If you want a distraction-free word processor, you might also try Microsoft Word for DOS 5.5. Microsoft released this as a free (gratis) download from their website. I covered it in this week's FreeDOS video, on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIXZtThIkF0
Direct download is here: http://download.microsoft.com/download/word97win/Wd55_be/97/WIN98/EN-US/Wd55_ben.exe Pretty nice features! I liked the graphics mode, so you can actually see text in *bold*, *italics* and *underline* (instead of seeing them as colors). And LibreOffice and even Google Docs can import the old Word for DOS 5.5 files - at least for a simple document, I didn't test all the styles. (But Microsoft Office 365 can't read the old format, which is too bad.) Word is now my favorite word processor for DOS. Jim On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 3:28 PM Vincent Asaro <carrotfi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Eric, > > Thank you for the detailed response! I never played video games, actually, > I'm just nostalgic for the text interface experience and I really want to > use WordPerfect again but without installing a VM. As long as I can enter > code and also load DOS programs via USB, I'll get tons of mileage out of FD > - there are several legacy word processors I also want to try, like > Electric Pencil. A weird obsession, I know, but I'm a writer ;) Thanks > again! > > ~ Vincent > > On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 4:14 PM Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de> wrote: > >> >> Hi Vincent! I would say as long as it has at least a >> few megabytes of RAM and at least a 386 CPU, FreeDOS >> should run on any PC ;-) Which specific parts are you >> worried about? The BIOS will usually support "legacy" >> OS such as DOS in helping with USB keyboard and mouse >> access and access to any built-in harddisk or SSD. >> >> Even the newest graphics cards should still support >> classic text mode and common VGA modes, but there >> is a thread in the BTTR forum complaining that some >> new graphics cards became too exotic for DOS games. >> >> Note that almost no game for DOS will support current >> sound infrastructure such as AC97 or HDA. If you are >> looking for sound beyond the PC speaker or beeper, it >> is better to run DOS in a virtual environment such as >> dosemu2 or a complete generic virtual PC. Using dosemu >> has the advantage that you get guest drivers which let >> you access a Linux directory as if it was a DOS disk. >> >> Regarding disk sizes: FreeDOS supports only MBR style >> partitions yet, no GPT, so you are limited to using >> the first 2 TB of your disks. If your BIOS does not >> support LBA48, it could even be the first 128 GB. >> >> Regards, Eric >> >> PS: There are some DOS media players which support some >> newer sound chips, but I do not know any games which do. >> >> > I have a little HP11 streaming laptop I'm not using - I used it to try >> out >> > Linux Mint, now it's redundant - is it a good candidate for FreeDOS? >> I'd be >> > dependant on the USB ports for I/O. Thank you! >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Freedos-user mailing list >> Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >> > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >
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