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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 dw861 on Tuesday October 30 2018, @03:20AM (1 child)
I love this word processor and run several flavours of WordPerfect on Linux:
"WordPerfect for Linux" 8.1 runs on 32-bit Debian distros (as well as several others). As a native Linux application, it does not use WINE. For more info consult Peter Stone's excellent page:
http://xwp8users.com/ [xwp8users.com]
I'm presently running PC WordPefect X6 inside a Windows XP virtual machine. This is the setup I'm using for my current writing project.
And, as I have a very large archive of research projects from the 1990s, I also use WordPerfect for Macintosh inside the Sheepshaver Mac OS 9 emulator. You can find a large community of other people who also do this at:
https://groups.io/g/wordperfectmac [groups.io] The "Mac appliance" that they have built over the years for use under OS X is quite impressive. I had to create my own setup for Linux.
All this said, I might consider making a slow move over to Typora if there were a way to number pages.
https://typora.io/ [typora.io]
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday October 30 2018, @04:23AM
Sigh.
In the context of "Corel still sells Wordperfect Office" I'm saying: whatever they are selling now does not runs on Linux, so I'm not interested to buy or to use what are they selling now
Full of redundant repetitions as it may be, I hope I made myself clear enough this time: I'm not saying that version 8 does not run on a Linux properly setup for the purpose, nor that WP8 is useless when run in Linux or any other platform.
Let me say it the third time (to make it true [poetryfoundation.org]): I am not interested in what Corel sells now as WordPerfect because this version does not run on Linux.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford