Wordstar - a writer's editor
Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2016 7:02 pm
I thought this was kind of neat/inspirational. Could be a good excuse if you have an old computer sitting around collecting dust?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12114185
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense ... 1980s.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12114185
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense ... 1980s.html
http://sfwriter.com/wordstar.htm[George R. R. Martin] uses the newer machine for browsing the Web and checking emails, but he turns to the older one when itβs time to write. And his late-β80s software of choice is the classic word processor WordStar 4.0.
Robert J. Sawyer wrote:Many Science Fiction writers β including myself, Roger MacBride Allen, Gerald Brandt, Jeffrey A. Carver, Arthur C. Clarke, David Gerrold, Terence M. Green, James Gunn, Matthew Hughes, Donald Kingsbury, Eric Kotani, Paul Levinson, George R. R. Martin, Vonda McIntyre, Kit Reed, Jennifer Roberson, and Edo van Belkom β continue to use WordStar for DOS as our writing tool of choice.