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What Do You Do With Your Compact Mac?
One of the primary reasons for me is to run the old World Builder games. Those are still my favorites.
WriteNow ver. 2.2-4 was the best word processor.
And HyperCard!
WriteNow ver. 2.2-4 was the best word processor.
And HyperCard!
world builder? what games?One of the primary reasons for me is to run the old World Builder games. Those are still my favorites.
WriteNow ver. 2.2-4 was the best word processor.
And HyperCard!
WriteNow ver. 2.2-4 was the best word processor.
The much, much more powerful Nisus Writer 5 actually runs acceptably even on my Classic II (10MB), and is a pleasure to use with Verdana as the screen font (though use of a monospaced font will make it a bit faster). A cut-down version was available, Nisus Compact, that is supposed to work well on something like an SE, but I have never tried it.
Nisus Writer is awesome for text (setting aside graphics and tables); it has the power of a text editor and can do things with words that nothing else in the world of word processors could do then or can do now. At the same time, its editing windows were nicely sized for a Compact's screen. They were also drawn in B&W, so the windows look good on a Compact -- in some ways, in fact, it was the GUI that became the product's downfall as the years went on, because Nisus never really "outgrew" the limitations of the B&W Compact screen. That cannot be said of other products, which somehow don't look as "meant" in 1-bit.
And, for pure text composition, a Compact screen is still pretty much perfect. You want roughly 65 characters per line for optimal typography, which means ease of reading on screen or paper, and a Compact Mac gives you that with room to spare. Who needs a 30" monitor for composition, which is really a line by line exercise?
Very interesting. I'll have to look into this word processor. I'm impressed with anything that can do things that can't even be done with modern software.