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There’s this for a WordStar clone…

http://wordtsar.ca/

It’s not a clone, but you can run actual WordPerfect on Linux and Windows with a little effort…

https://mendelson.org/wpdos/unix.html

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And of course MS Word for DOS 5.5 is a free (official) download:

http://download.microsoft.com/download/word97win/Wd55_be/97/...

I've been meaning to, but can't pull myself away from Scrivener / Manuskript / just plain text files. Has anyone tries out WordTsar lately? It does look really neat. I'm just not sure if I'm ready to trust it with my text yet.

There is always Emacs. I love this talk by Joe Dixit about how he came from things like scrivener to Emacs https://youtu.be/FtieBc3KptU?feature=shared

And within Emacs, there's org-novelist. https://github.com/sympodius/org-novelist/

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