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Blackbeard/2
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Name	Blackbeard/2
Version	1.20 (1989-07-31)
Vendor
Author	James K. Powers Jim Dodgen (OS/2 version)
Licence	Shareware
WWW

Blackbeard/2 is a programmer's editor that derived from the earlier Blackbeard editor for DOS.

Spyglass Document Generator (SGMAN)

Features

Compile/Review
Help facility
Language templates (defaults to C)
Macro facility
Multi level key binding

OEM versions

While the editor became much less popular during the 90s than it had been in the 80s the programs author managed to get a number of OEM deals for the program so it might be more familiar to users as a bundled text editor.

Lahey shipped an OEM version of Captain Blackbeard with all of their DOS compiler products from ca. 1989 onwards.
Meridian Systems shipped it with their Meridian Open Ada compilers but renamed it ACE and removed any references to Blackbeard.
The LaTeX editing system LaCoD was also built on top of Blackbeard.

Versions

1.00 (1988)
1.03
1.10
1.12
1.13 (1989)
1.20 (1989-07-31)

Links

bb2_120.zip

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-A shareware programmers editor originally released for [[DOS]] in 1985 by James Powers as Blackbeard version 3.6. Its main claim to fame was at the time was the support for multiple windows and the ability to act as a TSR and it came with a separate formatter for printing purposes that also gave the editor some rudimentary word processing function.
+'''Blackbeard/2''' is a programmer's editor that derived from the earlier [[Blackbeard]] editor for DOS.
-The editor had a few problem though that kept it from becoming a major success, the handling of large files was rudimentary which could make it extremely slow to work with larger files, it was also painfully slow on an XT class system and the author kept switching compilers meaning that each new version came with a new set of bugs, not necessarily related to the new code.
+Spyglass Document Generator (SGMAN)
+==Features==
+* Compile/Review
+* Help facility
+* Language templates (defaults to C)
+* Macro facility
+* Multi level key binding
 ;OEM versions