#WPCorp & Amiga
OK, things are looking up, the decision has been made.
As of today (8 May 1989) WordPerfect Corporation will continue to do new
development on WordPerfect for the Amiga. Three programmers will be working on
both maintaining version 4.1 and Library, and additionally they will be working
on a future version of WordPerfect.
Due to these limited resources, development will procede at a slower pace. No
attempt will be made to do a 6.0 product for the time being. However, features
will be added to the current product to move it in that direction.
Currently, the first priority is to complete the maintanence update of 4.1.
This should take less than a month.
Next, development will be done on the new version. The current plans are not
complete, but here are some of the ideas:
– 4.2 file format
– Print preview
– Sort
– Document comments
– ARexx support
– Non-interactive spell checking
– Better scroll bar support
– Other 4.2 & 5.0 enhancements (dependant on demand & time)
We can now move forward and get back to doing some real work on the Amiga.
Please let me know of any opinions you have on the next version of
WordPerfect. We have not totally ruled out graphics support, it is
something we are considering, but with the limited resources it is hard to
justify. We will, of course be looking at fixing the anomalies of 4.1
(scroll bars) along with adding the new features.
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\X/ Lynn