On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 11:39 AM ZB <zbigniew2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > https://sites.google.com/site/vdeeditor/Home > > (see "Files Section") > > it seems it may be interesting to some
I'm the person who created and maintains that site. VDE is a clone of the WordStar editor and uses the WordStar command set, VDE's home page had been on the Short Stop DOS software site created by Steve Adelewitz. Steve died of a heart attack and Short Stop went off the air suddenly. VDE also had a mailing list hosted on the Topica site. Topica changed its business model and mailing lists went away. In cooperation with VDE author Eric Meyer and List Mommy Ben Cohen, I migrated the mailing list to a Google Group, and in cooperation with Eric created a new VDE home page. VDE originated under CP/M as an alternative to WordStar which began there. VDE was implemented as a single executable that did not require overlays. Eric moved development to DOS, and another developer picked up VDE for CP/M and continued it as ZDE. There was also a conversion of VDE from ASM to C and a static build port for Linux. Copies of all of them are on the VDE site. VDE includes a macro facility which WordStar lacked, and a number of VDE macro packages and a VDE macro compiler are hosted on the site. The site also hosts tools that can be used alongside VDE or called from it, with pointers to other DOS software sites. Eric still uses VDE daily, but development stopped around 2009. The mailing list still exists, but is very low traffic. I run VDE here using the vDOS Plus package available for Windows. vDOS Plus is a fork of the DOSBox emulator originally written to allow users to run old DOS games on things that weren't DOS PCs. (I use an Android port of DOSBox to run some DOS programs on an Android tablet.) vDOS Plus is intended for DOS character mode productivity applications and drops the specialized video and sound support. If folks here know of other things that ought to be on the VDE site, drop me a note. If I agree that they fit I'll add them. > regards, > Zbigniew ______ Dennis _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
