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CygnusEd Professional in Action on an Amiga 2000

Casey Muratori · demo · Watch on YouTube

Demoscene & retrocomputingSoftware performance & optimizationTesting, debugging & developer tools

What it is

Casey Muratori captures CygnusEd Professional running on an Amiga 2000, showing how smoothly it scrolled text. He notes the real effect is better on a period CRT.

Why Hacker News recommends it

It is cited as evidence that text scrolling on late-80s hardware was smoother than in many modern editors.

  • 1 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2016, last 2023

What HN commenters said

  1. “this is how a graphical text editor scrolled text 30 years ago on a 8 MHz 16 bit machine!”

    Shows how fast a graphical editor scrolled on an 8 MHz Amiga.

    squarefoot, 2017-05 · Recommendation · in “Slap – A Sublime-like terminal-based text editor”

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Topics: amiga, cygnused, text editors, retrocomputing, scrolling latency

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