I want to make a fantasy console Markdown editor with WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS vibes.
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I want to make a fantasy console Markdown editor with WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS vibes. It was the word processor that I wrote the first fiction that I sold.
(Yes, I could just use actual WP for DOS but might get some actual writing done that way.)
@troublewithwords Did you see this article when it went around? https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/24/rise_and_fall_of_cua/
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@troublewithwords hurry up and write book 4 I want book 4
@cloudthethings Sorry, sorry, sorry!
(But keep yelling at me. It's "written" but needs editing and some day I will have enough concentration in one place to do it.)
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@troublewithwords Did you see this article when it went around? https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/24/rise_and_fall_of_cua/
@eamon I'm afraid I scrolled past it. Adding it to my Sunday read, thank you!
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I want to make a fantasy console Markdown editor with WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS vibes. It was the word processor that I wrote the first fiction that I sold.
(Yes, I could just use actual WP for DOS but might get some actual writing done that way.)
Back in the day, (specifically the Apple //c and DOS 3.1 day) I spend lots of time semi-recreationally writing three kinds of programs. Drawing/animation programs, games (that used the drawings/animations because there were no standard image/animation formats, so yee-haw!) and text editors.
There's a lot less point to making them now, but that's still pretty much all I want to make. The problems remain interesting.
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@troublewithwords Did you see this article when it went around? https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/24/rise_and_fall_of_cua/
@eamon thanks for this! i hadn't heard of this article until now
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Back in the day, (specifically the Apple //c and DOS 3.1 day) I spend lots of time semi-recreationally writing three kinds of programs. Drawing/animation programs, games (that used the drawings/animations because there were no standard image/animation formats, so yee-haw!) and text editors.
There's a lot less point to making them now, but that's still pretty much all I want to make. The problems remain interesting.
@troublewithwords i always remind myself that tim sweeney's ZZT began its life as a cursor-based text editor. he got so enamoured with moving the cursor around that he started building gameplay around it.
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Reveal codes! REVEAL CODES!!
Kids in the lab at the university where I was a "LabOp" thought I was magic when I showed them how to fix their incredibly goofed up formatting ... decades ago.
@VE2UWY @troublewithwords haha, same! At university, I worked in our computer lab, and this was about 50% of my help calls. (Most of the others were registered to Eudora).
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@troublewithwords i always remind myself that tim sweeney's ZZT began its life as a cursor-based text editor. he got so enamoured with moving the cursor around that he started building gameplay around it.
@vga256 I didn’t know!
*down the rabbit hole*
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@vga256 I didn’t know!
*down the rabbit hole*
@troublewithwords it is so unbelievably well designed. OOP for kids.
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I want to make a fantasy console Markdown editor with WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS vibes. It was the word processor that I wrote the first fiction that I sold.
(Yes, I could just use actual WP for DOS but might get some actual writing done that way.)
@troublewithwords this would be soooo coooll
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I want to make a fantasy console Markdown editor with WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS vibes. It was the word processor that I wrote the first fiction that I sold.
(Yes, I could just use actual WP for DOS but might get some actual writing done that way.)
@troublewithwords concept: printer driver for WP that outputs markdown
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I want to make a fantasy console Markdown editor with WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS vibes. It was the word processor that I wrote the first fiction that I sold.
(Yes, I could just use actual WP for DOS but might get some actual writing done that way.)
@troublewithwords You can even make it literally for DOS by using #jSH 😋
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@troublewithwords You can even make it literally for DOS by using #jSH 😋
@dec_hl Oh no!
I already have Turbo Pascal running if I really want to dabble in DOS. (Which I also have a pile of nostalgia for since it was what I used for the first commercial software I made.)
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@VE2UWY @troublewithwords haha, same! At university, I worked in our computer lab, and this was about 50% of my help calls. (Most of the others were registered to Eudora).
Oh, wow. We were not a big Eudora shop it was mostly stuff on the mainframe (no idea what that MUA was) or UNIX (elm, then pine, smattering of mailtool). Pegasus had some traction running against (IIRC) our Netware stuff.
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One of the items in Rules for Standards-makers is don't design the format before you make the app. Instead, make an app, and when you're ready, make the file format public so people can interop (ie compete) so as not to lock users to in your software. If you do that you can say you are "of the web." If we all do that always, voila! — no more silos. Another rule is that you must use an existing format if it exists, because then you will interop with the other people who support that format. Gratuitous incompatibility is a sign of a silo-seeker and not conducive to standards. So, look first, if there are no usable formats, make your app and make your format public.
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