I am trying to complete list of programs that start their life on non-PC (Wintel) computers and that are still in use today (or at least: they were popular) for Windows/Mac OS X/Linux. Let me start:
3D:
- Cinema 4D - Amiga (1990.) link
- LightWave - Amiga (1988.) link
- Real3D - Commodore 64 (1983.), Amiga (1990.) link
- 3dmax / 3D Studio - Atari ST (1985.) link
- Autodesk Animator - Atari ST "Cyber Paint"
- Maya (Alias|Wavefront) - SGI (1992.)
- Softimage|3D - SGI (1988.)
- Stainberg Cubase (ex. Pro-24) - Atari ST (1989.)
- Apple Logic (ex. C-Lab Notator) - Atari ST (1988.) link
- Band in a box - Atari ST (19??.)
- Bars and Pipes - Amiga (19??.) link link
- Sibelius (Music Notation Software) - Archimedes link
- Scala (ex. Infochannel 1989.) - Amiga (1990.) link link
- Hollywood NLE - Amiga (19??.) link
- Adobe Premiere - Apple (1991.)
- Adobe After Effects - Apple (1993.) (Company of Science and Art > Aldus > Adobe)
- Aldus PageMaker - Mac (1985.)
- Quark Xpress - started on the Mac
- PageStream (ex. Publishing Partner) - Atari ST (1986.) link
- Calamus - Atari ST (1987.)
- Corel - PC/Windows (1989.) link
- Adobe Photoshop - Apple (1990.) (codename "Display" 1988., later "Photoshop" 1990.)
- Adobe Illustrator - Apple (1986.) (codename "Picasso")
- Aldus/Altsys Freehand - Apple (1988.) (Aldus > Macromedia > Adobe)
- ...entire Adobe PostScript revolution - Mac
- PhotoLine32 - Atari ST (19??.) link
- Artworks (Vector graphics package by Computer Concepts) - Archimedes link (Windows version called Xara Photo & Graphic Designer.)
- Ovation Pro (Desktop Publishing) - Archimedes link
- AutoCad - CP/M (1982.) link
- ArchiCad - Mac (1982.)
- Tenado CAD (ex. Technobox CAD/2) - Atari ST (19??.) link
- Superbase - C64 (1983.) link
- Microsoft Excel - Mac (1985.)
- Microsoft Word - PC/DOS (1983.) (start as Bravo at Xerox)
there is more examples, like DA's Picture which was ported from Atari ST to RISC OS link or I wonder what happend with DynaCADD and his author...?