At the 2010 AmiWest show, I made a presentation of some of the Amiga applications
on AmigaOS4
for productive computing on the internet, work and play.
The following is a list of some of those invaluable Amiga applications:
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INTERNET CLIENT APPS
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OWB |
A native web browser using the same WebKit engine as in Apple's Safari that let's you see most
of the web the way Mac and Windows boxes see it.
Free software (contributions accepted)
Website
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IBrowse |
The old Amiga standby... While it might not do modern web pages justice, it is still the
world's most flexible & responsive web browser.
Commercial software - Demo provided with OS4
Website
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FUTURE: Timberwolf |
The Amiga port of the Mozilla Firefox browser engine. Still an "Alpha" version,
but available for testing.
Free software (contributions welcome)
Website
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NetSurf |
An Amiga OS4 port of a RISC OS webbrowser - relative to other ports, small and fast.
Free Software
Website
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AmiFTP |
A home grown FTP client, now native on OS4.
Free software
Download
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Jabberwocky |
Free Jabber client for IM chats on Jabber servers connected to services like AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo.
Free software (contributions welcome)
Website
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YAM |
The masterful legacy Amiga EMail program for POP EMail accounts, complete with folders, filtering, and
AmigaOS integration.
Free software (contributions welcome)
Website
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iODBC |
A front-end GUI for accessing online SQL/ODBC databases.
Free software (contributions welcome)
Website
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lpr / PrtMan |
A printer device that allows printing to printers and print servers using the LPD
protocol.
Free software
Download
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HINTS:
Just because your networked printer or print server doesn't say it supports LPR/LPD printing,
try it anyway! It worked for me!
Use the "PrtMan" Print Manager to provide print spooling - background printing
on your network printer.
Free software
Download
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SimpleMail |
Another home grown EMail client, with basic IMAP support.
Free software (contributions welcome)
Website
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FUTURE:
Gnash |
An open source flash animation player from linux that has been partially
ported to OS4. It still needs to be integrated into an Amiga webbrowser, but available for offline testing.
Free software (contributions welcome)
Website
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AmIRC |
The commercial 68k version of the Amiga's AmIRC IRC chat program has been ported to OS4.
Free software
Update to the new version by running AmiUpdate
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WookieChat |
The first OS4 native IRC program! In ways, even stepping out of AmIRC's shadow.
Free software (contributions welcome)
Website
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Sabre |
A homegrown MSN chat client, complete with avatars and file transfer.
Free software (contributions welcome)
Website
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INTERNET SERVER APPS
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AAMP
( Apache
MySQL
PHP ) |
A complete package of web server programs for use in AmiCygnix, including the Apache web server,
the MySQL database and the PHP server scripting language
Free software (contributions welcome)
Download
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Amaya
(Cygnix) |
A WYSIWYG web page editor for use in the Cygnix environment (see below).
Free software (contributions welcome)
Website
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Perl |
An interpreted programming language used for a lot of web server coding.
Free software (contributions welcome)
Website
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Python |
Another interpreted programming language used for a lot of web server coding.
Free software
Included with OS4.1
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VNC |
A server to allow you to use your Amiga while on a lesser platform.... slowly.
Free software
Download
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HINTS:
If you really must use another platform, you can always use the Amiga VNC client "TwinVNC".
Free software
Website
Pick up this GUI to make it easier on yourself!
Free software (contributions welcome)
Download
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WebLord |
A classic Amiga program that provides a unique ability to describe all the HTML files
of entire web site in a single object-oriented definition, repeating parts of the pages and then automatically
building or rebuilding the website as needed.
Free Software
Website
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MEDIA APPS
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DVPlayer |
A robust and fast home grown commercial application that plays MPEG, AVI & WMV videos and DVD disks.
Commercial software - Demo version provided with OS4
Website
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MPlayer |
A port of the linux media player tool that plays almost every openly documented video
format as well as playing video & audio streams from the Internet.
