• cakesy (unregistered) in reply to R.Flowers
    R.Flowers:
    Thanks for the screenshots. As I said, I had not used Opus. I still have an old A2000/ 68030 / 8 MB / 512 MB HD / SCSI CD-ROM with AmigaOS 3.0. The base machine itself is rather old, even for the 2000s, and quite frankly I don't have the money to buy the antique parts to make it a "nice." (For example, I don't have any kind of extra graphics card.) But I still crank it up from time to time. I may sell it on eBay some day, either by parts or as a whole.
    So dude, what over unfascinating crap do you feel the need to tell us, heh genius.
  • schwa-sticker (unregistered) in reply to deja-vu
    Anonymous:
    If the wtf is recycled, then are the comments recycled too?

    Yes, by modus ponens. (the comments are always recycled, therefore if the wtf is recycled the comments are recycled)

  • tux_rocker (unregistered)

        The real WTF must be that it runs like breeze under Linux with wine :)

  • Anon (unregistered) in reply to R.Flowers

    "Seriously, there is just no "need" for it now, other than nostalgia. Right?"

    No. Just like theres no "need" for anything other than Windows, since that runs most software. Right?

    Personally, although I have an iBook, and 2 Windows computers, I have and still use several Amigas, not just for nostalgia, but for internet, programming, graphics and other stuff, simply because I enjoy it and they continue to serve me well. I say, use whatever you like.

    If people want to continue to update AmigaOS, and find uses for it, more power to them.

    Some interesting links for those who want to investigate further:

    http://os4.hyperion-entertainment.biz
    http://www.intuitionbase.com
    http://amigaworld.net

    There are also alternatives to the "official" Amiga operating system that also aim to continue the Amiga experience into the 21st century:

    http://www.morphzone.org
    http://www.aros.org

    For anyone who isn't interested and doesn't want to investigate further, here is an on-topic reply:
    My goggles! The eyes do nothing!

  • Sizer (unregistered) in reply to Nudel
    Nudel:
    R.Flowers:
    The name that comes to mind is "Directory Opus." At least I think it looked like this in its earlier incarnations.


    Opus never looked that bad, even the first version. Keep in mind these were the days of extremely low-res screens (this shot has been doubled horizontally due to the 1:2 pixel aspect of the original) where you'd have 8 or 16 colours:


    I think my original thought (way back up there where I was first trying to remember the name Directory Opus) is that this is what you get if you take the basic DO layout and then just throw a whole bunch more screen real estate and functionality at it without thinking too hard about whether it scales.

  • Jeff (unregistered) in reply to Harsh
    Harsh:
    I know why you're here, Neo. I know what you've been doing... why you hardly sleep, why you live alone, and why night after night, you sit by your computer. You're looking for the FileMatrix. I know because I was once looking for the same thing. And I found it, he told me I wasn't really looking for the UI. I was looking for an answer. It's the question that drives us, Neo. It's the question that brought you here. You know the question, just as I did.

    WTF?
  • Stoffel (unregistered) in reply to Robert.
    Robert:
    Stoffel:

    "Angry Fruit Salad" was how one co-worker described the display.


    Sounded like it deserved the epithet.

    It's a well-known description -Listed in the Jargon File-. It's first listing in google groups is from 1992 - I wonder, did your useage predate that?

    captcha=creative : I don't think so! There would be few OCRs that would have a problem with it!

    This would have been 1995 I think, so no prior art.

    I'm much better now.  I was just an intern!!
  • (cs)

    I think we are not being fair here to put in the WTF. The FileMatrix is not for the likes of us. It is meant only for "THE ONE".
    But yes, if we look at it we cant help saying WTF.

  • Mark B. (unregistered)

    What in blazes?!?!? Does it come with a bottle of Excedrin Migraine relief?

  • Drew Bell (unregistered)

    OMG IT'S FULL OF DEATH

  • Invalidname (unregistered)

    Actually, this is totally the GUI that all of the bosses I've ever had actually wanted. I remember one who wanted a screen-filling, seven-tabbed GUI, with each tab divided into three or four split panes, gobs of toolbars, tables, tree-tables, etc. PHB's think that the more controls and widgets an app has, the better it must be.

  • Rocky Erwin (unregistered)

    Holy shit!

  • Humphrey B. Flaubert (unregistered)

    What are all of you people who are angry about the "goggles" comments thinking? You're using a site that has WTF in the title, and you don't expect Simpsons quotes?

    Actually, scratch that. You're on the internet and you don't expect Simpsons quotes? Everybody knows that the internet has only two uses:

    1. Porn
    2. Simpsons quotes
  • Seb (unregistered)

    OK, here's a question. How do you open a file? lol

  • GDarius (unregistered)

    "No , Emacs gives you a list of files and directories. Sorted. Much more user-freindly."

    The fact that this UI caused "Emacs" and "more user-friendly" to be in the same sentence should tell you something.

  • Ganesh (unregistered)

    hi i am gamesh it is futastic approch given by you.

  • Harshal (unregistered) in reply to Hux
    Hux:
    O.O This thing is outrageous. I don't see anything that will allow you to list all of the computer's active tasks and let you kill, set priority, or assign to a certain processor! After all that work and I can't get a decent music visualization for the media player

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