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- From: dmeyer@tiac.net (David Meyer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: Word Processor??
- Date: 15 Jan 1996 03:12:19 GMT
- Organization: The Internet Access Company
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- Patrick Bartek (Patrick.Bartek@icon.genesplicer.org) wrote:
- : Haven't any of you heard of Scribble! Platinum or Works! Platinum? Both were
- : designed to run on a 1 MEG Amiga under WB1.3. It will also run under 2.1 and
- : 3.1 under any processor, even an '040, with *no* problems. It was the best
- : text-based word processor of its time. I still use it, even though it's 5
- : years old. I have only just heard of ProText, which is much better, but has no
- : US distributor or support. When it does, I'll buy it to replace Scribble!
- :
- The packages you mention are still available new? With some sort
- of support? My impression was that they died. A while ago. The one that I
- have actually seen was one of those archaic things with hidden commands
- in monospaced text. Much like the WordStar that came with the Osborne
- back in 1981. Very fast. !!VERY!! fast. But major cludgy in the user
- interface department and only minimally functional in the page formatting
- department. More like a highly advanced Text Editor than any sort of
- modern Word Processor.
-