@djrikki

Ah I heard it was Samwise Gamgee.

Hi all,

This week I and others will be attending the Vintage Computer Festival at Bletchley Park and as you all will probably know their will be a fair few prominent people their answering our questions.

For the people who can't attend this weekend what outstanding question would you like an answer to and who from at the show?

Leave your questions here, I will select some of your questions and report back on Monday with my findings.

Try and keep your questions short, direct and to the point.

@All

Yeah lots of shortcomings and things to do on with it, but I just felt I had spent enough time on it - especially as A-Eon are very unlikely to use it.. although they are welcome to the source code. I'll address some of the individual posters this evening after I return home from work.

Hmm strange... thought this will appear at the top of new posts lists. :s

Perhaps its because its in Free For All?

Maybe I should move it elsewhere. :S

Hi all,

A few weeks if not months ago now, the talk on Amigans was about the quality or lack thereof A-Eon's website.

Many stated it was only temporary, many said it was here to stay ha. Many grumbled and said 'if you think you can do better let's see you do a mock up instead of constantly nit-picking'.

That last comment or words to that effect inspired me to do exactly that, see if I could do better so rather than sit on my laurels I had a go.

So I thought what the hell I could do with brushing up my CSS and HTML skills so last sunday (6th June) I began to do exactly that make my own mock copy of their site.

The link below are the fruits of my labour, some may say its waste of time, I say well it was fun making it!

But at least I have done something which I believe is productive and shows what can be achieved and could appear on any future A-Eon site.

Thanks to the few who kindly uploaded random images here on Amigans I still need(ed) more, but what the heck without an Amiga anymore myself its hard to finish what I had set out to do.

I hope you enjoy the following effort and have positive comments for me. Of course I do listen to constructive criticism as well.

I would love to see some of the content appear on their website, chiefly a Download section of popular software, user themes and backgrounds and an introduction to AmigaOS.

In closing, I wish the A-Eon's web design team well on re-designing their site ready for the X1000 launch this summer and hope they have listened and taken in many of the positive and also negative comments of the whole Amiga community.

Here is my mock-up of the A-Eon website.

Enjoy.


http://www.uploads.beaverpromotions.co.uk/x1000/index.html


PS. I designed the website with my screen resolution at 1680 x 1050 (I have a wide-screen iMac) I fully expect there to be some layout issues on lower resolutions. I freely admit I am not proficient when it comes to ensuring consistency at different screen resolutions. Some tips and tricks wouldn't go a miss.

PPS. Yes some pages are incomplete, I felt I had spent enough time on it already.

Stood on a few feet it seems, yes most are okay, but something special for x1000 would be cool. Foreinstance AmigaKit.com could easy have a dedicated section/folder for the x1000 separate to the rest of their site so A-Eon could easily point to it. Just an idea.

And yes frames on websites is very old hat and no-one seems to use it anymore - I just couldn't think of a third technology =P

Perhaps HTML5 when finalised will hold something special aside from platform-independent video playback.

At least I got you guys talking about it and kas1e's know why I brought up at this time as I am actually working on a html project website atm which for me is just to brush and refresh my HTML skills. Talking of which at work today I worked out how using Javascript I could have a different selection of url images shown in the browser depending on which option was chosen from a drop-down menu - I was quite happy with myself that I managed to work it out. *pats own back*

@djrikki

Which of these are part of the OS/Installation CD?

YAM or SimpleMail?

@jackepc

Is AmiUpdate part of the OS now? If yes does this update itself or do you have to visit a website to update the updater?


AmiUpdate isn't on the installation CD, so it's not a part of the OS. Even so, I consider it to be very useful if not essential. Yes, it does update itself automatically.

Hans

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Well thats something of a surprise, thought it sounded like an integral piece of software.

@jackepc

Is AmiUpdate part of the OS now? If yes does this update itself or do you have to visit a website to update the updater?

Okay yet another thread of mine, I think there will be a lot more interest in this one.

Please post your top 10 favourite Amiga OS 4.1 Applications and include a link or a mention where they can be downloaded from; if not on OS4 Depot.

