[HN Gopher] Word Writer 6 Commodore 64 Source Code
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       Word Writer 6 Commodore 64 Source Code
        
       Author : indigodaddy
       Score  : 70 points
       Date   : 2022-09-25 18:57 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
        
       | classichasclass wrote:
       | Wrote a lot of term papers in Word Writer (printed on a Star
       | NX-10C). This is a delightful thing to see.
        
         | tssva wrote:
         | Word Writer 2 and a Commodore MPS-801 printer got me through
         | high school.
        
           | simmons wrote:
           | Word Writer 4 and an Okidata Okimate 20 printer, here. Some
           | years ago I wrote a quick-and-dirty program to convert the
           | files to HTML [1]... only to be absolutely horrified at how
           | awful my writing was as a teenager. ;)
           | 
           | [1] https://cafbit.com/post/migrating_legacy_documents_from_w
           | ord...
        
       | localhost wrote:
       | I'd never heard of Word Writer before. I found the manual on
       | archive.org [1]. I love how the algorithm for how the spell
       | checker works is described by the manual! Also that's one fancy
       | manual for the 1980s - they even have icons that represent the
       | keystrokes in the manual.
       | 
       | [1]
       | https://archive.org/details/Word_Writer_6_Users_Manual_1991_...
        
         | pvg wrote:
         | An Apple manual from the end of the 70s:
         | 
         | https://archive.org/details/The_Applesoft_Tutorial_HQ_color/...
         | 
         | And they only got fancier from there. If anything, current
         | manuals and books are a lot less frilly than your typical early
         | personal computer manual.
        
         | layer8 wrote:
         | The manual is also in the GitHub repo:
         | https://github.com/jefflomax/word-writer-6-commodore-64/blob...
        
       | snvzz wrote:
       | Good job releasing this source code.
       | 
       | This will ensure it's preserved properly. It might even spawn new
       | work fixing bugs or adding features.
       | 
       | Much better than letting the media with the sources rot
       | somewhere, eventually lost.
        
       | reaperducer wrote:
       | I've never seen a word processor other than Compute!'s
       | Speedscript that implemented Commodore-Z, which transposed the
       | last two characters typed.
       | 
       | Very useful for people who often sometimes type words like "its"
       | as "ist."
        
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