Top 5 essential Amiga apps and utilities?

[ErrethAkbe]

All right, after some period of disuse, I have my A2000/030 running great. I have revived some old games and so on, but more needs to be done to make the machine truly useful.

Every machine has it's list of must-have utilities for file management, image viewing, MP3/MOD playing, movie playing and so on.

Also, major applications like email, word processing, spreadsheet and such are required.

For example: back in the day, I used to use Directory Opus for file management, and it also contained some viewers. Surely something better has come along since, allowing more standard formats like JPG and GIF? If so, what is the preferred one to use?

What are the top 5 utilities you use? The top 5 applications?

Just wondering...

[ErrethAkbe]

Thanks for all the great replies! I have a shopping list now. :-)

For the record, my system is presently:

A2000 partial ECS, 3.1 ROMs
GVP Combo 030/40 w/4Mb (5 total, more soon)
2Gb HD with OS3.5 loaded
Commodore scandoubler
A2065 Ethernet w/regged Miami (What's "DX?" Will my regular key work for it?)

I will be forced to pull the scandoubler soon because I have a Video Toaster card that I plan to install. I might have to get a second A2000 because I will also want to be able to run a "real" video card! Or so it seems from the documentation, anyway.

(anyone? Video Toaster + Graphics card = impossible becuase both want the video slot, yes?)

Anyway I can't wait to go grab some of these goodies and check them out. All other suggestions welcomed!

Marc

[ErrethAkbe]

ErrethAkbe wrote:
(anyone? Video Toaster + Graphics card = impossible becuase both want the video slot, yes?)
Marc

To answer my own question, while I seemingly can't get a video card, at least I don't have to run a 1084 monitor. Software Hut has a toaster-friendly scandoubler coming soon: http://tinyurl.com/crat7

[ErrethAkbe]

Hmmm....thanks for the tip. I hate making mistakes like that!

I guess my best bet is to find some toaster users and see what THEY are doing. I can't imagine there are a lot of people content running OldSk0ol video modes on their Amiga Toaster machines, but who knows?

Thanks again...

Marc

[ErrethAkbe]

The issue is that I already HAVE Miami, registered...and there's no way to register AmiTCP or Genesis, let alone get the most recent versions anymore. I'll try the AmiTCP I can get on AmiNet but it looks to be 3 versions out of date.

For that matter, I can't get a key for MiamiDX anymore either, it seems...after spending 2 hours searching for a way today. :-(

Of course, much the same could be said for a lot of the software mentioned on this thread. It's hard to understand why the author of a dead-ended product wouldn't release a key to the masses as a "thank you" to the community.

Legerdemain wrote:
Never ever list Miami or Miami DX as a must... because it is not, unless one is to use one of the very very few options which is not to be found elsewhere...  it is slow and demanding... :lol:

Go for AmiTCP or Genesis instead.