Best of Amiga... list of the best software available

[mantisspider]

Hi Guys,

For someone who is comming back to full Amiga usage, im pretty confused as to where the software has developed to. Back in the old days it was simple, for best graphics was DPaint and best word processor was WordWorth. but now what?

if people could list their favorite apps that would be really helpful:

Wordprocessing:
DeskTop Publishing App:
Image Editing apps:
Spreadsheet:
Database:
Scanning software:
CDwriting:
EMail app:
WebBrowser:
Video Player:

:-D im sure everyone have their own favourites. and why they feel some stuff is better than others.
I can hear the FinalWriter vs WordWorth debates starting already

cheers

[mantisspider]

found an unfavourable review of WordWorth 7. eeek

http://www.amigapage.it/recensioni/worde.htm

[Madgun68]

Can't help with all of them, but here's what I use:

Wordprocessing: AmigaWriter (A little unstable, but it saves in rtf format)
Scanning software: FxScan
CDwriting: MakeCD
EMail app: Yam
WebBrowser: IBrowse 2.3
Video Player: Frogger

[KennyR]

Wordprocessing: AmigaWriter
Image Editing apps: ImageFX
Spreadsheet: TurboCalc
CDwriting: MakeCD
EMail app: YAM (MOS version)
WebBrowser: IBrowse 2.3
Video Player: MPlayer (MOS only)

[Targhan]

Wordprocessing: FinalWriter

DeskTop Publishing App: PageStream

Image Editing apps: ImageFX

Spreadsheet: TurboCalc

Database: XBaze

Scanning software: fxScan

CDwriting: BurnIT

EMail app: Micrdot2 (threading of email rulez!)

WebBrowser: It's a tie. Voyager + Ibrowse.

Video Player: FroggerNG [we all know why I think this, now don't we ;-)]

[mantisspider]

cool this is really helpfull, its great to see people using different apps.
Whats the differences between AmigaWriter and FinalWriter? does noone love wordworth anymore?

what version of pagestream are we up to? I used to love PageStream on my A500+

[xeron]

Graphics wise, you're spoilt for choice. I have Photogenics, TV Paint, Perfect Paint, and Personal Paint installed here. Perfect Paint and Personal Paint are both free.

Other commercial apps include fxSTUDIO, and Art Effect. On the whole, Amiga graphics apps are very good.

[mantisspider]

Cheers, shame Deluxe Paint stopped being so great DPaint V was the big let down I suppose.

Any of these apps have the features used in apps like Photoshop and Corel? Layers fancy brushes, filters etc?

[restore2003]

Graphics wise, you're spoilt for choice. I have Photogenics, TV Paint, Perfect Paint, and Personal Paint installed here. Perfect Paint and Personal Paint are both free.

Tvpaint is freely downloadable aswell  :-)  

Tvpaint 3.6

and the tutorial

[Ryu]

Wordprocessing: Wordworth7 (it rocks, but a little slow)

DeskTop Publishing App: PageStream (its unrivaled on the amiga)

Image Editing apps: for me its PerfectPaint mainly, with a bit of ImageFX

Spreadsheet: TurboCalc (though I rarely use it)

Database: Never needed one

Scanning software: ScanQuix5 here

CDwriting: MakeCD (best on the amiga imo)
EMail app: YAM naturally :-)

WebBrowser: IBrowse2.3, youll never regret registering

Video Player: AMP2 here, I must get round to registering MooVid or sommat...

Other apps I use a lot...

AmigaTradeCenter for my FTP client needs
RC-FTPd for my FTP server
tHTTPd for my webserver
Jabberwocky for MSN etc
AmIRC for IRC
MP3 player AmigaAMP

Thats about all the apps I can think of that I use regulally... there is LOADS more though

and then theres the games, oh the games :-)

[Tenacious]

What's with the devil and satan stuff, Halloween is over right?

I find Softwood's suite the most useful, any version of Finalwriter or Finalcopy is resource freindly and has great output.  I catalog a huge music collection in Finaldata.  If you have a Palm device (the older serial palms work great with Amigas), Ralph Torchia's Spitfire has an excellent suit of databases for addresses and datebook.  It's good even without a Palm.  NoteIt! is also a great desktop accessory.

Yam and Ibrowse2.3 are great. I think you can print from Aweb.

MooVid (avi & mov) and Riva (mpeg) are very resource efficient.  The registered versions play more varieties of files.

Dopus is, of course, great.  On a low spec machine, however, Ordering has a few quirks but is much faster, especially reading long directories.  Ordering is one of the programs that never got the attention it deserved.

MizerPrint is a great marriage to Hp printers.  It can condense printout upto 8 to 1!

[Jiffy]

mantisspider wrote:
found an unfavourable review of WordWorth 7. eeek

http://www.amigapage.it/recensioni/worde.htm

Ehm... I was hardly able to understand what was meant in the text of the review... I understand it has been translated from the original text. Maybe it would have been better to have left it in the original language. Some parts are totally incomprehensible...

Apart from that, I use Wordworth 7 every now and then and I like the program.

[Im>bE]

My ALL TIME FAVOURITE APP
wich I use a 1000 times a day
is Dirwork 2.1 by Chris Hames.
Best filemanager I ever used
because it is super configurable
and easy to use.


Programming:
Amiblitz2

Gfx:
PPaint
Imagefx 2 and 4.
TileModify

Net:
Miami
Ibrowse 2.3
Yam 2.0
Amirc 3.5

Music:
Delitracker 2 (with 14bit noteplayer)
PlaySid
Hippo
SampleE

Workbench addon:
Tinymeter
BackClock
Freemouse

Entertainment:
watchNplay

[The_Beast]

my favs are:

Wordperfect 4.1 (finalwriter crashed )
directory works 2.1
miami deluxe
aweb
imagefx
tinymeter
evenmore
amirc
dont use database or ftp currently
blacks editor (absolutely love it)

 :-?

[Ryu]

oh, I forgot GoldED on my list of great apps I use almost daily :-)