The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual The Last Word Professional Word Processing for the Atari XL/XE With dual 40 and 80 column displays.
The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual Contents 1 INTRODUCTION..................................................................................... 1-5 1.1 OVERVIEW OF THE LAST WORD......................................................... 1-5 1.2 ABOUT THE MANUAL ........................................................................... 1-6 1.3 STARTING LW ....................................................................................... 1-6 1.3.1 1.4 2 THE EDIT SCREEN...........................
The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 5.2 KEEPING TRACK OF PAGINATION .................................................... 5-27 5.3 EDITOR PRINT COMMANDS ............................................................... 5-27 5.4 EMBEDDED COMMANDS ................................................................... 5-28 5.4.1 STAGE 1 COMMANDS ..................................................................... 5-28 5.4.2 STAGE 2 COMMANDS ...................................................................
The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 8.5 CUSTOM FONTS .................................................................................. 8-56 8.6 CUSTOMISING THE KEYBOARD ........................................................ 8-57 9 8.6.1 THE KEYBOARD TABLE ................................................................. 8-57 8.6.2 REMAPPING COMMANDS USING MACROS .................................. 8-59 8.6.3 1200 XL KEYS ............................................................................
The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 OVERVIEW OF THE LAST WORD Welcome to THE LAST WORD, the brand new 80 column word processor for Atari XL/XE computers, and one of the most powerful text editors ever written for the 8-bit Atari. The Last Word (LW) combines many of the innovative features found in public domain text editors like TextPro with capabilities of established commercial packages such as AtariWriter Plus and The First XLEnt Word Processor.
The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 1.2 ABOUT THE MANUAL This manual assumes basic familiarity with the Atari screen editor and keyboard. Command keystrokes are enclosed in angle brackets ("<" and ">") which should NOT be typed in. Where two or more keys need to be pressed together, these keys are linked with the plus sign "+". 1.3 STARTING LW Boot the computer with the LW disk in drive 1 while holding down the
The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual work with LW. This means you can’t run SpartaDOS X and LW on a machine with less than 128K. With SpartaDOS X, you can specify a file to edit on the command line after the program name, such as: X LW LETTER.TXT LW will attempt to load LETTER.TXT automatically. If the file isn't found, LW will present you with an empty file bearing the name that you typed on the command line. 1.4 BASIC OPERATION You can begin using LW without reading this manual.
The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual You can get the 80 column display back by performing the same procedure in reverse: type , type “Y” for 80 columns, then press at the “Width” prompt. In this manual, many illustrations depict LW’s 40 column display. This is merely for reasons of clarity, and operation of the program is essentially identical in 40 and 80 column modes.
The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 1.4.2 TEXT BANKS If you have a machine with at least 128K of RAM running SpartaDOS X, DOS 2.5 or MyDOS, LW will try to use the extra banks of memory for additional text buffers for the editing of up to ten files at once. You can switch between these banks with: where “n” is one of the number keys, with “0” denoting the tenth bank.
The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual If you type “Y”, the existing file will be overwritten. Typing “N” will return you to the editor without doing anything. To load previously written text, press: Load text A prompt will appear with a default drive specifier. Type the name of the file you wish to load (you needn’t type a drive specifier), and press .
The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 1.4.4 THE FILE SELECTOR What if you can’t remember which files are on the disk? LW has a file selector which is accessible from any filename input dialogue. Just press the key when the program is waiting for a filename, and the file selector will appear, listing all the files in the current folder on disk. Just highlight the file you want and press to load it. See “THE DISK MENU” in Chapter 4 for more information about the file selector. 1.4.
The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual By default in LW, characters appear as curved arrows. You can make them invisible with: Toggle visible returns These are just a few of the settings saved in the configuration. For further information on configuring LW, see section 7. 1.4.6 LEAVING THE PROGRAM To finish using LW and go to DOS, type: Exit to DOS and respond "Y" to the prompt.
