designers and musicians rolling MacOS, and then the rest. The ratio never really changes, and never will unless something devastating happens to MS Office. If they included every headless server and AWS EC2 instance it would be the reverse with Windows barely featuring. With the proliferation of Android devices, Linux has become a quiet revolution with mobile but the majority of users probably don’t even know they run it.

UFO (or xcom) - enemy unknown.

Enter the Void.

It’s Interesting how Dunlop spent his life wrestling with a suffocating corporate command and control structure to implement a system to facilitate a suffocating corporate command and control structure, while Engelbart was presenting ways of facilitating the expression of ideas with the machine. Dunlop’s work with IBM is probably best left in the garage, along with IBM.

I think it will become an entirely cloud based OS with a thin client booting the machine straight into their Edge browser. Pay as you go operating system that never leaves their Azure walled garden. Google’s Chromebooks were just ahead of their time. As Spock said: “it’s Linux Jim, but not as we know it”.

Come on, it’s just marketing. They’re preserved until they’re not. Anybody up for some unreal tournament, warcraft 2, or colin mcrae rally? Or there’s a remaster of a £3 dos game for £30 and the original is pulled <cough> Dark Forces </cough>. GoG is the last stand against DRM and I buy all my games from them, but they need to go easy on the kool aid.

yuge

Thank you for illustrating my point!

I’m starting to warm up to this stuff. There is a future rapidly hurtling towards us where, if you take the time to read and think for yourself, you will become a genius. It was happening already in some stem fields where people used GUI tools without ever reading what the buttons did, and if you took the time to read the manuals and the underlying methods, you could become vastly more competent than anybody else in your team. This “AI” bullshit is just extending the lazy culture out to every piece of information on the web, where average Joe is already unable to concentrate beyond 140 characters. Those that take the time to learn the fundamentals and read deeply will have vastly superior knowledge of any subject, while the majority will be spoon fed superficial summaries filled with errors and no way of realising.

ha yes! that is depressingly likely to be 100% correct.

so sega realised that rather than sell a retro console once, they can sell a reboot filled with DLC and monthly subscriptions forever. nice.

I hope they don’t embark on a purge of all the original versions across the web, as is the trend at the moment from likes of Blizzard, and shackle old titles with new restrictions.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/highlightthis/

• https://www.epri.com/research/products/3002028905
• https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2542435123003653

I love the irony in how ecosia brands itself an environmentally responsible organisation while hosting a chat bot on it’s search page, burning 10x the energy of regular search. Their chat bot even gaslights me when I ask about this by telling me how the energy consumption for “AI” technologies is actually highly variable, and I should check my own carbon footprint first xD. At this point, both organisations are so utterly self deluded, they should get on like a house on fire. Literally!

they still pulled them from GoG. Why not release them there for free? Epic slapped its legacy fanbase in the face with its handling of the Unreal series and then dumped it on the internet archive to wash its hands of it. They have no respect for their own heritage. This is not the same company that once released the likes of the titan pack as free DLC. It’s just a shadow of it’s former self, pushing fortnite micro transaction trash.

At what point does piracy become a cultural obligation? It’s certainly more socially responsible than the so-called owners these days.

just about any game from the 80’s 8bit era was sold by the tape insert’s artwork… but that artwork was so fine I do miss it today.

I hope so. I hope there could be a future where Mozilla is purged of these people and returned to being just a browser. Not everything has to be a “platform” with a business model for MBA’s to feast on.