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canopic jug [soylentnews.org] writes:

Science fiction writer Robert J Sawyer has posted an announcement about the availability of WordStar 7.0 for DOS [sfwriter.com] once again. The WordStar Archive [sfwriter.com] hosts 680 MB, including executables and full-text-searchable PDF versions of all seven manuals that came with WordStar, weighing in at over a thousand pages of documentation.

WordStar was first introduced in 1978 and the final release — WordStar for DOS 7.0 Rev. D — came out in December 1992. The program has never been updated since, and the company that made it has been defunct for decades; the program is abandonware.

But I still use it, and George R.R. Martin uses an earlier version. There has never — until now — been a complete online archive of the final version of the program along with all its manuals. Here it is: [...]

The initial versions were for CP/M on the 8080 and Zilog Z80 [archive.org] and the MS-DOS version runs only runs under an MS-DOS emulator, such as DOSBox. WordStar 7 was released in 1992 and was the final version of the famous editor [theregister.com]. WordStar is still favored by many [wikipedia.org] the famous Arthur C Clarke, Anne Rice, George R R Martin and others less famous.

Previously:
(2020) Old Fart's Quiz [Updated] [soylentnews.org]
(2014) Game of Thrones Author Writes on a DOS System [soylentnews.org]

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