The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 2 EDITOR COMMANDS LW's commands are all accessed by key combinations. Once you become familiar with LW's keystrokes, a huge number of commands becomes instantly available. 2.
The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual Allow subsequent control key to be entered as normal text (same as pressing in the normal Atari screen editor. Also de-selects a marked block of text. Alternative to . Turn word-wrap on and off. Saved in config file. Set screen editing width. Using this command, you can select the display mode (40 or 80 characters), and type the number of characters per line you want - anything from 5 to 240.
The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 2.4 MOVING AND COPYING WITH TEXT BLOCKS The following commands allow blocks of text to be marked, then moved, copied or deleted: Mark or highlight block. Before a block can be copied, moved or deleted, it must be marked. Use this command to define the starting point of your block. Subsequently, as you move the cursor, the text between the marked beginning and the cursor position will be inverted.
The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 2.5 FINDING AND REPLACING TEXT LW has extensive search features which work both forwards and backwards through the text. Searches can be either case sensitive or insensitive. Search and replace operations can be performed either individually or on the whole file, with or without confirmation. Define find string. This option allows you to type in the text you wish to search for (up to 30 characters). Find string.
The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 2.5.1 SEARCHING WITH WILDCARDS In find strings, the inverse question mark (?) will match any character, just as in DOS filenames: Find>TH?S? will match both "THESE" and "THOSE". Wildcards in replace strings leave the relevant characters in the text unchanged, so: Find>(?) Change to>(?.) will place a dot after any single, unknown parenthesized character. Search strings may be surrounded by spaces to ensure that only whole words are matched.
The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 3 ADDITIONAL EDITOR FEATURES LW includes many features to aid in the editing of text, such as place markers, pagination guides, and tabulation. The range of facilities available makes LW one of the most complete word processors for the Atari. 3.1 COUNTING WORDS LW's fast word count will instantly tell you how many words are in the current document. Will display the position of the cursor in the file and the number of bytes in the file (in the form n of n).
The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 3.4 BOOKMARKS LW has a system of invisible markers which make navigating your text simplicity itself. If you're working on a section of text which you want to leave but will need to return to later, mark it with a place marker. Set bookmark at cursor position. Asks for which bookmark (1-4) to set. Go to bookmark. Asks for number of the bookmark to find.
The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 3.6 USER OPTIONS Several options and toggles are accessed using: User Options This command presents a list of options which are either switched on or off. The current state of the item appears to the right of the prompt.
The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual available. Each bank has the same 16K capacity and its own set of place markers and its own filename. You can cut and paste between banks with ease, and by keeping all the files of a large document in separate banks and by using the include bank print commands from the main file, you can keep track of pagination as if you were editing a single, contiguous file.
The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual The “/A” switch should be appended to the filename when saving all but the first segment of a linked file. For example: Save As>D:REPORT.DOC/A This will cause the contents of the buffer to be appended to the file on disk (the “/A” switch also works with file copying on the disk menu). As a time saver, the “/A” switch will automatically be appended to filenames when saving all but the first segment of a linked file.
The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 4 DISK OPERATIONS LW allows full manipulation of files and directories, and has support for many different DOS packages. The mini DOS menu allows viewing, loading, deleting, renaming and copying of files at the touch of a key. The menu displays a paged window, showing up to 80 filenames at a time. Files can be previewed on screen just as they appear in the editor without being loaded into memory. 4.
The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual The following options are available on the menu, selected by pressing the highlighted letter: Spec Set the directory search mask. Use this to narrow or expand the criteria for the directory search. Ret If the disk menu was called with from the editor, will load the file under the cursor.
The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual there is, the faster the copy operation will be, so you will want to be in the bank with plenty of unused memory before you copy anything. A completely full bank actually has 1 spare byte, so copy will still work with it, albeit agonizingly slowly! Press to copy tagged files. Wildcards are fully supported. For example, you could tag all files on the disk and then press to copy them to “D2:*.BAK”. All files on the destination drive will have the .
