[Coco] The terrible Scripsit

Luis Fernández luis46coco at hotmail.com
Mon Feb 11 10:08:57 EST 2013


The other day I read the whole manual Scripsit Cartridge, and I was surprised that I had problems.
I had not ever used, but is supposed to be a quality package Tandy
Initially, there is no way to record to disk, I know it's a cartridge, but I think by that time there was the MULTIPAK.
Once you start to write I noticed that it was very slow, luckily has keyboard buffer and key repeat, great success.
Of course I noticed that either works in graphic form is much less true lowercase, and although the width can be up to 32 characters, does not exceed 80 characters, shoddy and by that time it had already compressed printers with characters who obtained 132 characters in a line.
Nor does it justify text, I know, it is not easy to move space fractions of a letter, at the time, but might well have introduced spaces between words, starting from the end of the line, and then adjust the text.
Then I noticed that leverages either 64K, but if it works on computers with 16k and 4k. could have moved the basic if the routines needed, or have used 32k more.
You could also edit files much larger, unlimited memory, using the floppy
It seems a Tandy package. These are characterized by great attention to detail
It could be in a hurry, but the package scripsit II also suffers from some of the same problems, improved speed, but still not saved to disk, and does not accept 4K, do not use the disk as temporary storage, of course improved and everything else and can work professionally, but for me has too many positioning commands.
I am making an attempt in basic word processing, it's just curiosity, to see if it is possible, and without intention of that is great, I think with 20-50 lines of code to do something like Scripsit, then tell them
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