[HN Gopher] 'Logical, beautiful, perfect' WordStar rises again
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       'Logical, beautiful, perfect' WordStar rises again
        
       Author : CrankyBear
       Score  : 15 points
       Date   : 2024-08-12 19:12 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.zdnet.com)
        
       | jmclnx wrote:
       | I wonder how close JOE is to WordStar, which I never used. It
       | comes with Slackware.
       | 
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe's_Own_Editor
        
       | tivert wrote:
       | > There was no proper archive of WordStar for DOS 7.0 available
       | online, so I decided to create one.
       | 
       | I wonder if someone could leak the source code. Googling the
       | original developers listed on the Wikipedia page
       | (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordStar) turns up some LinkedIn
       | profiles (which I did not log in to check). I think I've read
       | several stories of old source code getting recovered from a 3.5
       | floppy someone had in a garage somewhere. There's even a video
       | where the LGR guy scavenged an old PC from a defunct warehouse-
       | like computer repair shop and was able to pull source code from
       | some old game from Sierra Online from it (it was a development
       | machine, and they brought it in for repair in the 80s and never
       | claimed it).
        
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