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Re: WordStar for Amstrad CPC and PCW

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From Roland Perry <roland@perry.co.uk>
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Subject Re: WordStar for Amstrad CPC and PCW
Date Sat, 13 Feb 2021 06:25:19 +0000
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In message <u2bbfh-9gl.ln1@intheattic.eternal-september.org>, at 
22:23:10 on Tue, 9 Feb 2021, Juancho <eternal@notreally.com> remarked:
>On 2021-02-09, Roland Perry <roland@perry.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
>This is certainly interesting, thanks for sharing. I looks like the
>LocoScript word processor, which was bundled with the Amstrad PCW, was a
>quite capable piece of software. Was that LocoScript ported to the
>CPC6128 line of computers?

No, it was heavily dependent on the special hardware features of the 
PCW. A version of Locoscript was later produced for the PC, though.
-- 
Roland Perry

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  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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