by WillAdams
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- I wish WriteNow was similarly available/supported --- it was probably one of the last major applications written in assembly language (~100,000 lines).
XyWrite is supported in a similar fashion: https://mendelson.org/xywin.html (but I just helped folks use that, never actually found it comfortable myself).
I kind of wish all these small/tight/efficient programs could be gathered up and ported to an optimized OS for the Raspberry Pi....
- The list of features is impressive even today!
https://tempus-word.de/en/info/index
- The ST had some awesome productivity programs. Tempus Word, Papyrus, Calamus...
All running on a 8 Mhz computer with 1 or 2 MB, but with feature sets that do not need to hide from today's software.
- I used ST Writer which came bundled with my ST. I still have all my ST Writer files (last modified in 1993!), and quite impressively they open just fine in LibreOffice with formatting and everything preserved (unlike some later .doc files I have).
by prmoustache
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- Their non cookie popup is the perfect example how user cookies should be managed.
https://tempus-word.de/en/impress/policy#the-website
by Brajeshwar
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- Ah. You will also like another story that popped up here some time back.
A Canadian science-fiction writer, Robert J. Sawyer, made an Archive available complete with extensive resources on how to use it. In addition, fully text-searchable PDFs of the original manuals, totaling over 1,000 pages, were also available. He is a dedicated WordStar user.
https://sfwriter.com/ws7.htm
- I used to use First Word on the ST back in the day.
- I still have the printed documentation and floppy for Tempus, the editor which I think is the predecessor to the linked word processor. It was blazing fast because it had been written in 68000 assembly IIRC. Even then it would handle giant documents with ease.
by outofmyshed
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- ST Writer was freeware and did the job, but Tempus was gold standard, even better than 1st Word Plus.
- There is another one still alive today: https://papyrus.de/en/
I don't use it. But i tried an old version and it was fast as f...
It is written now in C++
by lloydatkinson
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- Wasn’t there a post a few weeks ago by the author of it?
by RobotToaster
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- I wonder why they don't just make it open source at this point?
- I used Application System Heidelberg's Script II on an Atari 1040STFM with 72 Hz SM 124 black/white monitor and an Epson LQ 550 24 pin printer. That was some superb publishing system for the time (1991), for a low budget.
1 MB RAM, 1.44 MB floppy drive
SM 124: 640x400 pixels, monochrome
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_ST
https://www.atarimuseum.de/1040st.htm
The software used a special driver to get better than standard quality from the then most common 24 pin printers (laser printers where much expensive) by kind of double-printing, I forgot the details. It looked really good though.
https://www.planetemu.net/screenshots/Atari%20ST%20-%20Appli...
https://stcarchiv.de/tos/1990/11/script-2 (German)
"Script" was the cheap version of their better product "Signum".
https://www.application-systems.de/signum/screenshots.html
https://www.atariuptodate.de/img/signum.png
by NetMageSCW
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- English not their first language?
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