[Coco] Window Writer for OS-9

[Sean]

I had to page through an old Rainbow issue because I couldn't remember the
one I liked the most... It was Word Power 3.2.  Not OS-9, though.


On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 5:20 PM, Mark Marlette <mmarlette at frontiernet.net>
wrote:

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> Bob's VED was pretty good I thought.... others?????
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> Mark Marlette
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>  From: "nickma2 at optusnet.com.au" <nickma2 at optusnet.com.au>
> To: Bill Pierce <ooogalapasooo at aol.com>; CoCoList for Color Computer
> Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2014 5:16 PM
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Window Writer for OS-9
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> Ok. Thanks. Another one for the trash by the sounds of it.   :(
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> It's a pity. Applications for OS-9 seem to fall into the... Too slow,
> too primitive or too difficult to install and run. Sometimes all of
> these at once.
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> Shame. OS-9 is definately a powerfull OS. I do honestly believe this.
> It just falls over as far as quality applications and ease of use is
> concerned.
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> Nick
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill Pierce" <ooogalapasooo at aol.com> "CoCoList for Color
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> Sent:Wed, 12 Nov 2014 17:03:21 -0500
> Subject:Re: [Coco] Window Writer for OS-9
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> Nick have fun setting up Window Writer. Probably the most bloated
> program for OS9 ever written. Once you figure out what all has to be
> merged with runb, where all the files go, and possibly even get it to
> run, you're out of memory.
> I tried it once as the ads I saw looked good. I finally got it to run
> and the buffer was too small for anything serious due to the program
> taking up all the room. That's the way it goes with Basic09.... They
> should've used C or asm and virtual memory for buffers and it would've
> been half the size it is... and faster. I expected better from
> OwlWare.
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