Blackbeard

Blackbeard
Name	Blackbeard
Version	7.46 (1989-05-30)
Vendor	BLACKBEARD
Author	James K. Powers
Licence	Shareware
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Blackbeard is a shareware programmers editor originally released for DOS in 1985 by James Powers as Blackbeard version 3.6. Its main claim to fame was at the time was the support for multiple windows and the ability to act as a TSR and it came with a separate formatter for printing purposes that also gave the editor some rudimentary word processing function.

The editor had a few problem though that kept it from becoming a major success, the handling of large files was rudimentary which could make it extremely slow to work with larger files, it was also painfully slow on an XT class system and the author kept switching compilers meaning that each new version came with a new set of bugs, not necessarily related to the new code.

History

Blackbeard was first released in 1985 and distributed using the shareware principle.

In 1988 Blackbeard was diverged into three products called: Blackbeard, Captain Blackbeard, and Blackbeard/2.

Version

• 3.6 (1985)
• 4.7 (1985-12-16) virtual memory
• 5.21 (1986-04-01)
• 6.3 (1986-07-04)
• 7.25 (1987-04-21)
• 7.34 (1987-10-01) First release built with Turbo C
• 7.46 (1989)