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The worst amiga applications ever!
« on: May 31, 2003, 05:47:48 AM »
whats your most hated amiga software?

#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
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Re: The worst amiga applications ever!
« Reply #1 on: May 31, 2003, 06:01:35 AM »
Hey, that's easy: iFusion.

It costed a lot, I paid in advance, it was delayed, and when it finally came, it didn't work at all. The dumbest purchase I have made, ever. In my defence, I thought I would get a product similar to Fusion, only with PPC support. I've always been very happy with Fusion.

Now THERE'S something worh starting a class action over.

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Re: The worst amiga applications ever!
« Reply #2 on: May 31, 2003, 06:05:31 AM »
whats iFusion?
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Re: The worst amiga applications ever!
« Reply #3 on: May 31, 2003, 07:52:37 AM »
"I thought I would get a product similar to Fusion, only with PPC support."
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Re: The worst amiga applications ever!
« Reply #4 on: May 31, 2003, 08:50:31 AM »
Imagine that, after 16 YEARS, still holding onto the title of "Worst amiga application ever!"

Slow AND incompatable.

I said this before, I've enjoyed writing script files.
Basic is supposed to be FUN to use!

Was AmigaBasic FUN to use???

Hahahahahahaha!!!

Very NOT fun!

AmigaOne! I can't wait to see the GEMS people come up with writing PPC assembler!!!
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So I guess that A500, 600, 1000, 2000, CDTV, CD32, are pure garbage then? Thanks for posting here.
 

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Re: The worst amiga applications ever!
« Reply #5 on: May 31, 2003, 09:05:56 AM »
I wouldnt say AmigaBasic was that bad, yes by todays standards, but in 1990 thats all I had on My A500 to program with.
It was free it came with it. Abacus did some great books on it of which I bought 3.
My A-Level Computer Science project was coded in it...
Got me into University so i guess i have fond memories of using it... Disk swaping was a pain.
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Re: The worst amiga applications ever!
« Reply #6 on: May 31, 2003, 09:59:27 AM »
The best thing about AmigaBasic was the manual.  I've still got mine somewhere....

As for the worst Amiga applications ever, there are a couple of others that spring to mind:

Kindwords - ran dog slow on My A500, and text would periodically "disappear" when editing stuff

Thexder (yes I know it isn't strictly an application) - Four colour CGA PC game on an Amiga?  Look no further.

Oh, and on a nostalgic note, I too used AmigaBasic to help me with my A Level in Computing - ten long years ago now!
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Re: The worst amiga applications ever!
« Reply #7 on: May 31, 2003, 10:09:19 AM »
@iamaboringperson

Gotta agree with you. The editor was pants as well. I have a recollection of typing and typing and not only was the screen filling up with text REALLY SLOWLY but after a while it forgot what I was typing so I could speed type and lose half of it.

The functionality it promised was pretty special though, and it was good to play around with creating windows and drawing and stuff but execution was poor.

Seconded only by GFA basic.
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Re: The worst amiga applications ever!
« Reply #8 on: May 31, 2003, 10:52:25 AM »
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Oh, and on a nostalgic note, I too used AmigaBasic to help me with my A Level in Computing - ten long years ago now!


I used an Amiga Pascal compiler for mine.  (HSPascal maybe?), I used that at home, and TurboPascal on a12Mhz 286 (and if I was lucky occasionally a 386sx16) at college.  It taught me to make platform independant code at an early age, throught the use of platform checking in each function/procedure that was OS or hardware specific.  I even coded a couple of BBS intro's that compiled unchanged on Amiga and PC.  Oh the memories.  I'm gonna have to get over to the borland museum and get the free tp5.5 and fire up dosemu methinks. :-)
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Re: The worst amiga applications ever!
« Reply #9 on: May 31, 2003, 12:05:19 PM »
- Edit @PMC about Thexder: -

Wow, someone else saw this game?

Actually, it was originally released for the Tandy Color Computer 2 IIRC. It may have been ported to the PC in a glorious 4-color mode, but it was a whopping 8 color game on the CoCo. :-D It was actually quite playable as well. Ah, those were the days. I don't think the Amiga port ranks as the worst ever. ABC's Monday Night Football was far worse, IMHO.

As far as bad apps, I can't think of anything worse than iFusion. I can't believe someone didn't get sued over that. :-o
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Re: The worst amiga applications ever!
« Reply #10 on: May 31, 2003, 04:06:45 PM »
TextCraft, GraphicCraft,DPaintV,iFusion,Commodore C and many more I forgot.

:-(:-((I have all bought, as stupid I am) :-(  :-(
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Re: The worst amiga applications ever!
« Reply #11 on: May 31, 2003, 04:16:22 PM »
Amiga Basic...

It had no open file requester, you had to type in the path and filename by hand and from your memory. A shame to the Amiga name...

Even the C64's Basic V2.0 was better.
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Re: The worst amiga applications ever!
« Reply #12 on: May 31, 2003, 04:20:11 PM »
Back in '86-'89 I worked part time in an Amiga store owned by my business partner.  The rest of the time I spent coding Amiga programs.  One of the best parts of working in the store was getting to look at demos of new software.   Some of the crap people sent us they were trying to sell was beyond words!

A lottery number picker in AmigaBasic.  You know... I could have written something better in C in under an hour!  Probably the first program the guy ever wrote.

I don't remember what this other program was called but the literature with it said it was the greatest thing ever created... once you tried it you'll never know how you lived without it.... blah blah blah.... and we loaded up the demo and never could figure out what it did!!!!  LOL  At least 6 people looked at it trying to figure out what it was supposed to do and not one had the slightest idea.  We figured it was just a little too fantastic for mere mortals and didn't order any.
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Re: The worst amiga applications ever!
« Reply #13 on: May 31, 2003, 04:21:14 PM »
Tornado 3D ; ho humanbeing has ever rendered a full screen without it crashing.
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Re: The worst amiga applications ever!
« Reply #14 on: May 31, 2003, 04:24:23 PM »
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TextCraft, GraphicCraft


As we refered to them.... TextCrap, GraphicCrap
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