Kyle22 Posted March 20, 2017 Share Posted March 20, 2017 Here we go with my official hack of the Rich Man's 80 column word processor. Recently recovered from one of my VERY old disks. I posted some possibly confusing messages in the old thread; it was a re-learning process. Here is the "official" Poor Man's 80 column WP. Attached are two files. You may do either: 1> Boot side A directly if you have an OmniView-XL OS. or 2> Boot side B first, wait for loading to stop, flip the disk and press START. or 3> Boot a DOS disk and rename POORMAN.AR1 to POORMAN.COM, after you do that, you may boot side A only, load OMNIVIEW.COM, press START, then load POORMAN.COM. Three ways to use it. Files attached. pm80_A.atr pm80_B.atr Hope you like. 13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted March 20, 2017 Share Posted March 20, 2017 ah now this project has been a long winding road... I am so glad it finally made it! I remember your' mention of several times over the years... A brand new real floppy disk is being created for this, in fact a second copy is being made on a totally different drive as well just in case... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyle22 Posted March 20, 2017 Author Share Posted March 20, 2017 Hope you like it. As I said, I thought this was lost forever... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tschak909 Posted March 20, 2017 Share Posted March 20, 2017 Good jorb, Kyle 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyle22 Posted March 20, 2017 Author Share Posted March 20, 2017 I am completely unaware of the word 'jorb'. I am confused. I hope it was complimentary ...? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keatah Posted March 20, 2017 Share Posted March 20, 2017 I believe it was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted March 20, 2017 Share Posted March 20, 2017 I am completely unaware of the word 'jorb'. I am confused. I hope it was complimentary ...? Its ok http://www.hrwiki.org/wiki/Coach_Z 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunstar Posted March 20, 2017 Share Posted March 20, 2017 (edited) Is this different than the Richman's 80 column WP in the other thread? I'm just curious, I'm not interested in either myself, The Last Word is exactly as it's name states for me and my Atari. And since TLWP is free, I can't see a better choice for an Atari man, rich or poor. Edited March 20, 2017 by Gunstar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted March 20, 2017 Share Posted March 20, 2017 (edited) This software is teleported from way way way long ago and The Last Word is brand spanking relatively new. Many of us used now ancient software and find it a comforting friend...... The Last Word is of course the go-to full blown all around super tool of choice. I find it is nice to fire up what we used for 15 years of our lives every once in a while and use it again! It was the first of it's kind for the most part... done well.... and ran with a small footprint on a poor mans computer...think 800 without mosaic ram or too few cards.... This thing was a savior at the time! Edited March 20, 2017 by _The Doctor__ 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted March 20, 2017 Share Posted March 20, 2017 Well done Kyle, its not my sort of thing but I applaud the work done on it.. Thank you.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyle22 Posted March 20, 2017 Author Share Posted March 20, 2017 Is this different than the Richman's 80 column WP in the other thread? I'm just curious, I'm not interested in either myself, The Last Word is exactly as it's name states for me and my Atari. And since TLWP is free, I can't see a better choice for an Atari man, rich or poor. This is the same, but Rich Man's is copy protected. My cracked one is Poor Man's because you can be poor and still afford it (free). BTW, I also use The Last Word. I did this crack many years ago before TLW existed. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ACML Posted January 5, 2019 Share Posted January 5, 2019 Here we go with my official hack of the Rich Man's 80 column word processor. Recently recovered from one of my VERY old disks. I posted some possibly confusing messages in the old thread; it was a re-learning process. Here is the "official" Poor Man's 80 column WP. Attached are two files. You may do either: 1> Boot side A directly if you have an OmniView-XL OS. or 2> Boot side B first, wait for loading to stop, flip the disk and press START. or 3> Boot a DOS disk and rename POORMAN.AR1 to POORMAN.COM, after you do that, you may boot side A only, load OMNIVIEW.COM, press START, then load POORMAN.COM. Three ways to use it. Files attached. pm80_A.atr pm80_B.atr Hope you like. Kyle, When I load an Atariwriter file in and try to edit, it locks up. I can load and start to edit the file, but after moving the cursor a few positions, it locks up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyle22 Posted April 12, 2019 Author Share Posted April 12, 2019 (edited) I'll check it out. I never tried to load an AW file into it. Edit: I did not change the main program file. I only removed the copy protection segments that the binary file was appended to. Can someone try an AW file with the original Rich Man version? Edited April 12, 2019 by Kyle22 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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