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Ahhh Devs:system-configuration or SYS:system-configuration at 232 bytes. I remember being 11 and trying to make my own compilation disks and trying to figure out what file kept the system prefs on my A500. Don’t forget to copy the RAM: handler from L: if you wanted to use RAM:

  I used Kindwords to make my first compilation disks until I discovered Diskmaster 1.3 and then later on Diskmaster 1.3 and shell commands. 

  This is a nice pointer collection, I used to enjoy putting in compilation disks and seeing the 4 system colours and the 4 mouse sprite colours. I also remember the compilation disks that used “rainbow” or “stripes” which changed the background or text colour on each scanline.


  Bonus points for the kiwi pointer (personal NZ bias).

5 days agoby ptek

https://www.aminet.net/package/util/mouse/EgoMouse

Anyone still using an Amiga should try EgoMouse; it makes your mouse pointer rotate to face to the direction of movement; yes, this makes it ridiculously difficult to "drive", but it's fun

4 days agoby amiga386

Some real ingenuity and creativity on display. The Amiga only had two pointer modes, the normal one and a "busy" pointer, and the system preferences provided a nice little pixel painter specifically for drawing pointers, so making your own was a low threshold activity.

Applications could define their own as needed, of course (the pointer was just a hardware sprite).

5 days agoby arexxbifs

The Amiga Pointer Archive is missing one: We went to get a Fast Ram upgrade for a A1000, and we looked at his work, and it was cross between a jeweler and sim-city. We had the work done, and he put his boot disk into test it. He had the most interesting pointer... the boot disk was called Romeo, and the pointer was just a 3x3 square diamond, with a single line of pixels, to a 2x2 square diamond of pixels with a hole on the center... so you could literally see a single pixel through it. I had never seen anything like it, so I copied on my Macintosh, ( System 6.0.8, and system 7.0.1 ), and later to windows 3.1 onward to Windows XP, later screens became too large to need anything close to a single pixel pointer.

I wish I had the disk, that we got it from... just a single 3.5" Floppy labeled "Romeo" and we all knew what it was.

4 days agoby ForOldHack

I find it a bit sad that contextual pointers aren't nearly as common as they used to be.

They can certainly be overdone or done poorly, but done well they give a really nice indicator that can account for some combination of context of what's under the pointer to be operated on, any modifiers active, and any ambient state.

4 days agoby abeyer

Wow. You're going to want to turn on "color thumbnails". Beautiful.

4 days agoby kbelder

I think I'm a little sleep-deprived: I briefly thought that this was going to be about pointers to peek/poke to. And then I remembered that AmigaOS relies heavily on handles/jump tables...

4 days agoby nxobject

I miss the customizations such as custom pointers, window blinds, folder icons, etc that you used to be able to do with your PC.

We had some great designs back then. And some eye sores too.

Can we bring back the ability to skin our windows again? Customize the look and feel of our OS to our liking or am I just going to get the obligatory “Switch to Linux”?

4 days agoby reactordev