WordStar DOS 7.0d -- Chromebook

[theducks]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

I'll second that!

All this talk brings back memories of my Kaypro II - good memories, I might add.

Wasn't that the machine they coined the term: Luggable?

[Quoth]

Osborne I?

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by theducks

Wasn't that the machine they coined the term: Luggable?

That and the Osborne I (which came first). They were 'luggable' and resembled medium-sized suitcases.

The Osborne 1 had better software, but the Kaypro II had the much larger screen. I wrote my first published porn novel on it.

I then later graduated to the 'Fat Mac' - a Macintosh with 128K of RAM! - and my whole world was transformed.

[RobertJSawyer]

I still use WordStar for DOS 7.0 Rev. D — the final version, released in December 1992 — and have written all 25 of my novels with it.

I've created a massive archive for it. Included are not only full installs of the program (as well as images of the installation disks), but also plug-and-play solutions for running WordStar for DOS 7.0 under Windows, and also complete full-text-searchable PDF versions of all seven manuals that came with WordStar — over a thousand pages of documentation.

I've also included lots of my own explanations on how to use and customize WordStar, many WordStar-related utility programs, and numerous other goodies.

You can get the archive here: https://sfwriter.com/ws7.htm

[rcentros]

Originally Posted by RobertJSawyer

I still use WordStar for DOS 7.0 Rev. D — the final version, released in December 1992 — and have written all 25 of my novels with it.

I've created a massive archive for it. Included are not only full installs of the program (as well as images of the installation disks), but also plug-and-play solutions for running WordStar for DOS 7.0 under Windows, and also complete full-text-searchable PDF versions of all seven manuals that came with WordStar — over a thousand pages of documentation.

I've also included lots of my own explanations on how to use and customize WordStar, many WordStar-related utility programs, and numerous other goodies.

You can get the archive here: https://sfwriter.com/ws7.htm

Thanks. You've done an incredible amount of work here. I'm downloading your archive now and am looking forward to exploring it. I've got all this on floppy disks and paper books in storage in another state, but I'll probably never use the original material again (or maybe never even see it again, as it may have been chewed up by critters by now).

I think this "release" probably deserves its own thread. I agree, nothing better than WordStar for writing. For the kind of writing I do, the Jstar flavor of JOE comes pretty close, but not nearly as many features.