Re: Wordstar 4 on Apple II

[Russell Marks <russell.marks@ntlworld.com>]

Linards Ticmanis <ticmanis@coli.uni-sb.de> wrote:

> I tried putting Wordstar 4 on some Apple II disks, and it proved to be
> difficult to get together something that works, thanks to the meager
> 128K of free space that the Apple II CP/M disks offer. (I do have the
> software and hardware needed to create Apple CP/M disks, so that is
> not the problem.)
> 
> Has anybody succeded at this? What files do I need to put on the disk
> to make WS4 work? [...]

If you can run wschange on another machine (or in an emulator) to
make your ws.com from wsu.com, then I think it can be done, though you
probably won't be able to print files (or at least, not from WS).

I've quickly tested this in a CP/M emulator, and it seems you can get
by with just these:

ws.com  (as generated by wschange from wsu.com)
ws.ovr
wshelp.ovr
wsmsgs.ovr
wsshort.ovr

That's about 102k. It complains about not having wsprint.ovr when you
start up, but it worked for me. WS does create temporary files though,
so I doubt you'll be able to edit anything very large unless you can
get it to use a second drive for those. Failing that, you might be
able to cut further overlays (maybe wshelp.ovr?).

But with disks that small I'd use vde instead. Much faster too, even
if it is `only' a text editor. :-)

-Rus.