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Sci-fi writer and WordStar lover re-releases the cult DOS app for free (arstechnica.com)
submitted 3 months ago by Alphane_Moon to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Apparently, The joe editor has a jstar mode, so says this old Stackexchange thread. I can't verify because I've never used Wordstar, but joe's available in my distro's repository.

No idea if it can read old WordStar files, but maybe you don't need that.

For the GUI version - and some old file capability, the same page and other searches turn up WordTsar which is in progress. The dev says they'll be picking up development again next month.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Joe is amazing. It’s my primary editor.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I've got muscle memory for sudo apt install joe.

[–] popekingjoe 2 points 3 months ago

Look Ma, I'm famous.