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title: "Basil’s Right-Typer or Write Your Own Word-Processor Program"
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published_at: "2024-06-04T10:14:37+00:00"
modified_at: "2024-06-04T19:08:42+00:00"
author: "David Anderson"
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excerpt: "The following is a step-by-step description of how I wrote the program, and why I wrote it as I did. The program as described applies to the TS 2068. Some of the principles described can be modified to work on the good ol’ ZX81/TS 1000, but only with serious limitations. The biggest problem with the…"
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  - name: "John (Basil) Wentworth"
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doc_author: "Basil Wentworth"
document_url: "https://archive.org/details/syncware-news-docs/Basil%27s%20Right-Typer%20or%20Write%20Your%20Own%20Word-Processor%20Program"
pages: 26
document_date: "198x"
---

The following is a step-by-step description of how I wrote the program, and why I wrote it as I did. The program as described applies to the TS 2068. Some of the principles described can be modified to work on the good ol’ ZX81/TS 1000, but only with serious limitations. The biggest problem with the ZX81 is the limited character font, including the absence of lower-case letters. And the membrane keyboard sort of discourages one from thinking in terms of word-processing, unless a keyboard enhancer has been added.