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===Amiga=== In 1987, WordPerfect was ported to the [[Amiga 1000]]<ref>{{cite news |newspaper = Info World |date = September 14, 1987 |title = Advertisement |page = 104 |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=vDsEAAAAMBAJ&q=amiga+wordperfect&pg=PT1 }}</ref> and was upgraded through version 4.1 on the [[Amiga]] platform despite rumors of its discontinuation.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.plinkplink.com/spectrum-holobyte/multimedia.html |title = Amiga Gets More Perfect }}</ref> The company's efforts were not well supported by Amiga users and it did not sell well.<ref name="anonymous-insider.net">{{cite web |url = http://www.anonymous-insider.net/amiga/research/1991/0109.html |title = When will new WordPerfect be available? |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://archive.today/20120723061536/http://www.anonymous-insider.net/amiga/research/1991/0109.html |archive-date = July 23, 2012 }}</ref><ref name="AlmostPerfect9">{{harvp|Peterson|2012}} Chapter 9: [http://www.wordplace.com/ap/ap_chap09.shtml Going to Hawaii].</ref> Though it could be started from the [[Workbench (AmigaOS)|Workbench]] or [[Command-line interface|CLI]], WordPerfect remained a fundamentally text-oriented program and retained its DOS command structure.<ref>{{cite web |url = https://www.scribd.com/doc/14565614/Commodore-Magazine-Vol09N03-1988-Mar |title = Commodore Magazine review }}</ref> Satellite Software received criticism for releasing a non-graphical word processor on a graphically oriented system.<ref name="anonymous-insider.net"/> In 1989, WordPerfect Corporation stopped all Amiga development, including work on a version of PlanPerfect, stating that it had lost $800,000 on the computer and could not afford to add Amiga-specific features. After customers stated that they would be satisfied with a DOS-like word processor the company resumed development of only the Amiga version of WordPerfect,<ref name="atkin198908">{{cite news |url = https://archive.org/stream/1989-08-compute-magazine/Compute_Issue_111_1989_Aug#page/n7/mode/2up |title = Amiga Isn't Perfect |work = Compute! |date = August 1989 |access-date = November 11, 2013 |last = Atkin |first = Denny |page = 7 }}</ref> but discontinued it in 1992.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.anonymous-insider.net/amiga/research/1992/0217.html |title = WordPerfect Letter Writing Campaign |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://archive.today/20120718091017/http://www.anonymous-insider.net/amiga/research/1992/0217.html |archive-date = July 18, 2012 }}</ref>
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