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Word processors on the VIC-20

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Jan 09, 2025
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Lawrence Woodman

What I love most about Lawrence Woodman's retrospective of Commodore VIC-20 word processors is how inappropriate its wide-pixel, low-res display is for that task. And yet he perservered!

Commodore's VICWRITER has an interesting approach to dealing with the 22 character width of the Vic. It creates a display like a typewriter where the pag…

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