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
This was meant to be a quick-and-dirty post to get myself writing again after a pretty bad month, but I ended up writing for nearly two hours, so... ?!?!?!?!??
@RL_Dane Yeah, he mostly has good days. Always a little slower than the last month. We know he's going to have kidney problems some day, but until then he still seems like a pretty happy cat.
:syntax match WordsWithNumbers /\w*\d\w*/ containedin=ALL contains=@NoSpell
...but that will also prevent other highlighting from starting inside those words, which may or may not be an issue for you.
If it is an issue, you might be able to get around it by tacking on an extra contains=ALL, but it really depends on the rest of your syntax highlighting as to whether that will improve things or make it worse!