by JTimling » Fri Sep 28, 2018 9:39 am
Hi Patrick,
Thanks for this. It would be a good idea - but I have already looked into this. I.e., I have been messing around with emulators for a while like VDos, DosBox and VdosWP (which is a VDos version just for World Perfect), but am at the point, i'm just where I just want to get an old computer edit the autoexec.bat file, and have it just boot straight into a Word Perfect 6.0 - I don't know alot about computers, but in my newbie research I am learning about how to just get it to boot straight into Word Perfect 6.0 by editing the autoexec.bat file - that is probably obvious to everyone else here, but not to me.I have owned a lot of computers but never really thought about how they worked, apart from sometimes installing another HD back in the days. So I know next to nothing about what I am trying to do - but I am determined to make this happen.
Right now I am in talks with a gentleman, who may or may not be able to give me what I need, hardware wise. I will update if I get this quest accomplished.
Here is the dream:
Dos machine with nothing on it but Word Perfect 6.0
Boots straight into Word Perfect 6.0 from PC being turn on
Good old keyboard. Nice keys. Tick and sturdy.
No trace of Microsoft apart from MS Dos - nothing else installed on the machine but Word Perfect and MS Dos
Good old monitor - really like an old green or color monitor - there was just something about the old CRT - text really popped on the screen
Mouse support for Word Perfect 6.0 - that has mouse support in the program
Nothing else
You maybe wondering why I wanted to go to an old PC for writing things on, instead of a modern PC. Well, after decades of writing text on windows PCs on MS Word, and other word processing programs - being exposed btw to millions of times when the margins just adjusted "mid-sentence" and all the text changed - there were just too many straws on this camels back. The last one being - I had uninstalled ""bubble witch"" for the one millionth time on windows 10, and other bloatware, shaking my head when I was doing it - then after that was done, I sat down to work on a short story I was writing (my hobby) - when windows 10 restarted my computer in order to install updates - midway through a sentence! I could not even understand what that meant? At first I thought the power had gone out or something - it took 40mins before I was back into windows 10. The update was insane - by that time I was back I had lost track of what I was writing. Then I go to the start menu, and what is there??? Bubble Witch! Windows had reinstalled it again!! Along with everything I had uninstalled - or removed from the menus! I could not even talk. It was like I was inside some kind of absurd sitcom.
That is when I knew, I had to get this thing out of my life. As much as possible. And I could certainly never use it to do my writing hobby. That was what broke the camels back.
I had enough. Don't want to use modern PCs for any longer than it takes to check email, and a few websites I like to look at. And that is it. Certainly not for my hobby anyway.
Thanks Patrick,
Joe