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WordStar !!! Holy retro, Batman ... What's next, VisiCalc ??!
I remember using WordStar in the early 80s ... If this is a nostalgia-trip objective kinda thing, I would start by following the links suggested above by Jjanel ...
The option of running the original WordStar executable (if you can find it ...) in DosBox would probably be your best bet ...
WordStar !!! Holy retro, Batman ... What's next, VisiCalc ??!
I remember using WordStar in the early 80s ... If this is a nostalgia-trip objective kinda thing, I would start by following the links suggested above by Jjanel ...
The option of running the original WordStar executable (if you can find it ...) in DosBox would probably be your best bet ...
Cheers !
Man, if you used WordStar, you must be very old. Respect.
WordStar was a good concept at that time, when one think about how could have looked the keyboards.
Last edited by patrick295767; 07-27-2017 at 09:35 AM.
... It was fast and efficient once you got used to the ubiquitous "Wordstar Star" key commands ...
... Out of curiosity, what is your interest in finding a linux alternative for Wordstar ?
The WordStar concept was originally powerful at that time.
Maybe research or archeology?
It may offer an alternative solid funded editor for the terminal. vim is funded on vi which is funded on ed, and ed was originally very old and target to earliest purposes. It appears to me that these programmes have all the same programming origin.
Next to vim, there is the beautiful emacs.
But more other editor uniquely destined to typing and word processing arent existing until today for the terminal.
I started using WordStar on CPM and DOS 1.2. It fit well with Borland's IDE for Turbo Pascal for CPM86 when I started coding in something that was not assembler.
Today those closest thing I do is using JOE, which uses some of the WordStar keybindings for functions. I still value being able to do everything from the keyboard without having an electronic RAT on my desk.
I started using WordStar on CPM and DOS 1.2. It fit well with Borland's IDE for Turbo Pascal for CPM86 when I started coding in something that was not assembler.
Today those closest thing I do is using JOE, which uses some of the WordStar keybindings for functions. I still value being able to do everything from the keyboard without having an electronic RAT on my desk.
Do you still have the original floppies of your CP/M? I still have many disks, including Assembler, Basic,... and even games. If we can call it games: eg. starfield with randomly moving 'o'
I know that George R. R. Martin and Anne Rice were using Wordstar well into the 90s (at least). I wonder if either of them still do.
Oh btw, patrick295767, is there a reason you consistently misspell "clone" as "close"?
Despite the 's' and 'n' keys are located on the keyboard relatively far, I missed the right key while typing.
WordStar was an innovative revolution at that time, WordStar: soooo old time computers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt0OoXluC8g
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