ScuzzBlog: Diaries September 2025 Entry 5th September 2025: Post 1: Amiga 500 - Finding a good text editor. Amiga 500 - Finding a good text editor. I tend to feel a little guilty reaching for CygnusED every time I use a text editor on the website. It's not that there isn't a rich number of text editors out there for the Amiga, it's just that for me none can compete with the simplicity CED offers together with the vast array of editing tools. In my efforts to create my own Workbench disk I decided to put CED to one side and see what else I could use that was suitable. For this I ventured onto the Fred Fish Archive and sorted through 1000 disks and with the help of Aminet I downloaded a good number of the listed text editors. Having tried them all out I can honestly say that with the exception of EdWord I don't believe any of them came even remotely close to the functionality of CED. I appreciate that these were PD based editors and not commercial products, but the test has to be at least that the software works as a basic text editor. For the most part they failed to compete. If you want to check them out for yourself I show the list. Just do a search on Aminet and decrunch the LHA file and have a play. I was hoping of finding an editor of a small size to fit on my disc but I failed. So for now CED will have to be used as a separate disk. Amiga 500 - Finding a good text editor. ~ Previously on scuzzblog ~ Previously on scuzzblog: CED - CygnusEd Professional Release 2.

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