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

["Marc S. Ressl" <mressl@gmail.com>]

On Sep 8, 5:06 pm, Antoine Vignau <antoine.vig...@laposte.net> wrote:
> On 8 sep, 21:52, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
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> > Antoine Vignau wrote:
> > > On 8 sep, 20:24, "N.N. Thayer" <nntha...@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> > >>We now have disk images of the very first word processor for the Apple
> > >>II, written by John "Captain Crunch" Draper himself: EasyWriter!
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> > >>It is available on Asimov in the /images/productivity/word_processing
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> > >>EasyWriter (Cap'n Software - John Draper - 1979) - Program.dsk
> > >>EasyWriter (Cap'n Software - John Draper - 1979) - Formatted Disk.dsk
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> > >>Thanks to Dirk Backenköhl​er for supplying the disks, and to Antoine
> > >>Vignau for deprotecting and imaging them!
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> > >>You can read the good Captain's account of EasyWriter's development
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> > >>http://www.webcrunchers.com/stories/easywriter.html
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> > >>Of more interest to programmers might be his implementation of Forth,
> > >>which Antoine is currently working on deprotecting.  :)
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> > > The formatted disk is not really useful. I made it from EasyWriter to
> > > validate the crack.
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> > > As far as Forth is concerned, I can just say: Grrrrrr! A nightmare!
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> > I hope your nightmare has a happy ending--that Forth would be a
> > real trophy!
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> > 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!  ;-)
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> > -michael
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> > NadaNet 3.1 for Apple II parallel computing!
> > Home page:  http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon/
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> > "The wastebasket is our most important design
> > tool--and it's seriously underused."
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> It is not only an on-disk protection removal to perform: I did and
> have both sides 16-sec compatible (from an original 13-sec modified
> DOS3.2) but it is a matter of understanding the compiled code and
> associated virtual machine (a F-code?)
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> I've done that once for the m-code of Electronic Arts but, as with p-
> code, compiled code is annoying especially when it changes RWTS
> values. I've tried to modify the RWTS to prevent any modifications
> (e.g. assume disk volume is always 254) but I' sure I've missed
> something!
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> Who said boot tracing and disassembly?
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> Antoine

Thanks a lot for EasyWriter! :-)

Btw, does somebody have EasyMailer?

Best wishes,

Marc.-