Sci-Fi Writer Releases Free Archive of Legendary Word Processor Used by George RR Martin

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Sci-Fi Writer Releases Free Archive of Legendary Word Processor Used by George RR Martin
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This little MS-DOS program has helped generations of writers put their thoughts to the page.

The old ways still have value. WordStar, an MS-DOS-based word-processing program first released in 1978, can live a little longer thanks to theWriters tend to romance the objects they use to craft their work. They become fetish objects. The pen, the pad, the IBM Selectric. Even the Remington SL3 is an object of affection for various writers.

He even included MS-DOS emulators in the archive to help get WordStar up and running. “I’ve provided two complete plug-and-play packages for running WordStar under Windows, one using DOSBox-X, an emulator that’s still actively developed and maintained, and another using vDosPlus, which still works wonderfully but is no longer maintained,” he said in the post.

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