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owl [soylentnews.org] writes:

It’s an exciting time in the Lotus 1-2-3 enthusiast community – that was a joke, there is no enthusiast community, it’s just me! 😆

It really is an exciting time though – that part isn’t a joke!

There have been some major developments in the last few weeks, and I guess that’s pretty unusual for 30 year old abandonware.

I’ll cut to the chase; through a combination of unlikely discoveries, crazy hacks and the 90s BBS warez scene I’ve been able to port Lotus 1-2-3 natively to Linux – an operating system that literally didn’t exist when 1-2-3 was released!1

If you want to hear how a proprietary application could be ported to new operating systems 30 years after release, read on.

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