Yokemate of Keyboards
Posts: 4977 from 2009/1/28
From: Delaware, USA
Quote:amigadave wrote:
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Jim wrote:
A spreadsheet is a very complex program.
And even the spreadsheet included in Open Office is no substitute for Excel.
Trust me on that, I had Open Office on my PC, but I recently had the buy Office in order to obtain Excel.
So, no, there is no program like Excel, even if we were to port a open software spreadsheet, I'd still have to use my PC.
Interesting statement, what is it about Excel that you need, that is not present in the Open Office spreadsheet program, or any other spreadsheet programs you could have purchased (probably) cheaper?
I know that most, or all of the old Amiga 68k spreadsheet programs were limited in their capabilities, but this is the first time I have seen anyone comment that Excel was superior to most, or all other spreadsheet programs.
For the OP, I think that the 68k Amiga programs Turbo Calc and Final Calc, run acceptably directly on MorphOS, without needing to fire up UAE.
The first (maybe only) commercial Amiga program I had purchased for me as a gift by one of my family members was the spreadsheet program called "Advantage".
Yes, the programs Andreas has mentioned will provide basic spreadsheet functionality to MorphOS.
They will be painfully behind the open packages currently available under Linux, which in themselves still don't offer some of the features I need from Excel.
AND, I actually don't enjoy using spreadsheets. They're just a necessary evil in business that I have been forced to educate myself about.
At this point, we don't really have very good support for word processing, a relatively simple type of application that has not evolved that much in the last ten or more years.
A good spreadsheet for MorphOS?
When fairies fly out my ass.
TurboCalc...hmm. What next, is someone going to bring up Word Perfect for word processing?
How about solutions from this century?
This post may sound caustic, that's not my intention. I just wanted to point out the lightyears of difference between 'like' and 'acceptable substitute for'.
"Never attribute to malice what can more readily explained by incompetence"
