The Last Word On Source Code Editing

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As stated in the Development Environment section, I'm using The Last Word, an 80-column Atari 8-bit word processor by Jonathan Halliday. It is a relatively recent release, with the latest copyright date of 2013. I'm using The Last Word version 3.21b.


There is no menu in The Last Word, as in the various AtariWriter versions. I use CONTROL-L to load my source file and CONTROL-S to save. It also doesn't require the Atari XEP80 Interface Module for 80-columns.

Once I downloaded The Last Word Version 3.21b, I renamed the LW.EXE file on the disk image to AUTORUN.SYS so that the word processor would run automagically when the disk is booted.

Another nice feature of The Last Word is that is that is allows you to have multiple banks of memory that you can switch between. This allows you to have multiple Pascal files open at the same time for editing.

From the main program, memory banks are selected with:

<SHIFT+CONTROL+n> where n can be any one of the number keys, but in this development environment it is typically 1 or 2.

Also, to generate the ^ character (for Kyan Pascal Pointers), in The Last Word, type ESC then SHIFT-6. You also might need the underscore character, particularly when writing inline assembly code. It can be entered with ESC then SHIFT-_.

See The Last Word User's Manual included in the .zip file for more information.

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