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Quikview

maboroshin edited this page Aug 8, 2025 · 17 revisions

QuickView is a variety of computer programs that quickly display files. Historically, it has been described as Quikview without the “C”.

Quick View 1.0 on Atari ST (1989)

The 1989 journal of The Milwaukee Area Atari Users Group introduced a text display program called Quikview. According to Atarimania, The Quick View for Atari released in 1989 was a text viewer. It is probably the same one.

The following is a reproduction of the description screen.

Quick View 1.0
When viewing a file, the cursor keys
can be used to scroll through the
file. Alphanumeric keys are unesed.

F1 - pageb up F3 - top of file
F2 - page down F4 - end of file

Use the ESC key to exit View mode.
Usethe Quick Print accessory to
generate text-only screen dumps.

Dr. Bob's .IMG Quick View on Atari ST (1989)

It is described as “View (mono only) IMG files, very fast.”

QuikView on Apple2000 (1991)

TimeOut-Central is a series of 3.5-inch disks published by Resource-Central. This appears to be a product for TimeOut that runs on AppleWorks. One of these apps for TimeOut is QuikView. This opens an AppleWorks word processor file. This is also a text viewer, as the sample includes “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”.

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