WordStar [WAS: Word Perfect]

[Jonesy]

On Wed, 20 Feb 2013 16:14:13 -0500, Doug wrote:
> On 02/20/2013 04:00 PM, Ric Moore wrote:
>> On 02/19/2013 04:11 PM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
>>> 2013/2/19 Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com>:
>>>> Ha anyone ever managed to get WordPerfect for Linux to run on modern 
>>>> Ubuntu?
>>>
>>> I'm not sure why I would need to try that? :P
>>
>> I've always wanted to try WordStar with the cp/m emulator, which would 
>> be a hoot. :) Ric
>>
> You could run WordStar under DosBox. As far as I remember, the DOS and 
> CPM versions were the same user interface.  Don't know where you'll 
> find WS software anymore. . . .

I have WordStar 6.0 running in xdosemu in my Ubuntu Trinity desktop.
 `xdosemu -k 'C:\WS6\WSX43.BAT'`
I have WS running in 43-linex80 mode.  I don't use it very often 
now-a-days, but I have a few old documents with some tricked-up, in-line 
PCL5 scripting to do 'fancy' things on my Amost-As-Old HP LJ III.

I've been using WordStar since release 2.0 on a CP/M machine back circa 
1980.  That puts this software as being "in use" for nearly 32 years 
now.  Not much software can lay claim to something like that except some 
Commodore 64 games run by old, die-hard, antique computer enthusiasts, 
and some ancient COBOL and/or Assembler Sys/360 - Sys/370 code running 
on what qualifies as today's IBM 'Main Frames'.

Ahhh, the good olde days,
Jonesy