In keeping with the Commodore tradition of cost cutting, most consumer models of their Amiga line of computers came with severely watered down documentation. The Amiga 500 was an exception from this rule, but owners of later machines – such as the A1200 – may not have gotten any documentation for the command line part of AmigaOS at all.
And, of course, even if this documentation had shipped with the machines, it wouldn’t have revealed features that were hidden to anyone without access to official developer documentation or even left completely undocumented or unfinished.
This is a quick look at a few of these interesting features, some more obscure than others, but all of them decidedly useful. Most of them only apply to versions 2.x and/or 3.x of the OS. With that said, let’s dive right in!
Carl Svensson
Exactly what it says on the tin.
This article takes me back to the good old days, but then when I look at the screen grabs I realise they weren’t as good as I recall. We bemoan kids not learning the basics, but maybe, just maybe, those oldy fonts and interfaces served a greater purpose, a bit like the OpenDyslexic font would now. Sorry for the diversion!