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Re: WordStar for Amstrad CPC and PCW

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In message <51ebeh-6vk.ln1@intheattic.eternal-september.org>, at 
19:57:09 on Thu, 28 Jan 2021, Juancho <eternal@notreally.com> remarked:
>Hello all.
>
>So, I've been wondering... How good/bad was Wordstar for the Amstrad
>CPC? And I mean with that: was it usable?, barely palatable?, packed
>with features?, best of class word processor for that computer
>platform?, a joy to use?, hellish to use?, seldom used because other
>better options existed?
>
>I would love to read some recollections about how was the user experience
>running Wordstar on the Amstrad CPC platform.
>
>Also, I know the Amstrad PCW was a popular writing tool in the 80's.
>Was Wordstar used in that? Or was some other word processor the tool of
>choice for the Amstrad PCW platform?
>
>I really would like to know more about that.
>
>I'm wondering about running Wordstar on a Amstrad CPC emulator
>(caprice32). Is that doable? Is there a better emulator for the Amstrad
>CPC to run Wordstar on?

A random collection of thoughts:

I don't recollect any version of Wordstar for the CPC native mode.

There's no reason why a CP/M version of Wordstar would fail to run on a 
CPC1628 under CP/M. (Or indeed on the PCW under CP/M)

In a parallel universe the PCW could easily have been a CPC6128-alike 
running Wordstar (or God Forbid, Tasword) rather than the LocoScript 
which was commissioned for it.

But the PCW's hardware is quite different to the CPC, and was 
specifically designed to be very Locoscript-friendly.

LocoScript is a clone of a professional word processor written by the 
same bunch of guys for a £10k+ minicomputer hardware platform called the 
Data Recall Diamond.

Some more snidbits here:

<https://www.theregister.com/2015/09/09/joyce_turns_30/>

What it doesn't say is that MEJ was the son of the owner of Data Recall, 
and had designed much of the hardware of their products, including as 
far as I'm aware the first 8080 implementation to be marketed in the UK. 
I had also in a former life tried and failed to sell Data Recall the 
brand of floppy drive I was the UK distributor for. Clayton and Hall 
were also programmers previously employed by Data Recall.
-- 
Roland Perry

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WordStar for Amstrad CPC and PCW Juancho <eternal@notreally.com> - 2021-01-28 19:57 +0100
  Re: WordStar for Amstrad CPC and PCW ColinR <rail@greystane.shetland.co.uk> - 2021-01-30 19:36 +0000
    Re: WordStar for Amstrad CPC and PCW Rayner Lucas <usenet202101@magic-cookie.co.ukNOSPAMPLEASE> - 2021-01-31 01:24 +0000
      Re: WordStar for Amstrad CPC and PCW Juancho <eternal@notreally.com> - 2021-02-01 02:02 +0100
        Re: WordStar for Amstrad CPC and PCW David Cantrell <david@cantrell.org.uk> - 2021-02-01 16:07 +0000
          Re: WordStar for Amstrad CPC and PCW Juancho <eternal@notreally.com> - 2021-02-01 23:04 +0100
        Re: WordStar for Amstrad CPC and PCW Rayner Lucas <usenet202101@magic-cookie.co.ukNOSPAMPLEASE> - 2021-02-01 17:17 +0000
          Re: WordStar for Amstrad CPC and PCW Juancho <eternal@notreally.com> - 2021-02-02 01:20 +0100
    Re: WordStar for Amstrad CPC and PCW Juancho <eternal@notreally.com> - 2021-02-01 01:36 +0100
  Re: WordStar for Amstrad CPC and PCW Matthew Phillips <spam2011m@yahoo.co.uk> - 2021-01-31 14:55 +0000
  Re: WordStar for Amstrad CPC and PCW Roland Perry <roland@perry.co.uk> - 2021-02-09 16:58 +0000
    Re: WordStar for Amstrad CPC and PCW Juancho <eternal@notreally.com> - 2021-02-09 22:23 +0100
      Re: WordStar for Amstrad CPC and PCW Roland Perry <roland@perry.co.uk> - 2021-02-13 06:25 +0000
    Re: WordStar for Amstrad CPC and PCW ColinR <rail@greystane.shetland.co.uk> - 2021-02-15 22:17 +0000
      Re: WordStar for Amstrad CPC and PCW Roland Perry <roland@perry.co.uk> - 2021-02-16 07:01 +0000

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