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02.Jun.2024 Amiga Kit: Final Writer 7 pre-installed on A600GS
Press release: Final Writer has been in put back into active development over recent years (amiga-news.de reported). Version 7 will soon will make it's debut pre-installed on the A600GS computer.

Final Writer is a famous word processor for the Amiga computer originally developed by SoftWood in the mid 1990s. It rapidly developed a significant loyal fan base amongst the Amiga community.

In 2015 it was purchased by Timothy Deters and put back into development after a 20 year hiatus. A large investment of work has been carried out implementing a new spell checker compatible with Open Office dictionaries, RTG fixes, FTP, IPP PDF and Turboprint printing.

AmigaKit Ltd and Timothy Deters are pleased to announce that a special edition of Final Writer 7 will be pre-installed on the A600GS alongside it's other updated applications of OctaMED 8, PPaint 7.4 and Directory Opus 4.

Final Writer can be started from AmiBench, the desktop environment and will open on a 1080P screen. Final Writer 7 Special Edition is fully functional with the exception of the Spell Checker module which will be offered to A600GS users as an optional paid upgrade.

Matthew Leaman, MD of AmigaKit Ltd commented on the collaboration: "We are very pleased to work with Timothy bundling the brand new edition of Final Writer on the A600GS low cost hardware platform. Final Writer is popular and much loved Amiga word processor. A significant amount of hard work has gone into bringing this application back to our community to the credit of Timothy and his developers. New versions of Final Writer complementing OctaMED and Personal Paint represents the renewal of Amiga applications."

Timothy Deters, owner of Final Writer added: "I'm happy to have come to an agreement with AmigaKit to include Final Writer with their system. I’d like to thank the developers who worked on this project and have been instrumental to its completion."

The A600GS computer system is due for launch in the second quarter of 2024. (dr)

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