(Forgot to ask this additional question.)

If installed to a USB memory stick (and assuming it does indeed allow AWP to then be launched from the stick on various other Windows machines), would I be correct in also assuming that the installation is somehow tied and locked to that particular memory stick device (hence, the application is not truly "portable" in the normal sense)?

If so, it is acceptable as I'm sure the developer wants and needs to prevent the rampant distribution of a licensed and full-featured copy.

I'm just curious as I only have one blank spare memory stick at the moment to try this on! I wouldn't want to install it to a stick already loaded other private stuff/images/documents/data that I'd be hesitant to expose to other people's machine environments.

Looking forward to a reply from Atlantis Word Processor -- thank you!

HMarx, the drive letter is irrelevant to a portable copy of Atlantis Word Processor.

Atlantis Word Processor, does AWP automatically updates drive letters for i.e. recently used documents when run in portable mode?

Catherine, what error?

Dan Pieniak,
odt is from Open Office, a free (and superior) alternative to Word, but Atlantis is far better.

How did you get it to open old Wordperfect files? When I tried, it doesn't even recognize them as word processing files. And when I tried to force the issue, all I got was some code and no text.

Would be nice to have a program that could deal with all my old wpd files. :/

nessie, Hope this e-mails goes........
Sorry - I think I posted too soon..... they might have been .doc files. I will have to find some .wpd files to try. But those were about 4 computers before - from the 1990s :-)

Dan Pieniak, the present version of Atlantis Word Processor does not support the proprietary document formats of WordPerfect.

Atlantis Word Processor, Thanks.... I was about to buy Wordperfect at Walmarts for $50. This will do, I hope for the few times I need a word processor.

nessie, You might try changing the type of document to .doc by just renaming the document, I changed an odt file to a rtf by just right clicking and renaming it e.g. changing work.wpd to work.rtf.

capeden2001@yahoo.com,

The giveaway edition of Atlantis Word Processor does not require a registration code. When you choose the "Help | Check for Updates..." command of Atlantis, it displays the following message:

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You are using a giveaway version of Atlantis Word Processor.
Are you sure that you want to replace your giveaway copy of Atantis Word Processor with a trial copy of the latest standard version of Atlantis Word Processor? (Yes / No)
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If you click "Yes", your giveaway copy of Atlantis gets replaced with the standard trial version of Atlantis that requires registration.

So if you want to keep the giveaway version of Atlantis, you should not replace it with the standard version of Atlantis.

You might wish to reinstall the giveaway version one more time.

Simon, Windows' Notepad is even more simpler and faster. ;)

Nigel, there is no portable version. But you can install this version to a USB stick:
https://www.atlantiswordprocessor.com/en/help/flash_drives.htm

Atlantis Word Processor,
That's odd, because I already have "AtlantisPortable.exe" version 3.2.13.5 on my computer, today's minor update shouldn't change things?

Nigel, we never had a "portable" version of Atlantis Word Processor as such. A file named "AtlantisPortable.exe" never been available for download from our site. But any copy of Atlantis Word Processor becomes portable if you install it to a USB drive.

Nigel,
I simply copy all of ATLANTIS folder to a USB disk, and it's been running well!

King Kong, this method is not correct because the Atlantis files are stored under multiple folders (including system folders). You should use the "Tools | Install To..." command instead:
https://www.atlantiswordprocessor.com/en/help/install_to.htm

Nigel,
http://links.giveawayoftheday.com/s/atlantiswordprocessor.com/en%2Fhelp%2Fsystem_requirements.htm guides how to install an installed ATLANTIS on USB disk

Nigel, I compared its installer files by extracting them with 7-Zip and found these different:
.reloc Different 178 bytes differ
CERTIFICATE Different 579 bytes differ
CODE Different 3,718 bytes differ
DATA Different 1 bytes differ
.rsrc\0\FILES\FILES Different, Right is newer 2,818,624 bytes differ
.rsrc\0\RCDATA\TMAINDLGFORM Different, Right is newer 2 bytes differ

Eh, it's free and updated. Just don't get the updates after installing it since it turns it back to trialware. ;)

Gary, While I also downloaded Open Office 10 years ago, it's worth providing a link to LibreOffice, since most now recommend it over Open Office. https://www.libreoffice.org/

Gary, and..... what does that have to do with this offering?

Gary,
How much space do Open Office, Libre Office, MS Office take? For want of a word processor, ATLANTIS takes less than 6MB space--installed, and it can be run from a USB disk!

r singh,

They are showing alternatives to help contrast this offering to allow users to better understand the marketplace so they don't make a poor choice.

Gary, Apache takes a lot longer to load than Atlantis does, because of all its components.

Gary, Apache's OO is outdated. Use LibreOffice: https://www.libreoffice.org

Gary,

I have OpenOffice, LibreOffice, Ability Office, Softmaker Office, WPS Office, MS Office, and Atlantis Word Processor, and my "Go to" choice has consistently been Atlantis for word processing over all the others. It is extremely rare that I have to resort to one of the others, usually only when I am given a file that incorporates some features of MS Word that the others do not have.

I purchased Atlantis Word Processor a few years back after trying out the offers like this one. The updates are lifetime so I am not worried that it cost money over a free choice.

The updates are ongoing pretty frequently, and if I wish to update the program, I can initiate the update from within the program. It will do the update and restart Atlantis, no need to download, locate, execute the new setup, then start the program again.

I love OpenSource software like OpenOffice and LibreOffice, but there are many times that a purchase of similar software is well worth it. The money I spent is a minimal expense to see this software keep growing. I don't think I have heard anyone that has bought it say that they regret it. For Atlantis, I feel like I can't live without it.

King Kong,
Thank you for the USB disk info :-)
On to of that I can add that Atlantis Word Processor will seemingly run almost any PC because it says that System requirements are these :

Atlantis Word Processor requires one the following operating systems:
Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10.

Atlantis can be also run on Linux with Wine.

Source : https://www.atlantiswordprocessor.com/en/help/system_requirements.htm

N/A,
Great! I'll try it out on LINUX! It'll be great if ATLANTIS on my USB disk can be run using WINE. Thanks for your advice!