The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 4.2.1 ADDITIONAL COMMANDS There are several additional commands not listed on the disk menu. Refresh file list. Simply re-reads the displayed directory from disk. Cursor home. Moves cursor to the first filename in the directory. Moves the cursor to the last filename in the directory. Moves the cursor up by a screenful of filenames Moves the cursor down by a screenful of filenames 4.2.
The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 5 PRINTING WITH LW LW's print processor is one of the most comprehensive of any Atari word processor. Useful features abound to make life easier when printing complex documents. 5.1 PREVIEWING TEXT Preview printed pages. Text is sent to a 20 line, 80 column window almost exactly as it will appear when printed. Page breaks appear as rows of dashes, and page wait is active if selected. Pause the output with or by holding down
The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual All the above commands will read any included files (see later) unless you comment out include statements. This means that you can always know exactly where you are on the printed page, even in documents made up of many different files. 5.4 EMBEDDED COMMANDS LW has a wealth of print formatting commands which will allow you to tailor your printed output exactly to your needs.
The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual f<[n]text> Define running footer to be printed at the bottom of each page. is an OPTIONAL offset, in lines, from the bottom page margin, and should be typed in inverse video immediately before the text of the footer. For example: f3Footer Will print the running footer “Footer” 3 lines below the last line of the printed page.
The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual l Set the left margin. The default is 10. m Margin outdent by chars, as in this line. This outdents the next line of text. Subsequent lines revert to the normal margin. The line is properly lengthened to fill the extra space. This paragraph uses a paragraph indent and a margin outdent on the first line, creating a hanging indent. NOTE: To aid in alignment, the outdented part of the line will be unaffected by full justification.
The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual [ Left header/footer margin, default 10. This works like the l command, but sets the margin for the headers and footers, which don't obey the normal left margin. The reason for this is in case the left and right margins are altered within the text. If these alterations crossed a page boundary, headers and footers which shared those margins might not be properly aligned. ] Right header/footer margin, default 70. As above, but for the right margin.
The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual & 5.4.2 Reset heading levels. This character simply resets all heading levels to their initial values of 1. Allows you to use more than one sequence of headings in a document. STAGE 2 COMMANDS The following commands can appear anywhere on a line, even in headers and footers, and affect individual lines of text or characters. Some take parameters, but most don't.
The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual _ Hard hyphen (underscore). Normal hyphens between words allow the line to be split at that point. Use a hard hyphen instead to prevent this happening. . Hard space (can also be an inverse space). Use hard spaces between words to force them to always be printed on the same line. A quick way to enter a hard space is with . ( Ignore to closing brace ). Everything up to the next inverse closing brace is ignored by the print processor.
The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual international set, they won't be represented correctly on the preview screen. This feature is set up with the printer driver editor (see PRINTER DRIVERS). 5.6 CONFIGURING THE PRINT FORMATTER The print formatter defaults for the following margins can be set in the CFG configuration file: LEFT/RIGHT MARGIN LEFT/RIGHT HEADER/FOOTER MARGIN TOP/BOTTOM MARGINS HEADER/FOOTER OFFSETS See Section 8, Configuring LW, for more information.
The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 6 CONFIGURING LW FOR YOUR PRINTER You can customize LW's print styling commands to suit any kind of printer. Toggles can be set up for italics, bold, underlining, superscript and subscript, and up to 10 further styling commands can be defined for any purpose you can think of. 6.1 PRINTER DRIVERS LW uses printer driver files (with the extension "PDR") to configure itself for various printers. At run-time, LW will attempt to load LW.
The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 6.2.1 PRINT TOGGLES Start LW with an empty text file. In your printer manual, find the codes for "ITALICS ON". For the EPSON compatible example, the sequence is 27, 52. In the editor, type: ITALICS ON 27,52 Italic off would be 27,53, so on the next line needs to be: ITALICS OFF 27,53 All 6 pairs of ON/OFF toggles (underline, italic, bold, superscript, subscript and international font) work the same way.
