Remembering Superscript for the Commodore 64
My brother was down for a visit
this weekend and we were reminiscing (and bitching) a bit about the
"good old days" of watching Rad
and working/playing on the Commodore
64 (moon patrol anyone? Summer games?)
As soon as the C64 came up, we immediately flashed back to writing papers on SuperScript, which was heaven compared to typing on a typewriter, and hell compared to WYSIWYG word processors today.
Looking back, SuperScript actually reminds me a lot of Nano (which I'm using to write this article), except for the fact that SS was trying to be a page-layout program as well as a text editor. Getting margins right, working with all the ctrl-key combos and remembering how to do stuff was sometimes nearly impossible.
Unfortunately, there's barely any good sites devoted to c64 applications (as opposed to games) online, but if you were one of us lucky kids to have "The Worlds Most Popular Personal Computer," check out Lemon64 for some serious c64 gaming nostalgia.
