Comment by egypturnash
5 days ago
"5. The Newsroom. Platform: Apple II, IBM PC"
shows a distinctly c64-looking splash screen
Wikipedia says it was for Apple ][, MS-DOS, C64, and Atari 8-bits. The first two came out in 1984, the c64 and Atari ports followed in 1985/7.
anyway, now I'm having flashbacks to meticulously pushing pixels in The Print Shop to make an image of J.R. "Bob" Dobbs to use in greeting cards and tractor-feed banners.
We used this application in a middle school English class I had. It was very fun even if not the most powerful application. IIRC, each page was broken up into six segments. If your article was longer than one segment you had to save two files. If changes made in segment 1 spilled over into segment 2, you had to redraft two files. fun times!
That's amazingly inconvenient. Wow.