Re: Wordstar 4 on Apple II

[Stephen Mitchell <ssmitch@erols.com>]

Russell Marks wrote:
> 
> 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.

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Using wschange -- which you'd probably want to do on another machine --
you can create a smaller wsprint.ovr file that has only the driver for
the printer you're using.  I had to do that on a Kaypro 4 to fit
Wordstar 4 and The Word Plus on a single disk.  In addition to the
driver for whatever printer(s) you're actually likely to use, be sure
to keep the ASCII driver, which WS4 uses to convert a native Wordstar
file to pure ASCII.

Stephen S. Mitchell
Alexandria, Va.
ssmitch@erols.com