Re: Locoscript transfer / getting hold of lococonv.exe ?

From	"Brian Watson" <Brian@imagebus.co.uk>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.amstrad.8bit
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Subject	Re: Locoscript transfer / getting hold of lococonv.exe ?
Date	2013-01-02 06:38 +0000
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<watwow@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:d8d77561-1add-41e2-ad7c-753b2872df37@googlegroups.com...
>I am trying to transfer some files from Locoscript 2 to PC format. I think 
>I need to get hold of lococonv.exe, but the site that used to host it 
>locoonv.kerys.co.uk seems to be permanentely down.
>
> Does anyone have a copy or know where else I could get hold of it?

SD Micros bought the rights to Locoscript for the PCW and maintain a website 
at http://www.locoscript.ukf.net/

They still offer file transfers and 
http://www.locoscript.ukf.net/wizard/index.htm may also be useful to you.

Also this from the Ask Jack page at The Guardian newspaper;

"LocoScript was the word processor used in the Amstrad PCW, and the company 
still has a website at locoscript.com. This gives a PO box address and a 
phone number, or email sales@locoscript.com. LocoScript offers disk and file 
conversion services, with prices starting at Ł11.75 per disk. John King, 
last mentioned in this column in 2002, offers a cheaper service, which costs 
Ł3.50 for the first disk. Anyone who still has valuable data on PCW disks 
should really get it converted sooner rather than later. PCW addicts unable 
to let go can get Joyce, a free emulator for Unix, Windows and Mac OS X. The 
PCW was codenamed Joyce, after Alan Sugar's secretary."

I used to do free transfers for people who wanted their Protext docs 
transferred to a PC format.

Then, as my time got short, I started quoting a modest amount per disc to do 
it.

That killed off enquiries because the overwhelming majority of people who 
have hung on to a CPC or PCW until 2010 (the year I stopped offering) are 
too mean to pay for such a service.

Cruel but fair.

:-)
-- 
Brian
"Fight like the Devil, die like a gentleman."

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