WordStar for all

[Agramar_The_Luna_Wolf]

https://sfwriter.com/ws7.htm

 

Well, this is not strictly Warhammer stuff, but can be of interest if you like writing. This piece of software is now for free, thanks to the efforts and generosity of Robert J. Sawyer:

 

"My name is Robert J. Sawyer. I'm a Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Canadian science-fiction writer. All twenty-five of my novels were written with WordStar, the best word-processing program the world has ever known.

WordStar was first introduced in 1978 and the final release — WordStar for DOS 7.0 Rev. D — came out in December 1992. The program has never been updated since, and the company that made it has been defunct for decades; the program is abandonware.

But I still use it, and George R.R. Martin uses an earlier version. There has never — until now — been a complete online archive of the final version of the program along with all its manuals. "

 

For your consideration.

[Mazer Rackham]

Very interesting - thank you.

 

This goes to prove that even in a digital age, writers are a superstitious bunch (and get used to what they use). There's a fellow kicking around (I forget who off the top of my head, apologies!) who wrote his first bestseller on a certain model of typewriter and when it went out of production, he went around buying every single one he could find to keep one in repair to continue his work.

 

The Adepts and Lexicanus of the Imperium are a perfect reflection. 

Edited August 23 by Mazer Rackham

[Urauloth]

While I don't plan to use it myself (I like LibreOffice, not that I have any time to write) this is an awesome feat of archiving and it's very cool to see it from that perspective.

[lansalt]

Damn, now that's a name I had not heard in a long time. I remember being a kid and fiddling with Wordstar in my Amstrad PC. IIRC Wordstar was the main rival to Wordperfect, the dominat word processor at the time, until MS Word pretty much killed them all just like Excel killed Lotus 123.

 

[grailkeeper]

I got this confused with Worldstar. Was expecting videos of people getting beaten up.

 

I wrote all my books in Microsoft word. Works fine for me.