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I noticed Borland/Novell Quattro 6.x (for Win 3.1) is available for download, from before Corel bought the product and rolled it into their Office Suite: https

I noticed Borland/Novell Quattro 6.x (for Win 3.1) is available for download, from before Corel bought the product and rolled it into their Office Suite: https://winworldpc.com/product/quattro-pro/6x https://winworldpc.com/product/quattro-pro/6x Too old for my purposes, though. I need to convert circa 2002 .qpw files to something modern... And I found I could get there by going older... Using Quattro to save as .wb2, which LibreOffice handles quite nicely. A conversion to XLSX from there mangles things up, but even complex formatting is preserved well saving to ODF/.ods files. LibreOffice 1, Microsoft Office 0. I see archive.org is hosting the 2000 Linux version: https://archive.org/details/CorelForLinux https://archive.org/details/CorelForLinux

lproven 5y ago
Hi. Article author here. This is true. There are a lot of "abandonware" versions of all sorts of apps out there. It is almost trivially easy to find a copy of WordPerfect for DOS and install it on DR DOS or PC DOS in a VirtualBox VM, or run it under DOSemu on Linux. I link to instructions on how to do it in that article. But it's not legal. Abandonware is a nebulous term with no legal meaning. WordPerfect Corp is gone but the product is alive and well under Corel Corp. This still counts as piracy. But the MacOS and Linux versions were given away, for free, by WordPerfect Corp and so they are legit. That's why I wrote the blog post. :-)