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Re: WordStar for Amstrad CPC and PCW

From	Juancho <eternal@notreally.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.amstrad.8bit
Subject	Re: WordStar for Amstrad CPC and PCW
Date	2021-02-09 22:23 +0100
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<u2bbfh-9gl.ln1@intheattic.eternal-september.org> (permalink)
References	<51ebeh-6vk.ln1@intheattic.eternal-september.org> <emb+ovBg8rIgFA7J@perry.uk>

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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?

-- 
EOT

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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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