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[ami_junki]

Well my Mac and PC finally packed it in, so I am now left with just my trusty A1200 until I can afford to buy a SAM (wife actually agreed if I don`t buy another PC or Mac ... woohooo!!) but this has been a very interesting experience, I have found that there is still an awful lot that I can do on my 030/28 4 meg A1200 that is no different from my Mac or PC ... except faster and more enjoyable. Kind of makes me feel all giddy inside when I chat to people on messenger and tell them its from my Amiga or emailing people. Huhuhu! One thing though that I need is a spreadsheet for OS3.1 and a word processor that I can save files to word format, what would you guys recommend?

[Piru]

I recommend you get a PC (Windows, Mac OS X or Linux).

I do understand this is not what you want to hear, but if you need to be able to handle word and excel docs you will have trouble with AOS 3.1.

[ami_junki]

Yeah I know what you mean, unfortuately I don`t have the money at the moment to buy either - so I need to figure out a way to use the Amiga for writing documents which can be read by word.

[Piru]

Some amiga apps can save document as .rtf, word can open those.

[persia]

But there is nothing on the Amiga that will open later .doc files or the current .docx files. You need a PC, Mac or Linux to do that...

Open Office 3 opens .docx, .xlsx and .pptx files quite nicely, but I wouldn't hold my breath for a 4.1 port...

[ami_junki]

Yeah I know what you mean, unfortuately I don`t have the money at the moment to buy either - so I need to figure out a way to use the Amiga for writing documents which can be read by word.

[orb85750]

Piru wrote:
I recommend you get a PC (Windows, Mac OS X or Linux).

I do understand this is not what you want to hear, but if you need to be able to handle word and excel docs you will have trouble with AOS 3.1.

Hell, I have trouble with some Word and Excel docs on my PC, because I don't have Microsoft Office and refuse to buy it. I have an older version of Wordperfect and also Quattropro, which can convert some files, but not others. But *really* why do you need to access such files? I often end up telling senders to send the files in a more universal (text) format and they have no trouble doing so. One should not be expected to own Word or Excel software, period. (My business has in no way been hindered, BTW.) -Dave

[ami_junki]

Thats a good point, I guess also I can send richtext files as well. what is a good spreadsheet proggy for the amiga then?

[ferrellsl]

A good word processor is Excellence! 3.0 if you can still find it. It had a companion spreadsheet program that was Lotus-123 compatible called Analyze!

[adz]

So what's exactly wrong with your Mac and PC? Pretty sure there is enough knowledge here to help you get them both going again quite cheaply if not for free.

[ami_junki]

I had a lightening strike on our power lines and I think some how it shorted out the mac and pc which were on and plugged straight into the wall socket, after the strike the machines wouldn`t turn on. Figured well I have been really lusting after a SAM with 4.1 so maybe now is a good time, so while I save up for it I will use my A1200 for simple emails and doing some home accounts. To be honest I am kind of happy as it gives me a chance to push myself more for the SAM

[rodney37]

@ami_junki

After a lightning strike your mac and pc are not necessarily totally broken. Sometimes you could get 'lucky' and it's only the power supply which received the blow. You can only know by replacing it. A pc power supply doesn't necessarily have to cost a lot of money, especially if the pc is a bit older and doesn't require too much current from the power supply. About the mac, I can't really say because I have no experience but the same thing goes, a power supply replacement might give a solution.

I worked in a retail computer store for years which also repaired computers, and a lot of my customers were from areas in the 'country' where lightning strikes are a more common occurrence to damage household appliances including PCs, so I have seen and repaired a lot of cases. Sometimes it's only the power supply(struck into mains power), sometimes it's the network adapter or modem(struck into the phone line). Of course I also saw plenty of cases where practically everything was dead. In my opinion there is a chance to repair the pc by trying to replace the power supply. Of course, sometimes there can be some hidden damage which only turns out later on but that only happened rarely to my repairs.

Of course, it's up to you if you want to have a try because there always is a chance that simply everything is dead, I just want to point out it might not be a lost cause. :-)

[jmbattle]

Are there any CSS+Javascript capable browsers available for MacOS 68k?

If so, you may be able to run Google docs or something similar.

However, I'm afraid I have to recommend returning to the PC/Mac. Just head over to your local recycle store (HardOff etc.) and buy a used laptop. I purchased this Dell notebook for less than 30,000 yen and it works like a champ. I recently upgraded it with a larger HD, more ram, faster CPU, and DVD burner and it's performing beautifully.

Cheers,
James
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[stefcep2]

jmbattle wrote:
Are there any CSS+Javascript capable browsers available for MacOS 68k?

If so, you may be able to run Google docs or something similar.

However, I'm afraid I have to recommend returning to the PC/Mac. Just head over to your local recycle store (HardOff etc.) and buy a used laptop. I purchased this Dell notebook for less than 30,000 yen and it works like a champ. I recently upgraded it with a larger HD, more ram, faster CPU, and DVD burner and it's performing beautifully.

Cheers,
James
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Upgraded even the cpu on a laptop? Didn't think you could do that..

[stefcep2]

amiga writer i think opened msword documents. from memory there is a word reader on aminet. finalcalc opens excel spreadsheets. ofcourse you are talking circa 1997 versions..