cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) (08/07/87)
Well, it is real, and I went out and bought it. The local dealer was selling
it for $270 which is $50 more than Fry's sells the PC version. Considering
the differences in market size I find this impressive. Of course mail order
places will probably have it cheaper. Some first impressions ?
Well it was obviously kinda forced out the door. A couple of rough edges
were apparent. First the document icons were having trouble getting them-
selves loaded after wordperfect started up. Double clicking them loaded
wp (the default tool was wp:wp not :wp or sys:wp (yeah!)) but then WordPerfect
wouldn't read in the file. The help system is very nice (it actually uses
the help key) but the title of the Help window is Amiga WordPerfect Beta,
oops! The feel is a lot like the other versions so I won't go into those
standard features (paragraphs alignments etc) but note that it does not
attempt to support graphics in any meaningful way. If you want text &
graphics on the page get ProWrite or Pagesetter or something. It does
have a built in print spooler which is kind of neat, personally I would
like to see a generic print spooler for the Amiga. And it deals with
hard disks and lots of memory well. Again since I haven't used it much
I can't say for sure what any of the other 'features' are. (It has a
spelling checker and thesaurus(sp?) just like the PC version) also it
is not copy protected. I really hope that it isn't pirated by the border
line honest people out there. I would like to see other 'cross over'
products from the PC and Mac and pirating can only discourage this activity.
A full report when I have banged on it a bit more.
--Chuck McManis
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