Final Calc

Final Calc is the most powerful spreadsheet program on the Amiga. In fact, according to reviews, Final Calc rivals and in some ways surpasses spreadsheets on the Mac and PC. Far and away the most important aspect of Final Calc is its spreadsheet engine. It is blazingly fast, and extremely powerful. It contains spreadsheet and graphing functions not found on any other Amiga spreadsheet program.

Reviews:

  • It has been refreshing to witness SoftWood, Inc. faithfully and vigorously supporting the Amiga throughout its trials and tribulations. Their newest product, Final Calc, a spreadsheet program, is truly an inspiring piece of work. (Amazing Computing Nov. '95)
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  • At last, SoftWood has developed a major product to capitalize on the absence of a quality spreadsheet for the Amiga. (Amazing Computing Nov. '95)
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  • I give Final Calc my highest recommendation. It is one of the best products ever developed for the Amiga. It fills a long-standing spreadsheet void at a time when most developers have jumped ship. (Amazing Computing Nov. '95)
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  • Final Calc probably has the edge over any rival in terms of manipulative power, but its primary selling point is more likely to be its superiority in terms of data presentation. (Amiga Computing #7)
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  • Another breakthrough is Final Calc's ability to animate graphs so that changes through time can be displayed. (Amiga Computing #7)
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  • So how does it shape up against the competition? Well the good news is that Final Calc outclasses any other Amiga spreadsheet in many respects. (Amiga Computing #7)
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  • The Amiga deserves a spreadsheet package for the more serious user, and this is certainly a good step in the right direction. (Amiga Computing #7)
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    User Interface:
    - 183 Projects can contain up to 254 sheets.
    - Sheets contain up to 18,277 columns
    - Multiple open views per project.
    - Duplicate keyboard/mouse commands.
    - Unlimited undo and redo events.
    - User-defined fonts for interface.
    - Supports inches or centimeters.
    - Single to single, single to multiple, and multiple to multiple cut, copy and pastes.
    - Formulas automatically offset during paste, with user control over the process.

    Cells:
    - Numeric, string, date, time, scientific, bool, currency, and percent cell types.
    - Line and border drawings.
    - Use any font size in bold, italic, underlined, reversed, and shaded text styles.
    - Print to any Workbench supported printer
    - Hidden and protected cells.

    Fonts:
    - Supports NimbusQ, Type-1 and Type-3.
    - Translation list from Amiga bitmap to outline fonts.
    - Font builder builds bitmap fonts from outline fonts.

    Recalc System:
    - Recalcs done in a seperate background process.
    - Natural recalcs--true formula relationship analysis.
    - User never waits for recalc to be performed.
    - Circular references supported.
    - Minimal recalc--only cells needing recalulating get recalculated, not the entire project.
    - Circular references supported.
    - Solve problem capability: Reverse-solve of formula to get specific input from required output.
    - Analyze recalc errors: shows report of all errors in project and what caused each one.

    Toolbox:
    - True multi-variate regression analysis, sorting, search and replace, and document recovery.

    Formulas:
    - Math operators: +, -, *, /, ^ and % (modulo).
    - Compression operators: =, <, >, <=, >=, <>.
    - Logical operators: AND, OR, NOT.BR> - String concatenation.
    - 178 math functions.
    - Supports infinity values.

    Printing:
    - High quality outline font output to any printer, with direct Postscript and preferences printer.
    - Print spooler: All printing is done in background.
    - Scaling, Autofit, Portait and landscape printing options including page preview.
    - Black and white, grayscale, and color output.
    - Output estimates: The number of pages to be output is shown live while print job parameters are edited.

    Import and Export:
    - Reads and writes Lotus 123.WK1 files.
    - Sophisticated text processing with user definable field and record seperators, field order, and selectable fields.

    Graphs:
    - 2D and 3D graphs with individual user control over each graphic object.
    - 3D graphs: True 3d rendering, live control of 3d axis as well as individual axis, size, and position.
    - Supports line, bar, stacked bar, area, stacked area, pie, B-spline, X-Y, X-Y-Z charts

    Animation:
    - Any graph can be animated through time.
    - Very powerful animation control allowing modification of sheet data or graph settings between each frame.
    - Animations support 2D and 3D graphs and can be played on screen or saved for ANIM file generation.

    Scripts and Macros:
    - Over 650 comands support local or AREXX scripts.
    - User-definable macros complete with script recorder.