Re: New WiFi adapter

Allodoxaphobia <trepidation@example.net> wrote:

On Sat, 7 Jun 2025 02:42:38 -0000 (UTC), Rich wrote:

The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

 
joe can emulate Wordstar.

 
That's what I said.
 
Wordstar assumes an 80x25 character screen.

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Depends upon which version is your reference point.  WordStar 7 for DOS
(the last DOS version, by the way) will use larger than 80x25 character
screens.  I used it (WS7) for a good many years running (IIRC) in 80x50
character mode, first under DesqView on top of DOS plus QEMM386 then
later in Dosemu on Linux.

 
I still have WorStar 6.0 running on this linux box in dosemu.  Years ago I
found a hack to boost it to a 50 line display.  Have no idea now how/what
that was.  The only kink is that the top 80x25 display is one color and the
bottom 80x26-50 are default.  I guess I can live with that....

WS7 will work with 80x50 and the whole screen will be the correct color
(at least under Dosemu or DesqView).  Of course, one needs a copy of
WS7 for such things.

I started out with WordStar ?.?? on a Sanyo MBC-1000 CPM box somewhere
around 1981.  Great times.

I played with a WordStar (no idea which version, but likely somewhere
in the v3-5 range) at a computer store in the mid 80's.  Only ever
actually used WS7 along the way.  Have not tried to get it to run
under Dosemu in a very long time, but I expect it will work just the
same as it always did.

I used Turbo Pascal 4 for DOS for a long while, and its built in editor
used WordStar keystrokes, so using WS7 when I ended up needing a WP
circa 1990 turned out to be a relatively easy transition.  I already
knew a good number of the keybindings.