Comments for Gerald Brandt

Comment on WordStar – My Choice in WordProcessors by gbr

gbr — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 05:47:58 +0000

Mikeao: If you mean from a text console, no. The program is GUI based.

Comment on WordStar – My Choice in WordProcessors by mikeao

mikeao — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 21:24:40 +0000

Well done!

One question: can you use Wordtzar from the command line?

Comment on Finalized Cover For Blood & Water by gregor Brandt

gregor Brandt — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 03:06:44 +0000

I’m going to shave my head and go to Sentry and generally give you a bad rep

Comment on Finalized Cover For Blood & Water by Billie

Billie — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 22:43:46 +0000

WooHoo!! I’ll be there to get one!!

Comment on Finalized Cover For Blood & Water by Gregor Brandt

Gregor Brandt — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 21:42:51 +0000

Well done, I will buy one or two books.

Gregor

Comment on Guest Blog – J. E. Taylor by J.E. Taylor

J.E. Taylor — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 19:06:44 +0000

Thank you for having me today Gerald!

Comment on Blood and Water TOC by Camille Alexa

Camille Alexa — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 04:04:56 +0000

Congratulations! See you there. . . .

Comment on WordTsar Update by JohnB

JohnB — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:02:51 +0000

I’ve been struggling to find a decent WordStar replacement, but so far everything’s been lacking (currently using Emacs emulating the WordStar bindings along with JOE). The notes feature is by far the most useful tool I’ve used as a writer, and I miss it! Very excited about WordTsar and can’t wait to give it a try.

Comment on WordTsar Update by JohnB

JohnB — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 23:57:05 +0000

Very, VERY excited about this project! Modern word processors just don’t cut it, and since I do a lot of writing/revising, I need something smoother and less like a typewriter. Stumbled across your page and my jaw dropped when I saw you were working on a WordStar-alike. Can’t wait to give it a try!

Comment on WordTsar Update by Al Williams

Al Williams — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 02:21:36 +0000

Wow! I want it!

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.