Software Survey

@djrikki

1. fxPaint, ImageFx, TVPaint

2.

3. Hollywood, Scala, AmigaVision

4. CinnamonWriter, Abiword, WordPerfect

5. TurboCalc, Gnumeric, Ignition

6. Pagestream, PageSetter

7. AHIRecord, Samplemanager, MP3TagEditor, ADRipper

8. DVPlayer, MPlayer, PicShow

9. TuneNet, AMuse, SimplePlay

10. IBrowse, YAM, WookieChat

11. ACE, CodeBench, CubicIDE

12. Blender

13. Shanghai, Prboom, Soliton, SameGame

14. RDesktopGUI, VNC, Netcenter, AExplorer

15. MUIBase, MySQL

16. c

@djrikki
As a very good engineer once said: "good/well written software" doesn't freeze nor has trouble with memory protection.

On Amiga we have plenty of stable software but also a lot of Beta/Alpha software that can crash the system.

Basically when you decide to try out beta/alpha stuff, you should be in a "adventurous" state of mind and save any important data before doing so (Amiga OS does re-boot in the blink of an eye after all).

Of course an end user like me has a different experience compared to Kas1e (developer), when I decide to stick to quality software such as the latest releases of OWB, TuneNet, Yam, MPlayer, WarpView, Blender, RunInUae, gNgeo, Scumm (and more) I get to use my Amiga from start up to switch off without a single system crash (that would be impossible for kas1e with all the alpha code he handles all the time )

@djrikki

1) ArtEffect
2) PersonalPaint,
3) Hollywood, Hollywood Designer
4) WordWorth, AbiWord
5) TurboCalc, Gnumeric
6) PageStream 4 68k
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9) TuneNet on Sam, Amplifier, AmigaAmp on AmigaONE
10) OWB, pFTP, AmiFTP, AmiRSS, WookieChat,
11) CodeBench
12) Blender
13) Aquaria (Thanx a lot, it's great!), Aquaria, ScummVM, Foundation
14) Samba, RDesktop, Synergy
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16) d

@djrikki



7) Which 3 Audio Editing applications do you consider to be the best?
MusicX. HD-rec. B&P comes in a far third(for me).

9) Which 3 Audio Playback applications do you consider to be the best?
Timidity.

16) What do you spend MOST of your time doing on your Amiga? Select ONE answer only.

h) Other, please state.
Tinkering with hard/software.

@Elwood

Quote:


Why EaglePlayer on the Classic and Tunenet on OS4?

@djrikki

7) Which 3 Audio Editing applications do you consider to be the best?
ProTracker 3.15
MilkyTracker
HivelyTracker

9) Which 3 Audio Playback applications do you consider to be the best?
TuneNet
HippoPlayer
AmigaAmp

10) Which 3 Internet applications could you not live without?
OWB
TuneNet Radio
Pete's FTP

11) Which are your 3 favourite development tools for Amiga?
Hollywood
BlitzBasic 2/AmiBlitz3
AmosPro

12) Which 3 3D applications do you consider to be the best?
Blender

15) Which 3 database applications do you consider to be the best?
MySQL

16) What do you spend MOST of your time doing on your Amiga?
Primarly: a) Making software, coding or porting
Secondly:
c) Browsing the internet and/or downloading software
f) Listening to or creating music
g) Building websites

@djrikki

1) Image=FX, Draw Studio.

2) Don't use any.

3) Hollywood.

4) Wordworth 7.

5) Turbocalc

6) Don't use any.

7) Don't use any.

9) TuneNet, Multiview

10) IBrowse, YAM, AmiFTP.

11) Golded - editing and highlighting.
Shell and GCC to compile.

12) Don't use any. Blender looks OK but has no instuctions.

13) Pipe Panic, Soliton, Mahjongh Tiles

14) I connect to the Mac using FTP.

15) Don't really use any. I guess Money Matters is a financial database ?

16)
a) Making software, coding or porting

@djrikki

Great idea for a thread... Gives a nice insight on what people are doing
on their Amigas. Maybe, eventually, a summary of responses can be put
together?

On my OS4 machines (A1-XE @ work & SAM @ home), I'm using:

1) Image Editing
ImageFX 4.5 - Largely stable save for a few areas (text) and a few DSI's
when on the debug kernel - update/port desperately wanted!

2) Animation Editing
Don't use anything. (Don't think there's a real choice here now, though
ImageFX + FFMpeg provide a bit of this functionality)

3) Presentation/Slideshow
Don't use any. (Hollywood looks like a great candidate here)

4) Word Processing
Final Writer 97 68k - The most graceful and responsive option.
Pagestream4 68k - The only native way to do anything complicated.
AbiWord on Cygnix - When I need (a slow way) to open a word doc.
CinnamonWriter - A fledgling OS4 app, might be ready for primetime sometime?

5) Spreadsheet
Gnumeric on Cygnix - Slow but powerful.
TurboCalc - Faster, native and borderline stable enough.
Ignition - Another fledgling OS4 app that might get there?

6) Desktop Publishing
Pagestream 68k - The only stable choice. I've got the FEW later native
versions and they been just disappointing crash basketcases. Another
case where I wish development would restart.
AmiGS & Ghostscript - lets me make PDF files my work Macs can't hack.

7) Audio Editing
Don't use any - Audio Evolution and others exist.

9) Audio Playback
TuneNet - For local and online music, nothing else is needed.

10) Internet applications
IBrowse - the most elegant, responsive browser STILL
OWB - only when IB can't cut it.
AmIRC 3.10 - native and without comparison.
Jabberwocky 1.9b1 - native IM client, when the Jabber servers are working.
SSH - Secure shell access in the console.
AmiFTP - native FTP client.
Timberwolf - an OS4 Firefox port, alpha version still.

11) development tools
Notepad - OS4's text editor
ARexx - fast, light and gets a lot of stuff done (thank god for ARexx messaging)
OS4 SDK - The OS4 C compiler and dev environment - I keep threatening to try C again.
CodeBench - Native OS4 development environment - the vehicle for trying C again.
Hollywood (I have an old version) - Native and active, but a pale shadow
of what CanDo (R.I.P.) used to do for app building.... Maybe someday?

12) 3D applications
Don't use any - Blender's out there now.

13) Games
Don't use any - Still waiting for some strategy games - What ever happened to FreeCiv?
UAE - Let's you play most old Amiga games.

14) Network applications
AmiVNC - let's me (slowly) use my Amiga from my laptop, wifi'd from the balcony.
WebLord - A 68k website compiler - GREAT!

15) database applications
Don't use any - MySQL is out there, MUIBase looks good (keep meaning to try it).

16) Spend MOST of your time doing on your Amiga? Select ONE answer only.

ONE ANSWER? On an Amiga? Impossible.

Weekdays: (C) Web surfing, EMail, Internet Radio, IRC.
Weekends: (A) Hacking ARexx (maybe C?) while doing (C) (above).

AmiIRC 3.10 ?

Where I can found it ?

Latest version availible is 3.5.25 beta and it is only for 68k