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- Path: cup.portal.com!Gemini2
- From: Gemini2@cup.portal.com (Gary Alan Peake)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Team AMIGA Wish List
- Date: 12 Mar 1996 23:00:32 -0800
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- Sender: pccop@unix.portal.com
- Message-ID: <150929@cup.portal.com>
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- * Denotes added/changed since last release!
- @ Put on a 'real' Extra's Diskette (or CD ROM) as part of the OS!
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- Make Resident:
- Assign
- Dir
- List
- Copy
- Delete
- Rename
- LoadWB
- @ Snoopdos (or a substitute)
- asl.library (ReqTools as standard)
- Avail
- Newshell (NewCLI)
- Runback
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- Improvements Needed:
- *Requesters (ReqTools & Arq-like)
- *User-Configurable Pull-down Menus (with short-cuts)
- serial.device
- *printer.device (full postscript, more colors, drivers, thumbnails, etc
- narrator.library
- *ClipBoard
- *Pipes
- Expanded IFF support (for improved compression-ala PNG/Encap JPEG)
- Font Handling (with support for TrueType/Type1 fonts)
- More keyboard support/shortcuts
- Improve Serial Prefs (most modems are 14.4k-28.8k now)
- Center text in requesters and get rid of excess white space.
- Icon & Backdrop palettes independant of the WB palette
- @ Online 'Help' add flexibility and expand
- Customizable device drivers for the non-programmer
- More flexibility for MultiView (allow it to save to different formats)
- HDToolBox (allow larger hard drive support)
- Public Screen support (thru tooltypes so programs can open behind WB)
- Control of GUI elements (window highlite colors, etc) thru Prefs
- *Wait pointer keeps us waiting too long at times
- *Give 'MORE' a file requester and ability to use keys for up-down
- @*"Ed, Edit, and Memacs" ... enhance one and get rid of the others
- *Preference settings from the Cli without opening the programs
- @*Fancier screen savers
- *Allow us to 'shift-click on an icon to unselect after doing a 'select
- all'
- *AM/PM Date/Time on the title bar
- *'List, Assign, Resident, Type, & Dir' need a /p (page) or /m (more)
- switch
- *Make the 'cancel' button on a copy to floppy work the first time when
- it gets bad blocks or write errors
- *Toggle gadget on tooltypes instead of writing them in
- *Prefs program for Assigns (ala bind names)
- *Font sensitive gadgets
- *Multi-tasking drawer opening
- *Memory defragmentation
- *Dynamically created chip ram
- *Faster FastFileSystem
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- Remove:
- *Icon Borders (make them user optional)
- 2.1+ Error Messages (We want Guru Meditations again!)
- *32 bit pen specifiers
- *Trashcan
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- Standardize:
- Installer/Uninstaller (half way there now with new release!)
- *Ability to password protect directories/volumes/ or on boot-up
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- Additions Needed:
- *Bring back "Guru Meditations" with adjustable delay for reboot
- and better translations of what caused the guru
- Retargetable graphics
- *Retargetable sound
- MIFF (Multimedia IFF ... hypertext, sound, graphics, animation,etc)
- Standardized 'MIFF' viewer (MultiView on steroids?)
- @ NewIcon type of Icon support
- *Abort gadget for the 'disk copy' and other requesters
- Iconify gadget on the WB menus
- @ ToolsDaemon-like options that are system friendly
- @ System debugger that is accessible from a 'Guru Meditation' with
- history
- @ Magic Layers or Opaque Windows
- Add an 'assign' requester (AssignX) when a program needs an assign
- @ TCP/IP with extras and a basic terminl program (Surfer Option?)
