About 1981 or 1982 I worked for a small gov’t contractor. I was writing a whole system for the 6805 CPU (which didn’t have much address space, but still). We had S-100 computers running CPM (Quasar QDP-100s with 8″ floppies). One had an ADM-3A but mine had a sweet TeleVideo 920. But… I was writing all the code in ed!

I had finally had enough (about 3 months worth). I told my boss either we needed some new editing software or I was going to buy something myself. He said, “I’m not spending another dime on software. We bought WordStar and no one could get it to work!”

I did a spit take. “We have WordStar?”

An hour later (had to write the keyboard and video hooks) I was in hog’s heaven. I still have a lot of finger memory for WS even though I gave up the emulation in emacs years ago. I wrote my first couple of books on WS and really griped having to go to MSWord.

Great stuff. Of course, I can run real CP/M WS on my Briel Altair clone but it is hard to get it back off to the real world.

Wordstar was my first word processor on my first computer (a Kaypro 10).

I’d like to try your software.

–Rich

Shayne O :
Mozilla Firefox 7.0.1 Mac OS X 10 *

Any progress on this? I’d love to use it on my mac!

Hi,

Progress, yes. Ready for release, nope. I’m currently working on a nasty text display bug.

Gerald

I’d be highly interested in beta testing this when it’s ready!

–Rich