Author Topic: WordStar is coming back.  (Read 1170 times)

Brad

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WordStar is coming back.
« on: July 20, 2018, 11:19:59 AM »
Calling all geezers!  If you remember MS-DOS you probably remember the WordStar word processor.  Well in a fit of retroness somebody is bringing back a clone called WordTsar, for Windows, Ubuntu and Mac.  Because they can.
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http://wordtsar.ca/

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Re: WordStar is coming back.
« Reply #1 on: July 20, 2018, 08:40:37 PM »
I was sort of excited about this because I've been searching for terminal based applications to run in Linux, but then I saw that they built it to run in the X environment and that it is GTK 2 or GTK 3 dependent.  Really, it makes no sense to me to make a program that is inspired by an old MS-DOS app and then make it dependent on a relatively bloated gui interface.  I hope the developer(s) build a terminal based version in the future.