- DataTypes Needed:
- HTML, AVI, MPEG, QT/MOV, MOD/MED, JPEG, GIF, WAV, VOC
- Divide datatypes into separate types and program accordingly:
- system-system files, text-text files, doc-document files,
- inst-musical instruments, musi-musical files, pict-picture
- files, anim-animation files, movi-movie
- files,decom-decompression of files
- @ Magic Menus-like menu options
- All corner sizing gadget for windows
- @ PowerSnap-like text snapping
- *ConPaste-like ability
- @ NickPrefs-like (set floppies, drive click, *wildcard, patterns, picts)
- Settable aspect ratio (1:1 or 2:1)
- *Cycle gadgets, button gadgets (ala MUI)
- @ Networking support & network.devices (Surfer Option?)
- KingCon instead of Cli/Shell with name completion (system-wide)
- with scroll bar for cut/paste text
- *'XCopy' command that checks blocks/bytes before starting
- *'Move' command that checks block/byte size before starting
- *'Size' command that gives exact sizes of bytes/blocks
- @ Visual GUI programming ala Mac
- Improve ram-handler so that files copied to ram are resident-like
- *8 bit pen specifiers for true 24 bit color
- *Prefs program to toggle the system between Pal and NTSC that
- works on all Amiga's
- *A working Pal/NTSC boot option for all Amiga's
- @*Speech capability
- @*CrossMac
- *Allow spaces in file names without using quotes
- @*Buy the rights to a compression method and include in the OS
- @*Xpk support
- *Adjust sound thru software
- @*Virtual Memory
- *PCMCIA driver
- *Support localization for non-Romanized laguages (Japanese/Chinese)
- *Selectable Kickstart modes from startup for 'old' programs
- *Patch for 68020+ DataTypes to run on a 68000 3.1/ECS
- *AGA to ECS retargetting
- @*Bare bones file manager
- *Bottom screen bar with clock, calendar, and text/icon fields for
- starting programs from (like 'shell')
- *'Locate' command that uses (d) dir, (f) file, (b) both switch then
- transfers you to the file/directory it finds
- *Cron Program
- *Combine 'Dir' and 'List' with interactive mode
- *Multi-tasking on Workbench and pull-down menus
- *Check for open/changed files on reboot or 'guru'
- @*Multi-input streams
- @*Task manager (ala Executive)
- *Cli command like 'openwindow HD1:' that would work from
- s:user-startup
- *Scroll bar in the Cli
- @*DiskSalve
- @*Reorg
- *MPEG decoding
- *Mouseclick brings window to front and makes it active
- *A 'Leave Out' option for an entire window
- *Global tooltypes, rather than pregram specific tooltypes
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- Hardware Related:
- More Sound Channels (8)
- Faster serial port
- Coprocessor for sound/graphics
- Clock/Calendar in every Amiga
- *PCMCIA drives
- *OS on CD ROM and on floppies
- *Three-button mouse support built-in to the OS
- *Midi port
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- Programming/Text Related:
- @*More in-depth user manuals (AmigaDos, Arexx)
- @*Support soon for the small developers-CD ROMS/Floppies/Manuals of RKM's
- needed NOW!!! Three levels (hobbyist, PD/Shareware, Professional)
- *Easier to understand 'C' program options (switches,etc) current manuals
- are vague and confusing to the normal user
- @*Bring back the Hard Drive Users Manual, include with every Amiga
- @*RKM's on a CD Rom Disk with search function
- @*Service Manuals for 500, 1200, 2000, 3000, 4000 series
- *Improve Installer docs
- *Full Arexx manuals
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- Bugs:
- *Run sort twice on the same file
- *"s flag" gets lost when saving in Ed
- *Memacs loses "Filenote" comments on saving
- *3.1 sometimes comes up in NTSC, even if PAL mode is selected for US users
- *from shell 'cd "ram disk:" will ask for 'volume disk:'
- *"Run" a script file called 'There are spaces in this title' won't work
- *"Execute" 'There are spaces in this title' will work
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- Keepers:
- *CrossDos
- *'run newshell' command
- * ~ [not] command
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- ===============================================================================
- This listing was compiled by Team AMIGA members. We would appreciate any
- discussion.
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- Gary Peake "Mystic Meg" Fellow AMIGA Users:
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