#Spreadsheets for Amigas
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I'm not really an Amiga user, having always used PCs myself, but….
My father in law has been asking me about spreadsheets. He would like to
get hold of a nice cheap (preferably public domain) spraedsheet which will
do simple calculations and will sort rows of data on calculated results so
that he can do the ladders for his golf club. Have you any advice?
Jim,
We had a spreadsheet uploaded rather recently that looked pretty good for
freely distributable ware. You should locate it in AmigaUser, Library 13
if you browse there using the keyword Spreadsheet. If you have trouble
locating it, tell me and I'll find the exact name for you.
As for commercial spreadsheets, there are several older ones such as
SuperPlan from Precision, MaxiPlan (I think Oxxi is selling that one now),
and I think Advantage is still available. I just read that Gold Disk has
an impressive one just about ready for release, and I know that one of our
members is writing one that is tremendously impressive, but it won't be
ready for a while yet.
Please let me know if you have trouble finding one in Library 13. There
should be two or three of them there.
Betty
Betty;
Thank you for your helpful advice, which I am passing on. Some of the
software vendors in the UK advertise Visicalc. Have you any comments on
this?
Visicalc was an excellent spreadsheet for its day -the very first one I
ever saw. I used it on my Commodore 8032 about ten years ago, and was
amazed at what it could do. But I was not aware that it was still being
sold! Is it available for the AMIGA in the UK?
Today's spreadsheets are far more powerful than VisiCalc was, even the
simpler ones. Yet our school budget director used to keep the budget for a
school district with 50,000 students in Visicalc on a 96K Commodore 8096.
Betty
Betty,
I saw Visicalc on the shelf at the local computer store just this week.
However, it was for a more primitive machine, either the VIC-20 or the 64
or the 128 or the IBM-PC (the store sells software for all of them, plus
Amigas). I can get it for you real cheap if you have a touch of nostalgia.
Mike
That's OK, MIke – but thanks for the offer. 🙂 I still have VisiCalc for
my antique machines. There are still three of the Commodore machines
around here – A SuperPET, and two 8032's, each of which has memory
expansion to make them an 8096. If I get too lonesome for it, I'll just
run it on one of those.
Betty
>>Visicalc for sale.
You shop at WeirdStuff, too? 🙂 Rob.
Well, the name of the store is Computers and More, but it ought to be "Less
and Less", because they have a real software and hardware inventory
problem. They have a lot of everything nobody wants. The result is that
all of their capital is sunk in this rapidly depreciating inventory and
they're in a real cash bind. They really do have software for the VIC-20
on the shelves, but no ProPage, ProDraw, PageStream, Deluxe Paint,
DigiPaint, Superbase, Amax, etc. They have several copies of Textcraft
Plus, but no Word Perfect, ProWrite, Excellence, etc. When I ask if they
have a particular piece of hardware or software, the answer is "No, but we
can order it for you." If they're going to order it and then charge me
retail for something they don't stock and probably have never seen, I might
as well order it mail-order myself. It's the ultimate in absurdity — a
retail store with no useful inventory and no product support.
Pardon me for getting on my soapbox in what was a lighthearted and humorous
thread. It is a great place to go for someone with an emotional attachment
to one of the older machines.
Mike
Jim;
There is also an older pd/sharware (?) one called Analyticalc (I don't know
its library name). This one is not real easy to set up but there is very
little that any spreadsheet will do that this one won't. There are
somethings that Analyticalc will do that none of the others will do. -bill
– via Whap!