![]() It later shipped with a separate update disk that pushed it to 4.1.2, but it didn’t sell well at all. WordPerfect 4.1 for Amiga was released in 1987. It’s more like a myth than an actual product that ever existed, except we have magazines from the late 80s, like Amiga World, declaring WordPerfect’s brilliance as proof that it did indeed exist. WordPerfect for the Amiga was, or is, about as rare a creature to be found for the Amiga platform today on physical disks. WordPerfect always seemed to beckon, but was nowhere to be found. publisher, not a small shop or weekend warrior. But WordWorth 7 was developed for OS4, not 3.1 or earlier systems, and was on CD-ROM as well.ĭid a cross-platform Word Processor ever truly exist that could be used today, beyond what was discussed before under the required parameters? For what it’s worth, many of the afore mentioned classic word processors were fine for the Amiga back in the day when you never needed to leave the system.Įver since this quest began, in the back of my mind I knew if there was any chance of finding the right software package it was likely to come from a larger U.S. It was developed up to version 7 in 1998 four years after Commodore ceased to exist. WordWorth was by far the most capable technologically, but still horrible on the eyes and rather clunky in the UI department - plus it was intended for A1200 hardware and beyond. We looked at several packages that can still be found and used on original Amiga hardware, including: TextCraft, Excellence and WordWorth 4SE. The saved text file should be able to be created on the Amiga and easily transferred to a PC or Mac, with very little “fixing” needed between platforms. Paragraph breaks are an absolute must, of course. At a minimum this would include bold, italics, underlining, paragraph tabbing and other basic formatting. compugraphic) fonts were very hard on the eyes and made real writing a huge issue (for this author, at least). The Amiga’s bitmap screen font is a very easy to read font. We needed something that provided “three legs to support the stool”, which included George Martin on MS-DOS, and didn't feel like complete work to use. The only real missing piece, for this reviewer, was actual software that hit “all the right buttons”, much like WordStar did for Mr. (Generally, “classic” refers to machines running OS 1.x - 3.1.) You may recall in a previous post we raised the various merits of using a classic Amiga computer for Word processing for day-to-day writing. ![]()
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