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Offline amigamad

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Re: Favourite Application/Utility From Yesteryear
« Reply #14 from previous page: October 28, 2002, 02:36:32 PM »
professional file system3 not only speeds up disk operations but very hard to invalidate hard disk.
drawstudio is very good  im one of the few that bought it. :-)
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Re: Favourite Application/Utility From Yesteryear
« Reply #15 on: October 28, 2002, 03:23:15 PM »
DM2. Much better than Dopus 4, IMHO.
 

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Re: Favourite Application/Utility From Yesteryear
« Reply #16 on: November 02, 2002, 12:16:52 PM »
I was always put off getting Drawstudio because the demo was very flakey and continued to boot up my A600 just to run ProDraw.  However, I bought a copy of DrawStudio a copule of weeks back and it is indeed excellent.  Works fine on the A1200 and under UAE.

Anyway, back to the thread...

All the Gold Disk stuff was great and I still use ProPage and ProCalc as well as ProDraw (v flakey on AGA).

Vista Pro was always good for a play as well; must see if it works under emu so can stick in on my A1.
 

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Re: Favourite Application/Utility From Yesteryear
« Reply #17 on: November 02, 2002, 03:27:16 PM »
Deluxe Paint. Any version... I was only 11 and that was great! :-) If you want to paint small things and control every pixel is way faster than using 24 bit programs like photoshop...
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Re: Favourite Application/Utility From Yesteryear
« Reply #18 on: November 02, 2002, 04:18:59 PM »
heh u guys....we live in a INET world dont we?
the 3 progs that has made me the most happy the last year must have been:
YAM! , MIami and Dopus 5.x

sadly i would have typed Amirc here also, but ermm that havent exactly gotten
any better the last years....moreover worser and more buggy IMHO!

anyway YAM! i love u, now all we want is an official web update for it.
Whats up with all the hate!
 

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Re: Favourite Application/Utility From Yesteryear
« Reply #19 on: November 02, 2002, 04:29:12 PM »
My favorites....
Miami Deluxe
Disk Master 2

I'd use DOpus Magellan 2, but I can't get it to run without crashing my entire machine.
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Re: Favourite Application/Utility From Yesteryear
« Reply #20 on: November 02, 2002, 04:43:31 PM »
X-copy :-o  :flame:
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Re: Favourite Application/Utility From Yesteryear
« Reply #21 on: November 02, 2002, 04:45:36 PM »
Seriously though....

I loved the action replay cart too......signed a petition to get it done for A1200l.

Actual proggy would have to be Dopus, that prog RULES! :-)
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Re: Favourite Application/Utility From Yesteryear
« Reply #22 on: November 02, 2002, 05:18:21 PM »
Anyone remember FixDisk? I used to get annoyed by utilities that would "fix" bad sectors on a disk by blanking them or just "fix" the CRC leaving the data bad. Fixdisk  allowed you to (amongst other things) find bad tracks and then repeatedly read them, displaying the data received in a hex window. By observation you could see when the dodgy track had been read ok, format just that track and write the (good) data back. Disk actually FIXED! Cool.
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Re: Favourite Application/Utility From Yesteryear
« Reply #23 on: November 02, 2002, 05:20:25 PM »
Oh! And CLImate, in the days when Open File... in an app used to give you just a line-drawn empty text box! :-)
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Re: Favourite Application/Utility From Yesteryear
« Reply #24 on: November 02, 2002, 08:35:54 PM »
Just one? impossible.

I liked FinalWriter, YAM, MagicMenu (although I guess MM is current).

There was a delightful hack that drew shadows under windows in WB 1.x I think, maybe 2.x too but I don't believe it worked so well.
 

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Re: Favourite Application/Utility From Yesteryear
« Reply #25 on: November 02, 2002, 08:57:34 PM »
LightWave....nothing else comes close.

Over the years I've spent lots of money on Imagine, C4D and the rest,
but they're toys in comparison.  LightWave is just awesome, even on
the Amiga. And of course, the Amiga gave birth to LightWave.

I got LightWave yonks ago and I cannot put it down. It has hooked me,
pulled me in and swallowed me up!

I spend all my time with LightWave. I've written a book on
LightWave and my website is dedicated to LightWave.

So for me, it's just gotta be LightWave.

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Re: Favourite Application/Utility From Yesteryear
« Reply #26 on: November 03, 2002, 01:12:07 AM »
Hmm, if I were to list all of my favourite applications I'd probably still be typing this in two days time (ok so I'm exaggerating just a little bit) :-). So I'll just list the ones that I've used the most.

First off DOpus 4.12 because it makes file management simple and doesn't need lots of configuration before you can get the best out of it (unlike it's big brother).

CygnusED. It might not be feature packed but its fast, small and has an ARexx port and you can actually run it from floppies if needed (I'd like to see someone try that with GoldED).

My favourite application would have to be OctaMED Soundstudio because it's the only program I've ever used that has not crashed more than twice on my machine.