Locoscript transfer / getting hold of lococonv.exe ?

[wat...@gmail.com]

I am trying to transfer some files from Locoscript 2 to PC format. I think I need to get hold of lococonv.exe, but the site that used to host it locoonv.kerys.co.uk seems to be permanentely down.

Does anyone have a copy or know where else I could get hold of it?

Many thanks.

-- Dan Evans

[Brian Watson]

<wat...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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SD Micros bought the rights to Locoscript for the PCW and maintain a website
at http://www.locoscript.ukf.net/

They still offer file transfers and
http://www.locoscript.ukf.net/wizard/index.htm may also be useful to you.

Also this from the Ask Jack page at The Guardian newspaper;

"LocoScript was the word processor used in the Amstrad PCW, and the company
still has a website at locoscript.com. This gives a PO box address and a
phone number, or email sa...@locoscript.com. LocoScript offers disk and file
conversion services, with prices starting at £11.75 per disk. John King,
last mentioned in this column in 2002, offers a cheaper service, which costs
£3.50 for the first disk. Anyone who still has valuable data on PCW disks
should really get it converted sooner rather than later. PCW addicts unable
to let go can get Joyce, a free emulator for Unix, Windows and Mac OS X. The
PCW was codenamed Joyce, after Alan Sugar's secretary."

I used to do free transfers for people who wanted their Protext docs
transferred to a PC format.

Then, as my time got short, I started quoting a modest amount per disc to do
it.

That killed off enquiries because the overwhelming majority of people who
have hung on to a CPC or PCW until 2010 (the year I stopped offering) are
too mean to pay for such a service.

Cruel but fair.

:-)
--
Brian
"Fight like the Devil, die like a gentleman."