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kwanbix
The Amiga was so, so cool. So sad it couldn't keep up.
peterashford
Yup. Literally the only tech that I have genuine nostalgia for. I really miss it and the community
johngossman
An interesting feature of getting old is when you see something you haven't in 30+ years and it suddenly snaps into focus. X-Copy was invaluable.
spankibalt
Albeit it sort of worked for the kidlets on their lo-rez screens, demoscene- and/or game-style visual aesthetics were (and often still are) a bad choice for good application UI design. But that's of course mostly just preference talking.
gforce_de
Is this sentence true, or should just sound important?

"Cachet created the word «usability» for that, meaning «start it and be able to use it right away.»"

pjmlp
Ah, the famous tool everyone used to share their "acquisitions" back in Portugal.

Back in the 1980's even regular computer stores used to sell pirated software.