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I knew some of the people who worked at WordStar in its heyday, and met more of them when working at Symantec and Autodesk, where some of them wound up.
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I wonder if anyone started reverse engineering WordStar binaries, in order to port it to modern OSs and make running it less of a hassle.
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It's DOS. DOSbox and similar let it run on almost all OS and CPUs.
It's zero hassle to run DOS text mode programs like this. |
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What made many of the programs of that era incompatible, was the tricks (direct BIOS calls) to get SPEED. IIRC Wordstar Printing did this. FWIW Paradox DOS 4.5 still sorta' runs (printing is difficult) on W10. W98 was the last Windows my home-grown Green Duck (where 'theducks' came from) point of sale application ran in its full capacity. I shelled out to send my purchase orders by FAX (DOSFAX Pro) |
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Yeah, I've used DOSBox quite a bit. I wouldn't say it's "zero hassle" though. Even with a provided config, long filenames are still a problem, as are window size changes, amount of available memory, etc.
And with a proper source-level port all the tweaks performed via WSCHANGE.EXE by patching the binary could be made into actual configuration knobs. Anyway, I was asking if anyone's aware of any work in that direction, not trying to get into discussion if it should be done or not. |
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There's WordTsar. No idea if it's any good.
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