AmigaKit bought the rights to OctaMed and re-released it with new features. Good on them for that. ImageFX is still around. Pagestream is still unfinished...

What other classic productivity software would you like to see brought back and 'refreshed' if only the original source code could be found and the original owners willing to sell it or give it to someone to refresh? Very hypothetical I know.

I'd choose:

Photogenics

ProVector

Deluxe Music 2

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AuToGuide
Envoy
fxSCAN
MakeCD
PFM 2 (Personal Fonts Maker 2)
SoundFX
StormC4
Wordworth 7

DevPac
CygnusEd
Professional Page
Deluxe Paint
Personal Paint
Sculpt 4D

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None in their original form, but several did show a lot of potential which with the right updates could fit nicely into a 2025 workflow:

- ADP

- ImageFX

- Final Writer

- The animation part of Deluxe Paint

- Scenery Animator

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Great question.

Lightwave
TV Paint
Deluxe Paint
Protracker (16bit/16ch+ channel)
Final Writer

Q!

Great answers so far folks. I hadn't even heard of some of these.

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Final Writer - arguably better than M$ Word for quite some time
Storm C - I played around a lot with this IDE, V3 if I remember correctly

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IBrowse (which kinda made a come back, but would be cool if it could do real modern internet!)

Blitz Basic / AMOS with Ai to help you easily code, would be cool.

I would say SCALA, but Hollywood / Hollywood Designer feels like spiritual successor.

Dpaint, but I do like PPaint. So again not a big one.

Directory Opus, I mean the last version release for Amiga and slight modded version with Amikit XE, is pretty dam good, but it would be cool to bring over the latest version.

Wordworth, or even any modern office / doc program ported to Amiga would be good. Abiwork wasnt too bad on OS4. Google Doc was even better, but it only worked for a small time on Timberwolf / odyssey bowsers.

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? IBrowse

Not really maybe OWB is better

? Blitz Basic / AMOS

Not really SDL Basic or something similar, with an option for X-Platform development

? Dpaint, but I do like PPaint.

Not really Any Pixel oriented paint Programm with animation support (lighttable, rotoscope)

? Directory Opus

Not really A file manager that is seamlessly integrated into workbench, generating thumbnails for image and video formats.

? Wordworth

A working version of Finalwriter and a lot of plug ins

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I quite liked fxPaint and Photogenics back in the day. And I used Wordworth a lot, but if the new Final Writer materializes in the end, I'll be fine with it.

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Maybe Aladdin 4D since A-Eon has owned the rights to the Amiga version for over a decade.

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Most of you have already mentoined the software I used, and I still have most of it.

Other Software I used and would like to see again {developed}...

MovieShop
Imagine 3D
AREXX

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Deluxe Paint
Photogenics
Imagine 3D

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I suppose it depends if we are discussing software for OS4 or only Classic Amigas.

Back in the day, I didn't have an accelerator card in my Amiga 2000HD, so most of my software was limited to 68000 CPU compatibilty.

I used Final Writer 97, AmigaVision, Microfiche Filer, MaxiPlan spreadsheet and Appetizer suite.

Final Writer 97 works ok directly on AmigaOS4.

The others work ok with AmigaOS 3.1 running on e-uae emulator running on AmigaOS4.

For me, TV Paint and PPaint also work fine on AmigaOS4.

I had a problem with Imagine ... I think I got a PAL version and it did not fit on my screen.

I would like to see more modern versions of
Final Writer 97
TV Paint
PPaint
an Organiser/diary/calender type program (with option to use Sunday to Saturday week)
Web Browser

I currently use IgnitionOS4 for spreadsheets.


redfox

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DraCo's Movie Shop NLE software decoupled from the DraCo half-baked Amiga clone for faster AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS 4.1 FE, A-EON System 54, and MorphOS compatible hardware.

PiStorm-Emu68 and PowerPC can handle MPEG2.


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Adobe Premiere 4 0 NLE running on Shapeshifter-MacOS with 68030 @ 50Mhz

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This is why I have moved to an "NG" platform long time ago :)

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OneTimer1 wrote: @Mobileconnect ? IBrowse Not really maybe OWB is better

Wayfarer is much better than OWB. I only use Odyssey for one site where I don't remember the password, which is saved in Odyssey :P But pretty soon when Wayfarer was released, it was obvious that Odyssey has been obsoleted.

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? Blitz Basic / AMOS Not really SDL Basic or something similar, with an option for X-Platform development

I think Hollywood is a modern replacement for these kinds of high-level languages. I've been happy to be productive with it anyway!


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? Directory Opus Not really A file manager that is seamlessly integrated into workbench, generating thumbnails for image and video formats.

That's Ambient, been happy with it for ages.

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? Wordworth A working version of Finalwriter and a lot of plug ins

Why FinalWriter wouldn't work? Works on MorphOS at least... but anyway, we know that we have hope for an updated FinalWriter, progress is just slow.

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DPaint - Still requires some polish and an RTG mode if possible! The UNDO extended to a history of edits rather than just one!

Photogenics- A level of polish should be applied to version 5. A bit unstable but very nice!

Draw Studio 2 - A great vector graphics package. Could do with more plugins for different file formats.

Bar and Pipes - The go to Amiga MIDI program. Needs to be given the Octamed upgrade treatment!

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in alphabetical order:

- ArtEffect 4
- ContactManager
- DeluxePaint
- DistantSuns / Digital Almanach (But we have Digital Universe, wich works very good on OS4)
- GoldED / CubicIDE
- PageStream,
- and PageStream!
- Personal Paint is here already and it works on OS4 and OS3.2, but I wouldn't mind some enhancements and updates
- Picture Manager
- WordWorth 7
- TurboCalc!! (Pleaaasee!)
- ScanQuix or fxScan (which needs either ScanQuix or BetaScan) ScanQuix 5.5 still works on OS4 :happy. fxScan is useful to convert scans to PDF and the OCR functionality, but the latter doesn't work well.
- YAM / or SimpleMail

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Turbocalc was good.

Best feature: You could load Excel sheets and change 'write protected' tables and save them as Excel tables again.

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DraCo's Movie Shop NLE software decoupled from the DraCo half-baked Amiga clone for faster AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS 4.1 FE, A-EON System 54, and MorphOS compatible hardware.

Very forward thinking of them to add support for two operating systems that didn't exist at the time, and a third that doesn't even exist today.

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