[Coco] The terrible Scripsit

[Rogelio Perea]

Calling Scripsit or Scripsit II for the Color Computer a "terrible" word
processing software package is a bit harsh, "limited" would be a better
description.

Tandy did eventually come out with a Disk Scripsit package to address the
concerns of storage on disk instead of cassette, same basic functionality
at the word processing level.

In all fairness to these offerings, the pak versions allowed for people
with limited budget to do some basic word processing, which was
definitively better than using a typewriter. Just a 16k RAM CoCo, a
cassette tape recorder and a cheap printer was all that was needed to join
the WP crowds.

IMHO :-)


-- RP


On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Luis Fernández <luis46coco at hotmail.com>wrote:

> 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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