Scrivener for ZX Spectrum
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Jaysen
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When will the trs80 port be completed? than I need a c64 and Amiga port as well. And why has it taken so long for you to support this market that will make you rich?
Jaysen
I have a wife and 2 kids that I can only attribute to a wiggle, a giggle, and the realization that she was out of my league so I might as well be happy with her as a friend. 26 years marriage later, I can't imagine life without her. -Me 10/7/09
I have a wife and 2 kids that I can only attribute to a wiggle, a giggle, and the realization that she was out of my league so I might as well be happy with her as a friend. 26 years marriage later, I can't imagine life without her. -Me 10/7/09
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KB
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Jaysen wrote:When will the trs80 port be completed? than I need a c64 and Amiga port as well. And why has it taken so long for you to support this market that will make you rich?
I'm concentrating on taking full advantage of the 128k Spectrum+ at the moment, but obviously that's a technical challenge while continuing to support 48k users. BBC Micro support will most likely come before the Commodore and Amiga, sorry!
"You can't waltz in here, use my toaster, and start spouting universal truths without qualification."
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Jaysen
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You're going to alienate a strategic market!! Don't you know how many users would flock to scrivener if you did this?
Jaysen
I have a wife and 2 kids that I can only attribute to a wiggle, a giggle, and the realization that she was out of my league so I might as well be happy with her as a friend. 26 years marriage later, I can't imagine life without her. -Me 10/7/09
I have a wife and 2 kids that I can only attribute to a wiggle, a giggle, and the realization that she was out of my league so I might as well be happy with her as a friend. 26 years marriage later, I can't imagine life without her. -Me 10/7/09
Jaysen wrote:You're going to alienate a strategic market!! Don't you know how many users would flock to scrivener if you did this?
Is this an anti-American bias? Were the TRS-80, the Radio Shack Model 100, even the Commodore 64, insufficiently popular in the UK to appreciate its platform-dominance here in the US?
Such sad, short-sighted thinking. I shall vote with my closetful of discarded computers and take my faded electrons elsewhere. It's bad enough I can't buy Scrivener on a 360k floppy.
KB wrote:
Awwww!
Brings back so many memories . . . worn-out symbol shift keys. . . .
Did you cobble that image together, Keith, or is it actually running in an emulator?
Dave
But will it sync with iCloud? If not, how could you access your work in progress from your Apple Watch? 
It occurs to me that the way to succeed here is to _emulate_ the Spectrum on the iPad, with current Scrivener guts behind it....
A real nostalgia market no doubt; and think of all the trash80 (whoops) and other delightful -- and maybe important -- pasts you could visit.
Sort of like the Enterprise flying tight around the sun, in the movies, sort of.
I think they got that idea from an old Superman comic, by the way.
May you never come across Kryptonite, Keith
Clive
p.s what is the state of that imaginative's novel, anyway? And do you hobnob with the Cornwall Cornwell Le Carrés??
p.p.s.with all the iPad trash I've had to clear out of this less forgiving forum editor, might have to go to writing the shots on Scrivener first. Now where is that emoji pane? Aha: ☕️ Could be cocoa...!
A real nostalgia market no doubt; and think of all the trash80 (whoops) and other delightful -- and maybe important -- pasts you could visit.
Sort of like the Enterprise flying tight around the sun, in the movies, sort of.
I think they got that idea from an old Superman comic, by the way.
May you never come across Kryptonite, Keith
Clive
p.s what is the state of that imaginative's novel, anyway? And do you hobnob with the Cornwall Cornwell Le Carrés??
p.p.s.with all the iPad trash I've had to clear out of this less forgiving forum editor, might have to go to writing the shots on Scrivener first. Now where is that emoji pane? Aha: ☕️ Could be cocoa...!
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rdale
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Before you go porting to these other IMPURE platforms, how about keeping it in the Apple family, huh?! I say you start with the iPod Classic... or the iPod Shuffle! And what about the Apple Newton? Where's the Newton love, you... you... traitor! 
FKA: robertdguthrie
AKA: R Dale Guthrie, Robert, Mr. Obscure, and "Oh, it's you again".
AKA: R Dale Guthrie, Robert, Mr. Obscure, and "Oh, it's you again".
+1 for the Newton!
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xiamenese
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I want Scrivener for my Atari ST520 with its massive 512Kb of RAM, external 3.5" floppy and its absolutely brilliant 12" paper-white monitor with it's great 640 x 480 resolution!
Mark
Mark
The Scrivenato sometimes known as Mr X.
iMac 27" (late 2015) 10.15.7, 24GB RAM, 512GB SSID
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iMac 27" (late 2015) 10.15.7, 24GB RAM, 512GB SSID
2017 iPad, iPadOS 14.3, 128GB, Apple Pencil
Scrivener, Scapple, Nisus Writer Pro, Bookends …