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On Monday, 12 April 2021 20:19:26 BST maceion@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Answers and thanks for very quick response. > No Amstrad machine available. No old drive available . > Only 'residue' of copy on modern computer as a 'file' > and copy of file on a 3.5" modern floppy. > (Amstrad was a 3" Japanese file format) > > I have copy file (saved to Ext 4 data disc) but it does not open in any > systems I use. Not sure I have much greater insight, but I did hack on these in 1986 to 1990, although the Internet drew me away a lot. The WordPressor was LocoScript, the format for v1 is documented publicly. https://www.seasip.info/Unix/Joyce/ls1frm.html There are converters and versions of LocoScript around, apparently later DOS versions of LocoScript run under WINE on Linux, but it is all ancient Windows versions so even emulating that will be a pain, but probably the quickest way. It might be useful to just make a macro/importer for LibreOffice if one isn't around, so we can just go straight from file to Word Processor. Lococon here in Pascal might be handy reference. http://www.fvempel.nl/domain.html No idea on the copyright situation, Locomotive are long gone, and presumably they had a licensed copy of LocoScript before. People are selling disk images online of you could run in Joyce for £10, but how legit that is, and whether it will help if you do manage to run it is unclear. Emulating the PCW seems the most fun approach ;) Tell us what you have precisely, a file, what size, what format is reported. As it isn't clear to me if you have the file, or the disk image. The disk image has tools in libdsk-utils on Debian to extract files. I know folks who might have meatier docs, but it will likely be buried in another county under a lot of dust. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG https://mailman.dcglug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq