For the past several months, I have tried to get WordStar 2000 running on my Windows 98 system at work. None of the proffered solutions worked for me. I still do not know why.
I recently started doing programming by shutting down to DOS to edit and restarting Windows to test my app. Irony: It is a GUI app.
Finally, it occurred to me to try searching for a DOS emulator that runs under Windows. I was really wondering if such a program would exist, but it turns out that gamers have had this problem. I am now experimenting with DOSBox. It has a few quirks and minor problems, but it appears quite usable. That is good, because I was tired of rebooting so often.
My system runs at 500 MHz. I note that a long search in WordStar is slower, though not unusably so. I have not tuned DOSBox much yet, so I might be able to squeeze out some more speed.
You can download DOSBox from
http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/
Sincerely,
Gene Wirchenko
Quote from: Gene Wirchenko on July 14, 2005, 10:48:31 PM
For the past several months, I have tried to get WordStar 2000 running on my Windows 98 system at work. None of the proffered solutions worked for me. I still do not know why.
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I am now experimenting with DOSBox. It has a few quirks and minor problems, but it appears quite usable.
A follow-up: I continue to use DOSBox to run WordStar. It has some awkward bits, but it works. I still keep a DOS window open for executing DOS commands, because the default shell of DOSBox does not support too many of them. Apparently, one can boot an operating system of choice. I have not bothered getting into it that much.
The arrow keys are not as responsive as I want. I find that I am using ^A and ^F a lot more now.
One nice touch is that I can edit multiple files at once again. For some reason, on my home system, I can only edit one file at a time if I want to be able to save my changes. If I edit a second file at the time, when I save, WordStar throws an error about a temp file and I lose my changes. No such problem under DOSBox.
I could probably have things running even better if I wanted to dig deeply enough into it, but this is quite usable. I am much happier now using WordStar than Something Else.
Sincerely,
Gene Wirchenko