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Locoscript was a great piece of software. I remember switching from that to an early version of Word and being incredulous that in Word the entire line of text
by zelos 5y ago
Locoscript was a great piece of software. I remember switching from that to an early version of Word and being incredulous that in Word the entire line of text you were typing would flicker as you typed because it couldn't redraw the screen fast enough.
- Doctor_Fegg 5y agoAnd LocoScript wasn't even the fastest word-processing software on the PCW. (Protext was.) The PCW was such a well-conceived product. People were still using them as their main computer well into the '00s. I wrote some mapping software for it which LocoScript Software distributed - it did a creditable job of both display and routing despite having nothing more powerful than a 4MHz Z80.
- lproven 5y agoFWIW, Protext for the PC (and Amiga, ST, & presumably 8-bit platforms too) is now legal freeware. https://web.archive.org/web/20140825104412/http://www.tigerteam.co.uk/protext/ https://web.archive.org/web/20140825104412/http://www.tigert...