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Re: Captain Crunch's EasyWriter now available on Asimov!

Antoine Vignau wrote:

On 8 sep, 20:24, "N.N. Thayer" <nntha...@hotmail.com> wrote:


We now have disk images of the very first word processor for the Apple
II, written by John "Captain Crunch" Draper himself: EasyWriter!

It is available on Asimov in the /images/productivity/word_processing
folder:

EasyWriter (Cap'n Software - John Draper - 1979) - Program.dsk
EasyWriter (Cap'n Software - John Draper - 1979) - Formatted Disk.dsk

Thanks to Dirk Backenköhl​er for supplying the disks, and to Antoine
Vignau for deprotecting and imaging them!

You can read the good Captain's account of EasyWriter's development
here:

http://www.webcrunchers.com/stories/easywriter.html

Of more interest to programmers might be his implementation of Forth,
which Antoine is currently working on deprotecting.  :)



The formatted disk is not really useful. I made it from EasyWriter to
validate the crack.

As far as Forth is concerned, I can just say: Grrrrrr! A nightmare!


I hope your nightmare has a happy ending--that Forth would be a
real trophy!

In fact, shouldn't that enable the entire EasyWriter to be displayed
as Forth code?  (Of course, some will argue that Forth code is "write
only", so it won't matter!  ;-)

-michael

NadaNet 3.1 for Apple II parallel computing!
Home page:  http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon/

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