123elf

Hey, another 1-2-3 nerd :) I don't have any nostalgia it, I just appreciate how thoughtfully it was designed for data-input efficiency. I actually ported the official UNIX version of 1-2-3 to Linux a few years ago, I still use it regularly. It uses some tricks to get the original UNIX binaries working on Linux: https://github.com/taviso/123elf I had been thinking about how to add UTF-8 support, it only supports LMBCS (Lotus Multi-Byte Character Set) by default. It's actually worse than that, it stores everything internally as LMBCS but in a lot of cases can only display ASCII, so it transliterates a lot of characters (e.g. é -> e). It's also possible to run the real DOS version in dosemu - in terminal mode it's basically indistinguishable from an ncurses application, although dosemu is just cleverly sampling the framebuffer and translatin

I use Lotus 1-2-3 in a Terminal https://github.com/taviso/123elf

You can run Lotus 1-2-3 for Unix in modern Linux : https://github.com/taviso/123elf

I want to live in a world where all the vintage Curses like apps work on modern systems. Just like Lotus 123 https://github.com/taviso/123elf

>> I never used Lotus If anyone is curious, there is a Linux port of Lotus123: https://github.com/taviso/123elf

Can it run Lotus 1-2-3, though? https://github.com/taviso/123elf

Mandatory link to 1-2-3 running on Linux https://github.com/taviso/123elf?tab=readme-ov-file

Lotus 1-2-3: https://github.com/taviso/123elf cointop: https://github.com/cointop-sh/cointop

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

Yeah, the humour of the author is pretty enjoyable. The tool written to redefine symbols in a COFF file is called "coffsyrup" :) https://github.com/taviso/123elf/blob/main/coffsyrup.c

The user documentation in the wiki is great! https://github.com/taviso/123elf/wiki/Getting-Started

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 :)