@RL_Dane I used to be tech support for that corrupt as fuck company... boycott the shit out of apple, their products aren't anything worth writing about.
Someone needs to write an #ADHD videogame called "Dopamine Farming" where you have a stable job and a great life and all of a sudden DONT care about anything in the world and start planning things around the dopamine they will produce so you can get through the day, like, "Time for a haircut! I don't need one that badly, but that's fifteen dopamine points, so I'll take it!"
Lemme get this straight, #BetterHelp helped themselves to $80 out of my account every month for several months while I dealt with undiagnosed #ADHD with no help from them (kinda hard to get treatment when you have to initiate all of the communication and you have raging ADHD). The US FTC sued them and all I get back is $9.70?
Good grief.
OH SNAP, they got sued for selling customer's data TO FACEBOOK. WOW! WHAT A PARAGON OF VIRTUE.
The ironic thing is if Apple did anything else, perhaps a magician covering a box with the stuff with a curtain, then whisking the curtain away to show the iPad, it wouldn't have made such a negative impact, but the destruction of creative stuff just echos a world that is like the first Mac ad, except without someone cool slinging a hammer at a screen... a world Apple has helped make.
Continuing my alternate history exploration, I've settled on the hardware I would've gotten for Christmas 1989 (A500, basic monitor, some kind of HDD, Workbench 1.3), but now I'm trying to find fairly equivalent software to what I used on the classic mac to round out the experience.
Any recommendations for Amiga equivalents truly appreciated:
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Update: Thanks so much for all of the helpful pointers so far. I will be going over the options tonight. <3
Introductory programming and presentation - Hypercard 1.x
Word Processing - Microsoft Word 4 Casual paint - MacPaint 1.x
Shareware games (no money for commercial ones) - StuntCopter, Dark Castle, Glider
Random amusements/toys - Talking Moose, Stupid Mac Tricks (Bob LeVitus)
@RL_Dane I had that setup in late 87, replacing the C128. Eventually adding a second aftermarket floppy drive.
As for software I was using Aztec C, and of course Deluxe Paint. For Shareware you couldn't beat the Fred Fish disks, and also the Tampa Bay Amiga Group had their Tbag disks. Those are still available on archive.org.
Yeah, it's kind of a bummer. I'm not saying we have to emulate 30-year-old UNIX traditions JUST BECAUSE, but some of the changes don't make a whole lot of sense. But what do I know, I'm just a paper pusher these days. XD