[cmrdporcupine]

I dunno, MS ported the Mac version of Word to the Atari ST but by the time it got there (late, and buggy, and overpriced) indigenous ST developers had made their own superior products.

Interlace video for hi-rez modes on the Amiga also made it non-ideal for office type applications. Maybe if Commodore had bothered to include a scan doubler by default?

[samastur]

It's competition was PC of that time which was worse in every regard including price. However, it did not have an image of being a game machine which helped a lot.

I am old enough to remember having these kind of discussion with people buying more expensive PCs because they were for serious work.

[pjmlp]

Amiga had quite a few cool office type applications like Pagestream.

The video wasn't an issue when using Commodore monitors.

[bitwize]

Yes it was. I used an Amiga with a Commodore monitor and while it was a lot better than any TV or other composite monitor, the interlacing was still noticeable and people's eyes would go wonky staring at that for eight hours a day.

[Flow]

I bought an A2024 monitor and ran all apps at 1024x800 60Hz. It was a glorious time.

[errozero]

Any monitor from back then would look awful now. I do remember noticing the interlacing on the Amiga though.

[cmrdporcupine]

It was awful when compared to the paperwhite monochrome displays of a Mac or the Atari ST. It's frankly one of the things that set the Amiga back in the productivity regard.

[puzzle]

There was a WordPerfect port, but at least the initial versions were slow and did not feel like they took advantage of the OS. In other words, it was a bit of a rush job.

[fractallyte]

It was far from perfect, but Amiga WP 4.1 was way better than WP 5.1 for DOS! (I was a heavy user of both at the time.)

[samastur]

Man, this brings back memories. I spent many sleepless nights using it to format friends' school work.

[Jaruzel]

> Maybe if Commodore had bothered to include a scan doubler by default?

They did in the Amiga 3000; It has a VGA 15pin d-sub connector on the back. Only works with modern LCDs if the Amiga is in NTSC mode though.