> Winner of 9 Coveted Awards

> Winner of 9 Coveted Awards
> Including
> MACWORLD's
> Reader's Choice 1993
> "World Class Award" | ? Lightning Fast
> ? Full-Featured
> ? Space-Saving | POWER
> Word Processing
> For the Macintosh
> ---|---|---
> WriteNow
> ---
> THE LEAN MEAN | MAC | | WRITING MACHINE
>
> When All You Want To Do Is Write, WriteNow
> Many word processors today are burdened with features you seldom
> use. All they do is take up space and slow you down.
>
> Power, Pure And Simple
> WriteNow is word processing at it's best. It doesn't simply beat
> competing word processors, including the most famous, it annihilates
> them.
>
> Effortless Table Making
> No other table maker lets you create tables this easily! Arrange
> columns and rows | instantly, split cells vertically or
> horizontally, merge cells together, select border styles and choose
> background color from an 88 color palette. Includes predesigned
> table templates to get you going WriteNow!
>
> Graphics Galore And A Kaleidoscope of Color
> WriteNow Version 4.0 has improved graphics import and editing
> capabilities so you can add impact to your writing instantly! You
> can crop, scale and position any EPS, PICT or MacPaint files
> anywhere in your | document without leaving the program. Work in
> full color or 88 shades of gray, the largest choice of any Mac word
> processor.
>
> Optimize Your Powerbook
> WriteNow has special features for Powerbook users, including being
> engineered to maximize battery life.
>
>
>
>
> If you appreciate efficiency make WriteNow your everyday word
> processor because it doesn't waste time, energy or space.
> ---|---|---
> POWER WHERE IT COUNTS? | | WriteNow 4.0 | MS Word 5.1 | MacWrite
> Pro | ClarisWorks 2.0
> ---|---|---|---|---
> Recommended RAM | 595 K | 2048K | 1024K | 950K
> Spell Check 12 Pages | 16 sec. | 30.1 sec. | 21 sec. | 28 sec.
> Save 100 Pages | 2.9 sec. | 11.7 sec. | 19 sec. | 7.2 sec.
> Dictionary | 135,000
> words | 88,000 | 100,000 | 100,000
> Now
> Includes
> [Correct
> Grammar][1]

? WriteNow 4 box text (first line from front; rest from rear)

(Sidebar: The amusing statement "Now Includes Correct Grammar" appears
to refer to Lifetree's [Correct
Grammar?][1] application. Guess nobody noticed that, the way it's
shown on the box, implies previous versions of WriteNow had incorrect
grammar!)

> ### "Powerful but minimal word processor."
>
> WriteNow was originally written for Apple Computer because Steve
> Jobs feared [MacWrite][2] would not be ready to be released with the
> Macintosh in 1984. Of course, MacWrite was completed on time. It is
> unclear as to how WriteNow made its way to NeXT, Inc. with Steve
> Jobs, but it was eventually released by NeXT as a commercial
> product. Additionally, it was ported to NEXTSTEP and bundled with
> the NeXTstation until the early 1990s.
>
> WriteNow was transferred over to T/Maker, the publisher of WriteNow,
> after NeXT began worrying third-party developers, like WordPerfect,
> would have issues with a free word processor being distributed with
> the NeXT machines. Therefore, version 3.0 of WriteNow was no longer
> bundled and was released under T/Maker. To mask the origins further,
> WordStar purchased the rights to WriteNow, most likely in 1992.
> Thus, version 4.0 was released by WordStar.
>
> The end of WriteNow came with the purchase of WordStar by The
> Learning Company in 1994. Apparently, WriteNow was written in 68K
> assembly, making it fast running but difficult to port. This is just
> an assumption, but is possible The Learning Company ended WriteNow
> because they did not want to deal with porting it to the newly
> released PowerPC machines Apple released. Even though the PowerPC
> machines could run 68K coded programs, the end of the 68K-based
> machines was in sight. Porting the code would eventually be
> necessary.

? [www.oldermacs.com][3]

Compatibility
Architecture: 68k

WriteNow v3 Requirements:
512ke
Two 800K disc drives
System 4.2 / Finder 6.0; or System 7

WriteNow v4 Requirements:
Macintosh 512Ke
System 4.2 / Finder 6.0; or System 7
* v4 works well in Classic (at least on Tiger, PPC)

[1]: http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/correct-grammar
[2]: http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/macwrite
[3]: http://www.oldermacs.com/st/mac/writenow