If your feeling adventurous I'd love to see a screenie of it running on your machine.

Thanks in advance.

Its crossed my mind recently now that Timberwolf has pretty much landed on the Amiga platform with a resounding thumbs up how many Amiga-related websites that don't use various web standards such as frames, javascript and css to name a few.

Will be interesting to see which and how many sites will be brought up to date to support all this new potential.

Aside from the big three amiga forums (in order of positivity and pleasant to read from good to bad) Amigans, Amigaworld and Amiga.org there are certainly a lot of sites although are very functional look very dated now.

IntuitionBase
AmigaKit
OS4 Depot
AmiBounty
UtilityBase

What is the likelihood that any of these will have a touch of paint over the next few months?

Personally I would deem it absolutely essential that OS4Depot and AmigaKit be brought up to date. Especially as AmigaKit has just been named the official distributor of the X1000.

Okay so die-hards will often say what about backwards-compatibility... I would say simples offer them an alternative version of the site. And to be absolutely honest if Hyperion/A-Eon and AmigaKit want to make some serious money backwards-compatibility should be at the bottom of the pile.

Thoughts and opinions.

ssolie: fixed spelling errors (AmiKit is something else entirely)

Thanks for the contributions so far still need a few pieces to finish my jigsaw.

Chiefly:

Themes: I have Novo Metal, Dark OS and Simoami. 1 more required showing timberwolf with a popular social networking site open.

Backgrounds: I have Curve, Amiga Connected, Ball Alone, Machine, Amiga Box and Xmas Boing. I require two more, once again timberwolf showing a popular website - how about youtube or idk - you decide... twitter or something.

Desktop: Finally I need two complete screenshots of your workbench to complete my set of four. Running any popular software or timberwolf (did i say timberwolf already!?) and an eye-candy amidock that doesn't use copyrighted images or rips from other oses. Sexy drawers (haha) open in the background also helps, but not default icon sets. Once again pick/arrange screenies that showcase Amiga OS as being apart of the 21st century.

Free cookies for the next person to post a contribution!

@nubechecorre

In that case, new features first, epic bug fixing later.

@samo79

I suspected it might, but as I don't have an Amiga yet its hard to tell because Hyperion don't mention what is actually included in the kit. ^.^

@ChrisH

Its all speculative my friend. I guess we shall find out soon.

@nubechecorre

Well to summarise.

1. Hyperion must catch-up on the last 10+ years of software dependancies such OpenGL and Java that modern software applications and programmers have come to rely on and path the way for easier porting of code between platforms.

2. At the same time it must ensure that the OS takes full-advantage of the X1000 in all respects.

3. In parallel it must develop and make available a comprehensive Software Developer Suite rather than a myriad of downloads of X, Y and Z. The suite should include a Debugger, Editor and Interface builder that maximises the full potential of the platform.

4. Additionally to go hand-in-hand with the Developer side it requires a comprehensive back-end online help repository and to compliment all this a central download area where only software application developers that conform to Amiga-style guides can upload to.

Lots of work.

@kas1e

Including YouTube videos in my 'project' that sounds like an interesting idea.

Although the big problem is that everyone seems to just point a camera at the screen lol

@kas1e

Ah excellent in-built theme. Hate to be a pain, but can you post 3 more like your TW one, different theme, different websites sil vous plait? If you could include one with logged into facebook and a page from youtube I'd love you forever.

@all

Thanks for the input so far, much appreciated. Need more posts like kas1e's, rather thank links and such, but its all helping and giving me ideas.

Kas1e, I've seen that theme in numerous pictures. What is it called? And is there a Os4Depot link for it? Or is it part of the standard distribution? :D

@daniel

Ouch, amiga-look.org has a nastly XP theme.. yuck :)

Please keep your entries coming as per post 1.

@djrikki

Hmm, any takers? Doesn't take much effort to open Timberwolf and capture the screen does it as per spec?

I would do it myself, but alas I do not have a modern Amiga (yet).