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Posted by Bernhard
Feb 24, 2020 at 05:06 PM
I would like to run some other DOS software through DosBox. Unfortunately, DosBox constantly runs with a high CPU load that drains my battery. I assume that it is caused by “busy waiting” of Dos software.
Did you find an acceptable config setting that balances CPU load and program execution?
Thanks for yout input!
JIM_CRONIN wrote:
>I still run PCO through DosBox,
>and send all files to a TXT file to be edited/printed in Word.
>Jim Cronin
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>(206) 992-1555
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>
Posted by jaslar
Feb 24, 2020 at 09:27 PM
On an old Ubuntu box, I downloaded DOSBOX-X, then the program file for PCO (https://www.pcorner.com/). Then I unzipped the files, set up a new DOSBOX directory as c.
mount c /home/jlarue/Downloads/pco/
Then I went to the c drive (c:)
Typed pco, and I have PCoutline running in Linux!
There are some oddities. Movement by word is supposed to be Shift-left/right (this is using the F1 help key function). But it only works when I do the number key arrows. And some of the other choices don’t seem to work at all. Function keys are necessary for promotion and demotion. Bottom line: it’s ok. It would take a while of living in it to love it. And I would have to read the manual, I think, to grok it. Absent word count and printing, I’m not sure it’s a good use of my time. But today, I have CRIMPed.
Posted by Cyganet
Aug 8, 2024 at 05:23 PM
Author Robert J. Sawyer has just shared an archive of WordStar 7.0 complete with manuals and utilities to get it running under windows. The archive contains the version of PC-Outline that was distributed with WordStar, and a comment to run PCO.EXE using vDosPlus, which is also included in the archive. I tested it and it works. I was also playing around with GrandView for Windows, shared here earlier, which seems easier to use than PCO.
See https://sfwriter.com/ws7.htm for the complete archive and explanation of how to get the programs to work.
Posted by MadaboutDana
Aug 9, 2024 at 07:52 AM
Very amusing! I was just reading an article that suggests well-known authors like Anne Rice and George R. R. Martin still use WordStar, for goodness’ sake!
Personally, I think WordPerfect was the best DOS-based word processor ever. I remember producing a 150-page software manual, complete with illustrations, box-outs and marginal notes, in WordPerfect 5.2 (on a Toshiba T1200 laptop) back in the day.
Cyganet wrote:
Author Robert J. Sawyer has just shared an archive of WordStar 7.0
>complete with manuals and utilities to get it running under windows. The
>archive contains the version of PC-Outline that was distributed with
>WordStar, and a comment to run PCO.EXE using vDosPlus, which is also
>included in the archive. I tested it and it works. I was also playing
>around with GrandView for Windows, shared here earlier, which seems
>easier to use than PCO.
>
>See https://sfwriter.com/ws7.htm for the complete archive and
>explanation of how to get the programs to work.
Posted by jaslar
Aug 12, 2024 at 09:40 PM
Reviving Wordstar looks like a fun way to spend a day! But in truth, I eventually moved on to VDE, a free Wordstar clone that was in my opinion even better and faster. https://sites.google.com/site/vdeeditor/Home/vde-files
These days, of course, I’m mostly use Dynalist and Google Docs, with a smattering of emacs/org-mode.