Best of Amiga... list of the best software available

[mantisspider]

Hi Guys,

For someone who is comming back to full Amiga usage, im pretty confused as to where the software has developed to. Back in the old days it was simple, for best graphics was DPaint and best word processor was WordWorth. but now what?

if people could list their favorite apps that would be really helpful:

Wordprocessing:
DeskTop Publishing App:
Image Editing apps:
Spreadsheet:
Database:
Scanning software:
CDwriting:
EMail app:
WebBrowser:
Video Player:

:-D im sure everyone have their own favourites. and why they feel some stuff is better than others.
I can hear the FinalWriter vs WordWorth debates starting already

cheers

[mantisspider]

found an unfavourable review of WordWorth 7. eeek

http://www.amigapage.it/recensioni/worde.htm

[mantisspider]

cool this is really helpfull, its great to see people using different apps.
Whats the differences between AmigaWriter and FinalWriter? does noone love wordworth anymore?

what version of pagestream are we up to? I used to love PageStream on my A500+

[mantisspider]

Cheers, shame Deluxe Paint stopped being so great DPaint V was the big let down I suppose.

Any of these apps have the features used in apps like Photoshop and Corel? Layers fancy brushes, filters etc?

[mantisspider]

whats GoldEd? whats it for?

can i be a pain in the ass and ask if ppl could put little comments next to the apps they use to say why they use them (why they like them) it helps a lot, cheers :-D


better wordworth review: http://www.amigamccc.org/journal/9809word.htm
Pagestream4.1 and AmigaWriter review found issue 11 total amiga: http://www.totalamiga.org/pdf/totalamiga_11.pdf

[mantisspider]

is GoldED still in development? one thing i hated about my amiga was the poor txt editors. However I do remember one that had an undo feature. I cant remember what it was though... not very helpful am i?

google is good, but google wont give the actual user feedback, me and others (guys coming back to amiga and new to amiga) are trying to learn about.

my cousin asked me today whether its worth him using his Atari ST so he can use it as a computer.
I asked him what about his Amiga 600 sitting in the cupboard. So im setting up his HardDrive too. :-D sweet

[mantisspider]

I completely agree with Joanna, and not because she has a female name and from finland and im really focussing on her not being a rather overweight and sweaty man pretending to be a woman to talk to boys on the internet.

If wordworth was still under the amount of development that it has been familiar to in the past, then all the features that are missing and have problems with would be ironed out.
The same with Final Writer.

The best thing that M$ did was to create an office package that is able to maintain the same user interface, feeling and short cut keys for all of its office applications (okay access sort of is a bit off compaired to the others).

From what i gather Amiga Writer is the only wordprocessor in development (thanks Total Amiga, tastey review), which gives them the edge indeed. Hopefully will be able to find all the best bits from the other WP out there and also improve on and make new innovations themselves.

from the posts in this thread, looks like there is a nice mix of CD buring apps and people are also not using the same webbrowser, which does suggest that each browser has something special to offer.

i dont think that any app that is not under constant development or an app that is never gonna get updated, is not of any use and should be forgotten?
Its just that anything that has the chance to improve and evolve has to be a good thing.

I mean if FinalWriter is better than the latest version of AmigaWriter, then its still better to use that app, i spose.
Luckily it seems that graphic apps seem to be more in dev than wordprocessors.

Hopefully the list of apps people are using goes to show that the Amiga can be used as a replacement for the current super PC machines sold by Dixons etc. for home office use and graphic designers.

these last few years I have been told by printers, "supply it as a PDF please", so as soon as my amiga is able to convert DTP and Graphic files perfectly into flawless PDF files then i dont need to keep playing with my PC.
Dual G5 powered amiga anytime soon?

oh and Joanna, (in my best Joey voice) "How you doin'?"


wooooohooo my longest post ever... how much is gibberish?

[mantisspider]

Hi Cyberus,

yeah its a thread that has saved my amiga, and brought it back as a real working machine :-)

what apps have u been using so far? what WB mods you been using?

[mantisspider]

Hi Robert,

thanks for the link,
I was worried about the output of PDF for pagestream after reading the pagestream review from ur Total Amiga and its said about it not being able to print natively to PDF, and 3rd party apps are needed and you need to convert it a couple of times.

i never used ghost script, about time i did :-)

thanks