What was the first software when you went PC or Mac?

[ElPolloDiabl]

Hi I'm wondering what software was giving you platform envy. So much so your Amiga got knocked off the winners podium and replaced with a PC or Mac. What titles/applications did you rush out and purchase?

[SamuraiCrow]

I downloaded OpenOffice.org for free!  Java dependency satisfied by Apple on my Mac!

[Karlos]

Nothing really. It was more the fact that the Amiga stopped being developed. There were just too many let downs after the demise of Commodore.

The demise of phase5 was a particular downer in the post Commodore era. I had pretty high hopes for their G4 accelerator cards; they sounded like what PowerUP should have been.

In the meantime, PC hardware started to become more and more powerful and coincidental with that, linux became ever more usable and supported.

It may not be my "main" platform any more I still own several Amiga machines.

[JimS]

It would have been a web browser... probably netscape in those days. The graphics were a big factor here... those 256 color gifs just don't render well on a vanilla Amiga.

[desiv]

For me, it was small biz development stuff.  Most of the people I wrote code for were using Quickbasic on a PC, so that's what I was using, but I didn't have a PC at the time. :-)  Eventually, I came across Foxbase for DOS.  Started converting all the Quickbasic programs to Foxbase and I had to get a PC.
Yes, the Amiga could have done those things, buy the people I was getting paid by didn't have Amiga's.  

Oh well...

desiv

p.s.  I really liked Foxbase tho..  Even after I converted everything to FoxPro for Windows, I really preferred Foxbase for DOS.  :-)  Actually, I think one of my FoxPro apps is still in production..  Now THAT is scary..  

[ElPolloDiabl]

I got Mechwarrior 2 and Need for Speed, they helped take my mind off the Amiga. I also downloaded Melody Assistant a nice Deluxe Music replacement. I also discovered WinUAE a little while after, when it was quite buggy.

[Amiduffer]

A video capture program is what forced me to go out and buy a PC (used of course).

[B00tDisk]

So many; it's hard to answer.  Ironically, despite the fact that the amiga was largely a games console in Europe, games are in part what drove me to the PC: X-Wing, DOOM (and DOOM 2), System Shock, loads of flight sims...Amiga games seemed to be stuck in a cycle of wait for the port from PC games (if ever) or uninspired 2d platformers, which I never cared for.

While "windows" wasn't precisely synonymous with "multimedia" at the time (it was late '94/early '95 when I got my 486/100 with Win3.11) I just felt like my kitted out PC was more capable than my Amiga (my last Amiga being an A1200 with 28mhz 030 card and 4mb RAM and 60mb HD).  I got my first taste of "web-surfing" on my PC back then and that was all she wrote.

[Trev]

Sierra games on CD with dialog and 256 colors--King's Quest V and VI and Eco Quest, specifically--and SSI's The Dark Queen of Krynn. Also, I got tired of booting a terminal from floppy. My mother bought a PC for school, and talking her into a hard disk for the A500 would have been impossible. I probably could have swung an A1200HD, but by then I'd already moved on.

[lsmart]

When I started studying computer science I struggled to keep up with PC-users. I made my Amiga do TCP/IP and LaTeX and had to work out some stuff by my self, while others just used ready-made Linux Distributions. After about a year I would bite the bullet and get a PC and Suse-Linux. Five years later I got an iMac and Photoshop Elements because I was sort of underwelmed by Linux sound and graphics software and hardware. Evidently I wouldn´t have switched to mac before they got OS X and multitasking!

[orb85750]

By the mid-90s, I figured that Amiga was pretty much deceased and that it was time to move on.  Needless to say, that sentiment didn't last forever.

[kzin]

Has to be Amithlon, sold up my A4k and got a AMD XP1800+. oh that and UNREAL.

[LoadWB]

When I first went to an Intel-based PC, I had a brief flirtation with Linux then moved to Solaris.  I went Windows for Emerald, which is an ISP billing software.  At the time it used a Windows-based client.  Later it went web-based and I could use it in AWeb.

As time went on I started using my Windows PC for watching videos (movies) and what-not.  As time went on and I supported Windows more and more I eventually began doing so much that Windows had become my primary platform.

My ex-gf used to remind me how I had only just gone to using a Windows PC (technically, I had a P100-based Windows 98SE box I used for Internet Connection Sharing, but it was never used for anything else and was "headless") after we started dating, which was around late 2000.

[klx300r]

for me it was AutoCad that forced me to get a PC

[issarad]

For me it was mostly a matter of games at first.  When things stopped being ported to the Amiga, I started looking at PC's.  Then came the Internet and that was that... the poor Amiga was relegated to the small desk, but is still used to this day for some old school gaming, along with it's older brother, the C-128.