Amiga Software that has moved to the PC (free and otherwise) that no one with a PC should be without

[bhoggett]

Frankly OpenOffice is the only one off that list I have any use for, and it's got nothing at all to do with the Amiga (It used to be Star Office before the open source and closed source forks diverged). None of the Amiga "Office" applications were ever above mediocre at best.

The only titles I use regularly that have an Amiga heritage in the sense that they were inspired by Amiga apps are:

Magellan Explorer http://www.enriva.com/ (DOpus4 clone)

X-Chat http://www.xchat.org/ (AmIRC clone)

Beyond that, I can't think of anything else.

Now that I've mostly switched to Linux, Magellan Explorer is replaced by Worker http://www.boomerangsworld.de/worker/ as the DOpus4 clone. It's not the prettiest or best configured Linux file manager by default, but it's highly configurable and very familiar.
 :-P

[bhoggett]

@amigamad

I stopped using winace after it kept saying all my files were corrupt i got winrar instead and download a patch to allow opening of lha files.

Magellan Explorer from Enriva handles lha archives out-of-the-box as they say, and so does the Windows version of Directory Opus of course. Otherwise lhant from Aminet does the job well enough.

I just need dms and lzx for the pc now. :-)

No archivers for either but you can find a dms unarchiver here. As for lzx, a google search for "unlzx" will produce a number of hits, but I'm not sure anyone has compiled it for Windows yet. The lzx algorithm was used by Microsoft in their cabinet file (.cab) format. (Jonathan Forbes who wrote lzx, then went to work for MS, who bought his IP to use in their own technology)

[bhoggett]

PaintShop Pro also handles iff files by default.