This episode features AnticWriter, originally released in 1987 by Antic Publishing.

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Supplement Scans

Magazine intro:

 

 

 

AnticWriter in Action

Menu / Help

The menu is the help and the help is the menu:

 

Usage

Editing a file:

 

Organizing text (re-paginating):

 

Clearing text:

 

Naming a file:

 

Saving a file:

 

Getting a file from disk:

 

Formatting a disk:

 

Deleting (killing) a file:

 

Changing the color:

 

Copying text:

 

 

Moving text:

 

Finding text:

 

Printing (the manual, but you are instructed to print the manual using the DOS copy command direct to the printer):

 

Error handling:

 

Files

AnticWriter is compatible with any DOS.  You needed to copy it to your own boot disk.

 

 

Printing

Manual part 1:

https://inverseatascii.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/s4e12-prt-manual1.pdf

Manual part 2:

https://inverseatascii.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/s4e12-prt-manual2.pdf

 

Show Links:

• • Antic July 1987: http://www.atarimagazines.com/v6n3/anticwriter.html
  • Inverse ATASCII S4E1 PaperClip: https://inverseatascii.info/2017/10/03/s4e01-batteries-included-paperclip-supplement/
  • Inverse ATASCII S3E1 SpeedScript: https://inverseatascii.info/2016/09/12/s3e01-compute-scriptor-speedscript-3-supplement/
  • SAM Simulator: https://simulationcorner.net/index.php?page=sam

 

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.