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''Stop Press'' was the debugged version of ''AMX Pagemaker''. During the debugging session, US company Aldus registered Pagemaker as a trademark forcing AMS to change the name. To accompany the release, a data disc of fonts and clip art was included - this was entitled ''Extra Extra''.  
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''Stop Press'' was the debugged version of ''AMX Pagemaker''. During the debugging session, US company Aldus registered Pagemaker as a trademark forcing [[Advanced Memory Systems]] to change the name. To accompany the release, a data disc of fonts and clip art was included - this was entitled ''Extra Extra''.  
  
 
Page files for ''Stop Press'' could be so huge, it almost filled a side of a standard 3" disc. A third party compressor was released in 1988/9 by a company called Medway/King.
 
Page files for ''Stop Press'' could be so huge, it almost filled a side of a standard 3" disc. A third party compressor was released in 1988/9 by a company called Medway/King.
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== Pictures ==
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<gallery>
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File:Stop Cover.jpg|Soft Press Utilities For The Amstrad CPC Range
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File:Users Guide.jpg|Stop Press - Users Guide
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File:Extra Users Guide.jpg|Extra! Extra! Utilities - Users Guide
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File:Stop Side1.jpg|Stop Press - Side 1
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File:Stop Side2.jpg|Stop Press - Side 2
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File:Fonts Side1.jpg|Extra! Extra! - Fonts Side 1
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File:Clip Art Side1.jpg|Clip Art - Side 1
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File:Clip Art Side2.jpg|Clip Art - Side 2
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</gallery>
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== Download ==
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* [[Media:Stop_Press.zip‎|Stop Press Discs (English)]] [http://www.jonathanen.com/pages/Items/AMX/Stop_Press.zip] (zipped .DSK files)
  
 
== Reviews ==
 
== Reviews ==
  
Stop press was reviewed and compared to the [[Fleet Street Editor]] in Amstrad Computer User - [[ACU Issue 12, 1988]] page 58.
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Stop press was reviewed and compared to the in Amstrad Computer User - page 58.

Latest revision as of 19:07, 16 March 2012

Stop Press was the debugged version of AMX Pagemaker. During the debugging session, US company Aldus registered Pagemaker as a trademark forcing Advanced Memory Systems to change the name. To accompany the release, a data disc of fonts and clip art was included - this was entitled Extra Extra.

Page files for Stop Press could be so huge, it almost filled a side of a standard 3" disc. A third party compressor was released in 1988/9 by a company called Medway/King.

Pictures

Download

Reviews

Stop press was reviewed and compared to the in Amstrad Computer User - page 58.