Archive for April, 2008

SuperDuper best floppy drive tool on the Amiga

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

The Amiga can support up to four floppy disk drives. Now, one might argue that in today’s world of DVD discs holding up to 6300 Amiga floppy disk images there is no use for such devices anymore.

I would claim a floppy drive is still usefull, especially during installation of an Amiga hard drive or when setting up an Amiga system.

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VisualPrefs Modify and enhance Amiga Workbench

Monday, April 21st, 2008

There are a lot of system patches that enhance Workbench in various ways. VisualPrefs is a famous patch that can modify the way classic Workbench looks like. If you take a second and think about it you can see that some aspects of Workbench look a bit weird sometimes, out of proportion.

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Two eyes that follow the mouse on Amiga Workbench – Jeyes

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

Jeyes is just the classic ”eyes that follows the mouse” application, it is merely one of many available for Workbench. Now, this version of Jeyes is not even particularly good if you are running a graphics card because eye globes corrupts the background but for “hires” and “hires-laced” screen modes it works great. (more…)