Honestly, this list of features is really impressive, I’m really starting to see what made AmigaOS so special for so many people, and I’m a hard-line *nix gal. AmigaOS seems really unique, in that it’s an especially lightweight, responsive, yet structurally clever and well thought through system. It must’ve felt light years ahead of everything well into the 90s. This is definitely making me want to upgrade my A500 to Kickstart 2.04 or 3.1 to get these features.
Using the say command with the shell to have the Amiga 500 speak out the sentences you typed in was absolutely magical. The fact that this was just an add on to an already feature rich computer was awesome. PC users only gained this ability much later with the parrot function on the Creative Soundblaster which needed to be bought being extra expense for your PC.
I used to love this. I had some programming software, Amos I think it was called, everything I made had to have a talking voice in it, could even change pitch and speed. It really was amazing.