[Coco] HDBDOS And Word Processors

[elderpav at yahoo.com]

> elderpav--- via Coco wrote:
>> HI all,
>> 
>> I don't post much, but I just have this burning question...
>> 
>> I've tried a number of non-OS9 word processors for the Coco, and I haven't found any so far that play nice with HDBDOS. Either they won't work at all, or they only support drive numbers 0-3. Do any of you know of a word processor that works best with HDBDOS and hard drives, be it virtual or physical?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Fred Provoncha
>> Stansbury Park, UT
> 
> Based on your question, you seem to be interested in a program for Disk Basic 
> rather than NitrOS-9. Telewriter-128 works very nicely with RGBDOS/HDBDOS and 
> will access any of the 255 "drives" on a .vhd image or hard drive.
> It has been patched to work with the Coco3 high res text screens.
> 
> http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/coco/Disks/Applications/Telewriter-128%20(Computer%20Hut%20Software)%20(Coco%203).zip
> 
> Robert

Thanks Robert,
 
I did try Telewriter 128, but it crashed; I assumed it was because of incompatibility with HDBDOS, but maybe there was another reason. I'll try again & report back.

Fred