Here's mine:
WordStar for Windows 2.0. It's a Windows 3.1 program that was released in 1994. I installed it under WINE and, to my amazement, it ran perfectly.
I don't use it as my main word processor, though it runs wel enough that I could. I use it to open old files. LibreOffice Writer is my main word processor, but I've reprogrammed its interface via macros to mimick the WordStar cursor diamond commands as closely as possible. I would have never quit using WordStar if they had kept making it. I was annoyed by subsequent word processors like Word Per F___ed and Microsoft Turd that lacked keystroke commands to let you move the cursor around and keep your hands on the home row. I moved on and used Lotus Word Pro, programming in those commands into its macro system. To my annoyance, that program bit the dust too and I finally begrudgingly moved on to Microsoft Weird. For that program, a got a plug-in written by a gentleman in England, Mike Petrie, who had programmed in the WordStar commands more extensively than I had. I made sure to pay that wonderful company their money for my use of Word.
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So for the first time in years, I'm running a real copy of WordStar, though I've run its core commands consistently since then.
WordStar for Windows 2.0. It's a Windows 3.1 program that was released in 1994. I installed it under WINE and, to my amazement, it ran perfectly.
I don't use it as my main word processor, though it runs wel enough that I could. I use it to open old files. LibreOffice Writer is my main word processor, but I've reprogrammed its interface via macros to mimick the WordStar cursor diamond commands as closely as possible. I would have never quit using WordStar if they had kept making it. I was annoyed by subsequent word processors like Word Per F___ed and Microsoft Turd that lacked keystroke commands to let you move the cursor around and keep your hands on the home row. I moved on and used Lotus Word Pro, programming in those commands into its macro system. To my annoyance, that program bit the dust too and I finally begrudgingly moved on to Microsoft Weird. For that program, a got a plug-in written by a gentleman in England, Mike Petrie, who had programmed in the WordStar commands more extensively than I had. I made sure to pay that wonderful company their money for my use of Word.
. So for the first time in years, I'm running a real copy of WordStar, though I've run its core commands consistently since then.
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