1988, By Rick Mathewson. The Text Manager was written to be used for creating and editing terminal buffers. Docs are on the disk. Kind of like a word processor, this program is quite nice!

1988,1989 by Rick Mathewson. The TEXT MANAGER was written to be used for creating and editing messages captured/sent via modem. Most terminals lack a good buffer editor although they are becoming a bit more popular now.

1987 by K.P. Cormack. Text File Editor is just like it says. This is an 80 column program. The difference between this editor and a word processor is that it operates on lines of text versus text bodies. Docs are on the disk.

ArcheType by Mark Jordan is an 80 column word processor for the Commodore 128.  Originally released in the 1986 May/June issue of Commodore Microcomputers. ArcheType was also released on Loadstar issue #25 (1986).  Included in the archive is a nice review of the program that you can pull up in ArcheType to read.  In the June/July 1986 issue of Commore PowerPlay magazine, there is a type in listing for some enhancements to ArcheType.

Easy Letter 128 makes short business correspondence a breeze! If you know who you want to send a letter to and what you want to say, this program does the rest. It even remembers your choice of two return addresses as well as your printer preferences.

Fontmaster 128 v1.4 by Xetec (Written by Marty Flickinger) - The following is an excerpt from the manual:

Dozens of word processors are available for small computers. What makes Fontmaster special? While other companies are spending their energy thinking of new ways to edit text, we spend our time dreaming of new ways to print text. The foundation for the Fontmaster system is a unique process that produces near-letter-quality fonts on many low cost dot-matrix printers. Here are some of the many things that you can do with Fontmaster 128:

• Write and edit text quickly
• Rearrange text with easy to use commands
• Format your printed output anyway you want (over 70 instructions to control format)
• Check output with video preview
• Insert graphics of any size into your text
• Change the print font as often as you want, anywhere in your text
• Control over 15 text special effects with the press of a key
• Create and print form letters
• Print text in columns (up to four)
• Use files created with other popular word processors
• Create your own fonts (or modify ones on the disk)
• Write in foreign languages using bilingual feature
• Write using “righttoleft” languages such as hebrew

Here is a link to the Fontmaster 128 manual

A few days ago, I posted a short document (found here) on how to make a GeoCable for connecting the user port on a Commodore 64 to the parallel port on a printer.  The defunct website also had a link to a patch that could be applied to The Write Stuff word processor.  I wasn't really sure what to do with that patch, but BlueCursor from the website www.imacommodork.com was kind enough to not only write out directions on how to use the patch, he also extracted the necessary files from the .bin archive and put them into a D64 image.

Additionally, I recently found this website that has some further information on the GeoCable topic.

GoofED 128 v1.0 by Ed Parry is a simple but full featured text editor for the Commodore 128.

Letter Writer 128 v3.1 for the Commodore 128 (80 Columns) is a simple but powerful text editor.

Note Pad 128 v1.3 for the Commodore 128 (80 Columns) is a really cool and easy to use text editor worth advanced features like word wrap and autosave.

Presto Write 128 by Bob Kodadek for the Commodore 128 (80 Columns) is a nice clean and simple text editor that fits in just 7 blocks of disk space.

Quick Edit 128 v6.1 by Stephen Fergusson, Kirk McMillan and Chris Fleming.  Although there isn't any documentation, this capable text editor / word processor is easy enough to navigate and is feature rich, so it's worth putting in your Commodore 128 toolbox.

Run Script 128 Version 2.40 is an 80-Column word processor for the C-128. All features that were present in RUN Script 64 Version 1.0 (see the March and April 1986 Editions of RUN) are still present in this version, but there are many enhancements and additions. There are 18 new dot commands and about 30 additional new features. Run Script 128 gives you about 68,000 bytes for your documents.

SpeedScript 128+ is the final version of this famous word processing program for the Commodore 128.  Included on the disk is also the original version plus the patch that turns it into the + version.

Superscript 128 - The Intelligent Word Processor for your Commodore 128.

Here's a link to the User Manual

** Update February 20th, 2023 - Inside this archive are a couple versions ranging from 1.34 to 1.83.  Thanks to Bruce Thomas for pointing out how to identify the version.  I will break these out into their appropriate archive.

The Write Stuff 128 by Busy Bee Software (1988) - This has to be the ultimate word processor for the Commodore 128.  There are so many features and capabilities that it would take pages to list them, so I'll just link to the Reference Manual so you can check it out yourself.  Here is a quick overview pulled from the reference manual:

The Write Stuff 128 is a collection of word processing software. The main program, BB Writer, is a high productivity, feature-laden word processor for the Commodore 128. Although designed to meet the needs of advanced users, BB Wr iter, when used in "menu mode," is equally suitable for use by children and occasional users. BB Writer allows all essential edit-print-load-save features to be selected from menus. No special keyboard or embedded commands need to be learned. However, as the user gains experience, over 100 advanced features can be selected using keyboard and embedded commands.

This archive was pulled from a couple sources.  The first souce was from CBM128.COM (which is a great source for all things Commodore 128), and the second source was from a Lemon64 Forum post where a user that goes by "thomcbm64" kindly shared a download link.  In the archive are both the 40-column and 80-column versions, but there is also an additional 80-colum version which I believe (not positive) is version 2.  I can't find anywhere in the program itself where it states it's version 2, but it loads differently than the version 1 (which states it's version 1).

Here is a link to the reference manual, and another to the startup/quick refence

I also recommend checking out this excellent blog post from the amigalove.com website that has good information and an interesting thread of comments.

This is an upgrade to "The Write Stuff 128" word processing program to allow printing from a Cannon BubbleJet and most 24 pin Epson compatible dot-matrix printers.  Credit for these printer drivers got to Ron Hackley, the author of the "Fun Graphics Machine".  Thanks to Jack Vander White of Commodore CEE for putting this together and sharing with the world.

Word Writer 128 is an 80-column professional word processing system for home and business.  Includes an 85,000 word spelling checker and a built-in 5 function calculator.

ZED 128 v0.77 written by Craig Bruce and released on February 16th, 1993 - Full docs are inside the disk image.

Zed is a text-editor program for the Commodore-128 80-column screen. To use it, just LOAD and RUN the "ZED-128" binary file. Be sure to save it in PRG format.

Here is a summary of Zed's important features:

• Works with *BIG* text files.
• 100% unadulterated machine code with high-speed VDC accessing.
• Uses Burst commands for reading 1571 and 1581 files.
• Uses a dynamically allocated data structure to hold the editor document and the "Kill Buffer".
• Will optionally expand TAB characters into spaces while loading a file and compress spaces into TABs while saving.
• Global search and replace.
• Range delete and recall.
• File translation to and from ASCII-CrLf?, ASCII-Lf, ASCII-Cr, and SPEEDSCRIPT character codes.
• Has a feature for cutting and filling (juggling) text lines to form paragraphs with roughly the same number of characters on each line.

And here is its major limitation: 

• Has a maximum line length of 80 characters. It will split file lines longer than that.