If Open Office 4 Kids is ported to OS4 it can be ported to MorphOS, too, so no worries.

In the year 25 25........

Someone with 0.0 experience in Amiga-developent promised a year ago to port OO4kids but has yet shown not even the slightest hint of a result.


OWB and Google-docs is the better bet here.

someone port the damn thing already, even android has a office suite!

hmm... guys, in next 2-3 years nobody will need any openoffice. if fab will make a owb better everybody will use google doc... i will not waist time to port any office program... its only my opinion

[ Edited by MaveRickPL on 2011/3/26 22:15 ]

An office suite program is needed period!

everything else has one..


[ Edited by xyphoid on 2011/3/26 21:17 ]

> in next 2-3 years nobody will need any openoffice. if fab will make
> a owb better everybody will use google doc...

And after "next 2-3 years" nobody will use Google Docs any more? ;-)

 @MaveRickPL

I will never ever work on my private documents online on whatever obscure server.

I repeat, go for Pagestream for Morphos. It is far better dan OpenOffice for text.
(I've a Mac with Pagestream and NeoOffice but for text PGS is really better!!!)

regards Tom

> go for Pagestream for Morphos. It is far better dan OpenOffice for text.

A DTP software better for text than a word processor? I reckon it must be a rather bad word processor then ;-)

Kronos is right the OOO light port to os4 is a joke. Its been years now no progress..

> Its been years now

Actually, Kronos was right when he said it's been one year now ;-)

He was a potentail team member on the project. If not Ooo, then an alternative (mainstream) alternative.
I hate playing round online for convertions, and barely getting by on G-Docs.

Another Andreas?

> He was a potentail team member on the project.

I doubt that Kronos ever had anything to do with the OOo4Kids or OOoLight for OS4 project. But actually, he was part of the team that attempted (and failed) to bring OpenOffice to the Amiga 9 years ago.

http://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2002-02-00113-EN.html
http://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2002-02-00277-EN.html
http://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2002-03-00041-EN.html

and just why can't we either get http://www.os4depot.net/index.php?function=showfile&file=office/wordprocessing/abiword.lha or run it on morphos

@Andreas another link http://www.amiga.org/forums/showpost.php?p=8432&postcount=3

> why can't we either get
> http://www.os4depot.net/index.php?function=showfile&file=office/wordprocessing/abiword.lha

Because MorphOS lacks a decent X11 server.

> or run it on morphos

Because AmiCygnix doesn't run on MorphOS (not even with OS4Emu).

Quote:

yea the same "alien" server we were fighting about 2-3 years ago, andyet no complaints next door.

amicygnix - we had discussions on this too. Bounty for and and all for a working alt but to no avail. I'm not thread surfing it, but I was involved in the discussions, still bottom line is that how can MorphOS be truely credible without a decent industry standart word processor?
Again...everyone else has one! (major O's now)

Actually, isn't there something besides Open Office. I've used it, I have copies of it on most of my computers, but a several year old copy of Microsoft Office usually works better.

Frankly I've found OO file conversions to be buggy as hell.

> isn't there something besides Open Office.

There is, for instance the one xyphoid linked to.

google docs too but it made improvements recently. There are a few projects, but they pop up now and then, and is never heard from till these threads go seaching through the cold files. pagestream. papyrus, ect
we need read/write/save .doc ppt xls ect

>we need read/write/save .doc ppt xls ect

That would be useful (without bugs or the cloud).

Quote:

Well, decent, probably, but we still have 3 X11 servers, if you want:
- xami, works quite well and fast
- the plain server from geekgadgets, just needed a recompilation, but really slower
- amiwin (or whatever it was called).

This junk was running over xami: http://fabportnawak.free.fr/gtk2.png

For information, amicygnix just uses the plain x11 server from gg (which is why it's so slow). And they can also use xami instead.


[ Edited by Fab on 2011/3/28 3:41 ]

found aminet amiga ver xami402. was this your reference?
exactly how does it work?

> papyrus

As you know, that is a sad story on its own:

https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?topic_id=6058&forum=9&start=9
https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?topic_id=6058&forum=9&start=18

> we still have 3 X11 servers

Yes, I've been aware of them. Actually, I used AmiWin on OS3 back in the days but never tried it on MorphOS. I believed they'd probably work on MorphOS but wouldn't be decent enough for running something like AbiWord.

> amicygnix just uses the plain x11 server from gg (which is why it's so slow).
> And they can also use xami instead.

Thanks, didn't know that. So I conclude we'd just need a simple compile of AbiWord for MorphOS and could run it on GG's X11 server or Xami then, right?