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#11

WordStar Discussion at Yahoo Groups / Re: William F Buckley and Word...

Last post by Forum Admin - December 14, 2019, 04:00:40 AM

griffwoodca
Thursday 14 May 2009

Hi Harry!

Did I miss a beat somewhere?

Just received a message allowing that the WS List was no more?

Has it just changed addresses?

This is the list associated with wordstar.org. It is the former Cuenet List which has vanished.

Phil

#12

WordStar Discussion at Yahoo Groups / Re: William F Buckley and Word...

Last post by Forum Admin - December 14, 2019, 03:56:30 AM

hanelms
May 14, 2009

Did I miss a beat somewhere?

Just received a message allowing that the WS List was no more?

Has it just changed addresses?

Harry Nelms

#13

WordStar Discussion at Yahoo Groups / Re: Windows 10 / 32-bit

Last post by Forum Admin - October 25, 2019, 10:35:20 PM

dmccunney
20/06/2019


On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 11:06 AM Daniel Ford wrote:

Excellent, thank you! I will start looking at Dell computers, much as I hate to change things.

You're welcome. I *do* strongly recommend win10 *Pro* over Win10 Home.

And Dell isn't the only place to look. My current Win10 desktop machine is a refurbished ex-corporate desktop machine from HP. It came with a quad-core Inter i5-2400 CPU running at 3.1-3.4 ghz, 8GB RAM, and a 512GB SATA HD. I added a 240GB SSD originally bought for another machine which I cloned Win10 to and set as boot drive, and have added a USB3 PCI-e card (since ti didn't have USB3 on the motherboard), USB3 hub, and a Bluetooth dongle. I had also swapped in an ATI graphics card bought for a different system, but the onboard Intel HD2000 graphics were *better*, so it got removed and is in a parts drawer.

The original refurb HP cost $250. :-)

Win10 *does* rearrange the Windows UI again. It brings back the Start menu dropped in Win 8.1, but in the spirit of fixing what wasn't broken, rearranged it. I run Classic Shell, an open source Start menu replacement. By default, it looks and acts like Win7's Start menu. See http://www.classicshell.net/. (Classic Shell is no longer under development, but still works fine. The code has been forked to a new open source effort called OpenShell, with a new release that may fix a recent problem. Start with Classic Shell, and then look at https://open-shell.github.io/Open-Shell-Menu/ if interested.)
______
Dennis

#14

WordStar Discussion at Yahoo Groups / Re: Windows 10 / 32-bit

Last post by Forum Admin - October 25, 2019, 10:27:04 PM

Paul Gipe
20/06/2019

Dan,

I've been using Michael Petrie's Word addin for a decade now and it's served my purposes quite well in Win 7 and Win 10. I've written two or three books on it.

Paul

#15

WordStar Discussion at Yahoo Groups / Re: Windows 10 / 32-bit

Last post by Forum Admin - October 25, 2019, 10:25:21 PM

Dan Ford
20/06/2019

Excellent, thank you! I will start looking at Dell computers, much as I hate to change things.

#16

WordStar Discussion at Yahoo Groups / Re: Windows 10 / 32-bit

Last post by Forum Admin - October 25, 2019, 10:24:27 PM

dmccunney

Yes. There is nothing about the change to 64 bit or Win10 that makes a difference. I run vDOSPlus supporting an assortment of old DOS applications under 64bit Win10 Pro here, and have for some time.

#17

WordStar Discussion at Yahoo Groups / Windows 10 / 32-bit

Last post by Forum Admin - October 25, 2019, 10:22:54 PM

Dan Ford
Thu 20/06/2019

I don't know if there's still anyone out there, but good day to anyone who is!

I find that I must upgrade to Windows 10 before the end of the year, and that it should be 64-bit. (TurboTax will no longer run on Windows 7, and no future upgrade of another important program will run on a 32-bit machine.)

Will Vdos and Wordstar run on 64-bit, as they have done very successfully on Windows 7 32-bit?

Thanks - Dan

#18

Support / Error Message From Word 2003: ...

Last post by Clueless - May 05, 2019, 07:48:00 PM

After all these years, this morning I finally got around to taking the WordStar Command Emulator for a test drive.  I only needed it for a single command,  ^QS, and I figured it would be easier to just install the emulator than trying to figure out how to create a Word macro that required linking three keyboard strokes to a Word command.

The installation instructions were easy to follow.  But when I restarted Word, and then tried out the ^QS command, I got this error message.

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Microsoft Visual Basic
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The macros in this project are disabled.  Please refer to the online help or documentation of the host application to determine how to enable macros.
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OK   Help   
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I'd be grateful for some help in getting that command to work, since that's the only command that I really need.

Will in Seattle
a.k.a. "Clueless"

P.S.  Over the years I've gotten into the habit of using the Windows ^Z undo command.   I just now discovered that that command is also disabled since installing the Wordstar emulator.  So maybe what I really need is some coaching in how to write a ^QS macro for Word, rather than trying to get the emulator to work.

#19

Support / Re: Can't login in to download...

Last post by Forum Admin - June 22, 2018, 11:50:08 PM

The trial WordStar Emulator has been reinstated to this site.

http://wordstar.org/index.php/wordstar-emulator-downloads.

#20

Support / Re: Can't login in to download...

Last post by Forum Admin - June 22, 2018, 12:51:31 AM

The quickest way to get the trial version again will be to download it from BrotherSoft. Most of the other sources have been removed.

The link is http://www.brothersoft.com/wordstar-command-emulator-for-microsoft-word-467155.html.

Version 1.0 was the first official release, and is the trial version. The full version added a lot of extra commands.