Gold Disk Works

[motrucker]

Does anyone have a manual for Works? Mine flew the coupe, and it's been over ten years since I've used it. I specifically need to know how to use Organize!. I really need help!

[save2600]

Does anyone have a manual for Works? Mine flew the coupe, and it's been over ten years since I've used it. I specifically need to know how to use Organize!. I really need help!

Is that the same as Micro Systems Software's 'The Works'? I have a Platinum edition. The manual is huge - like 3" thick. Covers 5 different software apps for the Miggy and its manual has a beautiful hardcover with removable three ring binder. Looks to be an extremely high quality bundle.

[motrucker]

@save2600
   Got me. The one I have is an old issue (circa 1986) from Gold Disk Inc. of Canada.
It has Organize! for it's database, Scrbble! for its word proceesor, and Analyze! for its spreadsheet. I know that Scibble and Analyze! were available as stand alone programs. I am not 100% sure about Organize!
I can't track down a word on line, so far.
Since this program was aimed at 1.2/1.3OS I thought I try it on my A1000. I can't seem to get it going though...

[save2600]

Yeah, this thing doesn't mention any of the names you did. Just refers to each program as a 'module'. Hmm... you're not having luck getting anything to boot or what? The program I have mentions it requires 512kb, but maybe yours requires a meg...

[motrucker]

@ save2600
      It boots fine, and all the programs load, and run. The problem is that this old data base doesn't use really logical commands. Although I can get Organize! running, I get it to create a new data base.
I have tried every command structure I can think of, to no avail.
I am amazed at the lack of data concerning old Gold Disk Software, specially with the popularity of Pro Draw, and Pro Page!

[save2600]

Sounds more like the POS editor that came with AmigaOS1.x (I still have trouble remembering those goofy commands and keypresses)  lol  

Where are the drop down menus and such?  Function keys don't perform?  I'd ditch that POS software and get something more friendly. Which is what the Amiga was always supposed to be about      Even some of the half-assed Amiga specific Databases were DBase III compatible.

[Tension]

Aaah Scribble!

Those were the days haha.

[motrucker]

Let me attack this this way;
Do you know of any good data bases that will run under 1.3? (that can be found?) Relational would be nice, but I can make a flat file system work too.
I found a copy of bBase, that has a few good points, but is rather limited. Any ideas?

[Matt_H]

SBase might be 1.3 compatible... or an earlier version of it. Not sure.

[save2600]

'The Works' as previously mentioned. Softwood's Final Calc will run under 1.3 with limited functionality compared to 2.x+. And then there's a program called Pen Pal that has a Database module too as well as a nice word processor/DTP program.

Superbase Personal is another 1.3 friendly Database program.

[motrucker]

@Matt_H
I don't know why I had discounted SuperBase Pro, but I works fine.
I just booted up SB 4 Pro on the old A1000 with 1.3, and it works fine!
I seem to have lost that manual too - but I remember how to use it, so all is well. Damn, even the SB Form Designer works! I'm in heaven. This is without a doubt the way to go.
Thanks for reminding me!

@save2600
I tried Pen Pal too - it's data section is almost a copy of Final Data from Softwood. It works OK, but believe it or not, It's not Y2K compliant!? It will NOT handle dates past 1999. If I remember right, all of the Softwood programs suffer this problem.
No matter, I'm set with Super Base. Thanks for the help