The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual character out of the printer. However, EPSON international codes and ATASCII codes are rarely the same, so using the CODE statement, you can assign an ASCII code to any of the 29 international character codes. CODE 1,129 Will sent ASCII code 129 to the printer every time is encountered in the document. You need to set up the codes for all 29 characters in the same way. The STAR LC-10 manual has various character sets, selectable from software or DIP switches.
The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual making AtariWriter Plus think I had one hooked up, then printing to disk and studying the output. Note that not all Atari printers support features like italics and boldface. I trust these drivers work well with the actual equipment. Some work may be required to coax international characters out of your printer. However, even if your printer doesn't support them, there are plenty of utilities for downloading fonts to printers.
The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 7 MACROS LW’s Macro facility is among the most powerful of any Atari 8-bit word processor. Macros allow you to automate frequent tasks, redefine the keyboard layout, call up passages of text with a single keystroke, create interactive menu systems, and construct entirely new commands by combining existing features of the program. What’s more, macros can now be attached to standard command keystrokes, so they can work like built-in features of the program.
The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 7.2 RUNNING MACROS Macros are executed in one of three ways: Pressing , then the key the macro is attached to. Holding down
The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual You can disable the startup macro (@) in one of several ways: Specify the “/M” switch on its own on the SpartaDOS X command line Hold down
The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual field. To actually get input from the user, you MUST include the ine Input macro command as normal. The macro will then pause, allowing the text entry until is pressed. The input is sent to the paste buffer and overwrites its contents, even if a null string was entered. If the ranch Macro is used before the Ask command, the branch will occur if the input string was EMPTY.
The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual keystroke to run (in the same order), ending the line with . For example, you could say: #=Load, Save, Print LSP LSP The above macro will display: Load, Save, Print when is pressed, and wait for a keystroke. Pressing will run the macro attached to the inverse L character, the macro on the inverse S character, and will attempt to run the inverse P macro.
The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual Set toggles and test flags. Follow with one of the characters below: U L I O 1-9 or 0 (0=10) Put the keyboard into uppercase. Put keyboard into lowercase. Set insert mode. Set overtype mode. Select the appropriate text bank when multiple banks are set up. Bank 1 is always the MAIN (unextended) bank, and 2-10 correspond to banks of extended memory. Select the text bank the program was in when the macro was called. Hide the screen display.
The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual Entered in a filename dialogue will enter name of current file without device. When pressed in ANY input dialogue (unless preceded by ), will place the contents of the paste buffer (or as much of it as will fit) into the input line. Using this method, if you previously captured text with the Ask for Input command, it can be transferred into any LW command which requires input.
The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual or allows you to enter control codes into the editor or into an input dialogue, as on its own normally does in BASIC, etc. To get the escape code itself (which appears in LW as a curved downward pointing arrow) in the text, press or twice. You can also press to put the Escape character directly into the text.
The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 7.6 EXAMPLE MACROS The best way to illustrate the creation of macros is with some useful examples. DUAL FONT LOADER When loading fonts into LW, only the font relevant to the current display mode is normally loaded, i.e. if LW is in 80 column mode and you specify a font to load, only the 80 column (.F80) font is loaded, while the 40 column font remains unchanged. You can, however, load the “other” font by specifying the file extender when loading fonts.
The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual A screenshot of the completed macro is shown below. Save the macro as “FONTSET.MAC” and then load it with . Now, when you press and type – for example – MACRO at the “Font set” prompt, LW will load both the 40 and 80 column versions of the MACRO font (if either font can’t be found on disk, the macro will simply terminate). We can refine this macro further by hiding screen updates.
The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual . If you need to make corrections, type again to turn off control mode. Now, with an empty editor as before, type . Now type
The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 8 CONFIGURING LW You can configure LW so that it always loads with the settings you prefer. You can even load different configurations part way through an editing session. You can set up everything from screen colour to additional banks of RAM for text. LW supports two kinds of configuration files. LW.SYS is loaded when the program first starts and contains information about the memory configuration, keyboard buffer and keyboard redefinition. LW.
