Amiga Word Processor Recommendation Wanted

[SilvrDrgn]

I've been using ProWrite v3.3.2 in the past for word processing because it suited my needs just fine.  Last night I tried to use it.  However, it crashes my whole machine and send it into an infinite reboot loop.  I can't figure that out.  Anyhow, I'm looking for recommendations on an "up-to-date" word processor that will work with my CyberVisionPPC gfx card??

[PPCRulez]

You have basicly three choices, Wordworth, FinalWriter or AmigaWriter.

I prefer FinalWriter and think it's a great word processor that keeps up very well compared to Word.

[SilvrDrgn]

I downloaded and tried the v2.2 demo of AmigaWriter, but was not impressed.  One problem I had was I couldn't get anything to paste into a document from the clipboard.

Is there a demo of FinalWriter available?  If so, where?

[odin]

From what I've heard AmigaWriter is pretty awfull.

[PPCRulez]

The really sad part is that FinalWriter will not be easy to get hold of in any legal way

Too bad since it is the best Word Processor for the Amiga IMHO

[SilvrDrgn]

The really sad part is that FinalWriter will not be easy to get hold of in any legal way

Why is that?  (I know I can get AmigaWriter, but I don't want it.)  How about WordWorth, is that still available/decent?

[PPCRulez]

Some people like WordWorth a lot, so I guess it is pretty good. I guess there are one wordworth camp and one FinalWriter camp. And I belong to the FinalWriter camp  :-)

Word Worth 7 is available from SoftHut

http://www.softhut.com/cgi-bin/test/Web_store/web_store.cgi?page=catalog/software/business/word_worth.html&cart_id=4103154_16193

[Ryu]

Im a Wordworth man myself. I use it for all my wordprocessing needs, and have done for the past 5 years :-) before that I used penpal. Anyway if I were you I would get yourself onto AmiBench and place a wanted for either version 6 or 7 of Wordworth, I used to have 6 and it was great, 7 is slightly better, though I am still hunting for a version of 7 that came on one of those small CD's, any of you lot got one? mine came on a full CD.

[SilvrDrgn]

Word Worth 7 is available from SoftHut

Yeah, just saw that by wandering over to SoftHut's site.  I'm looking for a demo so I can try it out first.

How about FinalWriter?  Can't get that anywhere?

[PPCRulez]

I'm sorry I don't know of any demo versions of neither Word Worth nor FinalWriter  :-(

I haven't seen any shops actually selling FinalWriter 97 (the latest verion) anymore.

[Varthall]

SilvrDrgn wrote:

Yeah, just saw that by wandering over to SoftHut's site.  I'm looking for a demo so I can try it out first.

On one of my Amiga Format CDs I have a pretty good demo of Wordworth 7. I guess it was never spread over Internet; just ask and I will send it to you.

Varthall

[SilvrDrgn]

@ PPCRulez, Bummer!

I just went ahead and placed my "Wanted" ad on Amibench.  Thanks for the suggestion, Ryu.

[Karlos]

PPCRulez wrote:
You have basicly three choices, Wordworth, FinalWriter or AmigaWriter.

I prefer FinalWriter and think it's a great word processor that keeps up very well compared to Word.

At Uni, I used to use the MacOS version Word 6 under Shapeshifter (when I had to be compatible with Word on the Uni machines). It was perfectly useable, but I preferred Wordworth ;-)

[AmiDelf]

If not a word processor, its dtp, thats desktop publishing program and its very, very good. Final Writer got dtp tools too and such. I used Final Writer for Amitopia some time even.

Now Amitopia uses Pagestream v4.1. Its really nice, but then price stops you! Its really expensive. So I recommend to either go for Final Writer or AmigaWriter.


Regards,
Michal Bergseth, editor or Amitopia
url: www.amitopia.tk

[lurkist]

I liked Wordworth, but had terrible trouble printing, so I tried Kindwords (like an early version of Wordworth by the same people) and it worked well, printing all my intellifonts on a non-text inkjet printer.