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On 6/7/25 4:37 PM, Allodoxaphobia wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Jun 2025 02:42:38 -0000 (UTC), Rich wrote:
>> The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> joe can emulate Wordstar.
>>>
>>> That's what I said.
>>>
>>> Wordstar assumes an 80x25 character screen.
>>
>> Depends upon which version is your reference point.  WordStar 7 for DOS
>> (the last DOS version, by the way) will use larger than 80x25 character
>> screens.  I used it (WS7) for a good many years running (IIRC) in 80x50
>> character mode, first under DesqView on top of DOS plus QEMM386 then
>> later in Dosemu on Linux.
> 
> I still have WorStar 6.0 running on this linux box in dosemu.  Years ago I
> found a hack to boost it to a 50 line display.  Have no idea now how/what
> that was.  The only kink is that the top 80x25 display is one color and the
> bottom 80x26-50 are default.  I guess I can live with that....
> 
> I started out with WordStar ?.?? on a Sanyo MBC-1000 CPM box somewhere
> around 1981.  Great times.


   Not gonna diss WordStar - used it on CP/M and x86.
   Not super-capable, but usually capable ENOUGH if
   you didn't need typesetting effects.