The academic circles were like "We don't get GUI, because we love letters".
Everyone that were a teacher, used WP for Dos, and nobody knew about the Amiga edition. It sure was inside academic circles in Denmark at that time. Was it not Word Perfect that was kind of like the golden standard of word processing, until MS came with Word 6.x for Windows 3.1/3.11?
Wordworth is probably the most popular one: … word-processor/Īpparently there's even a Wikipedia article dedicated to the subject: Mind you, the Amiga had some 'native' word processors, which were actually very good, and obviously made use of the GUI, unlike WordPerfect. But I have to admit, it wasn't as good as the DOS version. I had WordPerfect on my Amiga as well, I believe version 4.1. To those that say that the Amiga platform was no good for productivity, then my answer is that I have Word Perfect (5 I think) in my disk boxes. If I'd known how good the Mac emulation was at the time I'd have strung that time out even further. Only the need to work with other people who used MS Office forced me to even consider a PC in the mid-nineties. Although that doesn't mean that it wasn't a useful system for many purposes. The Amiga had potential that went untapped and lacked the cadence of hardware improvements that the PC saw. Applications like Deluxe Paint and Scala pioneered professional media work on commodity hardware and broadcast video titling wasn't even possible on a PC but alas the rarity of examples like those are the reason people wrote off the Amiga as simply a games machine.
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I'm not arguing for how useful 80s Amiga software is today but in 1988 if you spent PC money on an Amiga it had superior hardware in every department and the base models couldn't be touched for value.
We all agree that Amiga computers were good for games.īut some people claim they were also good for other purposes, especially compared with PC - and this I'm not buying, that's all. If Grzyb has a point, I'm struggling to understand what it is.
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