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Article #18186Re: New Mac Owner-type Needs Help
From: Jeff R Hallett
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1987 12:39
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1987 12:39
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In article <3656@ihlpg.ATT.COM> rre@ihlpg.ATT.COM (Velveteen Rabbit
Corps) writes:
>
>The word processor is the most important aspect to him. Programs Plus sells
>MacWrite for $99, and there wasn't anything cheaper I could recognize. Does
>anyone out there know/have experience with anything other than MacWrite that's
>less expensive? He also wants a spelling checker, so any help on which one
>is good would be hepful too.
Granted MacWrite is the great-grandad of all Mac word processors, and
like it or not, probably has the definitive interface for Mac WP.
Howevers, there are a lot of WP's on the market now. For a little bit
more, your friend could be WriteNow. This has gotten excellent
reviews and is a tad more flexible than MacWrite. I'm not sure if it
has a spell checker, but I'd recommend MacLightning if it doesn't.
MacLightning has an interactive checker that is very nice, but it
doesn't make very good suggestions (doesn't matter to me; I just want
to know if the word is misspelled.)
>
>On the paint program, FullPaint lists in the catalog for less than MacPaint.
>Is this a good deal? (I know the FullPaint ads say "We succeed MacPaint" but
>what is the reality?)
>
FullPaint is an excellent paint program. It stands probably a head
over MacPaint. FullPaint is a superset of MacPaint; it looks a great
deal like MacPaint but adds some functionality.
>And what games did you first buy as a new Mac owner?
Sargon (you may want to try Chessmaster 2000 instead) , Skyfox, Lode
Runner, Transylvanian (you may want to try Shadowgate or Uninvited
instead of this). However, there are some even better ones out now.
Some of the shareware ones are even better than the commercial ones
(Megaroids, MacLanding).
>ONE MORE QUESTION! Are there any programs that can let the MAc display the
>Greek alphabet?
>
all of them. Get the Symbol font.
>I know, lots of questions, lots of questions.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Roger Espinosa
>
>--
> Roger R. Espinosa
> Live from the Rabbit Ranch
> ihnp4!ihlpg!rre
Jeffrey A. Hallett (hallett@ge-crd.arpa hallett@desdemona.uucp)
Software Technology Program
General Electric Corporate Research and Development
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"The needs of the few outweigh the needs of the many"
-- Kirk (STIII)
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for giving me this thing.
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!steinmetz!macbeth!hallett From: hallett@macbeth.steinmetz (Jeff R Hallett) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: New Mac Owner-type Needs Help Message-ID: <7018@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> Date: Mon, 17-Aug-87 08:39:02 EDT Article-I.D.: steinmet.7018 Posted: Mon Aug 17 08:39:02 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 18-Aug-87 06:05:43 EDT References: <3656@ihlpg.ATT.COM> Sender: root@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP Reply-To: hallett@macbeth.UUCP (Jeff R Hallett) Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY Lines: 67 Keywords: Not me, a friend