The worst amiga applications ever!

[jdiffend]

TextCraft, GraphicCraft

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

[amigamad]

voyager web browser the most unstable browser on an amiga crashes more than ie5 .

[gnarly]

Kindwords 3 was rubbish. Thank feck for Wordworth 6 which was fantasmagorical.

[MAD]

Hoya!

@Markus

Why do you think DPaintV was crap? It is supposed to be one of the greatest and legendary paint proggies, isn't it?

As for a crappy proggy... Does anyone remember Lombard Rally? :-D
And Brattacas by Psynosys (YES!!! PSYNOSYS!!!) was utterly lame! Looked like a Spectrum 4 colour game!!! ROTFL
 
Be funky

M A D

[Hooligan_DCS]

Talking of games, Kangfo must be one of the most worst games I have ever played. It's also the game with most longest featurelist :-)

[Karlos]

Just let me get into my pyro suit first...

Right, IMNHO: AMOS :-D

Time to stoically face down the pro AMOS molatovs...

Seriously, I know it got a lot of people into coding on the amiga, and for that I salute it. I just wish it wasn't so system unfriendly and as for that god awful "you can tell it's an AMOS program" look-and-feel...

PS: I never tried Microsoft's BASIC on the amiga, no doubt it was much worse ;-)

[Ilwrath]

TextCraft, GraphicCraft,DPaintV,iFusion,Commodore C and many more I forgot.

Well, I certainly agree on all those except DPaintV.  I thought it was a pretty good paint program.  It was in the twilight of DPaint, and they hadn't kept up to the advances PhotoShop was making (I think they were on version 3 or 4 by then) but it was still a sound graphics package, and finally supported RTG.  I can't knock it for what it was.

As for the list, I'd add.....

CanDO - Rhymes well with Guru, which was what it seemed most adept at doing - Plus, things made with it needed the cando.library, which was always at the wrong version, as there were several incompatible ones, if I remember correctly.  

Pro Calc (Gold Disk) - I have a big frown face drawn on the disk.  I'm not sure I ever got this to work, at all.

VideoScape 3d - It's like a 3d modler/renderer... only crappy.

There were a few god-awful BBS packages, too.... But looking through my collection, I don't remember which they were.  (All I remember is I liked the CNet and Excelsior ones.  I forget which ones out of the other 15 or so that I hated...)

[iamaboringperson]

yep i vote for AMOS at #2

virtually all AMOS programs did have that AMOS look and feel

except for one game: 'breed 96' that was good ####!!!!!!!

if you find breed 96, you probably wont believe it was done in AMOS

[Karlos]

iamaboringperson wrote:
if you find breed 96, you probably wont believe it was done in AMOS

Well, the fact that it won't run on my hardware unless I drop to 020 / chipram only might be a give away ;-)

[Markus_Bieler]

@hoya

Why do you think DPaintV was crap? It is supposed to be one of the greatest and legendary paint proggies, isn't it?

I have two A2000 from the same batch of production and on both it doesn't work as supposed. The color-choser requester does not show any color to choose. (The demo version works !)

EA confirmed the bug, but never fixed it.

[Markus_Bieler]

Sorry for posting twice. crappy IE 5.0 :-(

[Aegis]

"VideoScape 3d - It's like a 3d modler/renderer... only crappy."


I think we can forgive VideoScape though seeing as it was refined into LightWave 3D...

The only piece of Amiga software I bought that I got no use out of at all was Real 3D - Christ! You needed a physics degree just to get it to run! It was the first 3D package on the market with dynamics, particles, simulation and a whole load of other neat things HOWEVER - you had to learn RPL (Real Programming Language *spit*) to use any of the good stuff... And boy, was it ever slow... Still smarts thinking about it (slaps himself) Didn't get any further than a chrome ball on a checkerboard  :-D  Could've done that with Turbo Silver (and gotten a free bag o' marbles...)

[spihunter]

@PMC

Wait a minute!!. are you talking about the game Thexder
where you were a transformer that could change into
a plane?. I loved that game!. I stayed up all night when
I was in  high school and played it all the way to the end.

[meerschaum]

os4 as it dosent exist yet....sorry hyperion.... Iove you guys and you might force me to buy an AmigaOne...because OS4 might rock.... but I'll believe it when I see it..... God bless you guys...but until its Done I dont trust ya... because your in agreement with A.inc ... lemme know when your done I'll evalutate your product at a show

[Roj]

@spihunter

Yeah, that game was great. It doesn't belong on this list IMHO.

I never did finish it though. I always got creamed in the "big room".

[Atheist]

meerschaum wrote:
... lemme know when your done I'll evaluate your product,....

Don't worry, you'll KNOW when it comes out.

@ Karlos,

Assembler is most important. Without it, nothing is possible.
Then C
Then C++

These are for building OSs and applications, and games.

But, to me it seems, that the people behind them, chose to NOT make them easy to use.

Amos Pro and basics of other stripes (and compilers for them) are still needed, for the rest of us mere mortals. I can't defend Amos' incapability to run on certain HW combinations. I wish it wasn't the case, but I know how to use it. That means a lot to me, as well as others. We just can't understand C, or assembler, try as we might.

I didn't feel like posting this, as I have NO REASON to believe you could possibly be against MORE people trying to write computer software.

Just felt a bit depressed when I keep hearing people laugh at basics, because, that's as far as I could get, and I feel left out.

AmigaOne! THE computer the masses will understand!!!  :-)  :-)  :-)