Turbocalc 5 - seems to work perfectly (so far), however:

1) Drop-down menus don't seem to work with a RMB click (or hold).
The 'launch menus' keyboard shortcut does, however, activate the menus.
By default this is RAmiga+Space. To reconfigure, go to Settings>System>iControl>Hotkeys>Menu: Launch menus.

2) Importing Excel files (.xls) does work, however import appears to be limited to Excel 95 versions of files. To import a file into turbocalc saved in Excel 97-2003 (.xls) or Excel 2007+ (.xlsx), it must be saved (using MS Excel) selecting .xls (Excel 95) compatibility from the filetype options.

I'm pretty damn happy to finally get Turbocalc working properly - both of the above issues have taken a while to figure out.
An intuitive (familiar formulas, operators, macros) spreadsheet is a vital tool for me - more so than a .doc comaptible word processor. Also, xls import is a major bonus.

Whimsical aside: Sigh.. I do wish someone with deep pockets would buy out the rights to Digita's Amiga Office software (Wordworth, Turbocalc) - just add .doc/x, .xls/x, (and open equivalents) import/export, and most of the work is done in creating a fantastic office package compatible with all Amiga flavours.

EDIT: Minor details.

[ Edited by boot_wb 25.08.2012 - 19:38 ]

> Digita's Amiga Office software (Wordworth, Turbocalc)

I don't think TurboCalc is or was a Digita product.

"Written by Michael Friedrich - Creative Developments
Distribuited by Stefan Ossowskis Schatztruhe
Distributed in italy by NonSoloSoft"
http://www.amiworld.it/programmi/turbocalc/turbocalc_eng.html

From the Turbocalc 5 About tab:

"Digita International is the exclusive world-wide publisher of TurboCalc in English."

Publisher vs Distributor?

EDIT: Less certain of Andreas_Wolf's correctness

[ Edited by boot_wb 25.08.2012 - 21:16 ]

Either way, Michael Friedrich would probably be the one to contact for Turbocalc I suppose.

> From the Turbocalc 5 About tab:
> "Digita International is the exclusive world-wide publisher of TurboCalc in English."

Thanks. I wasn't aware of that.

> Publisher vs Distributor?

Whatever these roles imply in this particular case, it may seem that Digita was the sole publisher while there were various national distributors. But taking "in English" into account, it may as well be that regarding TurboCalc, Digita was for the English speaking countries what Schatztruhe was for Germany and NonSoloSoft for Italy, meaning that the terms "publisher" and "distributor" would be interchangeable here.

> Either way, Michael Friedrich would probably be the one to contact for Turbocalc I suppose.

Fully agreed, as he would have the source code (and the rights to it).

Turbocalc is written in Assembler and hence probably rather difficult to develelop further. It's 300.000 lines of code with sparse comments.

http://www.amiga-news.de/de/news/AN-2002-10-0026E.html

But at least a free version would be nice. I use a rather old version (3.5) because that's the most recent legal version i am in possession of.

> E.html" target="_blank">http://www.amiga-news.de/de/news/AN-2002-10-0026E.html

This should be the appropriate URL:

http://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2002-10-00268-EN.html

Andreas_Wolf,
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AROS/68k ROM is. It runs on MorphOS's port of E-UAE too (and ironically on OS4 as well, considering the politicking between OS4 and AROS).

However, it's a bit slow without JIT-compilation (something the PPC JIT bounty should help). Compatibility with classic AmigaOS software is improving, however - and it'll run hardware banging stuff too.

[ Edited by Mequa 26.08.2012 - 06:48 ]

>> No Kickstart ROM version is freeware.

> AROS/68k ROM is.

True. But if you have a look you'll see that I wrote that back in April 2011 when the AROS Kickstart reimplementation wasn't really usable yet.

> politicking between OS4 and AROS

I don't see much of that. There was a remarkable incident in 2007 when Hyperion's managing partner Evert Carton "continued to generate controversy by stating under oath that the open-source AmigaOS reimplementation AROS was "probably illegal"" but according to some AROS developer this isn't anything to worry about:

"Also the 'probably illegal' comment of Evert in a legal court filing has long been discussed off-the-record by me with him. I notified afterwards the AROS devs that I don't feel any reason to be worried and we (AROS) moved on. We don't need other guys taking a stance for AROS and beating on dead horses."
https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?forum=3&topic_id=7824&start=38

I installed PageStream 4 from the download from PageStream.org but after the installation the program fails to initiate now, and it is even shown as FROZEN in the task manager, as is BME when I try to run that as well. However PageLiner runs OK, though I don't have much use for it.

I seem to remember I got PageStream 4 to run initially when I installed it once, on my first installation of MorphOS, prior to installing the Ultimate MorphOS CD, but now on my 2nd install it fails as described.

Not that I am saying that the Ultimate CD is the problem or some conflict it creates with one of the many programs it installs, as on my 2nd FULL install of MorphOS I installed PageStream 4 before I installed The Ultimate MorphOS CD

I'm running MorphOS 3 on a Mini Mac 1.5GHz

Anyone else got PageStream 4 working OK on their setup - whatever that might be, which of course would be of interest, as it may be some specifics of the hardware that is the issue here.

> Anyone else got PageStream 4 working OK on their setup

https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?forum=14&topic_id=5875&start=238
https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?forum=38&topic_id=8680&start=2

> it may be some specifics of the hardware that is the issue here.

I doubt it.

magnetic,
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Good to know, so newer Open Source Dopus 5.x is not needed, I can use old 68k CD?
Beside Ibrowse and Miami, all the rest are titles I will use.

> I can use old 68k CD?

Yes.