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From: rchampe@hubcap.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: (Possibly old) query re Textcraft
Message-ID: <675@hubcap.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 17-Nov-87 19:45:38 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 17 19:45:38 1987
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Organization: Clemson University, Clemson, SC
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Keywords: slowdown, pound pound pound pound pound


     This may not be completely related, but I feel like complaining, so
here goes...
     When I first got my amiga, I bought the original Textcraft (running under
Kickstart 1.1), and although it was a little too cute, I loved it.  I liked
the "what you see is what you get" display that the other word processors
(like scribble!) didn't have, and it seemed like a well done program. (It had
only a few annoyances, like only being able to save to the same directory that
the program was in.)  All in all, I was very happy with it.  Then, I installed
kickstart 1.2 in ROM, and since my version of Textcraft only ran with 1.1,
I had to pirate (sorry, I'm only a poor college student) Textcraft Plus (Hah!
some plus).  The version of Textcraft Plus I have is a giant step backwards
from the original Textcraft.  Instead of making its own screen, it uses windows
on top of the workbench screen.  This is fine, except it often (and very slowly
at that) redraws the screen three times after some commands.  The scrolling is
horendously slow.  Displaying of typed characters is also ridiculously 
slow.  My workbench boots with the key repeat speed at maxium, and when I 
forget to slow it down before running Textcraft Plus, I often backspace over
a page of text when I only intended to backspace over a single sentence.  I 
don't know if the improved later versions, but I think they had some nerve
naming the program Textcraft Plus as if it was an improvement over the old
one.  I'm glad I didn't buy it, because the company who made it (sorry, I don't
know who makes it) would have recieved a very long and nasty letter.

Rich Champeaux
Clemson University