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WordTsar, a WordStar Clone

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Re: WordTsar, a WordStar Clone

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Post by detaro »

rhabarba wrote: post #16
gaius_baltar wrote: post #12

Seems nice and I will give it a try! Now a question: there is some obvious reason for using AGPL for a desktop GUI application (not a web app, a server, etc.)? AGPL would be my license to go in the later cases, so it would protect the project from being SaaSSed, but I could not find an advantage for graphical desktop apps yet.

I would guess that it’s because of the Qt libraries, but this is just an assumption.

Using Qt does not require you to use (A)GPL, and it had that license before it used Qt.

Re: WordTsar, a WordStar Clone

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Post by dotancohen »

The site mentions UTF-8 support. Can anyone take a screenshot of this so I could see if it's worth compiling:

  שלום, עולם!
I'd be interested in ODT support as well, but there seems to be no mention on the site so I'm assuming that LibreOffice compatibility is right out.

Re: WordTsar, a WordStar Clone

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Post by eddieh »

rhabarba wrote: post #8
xgulfie wrote: post #6

Someone tell George RR Martin

WordTsar won’t run on DOS!

That's a shame. Many of the WordStar holdouts actually like their writing machine to be some old reliable computer without modern distractions. It isn't just the software, it is the whole experience. It runs one program at a time, no internet, now notifications, just reliable typing on what's probably a mechanical keyboard that has exactly the right feel.

Re: WordTsar, a WordStar Clone

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Post by toast0 »

zabzonk wrote: post #20

WordStar was a really good programming editor, if you put into text mode. I wrote a lot of C and assembler code using it back in the 1980s. And it was a good word processor - much easier to get to grips with than WordPerfect, IMHO.

I use JOE as my programming (and general purpose) editor, which is modeled after WordStar in a lot of ways. Once, I happened upon a WordStar installation and was able to use it just fine, because I already knew the concepts (I think the command prefix isn't ^K though, so it felt a bit off?)

Re: WordTsar, a WordStar Clone

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Post by geraldbrandt »

dotancohen wrote: post #22

The site mentions UTF-8 support. Can anyone take a screenshot of this so I could see if it's worth compiling: שלום, עולם! I'd be interested in ODT support as well, but there seems to be no mention on the site so I'm assuming that LibreOffice compatibility is right out.

It's still in Alpha and coded by one guy (me). Give it time...

Re: WordTsar, a WordStar Clone

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Post by skyfaller »

Why host the project on SourceForge? Just force of habit? Other code forges don't look better enough to justify the effort of moving? Or are there actively good things about SourceForge these days?
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