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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: JoNty on October 28, 2002, 09:38:41 AM
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One of mine, Quarterback Tools Deluxe.
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hehe I was s going to say DiskSalv but since youve already mentioned a salvage prog I'll say it has to be Wordworth7 :-)
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Drawstudio. A very underrated and little brought utility by the Amiga
Community at large. It's really cool.
Mikey C
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The best thing to ever grace the amiga was Directory Opus magellan 2 which is absolutly fantastic as a WB Replacement and i still/will continue to use it under Amithlon,
Tried the windows version of Directory Opus and was very unhappy with it.
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One I used to use considerably, Zap 2.47.
disk/moni/Zap247.lha
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Deluxe Paint IV - still one of the best pixel painters around.
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CygnusEd or perhaps Deluxe paint IV, however the disksalv tools have really saved my butt several times so thats a good one too.
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Ohh, the memories of making Lemmings animations with DPaint.
I prefer PPaint now.
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Agreed. CED'll always be the dog's bollocks when it comes to Amiga text editors.
None of that bloated, Windows wannabe GED crap. :)
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Mikey_C wrote:
Drawstudio.
I nearly seconded that. Its very good, but I think for me Brilliance 2 was the best Amiga app. I loved that program...
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@gnarly
Brilliance has been one of my best ever investments. From seeing it being demonstrated at the WOA at Wembley and shelling out a huge amount of money for it. And being really gutted when Brilliance2 was released about £100 cheaper. And I bought that too.
This has got to be the most robust program I've ever used. It's never crashed on me, at all. Still to this day I've not found anything to best it on any other platform. Shame that it won't run on the AmigaOne
ScalaMM400 is another must have program. If ever there was (is?) another program that can make multimedia easier, I'd like to see it.
-john
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Dopus 4!
Closely followed by Cygnus ED & Octamed
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I go for the simple tool that I use everyday, Disk Master 2.
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Not really an app. but I love those datel reset cartridges especially on c64 took the snore out of loading!!
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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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DM2. Much better than Dopus 4, IMHO.
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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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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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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.
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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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X-copy :-o :flame:
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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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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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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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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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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.
Cheers,
JaXanim
http://waveguide.v-2-1.net
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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.