Hi,
Have most of the packages you named, I am currently doing a home inventory data base and I am using Softwood File IIsg, so far it is the only data base that can handle all the data and also where I can use a picture for what I am recording for insurance purposes. I decided to use the Amiga 4000 again for important stuff when both winblows and Linux dropped information using Open Office Base. The only good thing was it still had the picture drawer with all the pictures in it, which using gimp I transferred over the pictures by scaling and making a gif, then when I put them in the Amiga I used Image Studio (shareware off aminet) to turn the GIF into a iff-ilbm ham6 which Softwood File IIsg could use.
It sure is funny that having a game machine that can pump out power enough to play today's new games can't even hold data for a data base. Maybe it is just the software I am using, I use open office because it has no limitations and I really can't afford Microslot Office. I checked on the internet and found one other program called Home Inventory, it is pretty good, but if you change computers it become complex to reinstall the database and associate it with the picture folder especially when you have 100 or more pictures in it. With softwood file iisg all you have to do is put the picture file in the softwood file drawer and inside the program use the perimeter page to tell it where the pictures are. Just goes to show how far in the future Amiga programmers designed for and how well thought out their programs where.
Not like today's people who look at the past and see what they can design with it, I mean originally that was what the Amiga was, a computer for the future, and Jay Miner designed a computer with that thought in mind, and it just goes to show today.
Anyhow, all the programs you mentioned I have, but I am looking for one program, I read about it and would like to get it, it is called Twist 2, have the manual which I downloaded off the internet, would like to see how it compares to softwood file IIsg, I would of used SuperBase4, but for some reason my disk works, but it comes out with a huge crash when I copy it over to my hard drive, I haven't figured out how to use pictures in Amiga Vision's database and I am still working on that.
Well that is that, have fun, and if you get a chance take a look at Softwood File IIsg.
Oh I forgot to mention, Softwood file doesn't recognize any hard drives of a very large size, (I believe it is 2.1 gigs but I can't verify) so my data base is being kept on a 512 mbyte CF card. My Amiga 4000 has been switched over to two CF drives, one 8gig and one various mounted in the bottom front of my 3.5 inch bays. This way I can interchange CF cards as needed, I like this because once I am done with the data base, I can take the CF card out and put it in a safe in my separate garage, this way if the house burns down, I can take that and a copy of Amiga Forever and mount it on another computer, I have also made provisions of a CD-32 in the garage where I can just plug in the CF and use it along with a TV monitor, and yes I do have an old SX-1 out there also. Remember when you are thinking of insurance proof, you have to plan for what if's. Got burned a couple of years ago by my home owners insurance company and had to accept a loss for about $30,000 worth of electronic, computer furniture and jewelry, so if you do this plan ahead, insurance adjusters will say you are lying through your teeth and actually brought me up on charges for insurance fraud. I got lucky that the detective investigating the crime found the crook and about 20% of the stuff that I had, showing the insurance company I had what I said I had.
Amiga planning for the future.
