What is a good word processor?

[Ral-Clan]

For a system of this age (i.e. Workbench 1.3 and 1 MB RAM ) I would suggest WordPerfect for Amiga.

It's essentially a very good text editor (i.e. there are no customizable fonts).....but you don't need that for writing a novel.  It has a nice quick spell checker and can run without a hard drive.

There are other wordprocessors that will work: Kindwords, Excellence, Finalwriter, but these are all WYSIWYG wordprocessors, with fancy GUIs that will only slow your system down.

There was a copy of Wordperfect for Amiga on Ebay last week.

I think 4.1.12 was the latest version.

[Ral-Clan]

Another great thing about WordPerfect for Amiga is that it can save to standard text OR WordPerfect for PC format.  Most modern Windows wordprocessors can import old PC Wordperfect files, which will allow you to keep all of your formatting.

[Ral-Clan]

The problem with all these text editors you guys are recommending is that they have no spell checker.  The guy is writing a novel, not programming.

Wordperfect has a good spell-checker, plus page formatting. etc.

[Ral-Clan]

Yeah, I suggested KindWords in the second post above.