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- From: bruce@zuhause.MN.ORG (Bruce Albrecht)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: Opinions/Experience with Superplan...
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- Message-ID: <bruce.0aht@zuhause.MN.ORG>
- References: <1992Aug17.151653.17958@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
- Date: 30 Aug 92 14:19:40 CST
- Organization: Society to Stamp Out Bogus Organizations
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- In article <1992Aug17.151653.17958@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> sullivan@bulean.enet.dec.com writes:
- >Does anyone have experience they can relate about Superplan?
- >
- >Is it a good spreadsheet? How does it compare to others?
-
- It's the only spreadsheet I've used on the Amiga, so I can't compare it with
- others for the Amiga, but it's user-interface and graphing capabilities are
- not very good. The spreadsheet that comes with Microsoft Works for Windows 3.1
- has a lot better graphic capabilities, for example. I found it fairly more
- difficult to enter data in it than with Microsoft's Excel for the Mac, too.
- >
- >How well does in integrate with SuperBase Pro 4? How strong are its
- >graphing abilities? Printing?
-
- Its graphs are only IFF, and a lot more limited that other products I've user
- on the Mac and PC. I haven't tried any of the file interchange with Superbase 4,
- but the two are supposed to be able to have some sort of file interchange. Both
- have ARexx ports, so you could also do some sort of query via ARexx, I suppose.
- >
- >Does it work well on OS version 2.04 and later? What are the
- >problems, if any?
-
- It runs on OS 2.04, as long as you don't try to have it display as a window on
- the Workbench in high-res interlace mode. It doesn't allocate enough memory for
- the window, and GURUs. I discovered this 5 minutes after I installed it. It
- will display ok on its own screen though. As far as I can tell, Precision hadn't
- done any development on it since 1989, and unless Oxxi has plans for updating it
- now that they've bought it from Software Publishing Corp (who bought out Precision
- some time in the last year), its probably a dead product.
-
- >
- >What would you suggest as an alternative, if any?
-
- If you can visit a dealer that has some of the alternatives, such as ProCalc,
- or MaxiPlan, you might like one of them. ProCalc is a bit pricey, with a list
- around $400, and retail almost $200, and the recent reviews of it have been
- mixed.
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- bruce@zuhause.mn.org
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