wpunix VS 123elf

Not sure if they'll work on Alpine, but there's WordTsar (a Wordstar clone) and WordPerfect. Alternatively, you could run Word 5.5 in DOSBox.

WordPerfect is a thing, still, and while its way more powerful, some would consider to be pretty clunky in terms of usability.

Perhaps tangential, but there is a Pandoc marco [0] for this program to DOCX via RTF. But I agree, I can do all sorts of things but eventually I am often required to get a document in DOCX. Love Pandoc.

[0] https://github.com/taviso/wpunix/issues/17

A text editor and a word processor are different things. There are things you can do very easily in a word processor that are difficult in a text editor, and vice versa. I actually wrote a FAQ about this!

https://github.com/taviso/wpunix/wiki/FAQ#q-why-not-just-use

(Fwiw, I'm a daily vim user)

In fact, WordPerfect for UNIX does work on Linux, see here.

According to https://github.com/taviso/123elf/issues/105 there is no real chance for getting a FOSS license here.

We all have weird interest, it's the long tail.

Magic happens when you find someone with the same weird interest: emulation brings innovation through iterations!

Maybe someday I'll find someone interested in running Excel through wine rendering in Sixels within a terminal :)

And before you ask, yes I've enjoyed way too much reading about https://github.com/taviso/123elf and the history behind it!

123 was indeed ported to UNIX, I have that working as well! https://github.com/taviso/123elf

(Although it was more likely procalc - a popular low-end lotus clone)

I'm also working on porting dBase IV, another popular package from the era :)

Check out my quick start guide, it's for R3 but is mostly applicable to R2.

I maintain Lotus 1-2-3 for UNIX, which was also though to be lost until recently, we recovered it from the archives of an old BBS! (You can run it on Linux if you're interested!)