Ely Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 I was going to mention Mini Office II, I used the Word Processor on that for writing all of my assignements for the first 2 years of college. So my five would be; 1. Mini Office II (Word Processor) 2. Print Shop 3. Turbo Basic XL 4. Rob. C Menu Maker 5. Super Duper Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ac.tomo Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 Very difficult to pick just 5, but... Atari BASIC (initially until TURBO BASIC appeared) Assembler/Editor Cartridge, where I began my machine-language adventure DOS 2.5 invaluable XL ART which was the only graphics package where you can stretch or bend graphics images, invaluable at the time when I first began to make demo's TextPro invaluable, also if you need a word-processor that doesn't save additional bytes in addition to your text-file, then SpeedScript. Very necessary for some applications. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dmitry Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 (edited) honorable mentions, for me... Mavis Beacon teaches typing nevermind wrong platform That rainbow demo they had a sears (and other places, of course). Visicalc Eliza, AI demoCompuserve, well it had a client software someone digitized the kinks, you really got me, to play through pokey Edited May 26, 2016 by Dmitry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenjennings Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 OSS Mac/65 OSS Basic XL DDT MyDos Newell OS/Fastchip/Omnimon That covers about 97.3% of my non-gaming time in the 1980s. The remainder: AtariWriter/PaperClip, and Kermit terminal communications. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashjazzcat Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 TextPro invaluable, also if you need a word-processor that doesn't save additional bytes in addition to your text-file, then SpeedScript. Very necessary for some applications. TextPro also saved plain text files with no headers. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormtrooper of Death Posted May 29, 2016 Share Posted May 29, 2016 1. Atmas II (assembler)2. Superdos3. Turbo Basic XL4. Mini Office II5. BBS Express Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+bf2k+ Posted May 29, 2016 Share Posted May 29, 2016 SpartaDOS ABC Compiler MMG Compiler Express BBS(es) Express Term Someone else mentioned TextPro which was my favorite back in the early 80s before other appeared. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariGeezer Posted May 29, 2016 Share Posted May 29, 2016 Assembler Editor Archiver 810 Amodem -> Express 850 AMIS -> FoReM -> Express BBS Atari Basic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ripdubski Posted May 30, 2016 Share Posted May 30, 2016 I used these regularly: AtariWriter (but would place the Plus version higher on the list) Amodem (the one with a war dialer built in) Action! MyDOS and SmartDOS (because of ResiDUP) I didn't have much use for a spreadsheet and didn't use one, but would add this one: SynCalc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DrVenkman Posted May 30, 2016 Share Posted May 30, 2016 For me personally, as a daily 8-bit user from 1982 - '86 (I updated to an ST), I'd have to go with: 1. Atari BASIC 2. AtariWriter 3. Atari DOS 2.5 4. The PrintShop 5. Amodem Nothing original for me to say about any of these except that I used them all regularly as a teen. They were the foundation of my "productivity" (for a high school kid) and I spent a LOT of time using them all. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoodByteXL Posted May 30, 2016 Share Posted May 30, 2016 From a user's point of view I wonder how DOS and programming languages can be judged as programs ... 1. Mini Office II (a real office suite for A8 !) 2. Austro Programs (Text, Base, Com, etc. - very well programmed user soft from Austria) 3. Synapse User Soft (SynFile+, SynCalc) 4. Chroma CAD (unfortunately never received the printer module) 5. Desktop Atari (see attached scan) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashjazzcat Posted May 30, 2016 Share Posted May 30, 2016 From a user's point of view I wonder how DOS and programming languages can be judged as programs ... Disk operating systems and interpreters/compilers are programs; if the OP had stipulated "applications", the FMS part of DOS at least would have been disqualified, while programming languages would become a little blurry. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
576XE Posted May 30, 2016 Share Posted May 30, 2016 ATARI BASIC as FIRST HARD POINT! MAC/65 First XLEnt Word processor Most of all I loved DOSES! T2000 too Then C-lang Then... Now InterLISP and PL65. Both are out of any compare. I KNOW ABOUT ACTION!!! (And I never knew ACTION!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
576XE Posted May 30, 2016 Share Posted May 30, 2016 And VERY serious thing I love ED!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
high voltage Posted May 30, 2016 Share Posted May 30, 2016 1 Mini Office II (WP, Spreadsheet, Label Printer and Internet and more, all in one package) 2 Print Shop (Everyone wanted letter headings) 3 RAMbrandt 2.0 4 Print Technik Video Digitizer (used with a camera at computer fairs, great hit) 5 Music Construction Set Bonus: The Writer's Tool (Yes, I bought the program in 1985 for ~DM200) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fujidude Posted May 30, 2016 Share Posted May 30, 2016 (edited) SpartaDOS Action! Mac65/DDT BASIC-XL BobTerm Yes, O.S.S. holds 3 of the 5 spots for my list. Congrats to them. Edited May 30, 2016 by fujidude 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted May 31, 2016 Share Posted May 31, 2016 So many choices of modem stuff, what were you devious devils up to Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fujidude Posted May 31, 2016 Share Posted May 31, 2016 So many choices of modem stuff, what were you devious devils up to Getting on BBSs and GEnie. The activity that I think you might have been hinting at was an in person kind of thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eegad Posted June 2, 2016 Share Posted June 2, 2016 I'd definitely put Bobterm and SpartaDOS on the list. Also there was a disk sector/file editor that I used to use all the time, but have no idea what it was called at this point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+slx Posted June 2, 2016 Share Posted June 2, 2016 Print Shop was great (although we missed the äöüß). Gesendet von meinem iPhone mit Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+S.D.W. Posted June 15, 2017 Share Posted June 15, 2017 Five apps I recall using quite a bit back in the 80s in no particular order... 1. Homepak 2. Atari BASIC 3. Disk Wizard II 4. Character Editor 5. Turbo BASIC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leech Posted May 28, 2020 Share Posted May 28, 2020 On 6/15/2017 at 1:45 AM, 917k said: Five apps I recall using quite a bit back in the 80s in no particular order... 1. Homepak 2. Atari BASIC 3. Disk Wizard II 4. Character Editor 5. Turbo BASIC Found this thread because I was looking up RAMbrandt, but then was like 'wait, not a single person mentioned the epic Disk Wizard II?' Probably the single most use application from me in the 8bit days, as I was hacking the living hell out of Ultima IV! My list would be; 1) Disk Wizard II 2) The Print Shop 3) RAMbrandt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sugarland Posted May 28, 2020 Share Posted May 28, 2020 AMS - before MP3's, MODs, SID tunes and before YouTube music there was AMS and it is still glorious BASIC / XE Sector Copier Amodem (and BobTerm) FoReM That's what can be remembered. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+davidcalgary29 Posted May 28, 2020 Share Posted May 28, 2020 1. Print Shop 2. The Newsroom 3. Atariwriter+ (and Atariwriter 80, after the XEP80 was released) 4. Awardware 5. Advanced Music System Typo II should really be at #1. I couldn't subscribe to the disk version of Antic until 1988, and that program saved me hours of frustration. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JagChris Posted May 28, 2020 Share Posted May 28, 2020 Atari Planetarium 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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