Before Microsoft Word, there was WordPerfect. And before WordPerfect, there was WordStar. And now, WordStar is back.
Sort of: A science fiction writer who’s been using WordStar since the late 1970s has released the last MS-DOS version of this word processing app for free along with a treasure trove of documentation and other how-to information. “WordStar was first introduced in 1978 and the final release — — 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 [ author] 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.” Sign up for our new free newsletter to get three time-saving tips each Friday — get free copies of Paul Thurrott's Windows 11 and Windows 10 Field Guides (normally $9.99) as a special welcome gift! Mr.
Sawyer is making what he calls the complete WordStar 7 archive available for free. This incredible 650 MB ZIP file includes WordStar 7, over 1,000 pages of PDF scans of the original documentation, the contents of the original WordStar forum on CompuServe, and other information, plus two MS-DOS emulators, DOSBox-X and vDosPlus, required to run the app on modern PCs. As he explains, you must “install” the unzipped version of the archive to C:WS, because WordStar assumes that location.
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