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Looks like you could try AmigaWriter 2.2 to import Wordworth files.
Their online shop is http://www.haage-partner.de/amiga/amigawriter/aw_e.htm.
There is a demo version available for download at http://download.haage-partner.de/Amiga/AmigaWriter/

Looks like you could try AmigaWriter 2.2 to import Wordworth files.
Their online shop is http://www.haage-partner.de/amiga/amigawriter/aw_e.htm.
There is a demo version available for download at http://download.haage-partner.de/Amiga/AmigaWriter/

I bought a copy of substantially the same thing for my Amiga in 1996. Yeah, I'd be interested in hearing when these guys supposedly "invented" the idea.

BTW the Amiga computer was originally planned by the development team to become a full computer. But at the time the investors were only interested in a game console, so the team decided to make a console which could afterwards be expanded to a full desktop system (just like the CD32).

Later when the games market did not look all that promising anymore, it was decides to build a complete system again, with the A1000 being the end result.

In 1985 it was the first desktop computer to offer photorealistic graphics with up to 4096 colors simultaneously, 32-bit pre-emptive multitasking GUI and great stereo sound.

Used for marketting hype, to curse companies into bankruptness, and to bring false hopes since about 6 years, and still in use in my 5 amigas at home :) Nothing beats a A1200 (unless it's a dell 8100 laptop with AmigaXL on it :) ).

Actually, the "classic" amiga has dual PPC-m68k processor boards - check out www.phase5.de

Soon, the "classic" amiga range, which Gateway has basically disowned, will have G4 accelerators which do the 68k legacy stuff in software.

gateway are just using the amiga name on a completely different computer. The "classic" amiga is not exactly dead yet, though, in that there's still reams of new stuff on the aminet (www.aminet.org). Please note that there's loads of open-source development done by amiga and former amiga users - the GPL was always very popular on the amiga, and most of the GNU suite was ported to the amiga years ago.

There's quite a capable microkernel from www.haage-partner.de that runs on the PPC-processor side of the (heavily expanded) old amigas, called WarpOS (no relation to OS/2). It's quite pleasant to program for, carrying on the amiga traditions of fast message passing + lists, but adding memory protection, and an OpenGL API (Warp3D)

Also, the m68k "classic" amigas run linux/m68k well ( I have a 50MHz 68060 amiga that hits 100MIPS - technically, the 68060 was a more advanced architecture than x86, let alone PPC, but intel have )

LinuxPPC runs on the PPC cards for the "classic"
amiga (see Linux/APUS on sunsite.auc.dk)

Actually, my last amiga, before I finally gave in
and got a 400MHz PC, consisted of:

An Amiga A4000T motherboard and tower case
A 68060 50MHz + PPC 604e 233MHz dual cpu system
128MByte ram
Ultra Wide SCSI 3 4.3 Gbyte HD
8 MByte Permedia 2 (3D) gfx card
32x SCSI CDRom
Assorted Video Peripherals

The Amiga is STILL better for video editing,
I find. I'm sorry I sold it now, but
at the time I was mainly doing other stuff, like running LinuxPPC on it for fun - so the changeover to a x86/linux system was fairly painless.

x86 is still an incredibly bad processor architecture, the windows of the CPU world, if you will. I enjoyed assembler programming for the PPC, despite it being nominally RISC, the instruction set is /more/ comprehinsive than most CISC processors, and it's all well-rounded and orthogonal, too!

No insane "this must be in that register, except when the moon rises in orion" and so on, that dog the x86 thanks to all the backward compatibility kludges.

I just wish there was a commodity priced, little-endian PPC (PPCs are bi-endian, but are wired one way or the other onto the mobo usually), ATX, PCI, motherboard, that I could run LinuxPPC on.

Ah well.

strange - my Cyberstorm 604e PPC 233MHz with 68060 50MHz amiga seems pretty real. Think before you write something. Dolt. Look where team amiga are in the RC5-64 decryption tables. Yep. Hovering about sixth or seventh. Not bad, for such a minority eh? PPCs kick x86 butt.
Incidentally, I dual boot AmigaOS 3.1 and LinuxPPC (APUS is the name of the Amiga ppc linux port - it's on sunsite.auc.dk). I have an 8MByte Permedia 2 gfx card, 128Mbyte ram, and ultra-wide scsi 3 4.3 gig HD.

No, it's not a top of the range spec, but I'd say it's not bad.

Makers of the amiga PPC hardware ->
www.phase5.de

Makers of the PPC-side kernel favoured by the majority of PPC amiga users, and the Warp3D Amiga OpenGL API->
www.haage-partner.de

Claim to be developing an amiga G3 card ->
www.escena.de

amiga ppc news->
come.to/amigappc

Amiga ->
www.amiga.com

QNX ->

www.qnx.com

Yes, most decent amiga stuff comes out of the UK and germany, and this is a US site, so some ignorance among the readership of this site is to be expected, I guess.

PS. I suppose my machine isn't a "desktop" - It's in a tower case...