10 most influential Amiga programs

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Clearly it has to be Videotoaster and Lightwave.  When they came onto the market there was nothing like them.  Deluxe Paint and Octamed were also game changers.

[persia]

A lot of the new generation Linux kids seem to like nano....

I blame the folks at Canonical..

Vi Improved, which stands alongside Emacs as one of the most popular cross-platform text editors in the world.

[persia]

Of course the Amiga was not the first personal computer to multi-task, no did it invent the idea.  A similar argument could be made about the two button mouse.  The computer world even back then was larger than just Apple....

Mulitasking? I suppose it not really a program just part of the OS, but I think it did influence the industry in how a OS should function. (I only say it because I think everyone else have already said the best programs)
 

 Oh and just to be even more off topic of programs another Big Influence of the Amiga to the computer market was to have a two button mouse.  In a way I'm right to post this as the industry must of seen the good users of having a two button mouse on the Amiga inside of programs, so promptly got there own, but in a way I know I'm wrong to post it

[persia]

Perhaps two lists need to be made.  A list of things that were original to the Amiga, like VT and Lightwave and things that started somewhere else and we first introduced to a larger audience through the Amiga, such as personal computer multitasking and AREXX.

[persia]

But influential surely means influential beyond the Amiga community.  I mean even in it's heyday the community numbered in the low millions and today it's down in the low 1000s.   Can something be said to be influential if it only affects that small a number of people?

The Amiga at it's beginning changed the face of computing, now it's just a backwater of a backwater so surely the list would have to be heavily weighted towards the early years....