MScript

Products: MSCRIPT
Date: 1983
Type: Program
Platform(s): TS 2068

A tape copy of MScript, the Micro-Systems Software 64-column word processor, from the ts2068messages collection on archive.org. Unlike the original release, it has no BASIC set-up menu. A short loader program draws a box and shows the letters of “MSCRIPT” stepping diagonally across the screen in changing colours with a beep for each letter, then the words “21st CENTURY ELECTRONICS presents MSCRIPT” and “© MICRO SYSTEMS SOFTWARE”, while it loads the code.

The loader loads a 7,931-byte code file named MSCRIPT at 36864 with the tape header messages hidden (POKE 23570,16) and starts it with PRINT USR 36864. The editor inside identifies itself as “MSCRIPT 1.00 (c) Micro-Systems Software Inc.”

This code is the editor part of the original MSCODE (#50517), from 36864 on, with about 114 bytes changed. The first 1,064 bytes of the original, from 35800 to 36863, are not here, and neither is the BASIC menu that selects the printer interface, saves and loads text and offers the memory utility. Which printer interface this copy is set for is not known.

Other copies: #50517 MScript (Original), #50518 MScript (AROS, Tasman) and #50566 MScript (FD68).

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MSCRIPT is the only word processor that uses the 64 character mode on the T/S 2068.

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