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- Path: sparky!uunet!tension!jbono
- From: jbono@tension.UUCP (John Bono)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Don't let the Amiga Die (Part II)!!!
- References: <shogun.09qz@tension.UUCP>
- Message-ID: <jbono.09rb@tension.UUCP>
- Date: 26 Dec 92 14:22:29 EST
- Organization: High Tension BBS
- Lines: 42
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- >I too am sick and tired of Amigans saying they don't need mainstream apps.
- >Yesterday I was at a friends house, and I was checking out his new Gateway
- 486.
- > I was looking at MS Word, and I was in heaven when I found the equation
- >editor. I liked the interface. The only problem I had with it was that it
- was
- >under Windows. I would love to have that program on the Amiga. Quattro Pro
- >has linear regression built in as a feature. The only thing I saw in Quattro
- >Pro that I didn't like was that you had to have all of the @ commands
- >memorized. After MaxiPlan, I figured that all good spreadsheets would let you
- >choose functions from a requester. Other than that I loved it. I would love
- >to see these programs ported over to the Amiga. For all of those who don't
- >want mainstream DOS and Mac apps. ported, let me ask you, do you like doing
- >tables of contets, and indexes manually? What about footnoting? I wish there
- >was something that could be domne to get ports from other platforms.
- > Jay Brown
- >
- >============================================================================ =
- >IBM MAKES IT IN BULK...MACINTOSH MAKES IT POPULAR, BUT ONLY AMIGA MAKES IT
-
- > POSSIBLE.
- >============================================================================ =
-
- What I would like to see more than seeing "mainstream" apps ported to the
- Amiga, is Amiga software developers making better mainstream apps. Most
- mainstream developers that have ported to the Amiga have done a poor job of it,
- and often the software looks and acts poorly. There are examples of good
- mainstream Amiga apps, such as Final Copy II and Excellence!(in spite of FCII's
- proprietary fonts, the output is just *too* good, and database apps such as
- Superbase 4. Spreadsheets especially suffer from a lack in quality on the
- Amiga. Also, if it is too difficult to create an "all in one" app(which is
- *the* main reason why so many DOS and Mac apps suffer from horrendous code
- bloat), a number of small Amiga developers could develop small, focused
- miniapps that use Arexx and Hotlinks to link together extremely well. This
- would be much easier for small software houses than attempting to compete
- feature for feature. If a spreadsheet did only mathematical calculations, and
- could export the output to a wordprocessor or a DTP package, which did the
- formatting, mixing the output with a graphics package, the quality of Amiga
- software as a whole would be greatly improved, and superior as a package to any
- software by any dos/windows/mac developer.
-
- John
-