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The port was so perfect! Not the Corel ones, but the one from SD Corp. I'd love to have that running again.
by woofie11 6y ago
The port was so perfect! Not the Corel ones, but the one from SD Corp. I'd love to have that running again.
- Wowfunhappy 6y agoCan it be run on modern Linux?
- asveikau 6y agoI looked into it just now. Somebody has WordPerfect 8 binaries around. It requires libc5 - the c library that was common before glibc became common at the end of the 90s. And then needs X libraries that are compiled against libc5. Probably you could find an old Red Hat 5 or something and pull out those libraries to run on a recent kernel.
- compsciphd 6y agofor everyone that bitches about docker and ubuntu snaps, this is a perfect application of them
- ptman 6y agoI wonder if libc5 is so old that it has problems with docker. But I remember loki games being statically linked to avoid problems with dependencies. You only needed like linux syscalls and X11 for them to work.
- compsciphd 6y agoi dont see why it would have an issue. docker has no concept of the binaries that actually run, it just sets up namespaces, cgroups and a userspace. worse case scenario, you have to run the docker container as privileged, still no difference from running on host (at least with a properly constructed image, where the binaries wouldn't run as root)
- ptman 6y agolibc5 was just a linux-specific fork of glibc. glibc2 == libc6
- woofie11 6y agoI think WordPerfect 8 was where Corel rewrote it. It didn't work nearly as well. I vaguely recall they switched from native to some kind of compatibility layer (maybe Wine?) which just wasn't very good.