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Reply 60 of 67, by Nemo1985

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feda wrote on 2026-07-20, 12:31:

His goal is to troll the users of this forum using multiple accounts.

Leave it, it's not even worth, if the fellow vogonians are willing to waste their time helping clear troll leave them be, it's their time.

Reply 61 of 67, by RetroPCCupboard

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Nemo1985 wrote on 2026-07-20, 12:34:

Leave it, it's not even worth, if the fellow vogonians are willing to waste their time helping clear troll leave them be, it's their time.

Have to admit I find the concept of trolling to be nonsensical. Why waste your time doing such a thing. If that is what this is, then I just feel sad for this person. Sad that they have nothing better to do with their life.

Reply 62 of 67, by NeoG_

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RetroPCCupboard wrote on 2026-07-20, 14:44:

Have to admit I find the concept of trolling to be nonsensical. Why waste your time doing such a thing. If that is what this is, then I just feel sad for this person. Sad that they have nothing better to do with their life.

The other option is cognitive faculties going haywire

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Reply 63 of 67, by ModernMan

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RetroPCCupboard wrote on 2026-07-20, 05:02:
Ok. But why use MS-DOS for that? You clearly have XP, which would support Microsoft Word for Windows for better features and c […]
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ModernMan wrote on 2026-07-19, 22:14:

As i said on page 1, want to write some letters up (and JPG files too) save to USB stick and load them up in the library from USB stick then print them off

Ok. But why use MS-DOS for that? You clearly have XP, which would support Microsoft Word for Windows for better features and compatibility with library computers (and also built-in USB support).

I know that there is a trend right now for distraction-free writing by using an offline basic computer. Is this your goal?

https://youtu.be/H10x_n0zt_I?si=Tvd4catW7xaXUc1T

an interesting video and full of useful products as to what (under his own claim and not
some BS storey he heard about on the Internet) word processor files that will run on
MS-DOS

word start 4 from 1987
word star 7 (for DOS) 1992
But he dose not really make it clear weather or not word star has a spell checker or not

Word perfect 4.2/66.2 (into the late 80s)
Word perfect (is Just a blank screen!)
He says it cost him over 400 pound back in the mid 80s

But he say they bough ran on MS-DOS

He said that you can get them bough from certain online achieve sites
He says that he is running then on DOS but he says you can run them on MS-DOS or a
free DOS or DOS emulator or DOS box X (what ever they are???)
He says that Robert J Soya has created a download for them all

But he likes then because they are what they are just a word processor and nothing ells
like todays graphics page publications
More like he just want to write page after page for say a magazine
rather then along with design the magazine itself!(i.e. MS office and Libre office)

He also said that he tried multi mate and said it was terrible!
And would only work with single page letters

Then he said later on in the 80 Microsoft introduced "word for DOS"

He also said he like "Ashton Tate's Frame Work" which was ahead of its time!
which was an integrated frame work of data base word and spread sheet
which had multiple windows

Then he talks about Lotus123 had an integrated packaged called Symphony
But he did not like the way it saved its self into other file types

Then Lotus did a money script which was for technical processes of word documents

Then he mentions PC write that he liked (a shareware program)

Then Borland came up with Sprint

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Reply 64 of 67, by ModernMan

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ModernMan wrote on 2026-07-20, 23:32:

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All very good video! and all very good places to find the word processing programs that I want for my new project; but sadly I have no MS-DOS OS anymore, because........

Nemo1985 wrote on 2026-07-20, 12:34:
feda wrote on 2026-07-20, 12:31:

His goal is to troll the users of this forum using multiple accounts.

Leave it, it's not even worth, if the fellow vogonians are willing to waste their time helping clear troll leave them be, it's their time.

Because.. the OP was given SUCH GOOD ADVICE HEAR about how to format and install said OS's. That the OP lost his original OS's which included the one used to access this forum and all it s cookies and of cource DOS (the one in question!). (yes his HDD was duked!)

Therefor the OP in question; is completely lost, clueless and soulless!

What a shame he is still alive!

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Reply 65 of 67, by ModernMan

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ModernMan wrote on 2026-07-20, 23:41:

What a shame he is still alive!

PS sorry on such the poor text BTW, but that is all he could ever get as they took his add down as it violated company policies
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Reply 66 of 67, by keropi

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please no links to abandonware or similar sites
VOGONS does not support these downloads if there are issues with them ask at the place where you downloaded them , thanks

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Reply 67 of 67, by ModernMan

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keropi wrote on 2026-07-25, 10:07:

please no links to abandonware or similar sites
VOGONS does not support these downloads if there are issues with them ask at the place where you downloaded them , thanks

You cant get hold of them! there is no email addresses or anything like that for them, personlly I dont see them being around for very long, so long as it is them and no me making all the mistakes
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