This episode features Write 80, released in 1985 by MTS Software. It was written by Elmar Scharmach.

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Write 80 in ActionBooting

• Main Menu

• Editing

• Default width is 40 columns!

• Customized width.

• New page brings last 2 lines of previous page with it. 1 – Begin New File

• 2 – Load Saved File

• 3 – Print Out

• 4 – Save Page

• Informative! 7 – Load New Page

• 8 – Load Next Page

• 9 – Begin Next Page

• Help Screen

• Control-M is help, but labeled Main Menu. What?

• Glyphed print preview, labeled as Help. Error Handling

• Files on disk.

• Contents of WRITE80.CS
• Huge size for my tiny file!
• No wonder its so big, look at how data is saved!
• ManualThe manual is no where to be found. If you have it scan it and get it AtariMania or Internet Archive.

Print OutputI could not successfully print.

Show Links* AtariMania: http://www.atarimania.com/utility-atari-400-800-xl-xe-write-80_31629.html * Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/a8b_Write_80_1985_MTS_Software * Antic Magazines Review (October 1986): https://www.atarimagazines.com/v5n6/ProductReviews.html * Inverse ATASCII S2 E19 Rich Mans 80 Column Word Processor: https://inverseatascii.info/2016/06/28/s2e19-css-rich-mans-80-column-word-processor-supplement/

Intro music is an excerpt from a chip tune by Wizwars named 8 Bit Raceway. It is used under Creative Common license Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States.