[Coco] Window Writer for OS-9

[Retro Canada]

there is also dynastar for os-9. it's basically a minor clone of wordstar...

On Nov 12, 2014, at 3:56 PM, "Steve Ostrom" <smostrom7 at comcast.net> wrote:



-----Original Message----- From: Nick Marentes
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2014 2:30 PM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [Coco] Window Writer for OS-9

> On 13/11/2014 5:56 AM, Arthur Flexser wrote:
> Another good one was TW80, another Telewriter-64 adaptation for the CoCo 3
> that came out somewhat before the "official" one, Telewriter-128.  I liked
> its software font, which was somewhat more legible than Telewriter-128's
> regular hardware font.  I switched to Telewriter-128 when it became
> available, though, due to its having some nice features that TW80 lacked,
> though I no longer remember what they were.  Telewriter-128 was the
> official successor to Telewriter-64 only in the sense of being authorized;
> it wasn't written by the same author.  (TW-64 was by Howard Cohen, TW-128
> by Bob van der Poel.)
> 
> Art

Oh? I don't know they were different. I actually have TW80.

Other than font, what else was different?

I remember using Telewriter 64 on my CoCo2 and didn't fancy the VDG
screen mode and font. The CoCo3 came out soon after and I jumped at VIP
Desktop and used that. I ignored Telewriter 128 because of my
impressions of T64.

Both VIP and TW80 are good wordpros.

I'm keen to see what was available under OS-9. Stylograph and Window Writer.

Nick


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I think Danosoft also made a decent (not OS9) word processor called "Simply Better".  I never really used any of them to make a good comparison.

--- Steve ---


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