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