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Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, Native X64 Port
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Re: Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, Native X64 Port
#62Back in '85-6 I developed training for USDA (using Dan Bricklin's Demo) for a curses version of Word 5 that ran on 3B2s with SysV v2. I'd be very happy to see that ported to Linux or one of the BSDs. In fact, I'd love to see both Word and Excel '98 on one of my workstations. IMHO things went South after that. I had to use Windows and Office off and on with clients up to 2010 and I'm sure that Excel provided some impo…
office 2003 (for word + excel at least) were peak - after the ribbon it all went downhill
I just installed my copy in a new Win10 VM. With the added OOXML support pack, there's nothing left wanting.
Re: Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, Native X64 Port
#63Re: Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, Native X64 Port
#64Back in '85-6 I developed training for USDA (using Dan Bricklin's Demo) for a curses version of Word 5 that ran on 3B2s with SysV v2. I'd be very happy to see that ported to Linux or one of the BSDs. In fact, I'd love to see both Word and Excel '98 on one of my workstations. IMHO things went South after that. I had to use Windows and Office off and on with clients up to 2010 and I'm sure that Excel provided some impo…
https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/wordperfect.html describes getting the UNIX release of Word Perfect running on modern Linux. There was a SCO release of Word in 1990, so plausibly that could be fudged into a similar setup?
Re: Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, Native X64 Port
#65Back in '85-6 I developed training for USDA (using Dan Bricklin's Demo) for a curses version of Word 5 that ran on 3B2s with SysV v2. I'd be very happy to see that ported to Linux or one of the BSDs. In fact, I'd love to see both Word and Excel '98 on one of my workstations. IMHO things went South after that. I had to use Windows and Office off and on with clients up to 2010 and I'm sure that Excel provided some impo…
FWIW, Office 97 works perfectly under Wine, so there's nothing stopping you from continuing to use it, well, except maybe the lack of support for modern OOXML formats. An alternative could be Abiword and Gnumeric, both are super lightweight and retain the classic Office 97-style UI and support OOXML formats (though somewhat limited compared to LibreOffice).
Microslop’s free “Office format converters” pack from Microsoft adds support for new office formats to old office versions. Read and write.
Re: Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, Native X64 Port
#66If you need something much easier then you can run Word 2.0 (well any Windows 3.0+ 16bit app) easily on x64 Windows 10/11 https://files.catbox.moe/dy4bqy.png
All you need is this https://github.com/otya128/winevdm
Re: Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, Native X64 Port
#67Back in '85-6 I developed training for USDA (using Dan Bricklin's Demo) for a curses version of Word 5 that ran on 3B2s with SysV v2. I'd be very happy to see that ported to Linux or one of the BSDs. In fact, I'd love to see both Word and Excel '98 on one of my workstations. IMHO things went South after that. I had to use Windows and Office off and on with clients up to 2010 and I'm sure that Excel provided some impo…
> Dan Bricklin's Demo
There's a name I haven't heard in a while. During our undergrad (90s), we used it to mock up UI designs for one of our early courses.
Re: Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, Native X64 Port
#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
office 2003 (for word + excel at least) were peak - after the ribbon it all went downhill
I just installed my copy in a new Win10 VM. With the added OOXML support pack, there's nothing left wanting.
Does the activation still work for these are do you have to use a hack to get them running? I still have a TON of older Office 2003 licenses, I'd love to go back. I've hated modern Office with the ribbon for half my life now.
Re: Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, Native X64 Port
#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
I just installed my copy in a new Win10 VM. With the added OOXML support pack, there's nothing left wanting.
Does the activation still work for these are do you have to use a hack to get them running? I still have a TON of older Office 2003 licenses, I'd love to go back. I've hated modern Office with the ribbon for half my life now.
Please don't. There are so many unpatched exploits for old Office... opening any document could trash your whole system or silently steal information from you.
Re: Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, Native X64 Port
#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
I just installed my copy in a new Win10 VM. With the added OOXML support pack, there's nothing left wanting.
Does the activation still work for these are do you have to use a hack to get them running? I still have a TON of older Office 2003 licenses, I'd love to go back. I've hated modern Office with the ribbon for half my life now.
The product keys still work. You can skip online activation. Only annoyance is needing to run once as admin to make the EULA acceptance write to the registry.
I have a stockpile of patches that I preserved a while back that are not readily available today.