[News] Official Hyperion OS4 Screenshots now on-line | ANN.lu |
Posted on 07-Jun-2003 22:00 GMT by Mikey_C | 149 comments View flat View list |
AmigaWorld.net has posted 4 Screenshots on their website from Hyperion - you can view them via this Link
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Posted by Don Cox on 08-Jun-2003 14:29 GMT | In reply to Comment 52 (dennis): "with reference to older programs needing promotion, i think the "real" problem is not having a newer program to replace it. the real solution being a new program to do that job, not an OS hack."
We have only a very small number of programmers working on Amiga software.
Somehow they are not very interested in writing exact clones of older programs, so useful features get lost if the old programs no longer run. For example, "Perfect" Paint has many features of its own but is completely lacking all the animation features of DeLuxe Paint. Result - there is no tool for creating 2D animations for Amithlon or AmigaOne.
In most cases the authors have long ago left the platform and the code is not available.
In the case of the Default Font, this is mainly a cosmetic problem. An example is the file requester in Transwrite, which is an excellent word processor for professional writers. There are many other older programs which assume that the default font will always be 8 pixels high.
Even Pagestream has non-font-sensitive requesters (dozens of them), but at least it provides its own bitmap font and doesn't use the default.
Generally, only programs written with MUI are truly font-sensitive, and it is a matter of luck whether the default font is used or a custom one. |
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