Notices by The FreeDOS Project (freedosproject@fosstodon.org), page 3

@bytex64 What a great find! 👍

@bytex64 I should be clear: I'm seeing that limitation because I'm running the unregistered shareware copy. galaxy30.zip

FYI: Our hosting provider will upgrade the wiki.freedos.org server on Tuesday, August 21.

The site may act funny or otherwise demonstrate odd behavior during that time.

@balglaas Interestingly, Galaxy was my last desktop word processor. After that, I dual-installed Linux with DOS on my home PC.

No word processor for Linux in 1993, so I learned nroff (groff) to write class papers, and LaTeX if I needed equations. (LaTeX on Linux - emTeX on DOS, just to have the same env on both.)

I still enjoy writing with markup languages. (I like groff -me) 🤓

@balglaas WordPerfect was definitely expensive - they pretty much owned the office word processor market at the time, so I guess they leveraged that.

$300 for the student edition for me. 💸

$99 for Galaxy, and it did everything (and more) that WP would do.

@klaatu Loved your article! ❤️

@withaveeay Galaxy was indeed fast, especially on my '386 at the time. I don't think you can change the key bindings though - I didn't see an option for that in the menus.

@bytex64 Very cool! I'd love to keep experimenting with Galaxy, but it looks like it has a limiter after X number of runs, or Y number of days (seems like 1 month).

I suppose I could put it on a separate VM disk image and just keep refreshing the image. 🤔

@drwho I ran WordPerfect until it was time to upgrade .. $300 (student edition) was too much for me 🤑 but $99 for Galaxy was do-able. 😃

@dellagustin Good catch - fixed!! 👍

Short version: It was a great alternative to WordPerfect. but it doesn't show page breaks or full justification.

Did anyone else use Galaxy, the shareware DOS word processor?

Here's my look back:

https://technicallywewrite.com/2023/08/20/galaxy

The next FreeDOS virtual get-together will be Sunday, August 27 at 11am US/Central.

This meeting will focus on technical items - debugging, etc.

I'll share the meeting URL here shortly before the meeting starts. As usual, we'll use BlueJeans.