Wow it's still around
12/04/07 20:27 Filed in: Software
I've come across an old friend (in software) which I
thought was long gone.
My first real computer was an Atari ST.
Even then I was playing around with writing. And I did actually do a fair bit of work on this platform (later I upgraded to the Atari Falcon) Sadly most of this this work is now lost due to the fact it was a) on floppies, which I've lost and b) in propriety formats which are never likley to be supported again!
Anyway, I used lots of different word processors on the Atari platform (1stword, protext, le redactor thats write, write on and atari works). The final word processor which I tried just before I switched to the PC was, well more of a document processor really. It was called Papyrus and for it's day it was really pretty amazing, very much like Pages, but with out the templates.
I never really got to use the program to it's fullest extent, because shortly after trying it I switched platforms. But it bit look great.
So a few days ago I was amazed to find that Papyrus still exists and is under active development today!
I can imagine that it will be just as good today after 12 years of development, but I'm not going to even go anywhere near the download demo page, because I know me, if I try the demo, chances are I'll buy the software. And it dosen't matter how great it is I don't need another word/document processor. Sorry Logicware, if only I'd found you 2 years ago!
Even then I was playing around with writing. And I did actually do a fair bit of work on this platform (later I upgraded to the Atari Falcon) Sadly most of this this work is now lost due to the fact it was a) on floppies, which I've lost and b) in propriety formats which are never likley to be supported again!
Anyway, I used lots of different word processors on the Atari platform (1stword, protext, le redactor thats write, write on and atari works). The final word processor which I tried just before I switched to the PC was, well more of a document processor really. It was called Papyrus and for it's day it was really pretty amazing, very much like Pages, but with out the templates.
I never really got to use the program to it's fullest extent, because shortly after trying it I switched platforms. But it bit look great.
So a few days ago I was amazed to find that Papyrus still exists and is under active development today!
I can imagine that it will be just as good today after 12 years of development, but I'm not going to even go anywhere near the download demo page, because I know me, if I try the demo, chances are I'll buy the software. And it dosen't matter how great it is I don't need another word/document processor. Sorry Logicware, if only I'd found you 2 years ago!
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