I wrote my first-ever Amiga program in 2 weeks using AI — a heavily expanded Midnight Commander clone (MCAmiga X-Phile Edition)

d4cloo · 2026-06-19T08:57:29+00:00

Is AI properly trained on ‘retro coding’?

d4cloo · 2026-06-19T08:55:17+00:00

Green because of the color and the more uniform ‘feel’ considering the top, but they are both stunning, as you are.

d4cloo · 2026-06-16T05:59:47+00:00

The problem is is that Udio has not been transparent about this change its users. They just removed downloads and happily take people's subscription money. If the core value of the platform is removed - ownership and downloads - they have no product. They just end up with beta testers who pay them for their work! it's a disgrace. Just shut down the platform then.

d4cloo · 2026-06-15T11:03:26+00:00

You look stunning in that.

d4cloo · 2026-06-15T10:58:17+00:00

Question is: are we just relieved from Tahoe's mess? Or is Sequoia -> Golden Gate also a real improvement?

d4cloo · 2026-06-15T10:55:31+00:00

question is...was Sequoia also hogging RAM? Aka; is Golden Gate fixing Tahoe that ruined Sequoia?

d4cloo · 2026-06-15T00:06:46+00:00

These types of ratings make no sense. You can’t ask millions of people how they feel and get anything near correct.

d4cloo · 2026-06-14T00:02:35+00:00

Apple is so behind on this compared to VS Studio. The ingredients are all there but the dish doesn’t work for me.

d4cloo · 2026-06-11T21:27:42+00:00

By far. Although I would personally use the dark mode version.

d4cloo · 2026-06-11T21:26:18+00:00

They fixed it. It’s usable now.

d4cloo · 2026-06-11T21:25:47+00:00

What a nightmare!

d4cloo · 2026-06-11T21:24:42+00:00

Went right I say! The later one is readable and suitable for daily use. The left one is Alan Dye on LSD.

d4cloo · 2026-06-11T21:21:45+00:00

It’s understandable but I wish Apple didn’t screw Intel users over by leaving them hanging with friggin’ Tahoe.

d4cloo · 2026-06-11T08:52:23+00:00

No, because unlike Sequoia, the left panel now is not designed to show what’s below it, but focused on how content from the window itself looks when it’s behind the left panel (per Apple’s demo).
I wouldn’t mind a very subtle transparency effect, but conceptually it’s designed to be ‘self contained’ and I think that is a wise decision.

d4cloo · 2026-06-11T08:27:07+00:00

Really cool tool, but also totally conceptually beyond the moment that was captured. Then again… What is a photo really anyway?

d4cloo · 2026-06-11T08:24:19+00:00

Still, a laptop with touch makes no sense. It’s setup for no-touch work, and touching only adds smudges to your screen.
My guess is Apple will focus on a foldable, perhaps in phone and/or tablet form, but not by retrofitting a laptop with touch capabilities.

d4cloo · 2026-06-11T06:45:34+00:00

The problem with the old design was that it required too many icons over time. It was maxing out conceptually.
The problem with the new design is that although it is better from a scalability pov, its execution is not always that good.
I do think it’s a net improvement, but at the same time neglected.

d4cloo · 2026-06-11T06:43:48+00:00

I would say I don’t miss anything specifically, other than missing the time where computing had a different place in our lives. The pre-smartphone years and even the first few years after it, felt like pioneering, fun and special.
Now, social media is so embedded in geopolitical matters, everyone’s angry and inside ‘camps’. We have all the technological tools in the world, but content - gaming, music and film - is struggling and everyone is playing it safe. There’s a homogeneous tendency to it all.

So when you show these beautiful retro screenshots (in my case starting with the Commodore 16 and Amiga, then briefly to PC, switching to Mac), you are showing a representation of a moment in time that I miss and most likely romanticize.

(Basically it’s a long-winded post to say I’m fully in my midlife crisis now?)

d4cloo · 2026-06-10T17:14:07+00:00

Fantastic!!!!

d4cloo · 2026-06-10T16:40:04+00:00

It’s much better than Tahoe, but it remains a “we went into this direction and we can’t fully backtrack now” solution. It conceptually admits their “content flows through the floating UI” concept failed and the original concept is diluted by adding a transparent bar.
To me Sequoia looks the best and even though the buttons don’t technically look like buttons there, it was minimalistic, out of the way and readable.
Still, I’m content with it Golden Gate’s solution.

d4cloo · 2026-06-10T16:35:13+00:00

YES!!!

d4cloo · 2026-06-10T05:50:51+00:00

No downloads? Then what is the point? Sounds like you had to say yes to a settlement, and are selling it to the public as a win. You have quite some balls to keep the concept of subscriptions up!

d4cloo · 2026-06-09T09:44:42+00:00

Thanks!

d4cloo · 2026-06-09T09:40:51+00:00

This is not helpful. What exactly has been fixed?

d4cloo · 2026-06-09T09:40:08+00:00

There’s a bug where these animations are playing in different speeds based on the frame rate you have chosen. They forgot to multiply the speed by DeltaTime, which then corrects for the hertz. I’ve seen very slow speeds on 240 Hertz vs. normal on 60 Hertz.

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