ignition is a powerful spread-sheet application for AmigaOS 3.0 and higher. It should also run fine on MorphOS. Recent versions are only built and tested on AmigaOS 4, though. It's open source and licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 3.

ignition 1.10 released

Submitted by axeld on Friday, March, 26th 2021

Achim was hard at work again, and created a new release of ignition. Actually, he created it at the beginning of this year already. Here is a list of the changes:

• Can now print PDFs with a special print-unit (see FAQ in the guide).
• Added a lot of keyboard shortcuts to the English and German catalog, and some dialogs.
• New function mode().
• Some bug fixes like removing a grim reaper in the splash screen, saving cell attributes, print routine, ...
• And even some more minor changes!

Thanks a lot Achim!

ignition 1.08 released

Submitted by axeld on Sunday, July, 5th 2020

Achim Pankalla again put quite a bit of effort into ignition, and did a number of improvements based on user feedback, and on his own endless motivation. He already made all these changes two months ago, but I finally found the time to report them here:

• Reworked gtdrag.library.
• ignition can be started multiple times now.
• Error corrections in many settings dialogs.
• Reworked font and font attribute handling.
• Fixed bug in cell handling.
• Visual feedback for the toolbar buttons.
• Consistent keyboard control, and shortcuts.

Thanks again Achim!

ignition 1.0 is finally out!

Submitted by axeld on Sunday, March, 1st 2020

Achim Pankalla feels confident enough to finally call this 1.0 release done! The following changes have been made among others:

• New look & feel.
• Refinement and extensions of the ARexx interface.
• Extra version with first adaptions for Reaction by Javier.
• Additions to the DB commands.
• Improvements to the dialogs for translators.
• Reworked context help manuals.
• Fixed many bugs in settings menu, functions, gtdrag library, and more.

Thanks a lot Achim!

ignition 1.0 beta 6 is out!

Submitted by axeld on Thursday, January, 24 2019

Achim Pankalla has worked countless hours to bring you the sixth beta of ignition! The following changes have been made:

• New! Scrolling with the mouse-wheel is supported both vertically, and horizontally.
• Reworked and fixed dialogs.
• Fixed and expanded database functions.
• Internal arexx-scripts can now be saved and reloaded.
• Reworked and fixed csv.io modul.
• Fixed gtdrag.library.
• Reworked manuals in German and English.
• Over twenty other errors are fixed.

Thanks Achim!

ignition 1.0 beta 5 released!

Submitted by axeld on Friday, May, 11 2018

As always, thanks to Achim Pankalla, the fifth beta of ignition has been completed! It contains the following changes:

• Improved and reworked document printing, including support for printer-margins.
• Some errors in the handling of diagrams are corrected.
• A number of minor errors in some math-functions are corrected.
• The enhanced icon-set from icon-designer is implemented in the installation.
• A number of other crucial bug fixes.

ignition 1.0 beta 4 released!

Submitted by axeld on Saturday, July, 23 2016

Thanks again to Achim Pankalla, the fourth beta of ignition has arrived! The release incorporates the following changes:

• An improved and reworked version of the German manual thanks to Helmut Haake.
• The import of TurboCalc files should now work much more seamless, and now supports multiple pages, among others.
• CSV import now supports all ASCII characters.
• A Dutch language catalog thanks to Johan Banis.
• A number of crucial bug fixes.

ignition 1.0 beta 3 released!

Submitted by axeld on Friday, November, 13 2015

Thanks to Achim Pankalla who has been quite busy porting ignition to AmigaOS 4 in the past months, we can now present you the third beta version of ignition. Many issues have been fixed, so that it should now run quite smoothly on the latest AmigaOS release. However, printing is still in jeopardy, but Achim intends to work on that next.

It's only available for AmigaOS 4 anymore, but the sources in the repository should still build on AmigaOS 3.9.

Website relaunch

Submitted by axeld on Friday, November, 13 2015

As you may have noticed, BerliOS closed its doors a while ago, so I moved ignition to SourceForge (unfortunately, the name "ignition" was already taken, so that it's now called "ignition-amiga" there). That was quite a few months ago already, but now I finally took the time to relaunch a nicer and updated version of the website, too.

gtdrag, pScroller, and pTextEdit added to the repository

Submitted by axeld on Saturday, October, 22 2008

To be able to complete porting ignition to AROS, GCC and whatever else, the sources to the gtdrag library, the pScroller.gadget, and the pTextEdit.gadget are mandatory. While I intended to open source them as well, I completely missed their necessity for seriously hacking on ignition.

They are now part of the repository under libs/, and are all licensed under the MIT license as defined by OSI.

ignition open sourced

Submitted by axeld on Saturday, October, 4 2008

Over the past 12 years, ignition has been developed by me (Axel Dörfler/ pinc Software), and Alexander Bartz, who accompanied me in the first few years, but has left the Amiga a long time ago. Due to limited time, I came to the conclusion that trying to create an open source project around ignition is the best option to ensure its future existence and maintenance. Now, I finally found the time to do so.

I hope that, over time, a few people will find interest in further developing ignition. I plan to stay around, and make sure to answer any questions that pop up, and eventually submit a patch myself.