Amiga Software - Cataloguing Amiga Software

Cataloguing Amiga Software

Any computer could not exist without a vast range of software that covers the requests of the userbase, the software solves the necessities of the users and mainly elaborates user input data into a more intellegible and practical output result. Amiga do not miss this paradigm: "No software base, no user-base". As long as the software for Amiga (or Windows, or Macintosh) covers a vast range of targets of reference in any camp of problem solving or data-elaboration, it becomes necessary to split the catalogue in various Wikipedia articles. This is not a necessity for Amiga only, but it is common practice for cataloguing software on any platform, that is for example Windows software, Macintosh software, Linux software and so on. The main software categories to be catalogued are: Productivity Software (also called Application software); Support and Maintenance Utilities that are used for formatting hard disks, recover or backup data, etc.; Multimedia software (graphic, video, music); Communication software (including the software for dealing with Internet and any other net); Programming, that is one of the basics function on a computer and allows new software to being coded and released to users; some various other major or minor utilities that enhance the ease of use in any Operating System (that is for example Application Launching Docks) together with Software for Special Purposes (such as software for people who suffer of limitation of movements). Games are a separate kind of software that deals with entertainment for kids and adults. Emulation software is a very particular family of software that allow a computer acting as a different computer than the original one (even built with different classes of processors than the host computer that is capable to emulate it), it deals mainly with retrocomputing issues. Demos are another kind of separate software. Demos are often music videos or graphical hacks created for pleasure, to astonish spectators or to demonstrate the very limits of the hardware the run into. These are often being considered a modern form of art (see Demoscene). Here follows a brief list of major known software for Amiga organized by these categories.