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A word processor from 1990s for Atari ST/TOS is still supported by enthusiasts

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Re: A word processor from 1990s for Atari ST/TOS is still supported by enthusiasts

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Post by lproven »

Brajeshwar wrote: post #19

Ah. You will also like another story that popped up here some time back. A Canadian science-fiction writer, Robert J. Sawyer, made an Archive available complete with extensive resources on how to use it. In addition, fully text-searchable PDFs of the original manuals, totaling over 1,000 pages, were also available. He is a dedicated WordStar user. https://sfwriter.com/ws7.htm

And my USB-DOS project includes it, for a complete environment you can boot and run direct from USB, without installation, on any PC which supports legacy boot.

https://github.com/lproven/usb-dos

Re: A word processor from 1990s for Atari ST/TOS is still supported by enthusiasts

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Post by hdaz0017 »

TacticalCoder wrote: post #50
drcongo wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Those were the glory days of word processors, I used to have something similar on the Amiga. I'd still rather write on something like this than Word, Pages or Google Docs.

> I used to have something similar on the Amiga Same, don't remember the name though. But it was WYSIWIG and I'd use it to create character sheets for our D&D games. And then I'd print them on a dot-matrix printer on continuous paper. Oh the memories!

PageSetter 2/3 (can't remember which version got me my first job, from a cover disk), Page Stream 3, Professional Page :)
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