The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 8.2 .CFG CONFIGURATION FILES CFG files contain user preferences such a screen colours, screen width and resolution, default drive number, filespecs, etc. Many of these command can be changed via commands in the editor, and the current configuration can be saved as a CFG file at any time with the command. If a file called “LW.CFG” resides on the default drive when the program is loaded, this configuration file is always used at startup.
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The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 8.3 THE LW.SYS FILE The LW.SYS file is read once when LW first starts up. The information in the file is used to set-up LW’s memory configuration and other settings that can’t be changed once the program has finished setting itself up. LW.SYS must be written as a plain text file in the editor. Most of the time, the memory configuration commands in LW.SYS will be unnecessary, since the settings it affects are usually automatically configured.
The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual assuming there were at least four free banks on the target machine – LW would allocate one bank for the macro/paste/directory buffer (which it always does when using extended memory, before allocating any other banks as text buffers), three banks for extra text buffers, and it would enlarge the main text buffer to 19K. The RESERVE instruction is intended to allocate banks of extended memory for use by machine code extensions.
The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual running LW under an unsupported DOS, you MUST create a custom LW.SYS file containing the following line: BANKED ON Since LW can’t differentiate between used and free banks when running under an unsupported DOS, the internal list it builds when it first starts up is of ALL the extended memory banks present on the system.
The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual for any reason you want to ensure that the default DOS drive is searched, include “D:” (without quotes) as an entry in the path. 8.3.4 THE KEYBOARD BUFFER The fifth kind of instruction in LW.SYS is the “BUFFER” statement (followed by ON or OFF). This simply turns the keyboard buffer on or off. The keyboard buffer will always default to on, unless it detects that another keyboard buffer (such as the SpartaDOS X keyboard buffer) is active.
The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 8.6 CUSTOMISING THE KEYBOARD LW allows you to customise the keyboard in two ways: by using macros, and by using a custom keyboard layout (in the LW.SYS file). Redefining the keyboard using the macro is the best way to reassign keystrokes, while a keyboard definition file allows you to totally remap the keyboard (to create a DVORAK layout, for example). 8.6.1 THE KEYBOARD TABLE First, let’s look at the KEY statement, which should appear in the LW.SYS file.
The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual Key l j ; F1 F2 k + * o Invalid p u Return i = v Help c F3 F4 b x z 4 Invalid 3 6 Esc 5 2 1 , Space .
The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual By working out where in the table the key combination you want to redefine resides, you can totally remap the keyboard. For example, you could have the following line in LW.SYS: KEY 10,97 This will redefine the
key so that when you press it, the lowercase letter “a” will be produced. Note that this means that pressing
will produce the letter “a” everywhere in the program. The most useful application for this would be to produce things like DVORAK keyboard layouts.
The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual Looking again at our Windows cut and paste shortcuts, consider the following macro (we’ve already loaded the MACRO.FNT character set before typing in the text): There are five macros in this file. The first is mapped to , and simply issues whenever is pressed in the editor. The second issues when is pressed and so on.
The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 9 DOS PACKAGES AND LW LW works with and configures itself for many of the popular DOS packages for Atari XL/XE computers. Supported DOSes include: Atari DOS 2.5 MyDOS 4.5 SpartaDOS X (using BANKED memory) Even if your DOS isn't in this list, LW may well work with it, providing it follows the same basic CIO protocols as Atari DOS and does NOT use any RAM under the operating system. Note: up to and including version 2.
The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual This DOS works well with LW. Subdirectory names are preceded by a colon on the disk menu, and traversal of the directory tree is catered for, as well as the creation and deletion of subdirectories. To display the contents of the active directory, don't forget to remove the drive number from the device spec by first pressing <0> on the disk menu. LW will correctly detect and avoid RAMdisks under this DOS.
