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A recent Guardian article encouraging writers to abandon MS Word included a comment from a reader that read:
With 70+ books under my belt, I'm still using WordPerfect 5.1. Luckily there's an excellent website offering free software to enable one to use this DOS software with Windows 10: http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/wpdos/
If you follow that link you'll find a treasure trove of tools and advice that will help you run WordPerfect 5.1 on any Windows system, as well as Macs and Linux boxes. The author does note that it's much easier on 32 bit systems than 64 bit, but it can be done on either. There's even advice on making printers work.
(Of late I've been using the generally excellent FocusWriter full screen editor for distraction free writing, but if I can get WP 5.1 working....) (And, just for the record, Corel still sells Wordperfect Office.)
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday October 29 2018, @07:43AM (3 children)
WP8, not the latest on sale (9)
WP8 unsupported on more recent releases, YMMV
see here [reddit.com]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by drussell on Monday October 29 2018, @10:40AM (2 children)
WordPerfect 19 is the current version for Windows, not 9.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday October 29 2018, @11:11AM
Eh, what's one 1 between friends?
In any case, there's no recent WP version on Linux.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 29 2018, @03:51PM
WordPerfect X9 is the current version, not 19.
Corel, like Microsoft, is sufficiently triskaidekaphobic that they didn't release a version 13. Where Microsoft jumped from Office 12 (2007) to Office 14 (2010) in their superstitious efforts to avoid the number 13, Corel switched to X numbers after version 12, giving us WordPerfect X3 through X9. (In theory it's a bastardized mashup of Roman and Arabic numbering, but we won't know that for sure until the next release. If it's X10, then it's just X-prefixed numbering. If it's something like XX0 then it's a hybrid mess.)