I had a love-hate relationship with Word for DOS. It only supported a small list of canned fonts. I hacked it at the assembly level to support more. I wrote a DOS TSR that Word would call twice: once on startup to ask for a list of supported soft fonts and later to tell it to send the ones it needed to the printer at print time. It made me my dad’s hero overnight.
I LOVED WP for DOS.
“I hacked it at the assembly level to support more....”
Kool, I used to work with Assembly for early real-time microprocessor control systems [a number of years after the times when my roommates worked with Bob Frankston at IDC before he hooked up with Bricklin...].
Finally in ~1992, [after having used Lotus 123 @ work], I bought a home PC with Excel, the killer, ripped-off, M$ App.
Many decades later, I use [some version of some sort of] Open
Office Calc daily.
Many trees and hours have been saved, in at least my case.
In many ways, it’s been a long, strange trip...
> I hacked it at the assembly level to support more. I wrote a DOS TSR …
Ah, memories… TSRs were the lifeblood of us early DOS IT guys. I wrote a bunch of ‘em back in the day…