[REBOL] Re: FYI: Once was lost but now is found (Editor window in view)
From: jasonic:panix at: 21-Nov-2001 1:29
> > I still miss the Amiga's screens! Anyone ever seen that anywhere else?
>
> Been to long since I have seen them, what are you refering to?
Well each application could open its own 'screen' if wanted do. And also
open little rectangular windows, but they were/are boring. Screens were fun
because they were FULL screen graphic displays. No freaking borders where
you did not need them - a better illusion of UI immersion, not just into the
application but into the cyber-screen of the computer.
Use the implied depth of the computer display. Instead of this !~#$# little
rectangle boxes graphic clutter oppression we have now as standard.
Depth: I always liked the way Amiga softened that line between computer and
TV. Screens were the means. Depth was/is the goal. Moving depth..
Some programs used half-size screens as funky tool palettes. Most for the
display output related to a graphics generation design screen of the same
application.
In the beginning, before anything else, adn for a long time after, when you
multi-tasked a bunch of programs you could blow people's minds first by
flipping though the open applications, using the Amiga equivalent of
Windows' ALT+TAB.
But the really hilarious thing, was that you could then grab the top of each
screen and drag it down some or all of the way to reveal the running
applications behind. Like it was a vertical descending garage door in a
parking lot, sinking into the floor, a digital version of the famous
Get-Smart
title sequence. As you kept pulling down the successive screens
you could discover all this wierd Amiga graphic stuff going on: Conway's
game of life behind Fracgen behind DPaint behind RGS behind ...
Teh effect was enhanced because the screens colors wre almost alwyas
different. Often really garish, which people loved to complain about. but
the cumulative effect was so much fun.
Full screen flash running with full-screen REBOL/View offer a means to
create a deeper immersive graphic UI simplicity. Using image viewers like
ACDSee you can view lots of graphics files in continuous immersive slide
show mode. So much better for review, concentration and presentation. A
scrolling mouse [with wheel] lets you fly back and forth through the images,
while keeping your minds+eyes on the art, not the UI. YES!
./Jason
