Editing Atari ST (section)

===Applications===
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Professional [[desktop publishing]] software includes [[Timeworks Publisher]], [[PageStream]] and [[Calamus (DTP)|Calamus]]. Word processors include [[WordPerfect]], [[Microsoft Write#Atari ST|Microsoft Write]], AtariWorks, Signum, Script and First Word (bundled with the machine). Spreadsheets include [[3D-Calc]], and databases include [[Zoomracks]]. Graphics applications include [[NEOchrome]], [[DEGAS (software)|DEGAS & DEGAS Elite]], [[Deluxe Paint]], STAD, and Cyber Paint (which author [[Jim Kent]] would later evolve into [[Autodesk Animator]])<ref name="asterius">{{cite web |url=http://www.asterius.com/atari/cyberpaint.html |title=Cyber Paint |work=The Antic Cyber Graphics Software and the Pre-History of Autodesk 3D Studio and Discreet 3ds max |access-date=2013-04-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130501104131/http://www.asterius.com/atari/cyberpaint.html |archive-date=2013-05-01 |url-status=dead}}</ref> with advanced features such as 3D design and animation. The Spectrum 512 paint program uses rapid palette switching to expand the on-screen color palette to 512<ref name="asterius" /> (up to 46 colors per scan line).

[[3D computer graphics]] applications (like [[Cyber Studio|Cyber Studio CAD-3D]], which author [[Tom Hudson (programmer)|Tom Hudson]] later developed into [[Autodesk]] [[3ds Max|3D Studio]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://rand.com/imaginit/1/rss/viewitem.asp?feedid=BLOGS_VISUAL_ALL&guid=170 |title=Dinner with Tom Hudson |access-date=2013-04-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071112002953/http://rand.com/imaginit/1/rss/viewitem.asp?feedid=BLOGS_VISUAL_ALL&guid=170 |archive-date=2007-11-12 |url-status=dead |website=rand.com |date=17 January 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://analog.klanky.com/people.htm |title=The People of ANALOG |website=Analog.klanky.com |access-date=2013-04-22}}</ref>), brought 3D modelling, sculpting, scripting, and [[computer animation]] to the desktop. Video capture and editing applications use dongles connected to the cartridge port for low frame rate, mainly silent and monochrome, but progressed to sound and basic color in still frames. At the end, Spectrum 512 and CAD-3D teamed up to produce realistic 512-color textured 3D renderings, but processing was slow, and Atari's failure to deliver a machine with a math coprocessor had Hudson and Yost looking towards the PC as the future before a finished product could be delivered to the consumer.<ref name="asterius" />

[[Garry Kasparov]] became the first [[chess]] player to register a copy of [[ChessBase]], a popular commercial database program for storing and searching records of chess games. The first version was built for Atari ST with his collaboration in January 1987.<ref>{{cite web |title=ChessBase is 25 |at=Kasparov and ChessBase |url=https://en.chessbase.com/post/chebase-is-25-everything-25-off-in-our-shop |date=2011-05-19 |access-date=2023-10-20}}</ref> In his autobiography ''Child of Change'', he regards this facility as "the most important development in chess research since printing".

Graphical touchscreen point of sale software for restaurants was originally developed for Atari ST by Gene Mosher under the ViewTouch<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Bisson |first=Giselle |url=http://www.atarimagazines.com/startv2n6/gettingdowntobusiness.html |title=Getting Down To Business |magazine=START |volume=2 |issue=6, Special issue #3 |access-date=2013-04-22}}</ref> copyright and trademark. Instead of using GEM, he developed a GUI and widget framework for the application using the [[NEOchrome]] paint program.