Download Squad

[laura_seabrook]

Discovered this DownloadSquad today, that has blogs about things you can download. I found it when looking for a reference to MS Word for DOS which I used professionally between 1989-1995.

The amazing thing is, that it's been available free for download since 1999. Not of course, that if you had anything running anything like Linux, or Windows XP, that you'd actually use this and not Open Office or (heavens forbid) MS Office or equivalent.

Maybe it's nostalgia for me. Earlier I was looking for a simple DOS game that ran in coloured text mode and was a rip-off of something called Boulder Dash. The one I was looking for had a bulldozer clearing out a grid of diamonds, dirt, rocks and dynamite (you can guess what happens when the boulders fall on the dynamite). I got this from the freeware/shareware archives at W.A.I.T used to play it on my XT. Hours of mindless fun including one episode where (and I swear I'm not making this up, or trying to be funny) I saw a vision of a Flaming Jesus above the PC while I played it.

Strange days.

Comments

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

MS-Word for DOS was a great program. That screenshot is v5.5, isn't it?

[laura-seabrook.livejournal.com]

I think so - it's pretty much the version I used.

[radargrrl.livejournal.com]

Does it run under DOS?

[laura-seabrook.livejournal.com]

Which one?
Word for DOS certainly does!
If I remember correctly Emerald Hunt does too.

[radargrrl.livejournal.com]

Just me being silly, as always.