10 most influential Amiga programs

[runequester]

Deluxepaint helped defined standards for the amiga, so a definate yes.

Protracker?

Amirc ended up being the inspiration for xchat, which is distributed with a few linux distro's.

[runequester]

Shadow of the beast.

Certainly helped sell some amiga's back in the day

[runequester]

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.

or just things that were influential in the amiga community

[runequester]

I think a lot of you need to buy a dictionary and see what "influential" actually means

well, since the OP wasn't very specific, I don't think there's any need to limit it to "amiga programs that changed peoples life in Cambodia"
 
The amiga has a life and culture independently of the PC world, so why not talk about that :afro:

[runequester]

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....

I don't think it has to mean "computer world at large". If it was enough people to still have a fairly vibrant community 16 years later, it was enough people to be important
 
But then, Im not in charge so eh