Free software (contributions welcome)
Website
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Tunenet |
Another home grown, "skinnable" and modular application for playing your music library
as well as streaming
"radio stations" from the Internet.
Free software (contributions welcome)
Website
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HINT:
Make Tunenet your default tool for M3U and PLS files. Then you can download and save
those files from station websites, just double-click one and you're listening to
the station in seconds.
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GetVideo |
A set of ARexx scripts for downloading videos from YouTube and a few other sites and
playing them on your Amiga.
Free
Download
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HINT:
Use the FFMpeg program (below) to convert flash videos you want to keep from .flv's
into more easily played .avi or Mpeg files for DVPlayer.
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FFMpeg |
Another unix port of a pair of CLI programs that can play, convert and even minimally
edit video files.
Free
Download
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HINT:
Use the FFMpegGUI program to provide a user-friendly way of tapping the
powers of this CLI program.
Free software
Download
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ADRipper |
A home grown program for "ripping" your(!) audio CD's into MP3 or OGG files. This
program automatically goes to the internet to download disk & track names.
Free
Download
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HINT:
Don't forget to set the default tool for the new MP3 files & M3U playlists to TuneNet for
seamlessly playing your music with a double-click.
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PRODUCTIVITY APPS
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Pagestream |
Our long time, home grown Amiga Desktop Publishing Program. A world-class application
going through continued development into versions "5" and "5-Pro" as well as OS4 native
versions. Looking forward to renewed stability.
Commercial software
Website
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Cygnix |
The OS4 port of a unix "X windows" front end (or "server" in unix parlance) for running
OS4 native, unix applications - like a larger scale version of the MUI GUI system.
Within this environment, you can run a number of other X windows OS4 programs ("Cygnix" apps).
Free software (contributions welcome)
Website
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Abiword
(Cygnix) |
An OS4 port of a open source linux word processing program for the Cygnix enviroment,
providing fairly modern word processing powers - including import/export of most modern formats.
Free software (contributions welcome)
Website
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Gnumeric
(Cygnix) |
Another unix to OS4 Cygnix port, of a serious spreadsheet program with import/export
abilities for interacting with lesser platforms.
Free software (contributions welcome)
Website
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ImageFx |
The old workhorse, 68k Amiga program still gets the job done running on
the OS4 JIT. ("Petunia"). Purchase a full version from NovaDesign or
download the lite version.
Commercial software or "Lite" download
Website
Download
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Gimp
(Cygnix) |
The unix image processing program ported to the Amiga OS4 Cygnix enviroment.
Free software (contributions welcome)
Website
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AmiPDF
AmiGS
Ghostscript |
AmiPDF and AmiGS are programs that provide a GUI around the unix XPDF and Ghostscript applications.
They provide a modern way to view, print and convert PDF, Postscript and EPS files. For the CLI handy,
the Ghostcript CLI app provides another means of interacting with PDF or PS files.
Provided with OS4
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HINTS:
Use the Ghostscript CLI program for combining multiple PDF or postscript files into one PDF file.
Use AmiGS for opening postscript files from other apps (FinalWriter?) and making PDF files
or printing to printers supported by Ghostscript.
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Blender |
An OS4 native port of the linux 3D modeling application.
Free software (contributions welcome)
Website
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Hollywood |
A home grown application for building multimedia presentations and standalone applications.
Amazingly enough, you can build projects that can be viewed on almost any lesser platform, even Windows and MacOSX.
Commercial software
Website
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FUTURE:
Ignition |
A home grown, open source OS4 spreadsheet program. Moving kind of slowly,
but one can be hopeful.
Free software
Website
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FUTURE:
Cinnamon |
Another OS4 native program, a lightweight, straightforward word processing program.
Again, development has been kind of slow, but looking forward to new versions.
Free software (contributions welcome)
Website
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FUTURE:
OpenOffice
for Kids |
A light and yet productive version of the massive OpenOffice suite being ported to OS4.
Free software (contributions welcome)
Website
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