So this means a few things. 1) GRRM can finally buy himself a new computer and not worry about his current ancient machine dying as his excuse to not be writing 2) he could potentially have it on a ...
Once upon a time, and it wasn't that long ago, instead of word processors like today's favorites such as Microsoft Word, Google Docs or OpenOffice and its brother LibreOffice, we had to use ...
Many science fiction writers—including myself, Roger MacBride Allen, Gerald Brandt, Jeffrey A. Carver, Arthur C. Clarke, David Gerrold, Terence M. Green, James Gunn ...
The "Game of Thrones" author confesses on a chat show that he writes his best-selling books using WordStar 4.0 on a DOS machine. So don't distract him! Journalist Bonnie Burton writes about movies, TV ...
In brief: Before Microsoft Word became the de-facto standard for word processing on the PC, the market was rich with choice. WordStar is a program many great writers started their career on, and now ...
The pattern of W-A-Z, E-S-D-X, and R-F-C keys used with the Ctrl key in WordStar. It allowed all scrolling functions to be done with the left hand in its normal keyboard position. Although it became a ...
Q–I recently installed WordStar 4.0, which you wrote about on March 29. While the manuals that came with the program are instructive, they do not seem to be complete enough for novices like myself.
George R.R. Martin knows what’s up. He’s been writing science fiction and fantasy for decades, so he’s not going to waste time trying to get Microsoft Word to understand that the House of Targaryen ...