[Coco] The terrible Scripsit

[Aaron Banerjee]

The reason I didn't particularly care for Color Scripsit wasn't  
because there was anything wrong with the program per se (considering  
the time in which it was written -- and besides, I didn't have a disk  
drive).  Even then, the Coco's 32 column screen made writing/composing  
awkward.  I also used Scripsit on a Model III, which wasn't so bad.   
When I eventually got a Coco 3, I switched to Word Power, which, for  
its day was pretty good.

Word processors most certainly aren't by any means perfect today.  I  
have plenty of frustrations with Microsoft Word...


On Feb 11, 2013, at 10:08 AM, Luis Fernández 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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