Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Roland Perry Newsgroups: comp.sys.amstrad.8bit Subject: Re: WordStar for Amstrad CPC and PCW Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2021 06:25:19 +0000 Organization: Roland Perry Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: <51ebeh-6vk.ln1@intheattic.eternal-september.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1;format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net /kcu1jo7viDfsMaFuMnPDgdzDhsNqqJjF7kLt35opO7ft+vt3b X-Orig-Path: perry.co.uk!roland Cancel-Lock: sha1:GkxPWYZCsQhk26cu1aynhFQTaqE= User-Agent: Turnpike/6.07-M (<5Ru5fF71$jxzR1U9dxU62mV70X>) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.amstrad.8bit:367 In message , at 22:23:10 on Tue, 9 Feb 2021, Juancho remarked: >On 2021-02-09, Roland Perry 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