dlcogswe@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Dan Cogswell) (10/02/90)
Can someone recommend a decent budget keeping/home finance program for the Amiga? It doesn't have to be complex, just something that will help me keep track of my money... Thanks... -- Dan Cogswell "In a world full of Ninja Turtles, it's INET: dlcogswe@vela.acs.oakland.edu nice to see Aikido Yoshinkai has BITNET: dlcogswell@oakland preserved it's dignity." HAIRNET: <fill-in dumb joke> -- Gozo Shioda, 1990
jhc00614@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (10/02/90)
I've heard Phasar 4.0 by Antic Software is all right, but I saw an
advertisement for a new home management/budget program in the last issue
of Amazing computing or Info.
Latera45@mindlink.UUCP (Ken Cooper) (10/08/90)
Altho I haven't seen PHASER, HOME FRONT or MONEY MENTOR, I've had some experience working with BEST. After a year with this program, I decided to write my own accounting program! Accounting which is vital to every business, should be somewhat enjoyable. BEST and I had several disagreements, and I won :) Removed it from my hdrive. My program is called "Money.rexx" and is written with Arexx. It's about 94k is size so far and is about 90% completed (just the printing out of the various forms yet to be done). Since I'm running a little late in filing my return, I'm slowly getting motivated to finishing it :) I have no experience in programing other than jumping into learning Arexx, but it has been fun, tho somewhat time-comsuming (500 + hours). A few months ago in one of the local general computer rags, they had an article about the top 10 accounting programs - mostly ms-dos programs. All had several good points and of course, several bad ones. It's neat knowing that one can customize a program to meet ones needs at a moments notice. I'm trying to keep those 'bad points' to a minimun :) Since Arexx is now part of the new Amiga OS, I'm glad I got involved when I did (2 years ago). "Money.rexx" was made to make good use of the mouse. Some typing is required for when a purchase description is made (which makes sense). I guess the just of this article has to do with a user being un-satisfied with products currently available. At some point, ones frustration level is met and something has to be done. If this is the only major software project I get involved in, that's fine. It does take a fair amount of key-tapping, and I do have a photography - computer graphics business to run.
giao@informix.com (Giao Tien Vu) (10/08/90)
I have PHASAR 4.0. It works great except 3 problems: 1. It usually crashes when I try to update the Expenses list. Easy workaround though. One of these days, I should contact the company to complain about this. 2. It's Amiga-ized but still has some flavors of MSDOS world where it comes from. 3. Its graphic are very crude. I like it pretty well. Giao PS: I also heard of Home Front and Money Mentor.