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thomthowolf:
Sounds extremely interesting, thomtowolf!
What OS was Wordbech for?

No dice running it in dos mode (emmulation)?
-urlwolf (March 05, 2007, 01:34 PM)
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Actually, it ran in dos 6.22, which I still have, and can emulate.  The trouble is that I was young and foolish, and ran from my original disks, which were fatally stricken with a virus :hanged: :hanged: :( The company stopped supporting it so I was never able to replace it.

gri:
The programs that come to my mind are:
-Ruffnekk (March 05, 2007, 09:48 AM)
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Please, can anybody put the forum PM reading on RuffNeck's mind ?
There is something about nostalgic vasilisa for him.

NigelH:
PC-Outline (Dos) -Brown Bag software
Copy seen here http://www.umich.edu/~archive/msdos/database/pcoutline/

List Plus (Dos) - from Vern Buerg

These days though, I use Less to view really large text files 
http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/index.html

iphigenie:
you know, there are emulators that make it easy to preserve old games, good and bad, and even see them in action again, and preserve the name of the people who did them etc.

But there's very little to preserve even basic information about old non game software. Strange. I guess games can pretend to being borderline applied arts...

rjbull:
But there's very little to preserve even basic information about old non game software.
-iphigenie (March 07, 2007, 03:52 AM)
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Coming close:

Dan's 20th Century Abandonware

Free Software for DOS

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