Spreadsheets

[Atari8guy]

I have this weird thing for spreadsheets. I love em....I collect them and I'm an admitted MS Excel addict. So it got me to wondering what is everyone's favourite 8 Bit spreadsheet and why....

 

I'm partial to Syncalc....because its easy to use and fairly powerful...especially by 8bit standards....where as I hate the Alfred E. Newman one that came with the Indus.

 

But what are everyone else's thoughts....

[+David_P]

One I never saw but was always interested in was from DataQue, who were supposed to be releasing a bank-switched cart with a spreadsheet that was 65816 aware to support those who had purchased their '816 upgrade. Never seen a copy anywhere, so I don't know whether it was vapourware.

 

TURBO-CALC: Turbo-Calc is a cartridged based spreadsheet program for

the Atari 800/XL/XE/XEGS/T816 systems. It will work with, or without a

Turbo-816 installed. With most DOSes, there is about 20k of space

available for spreadsheet data using Standard RAM. If expanded RAM is

available, the spreadsheet could potentially support up to 8Mb of cell

information. Obviously the Turbo-816 is required to allow access to

expanded RAM.

 

Turbo-Calc functions may be called one of two ways. You may either use

Hot-Keys to activate all commands and functions, or by a special user

environment. Turbo-View, is a graphical operating system (GOS), which

is resident with application programs. This allows the GOS to be

customized for each application, while maintaining a common

functionality between applications.

 

Turbo-Calc and Turbo-View source code are available seperately to

registered owners of Turbo-Calc. See the price list for more

information. The source code of Turbo-Calc, allows the beginning 65816

programmer a clear reference as to applying the Turbo-816, while still

maintaining compatibility with the current 8-bit line. The actual

source code remains the property of DataQue Software, and is provided

for reference purposes only.

 

Turbo-View source has routines for handling drop down menus, buffered

windows, joystick control, and routine selection. The source code is

available to developers to include into their applications. There is a

one-time licensing fee for Turbo-View, for programs which are to be

distributed, in addition to the normal cost of the source code alone.

The only other requirement is that the used of the Turbo-View routines

be acknowledge within the application, as outlined in the provided

documentation.

 

(from http://www.atariarchives.org/cfn/05/11/0182.php)

[Fletch]

I've always liked Visicalc. Very straight forward and you can move the files between Atari, Apple, IBM with no modifications.

 

Fletch

[twh/f2]

my favourite spreadsheet tool on the A8 is Visicalc. I even did with that some kind of graphic reports using wildcards "*"

 

5 ; *****

10; ***********

8 ; *******

 

cool, huh?

 

it was really good and came with a very professional folder full of manual pages... great stuff. i remember i was 9 years old at this time. I was impressed by the professionality of this tools suite. My grandpa told me years later he bought it for 250 DM. ($135).

 

great software really.

 

grtx,

\twh

[Goochman]

Visicalc was fun to learn on - was a bit slow and clunky but using Lotus 123 years later proved a snap!