ScriptThing Discontinued
Died in name only — it became Movie Magic Screenwriter.
At a glance
- Maker
- ScriptPerfection Enterprises, Inc.
- First release
- —
- Discontinued
- —
- Status
- Discontinued — the app is dead
- Platforms
- DOS, Windows
- Pricing
- Was commercial (mid-1990s)
- Native formats
- — own binary format (undocumented); exported to word processors
What it is
ScriptThing (early 1990s, San Diego) was a well-regarded formatter whose acquisition by Write Brothers in the late 1990s turned it into Movie Magic Screenwriter. It never really died — it metamorphosed.
What people are saying
The good
Remembered as a fast, competent 1990s Windows writer with fond first-hand recollections, and its DNA survived: Write Brothers retooled it into Movie Magic Screenwriter, one of the industry’s longest-standing apps.
The bad
What users recall most is the downgrade from DOS immediacy to sluggish early Windows versions, and as a distinct product it died by absorption. Almost no dedicated community commentary survives.
Paraphrased consensus from user reviews, forums and retrospective coverage across the web.
Where it came from
The original team later built Power Structure, marketed as “from the team that brought you ScriptThing and Movie Magic Screenwriter.” A DOS copy is preserved on the Internet Archive, runnable under DOSBox.
Worth knowing
ScriptThing’s author, Nima Yousefi, resurfaced as co-creator of Fountain — the format designed to end lock-in forever.