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Alphane Moon@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Sci-fi writer and WordStar lover re-releases the cult DOS app for free

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Sci-fi writer and WordStar lover re-releases the cult DOS app for free

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Alphane Moon@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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"Compared to it, Microsoft Word is pure madness"—Anne Rice.
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    Apparently, The joe editor has a jstar mode, so says this old Stackexchange thread. I can’t verify because I’ve never used Wordstar, but joe’s available in my distro’s repository.

    No idea if it can read old WordStar files, but maybe you don’t need that.

    For the GUI version - and some old file capability, the same page and other searches turn up WordTsar which is in progress. The dev says they’ll be picking up development again next month.

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      Joe is amazing. It’s my primary editor.

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        I’ve got muscle memory for sudo apt install joe.

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          Look Ma, I’m famous.

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