ScuzzBlog: Diaries January 2026
Entry 9th January 2026: Post 1: Amiga Office'ware - The origin of The Little Office.
Amiga Office'ware - The origin of The Little Office.
Time was you could pick up an Amiga magazine and source any number
of useful tools and applications to service your particular needs.
Take office based software for writing letters, producing documents
and keeping tabs on your outgoings. The PD pages of most magazines
would be littered with a multitude of differing applications. So
much so that some houses lumped the various applications together
and sold them under specific titles.
Take the very wonderful Little Office series which had a plethora
of different titles under its banner. I had been reflecting on the
origins of this title when I noted someone had recreated the PD disk
on EBAY. I was keen to see if it matched any in my collection and
so acquired the disk which I very quickly cross checked with mine.
Sadly the disk gave nothing new and matched perfectly the single
disk version of the Little Office application.
I have a another set of three disks by EPIC which have a different
number of office'ware titles. The creators of the software did so
with Public Domain in mind and released either free to use or as a
shareware title.
I am not sure still on who collated the disks or came up with the
name Little Office. There are any number of PD titles that qualify
to be part of the Little Office family. No doubt some found their
way into collections by PD houses.
The very splendid recreated disk that I acquired from EBAY, models
itself on the Public Domain Nationwide sets that were in small
jewel cases in clear plastic. You have to applaud the efforts of
the seller in giving us PD titles in such wonderful presentation
packages. Well done.
I have another disk with 600 letters to be used with Little Office.
If anyone has further disks in the Little Office series then do
drop me a line with a list of the titles.
All the disks run from Workbench and boot to the WB when inserted.
The EPIC disks have an Amiga helpline number just in case you have
problems. Sadly no longer in service. EPIC were the last of the PD
houses for me, providing disks in the early 2000s. Not something
that would ever be popular in today's fast download society, that is
sending a quid through the mail for a disk.
Anyhoo I was going to finish by discussing some of Digitas professional
looking software that came from its own house and not Little Office,
but I hadn't got the registration number to hand. Never mind I played
Missile Command instead which was way better fun.
Amiga Office'ware - The origin of The Little Office.
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