[Coco] The terrible Scripsit

[Robert Hermanek]

Scripsit's quirkyness is a product of its times, in my opinion.  I 
remember the first time I logged onto a unix system and had to use vi -- 
that's still in use, and has all kinds of non-intuitive behaviors.  And 
after a while, you kinda miss it... :)

-RobertH

On 2/11/2013 11:34 AM, Louis Ciotti wrote:
> I think that one thing you have to keep in mind when looking at
> vintage SW is that looking back we will always be able to point out
> imperfections/flaws present.  I am sure what Scripsit came out it was
> a nice program for people in the market segment it was targeted for.
> In 1981 it was common to use the cassette tape for saving information,
> especially the market the CoCo was geared toward.  Back in 1981 the
> IBM PC was released with a price tag of just south of $1,600 which is
> equivalent to about $4000 today.  A TRS-80 with 16K of memory and
> Extended color basic and a cassette recorder was $650, Color Scripsit
> was $40.  So the CoCo user was looking at $700, or about $1700 today.
> Adding a drive to a CoCo then was another $600.
>
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 11:47 AM, Luis Fernández <luis46coco at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> I hope Robert G Kilgus, not on the list, lol
>>
>> He made other programs
>> Art Gallery (1981) (26-3061)
>>
>> Color Cubes (1981) (26-3075)
>>
>> Color Scripsit (1981) (26-3105)
>>
>> Color Profile
>>
>> Dino Wars (1981) (26-3057)
>>
>> Quasar Commander (1980) (26-3051)
>>
>> Skiing (1981) (26-3058)
>>
>> For me the best Skiing  gives the impression fine going down a mountain skies, with the bright idea of just a few sticks accomplish that, it was fabulous
>> was not as good dino wars
>> also I have my complaints color profile
>> and one of my favorite color cube, does not help you solve it, you need the version 2 of the
>>
>> But certainly, Robert had a large amount of software, and I give my biggest congratulations
>>
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