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Re: Word processor for the amiga
Posted on 3-May-2013 13:53:13
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because you seemed to fear to violate laws when you buy old amiga-software (what I do not think) |
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Re: Word processor for the amiga
Posted on 3-May-2013 13:55:15
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perhaps someone nearby could do it for you |
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Re: Word processor for the amiga
Posted on 3-May-2013 14:01:48
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Re: Word processor for the amiga
Posted on 3-May-2013 14:07:01
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Amigawriter is on CD and can be installed. Many other programs are downloads and most games are ADFs. So only applications are a problem. You could buy a A600 (as I did) and create the ADF yourself. And there are many applications already available in web as freeware or partly opensource. |
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Re: Word processor for the amiga
Posted on 3-May-2013 17:48:22
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| Without a real amiga you cannot create ADFs (as far as I know). |
I can think of a couple of ways 
1. Catweasel attached to PC, can (I believe) create ADF.
2. In the days of MS-DOS, there was (IIRC) a clever hack that allowed a standard PC drive to read unprotected Amiga disks (without extra hardware like a Catweasel). It was kind of slow though!_________________
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Re: Word processor for the amiga
Posted on 3-May-2013 18:04:03
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If I used low-level dd access to the disk drive via linux, skipping filesystems and copying an exact clone of the diskette to a file, would there be results? |
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Re: Word processor for the amiga
Posted on 3-Jun-2013 22:43:04
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I don't think so, no. IIRC the (MS-DOS?) program in question used some clever tricks with the floppy drive hardware to get it to read Amiga disks (I vaguely recall something about the hardware reading extra data that was not normally passed to the OS, but somehow it was able to trick the drive into supplying that data). _________________
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Re: Word processor for the amiga
Posted on 5-Jun-2013 12:42:56
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linuxlalala wrote:
I know I am posting too many topics, but I have many questions right now, so here is another one:
Is there any free word processor I could get with ttf support and "modern" abilities (handle formatting, pdf export, etc,etc)? I know FinalWriter 97 and WordsWorth, but I think those are copyrighted and difficult to find.
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Linuxlalala
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Don't know if someone else already mentioned it:
http://software.alinea-computer.de/seiten/amigawriter_uk.php
(can at least import Word files)
To generate .pdf files I use FxScan 4.0 (FxScan 4.05 update).
I'd say we're urgently lacking a decent office package for the Amiga - be it classic or NG..._________________
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Re: Word processor for the amiga
Posted on 5-Jun-2013 13:13:27
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Re: Word processor for the amiga
Posted on 7-Jun-2013 11:04:09
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No need to do so - I already bought it the first day H&P had it on sale...
Although - looking at the price - I should have waited a decade before buying...
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