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As a kid I used to have, what I thought, was WordPerfect 6 on MS-DOS 6.22 It did not have a blue background, but looked graphical like MS Word today. It even had some clipart such as an alpinist.

Does anyone recognize the software I'm describing? I've been searching for this out of nostalgia.

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WordPerfect 6 did have an optional graphical mode that wrote directly to the framebuffer, I've never used it though!

Is it possible you're thinking of that?

There is a screenshot of it on this page: https://thewanderingnerd.wordpress.com/2015/04/19/corel-word...

WordPerfect 6 did have a graphical mode with a white background that looked a lot like MS Word, even when running on DOS. I can't remember, but it might even have been the default if you had a VGA card. CTRL-F3 would flip you back to the old blue background character mode interface.

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