The worst amiga applications ever!

[Aegis]

Ilwrath: As I recall VideoScape 3D didn't orginally have a modelling program - I think you had to create ascii text files 'describing' your object. It was published by a company called Aegis (no relation :-D at some point the author, Allen Hastings met up with Stuart Ferguson who'd written a geometry modelling app called simply 'Modeler' which could output VideoScape object files - Aegis marketed them both for a while but eventually went under whereupon the two programmers found themselves at NewTek at around the same time a chap called Tim Jenison was telling people his company was working on a "new kind of toaster". The rest as they say is history. (Oh, and Stuart's geometry modelling app is still called 'Modeler'  :-)

[iamaboringperson]

T_Bone wrote:
Oh, c'mon people! Surely you remember MindGuard!



Surely that deserves a mention, as I'm quite sure it's not working... because I can still hear the voices

i think i remember that! used alot of clock cycles! that was the only bad thing about it IMHO
that was a great program!!! i should be using it now

is there anything like that on other platforms?

[Hammer]

#1 on my list of the 'worst amiga software that ever existed' list is MS- AMIGABASIC!!! this is absolutley pathetic, and it doesnt even run on some computers from the 80's - just about anything other than a 1meg A500 with kickstart 1.3, and it wont work

Note that one can run AmigaBasic on Amiga 500 with 512kb RAM.

Amiga Basic** was nice (~10 years ago) since it was compatible (for the most part) with X86’s Qbasic** (use at school).  **Both are Microsoft Basic.  Qbasic runs on either 286 or 386 DOS boxes.

[nrose]

T_Bone wrote:
Oh, c'mon people! Surely you remember MindGuard!


Surely that deserves a mention, as I'm quite sure it's not working... because I can still hear the voices

I remember that as quite charming but I can see from the website I haven't kept up.  I must try the Linux version.

[Hammer]

alx wrote:
Definitely Kindwords.  It's been well over five years since I've seen it, but I definitely remember it crashing loads and meeting the Guru.  IIRC it was so terrible that my brother (who owned the A500) stuck on a custom startup sequence with horror-style organ music and stuff.

 :madashell:

Kindwords 3.0 (a.k.a. Wordworth 1.0) was acceptable. Kindwords 3.0 practically gave me some indications for upgrading to WordWorth 2.0 and beyond. I was using New Horizon’s ProWrite (If I recall correctly) during the Kindword 2.0 era.