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Default AmigaOS4 Icon Set Revealed

Posted by timothy on from the age-appropriate-and-very-work-safe dept.

Mike Bouma writes "A new screenshot showing OS4's default icon set by Martin 'Mason' Merz has been revealed. Also Q&A session 27 with Amiga's CTO Fleecy Moss is now available. Hyperion, Eyetech, AmigaWorld.net and many more exhibitors will attend the upcoming AmiGBG fair in Sweden." I also like the fantasy Amiga linked to from the Q&A session.

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  1. Amiga Features by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Graphically, the icons kinda suck, but they are quite clear, a bit like KDE's, which is more than can be said for the "grayish gradient wash" approach of GNOME or the "ooh, see through" MacOSX.

    They're very 90s "newicons" amigaish, which is a look I always personally disliked, but they were undeniably friendly for beginners and people who just wanted to get stuff done and wanted recognisable icons instead of fashion statements.

    I'm more interested in the window borders - simple, clean, still distinctively amigaish.

    But what really struck me was all the stuff that I'd semi-forgotten about from the Amiga, that the amiga just plain did better than "modern" OSes. Look at the Devs window. Want to install a device driver? Put it in the Devs folder, and that's assuming you've got such crappy hardware that failed to include an amiga autoconfig rom with a built-in driver. Want to install a library? Libs folder. Want to read a new kind of multimedia data type? Get a DataType for it, put it in DataTypes folder, and even programs written before the invention of the data type have a fair chance of being able to handle it.

    I think it was the logical volumes ("assigns") that allowed the amiga to have a non-sucky system and application file/directory structure.