The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual OFF” at the SDX command prompt before loading the program. You could write a batch file as follows: KEY OFF X LW.EXE KEY ON The above will ensure the SDX key buffer is off, run LW, then turn the key buffer on again. 9.6.1 THE SPARTADOS X “LWPATH” ENVIRONMENT VARIABLE SpartaDOS X users may be familiar with that operating system’s PATH environment variable. LW has its own path, and under SpartaDOS X this path is defined using the LWPATH environment variable.
The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual As with DOS 2.5 and MyDOS, LW will automatically detect the number of RAM banks not used by DOS and will grab up to ten of them for its own use. If you have a RAM disk set up (with RAMDISK.SYS), LW will avoid this too, only using those areas of memory DOS has certified as unused.
The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 10 LW COMMAND SUMMARY Below is a complete list of every command in the LW editor and print formatter. In the first section, editor commands are described with their equivalent macro commands (where different) in the third column. Where no macro command is listed, the command is the same from within macros. Remember that macro commands which duplicate keystrokes are entered as INVERSE keystrokes. 10.
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The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 10.2 SPECIAL KEYS These characters have special meanings when entered on the command line unless preceded by (, from macros): KEY SPACE or CTRL+P CTRL+N CTRL+L ESCAPE or BREAK CTRL or SHIFT+ESCAPE FUNCTION If typed when a filename is requested, prints the device/path/name of the current file in the editor. If typed when a filename is requested, prints just the path/name of the current file.
The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 10.3 MACRO COMMANDS The following commands are only available from within macros and are entered in inverse video. COMMAND FUNCTION INV CTRL Macro Ask command. Follow with prompt message ending in return A and optional default input string. Follow with an Accept Line command . INV CTRL Branch Macro . Selects a macro to run after negative B confirm, a macro load, negative find string/next/goto marker.
The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 11 PRINT FORMATTING COMMANDS These commands affect the printed document, and are entered in inverse video, in lower or upper case. All numeric arguments should also be in inverse video (use
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The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 12 PROGRAMMER'S TECHNICAL NOTES This section first outlines LW's memory map, then goes on to discuss some of the general ideas behind the program. It isn’t a guide to writing extensions for LW (please refer to the extension developer’s documentation). If you're having problems running LW, you'll want to check out the section on memory usage. I'll also be talking about various tricks that LW employs, and why it has turned out the way it has. 12.
The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual One thing which has allowed LW to be crammed into such a small amount of code is the placing of almost all the program's variables in Page Zero RAM. The entire upper half of Page Zero is used by LW. This is made possible by the fact LW makes no calls to the OS's floating point arithmetic routines, which require $D4-$FF for themselves. In fact, LW doesn't even make any calls to CIO for screen output: it uses its own sophisticated formatted print routine.
The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual as critical a factor as it has always been with LW. After many years trying to get the Atari Macro Assembler to co-operate with SpartaDOS X, I finally wrote my own Macro Assembler. The result - MA65 – was used in emulation until quite recently to compile LW.
The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual SpartaDOS utilities, and a Macro Assembler, it was always my ambition to write a word processor for the Atari 8 which coupled the innovative and flexible approach of public domain programs like TextPro with the robustness and professional, commercial-quality presentation of PaperClip and AtariWriter.
The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual Although I’d always considered version 2.1 of LW the “final” version, people soon came up with new things they’d like to see included in the program. Far and away top of the list was support for 80 column displays (including devices such as XEP-80 and VBXE). I was reluctant to try this, not least because I didn’t have access to the necessary hardware and emulator support for XEP-80 and VBXE was limited at the time.
The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual So what’s next for The Last Word? With the advent of video enhancements such as VBXE, larger memory capacities as standard on Atari 8 computers, almost unlimited mass storage, and readily available flash cartridges, the time seems right for a fully WYSIWYG word processor for the Atari 8. Many commendable attempts at graphical operating systems (or applications employing GUIs) have been made on the Atari since the mid Eighties.
The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual 12.7 CORRESPONDENCE Any enquiries, bug reports, etc, should be addressed to me, Jonathan Halliday at jon@atari8.co.uk.