Show HN: A faithful offline recreation of the classic MS-DOS Editor

Category: devtools

Tags: text-editor, retro, offline-first

Score: 4.5/10 (Innovation: 3, Technical: 5, Documentation: 6, Utility: 4)

Pascar is a single-file HTML recreation of the classic MS-DOS Editor that runs entirely offline in the browser. It provides a nostalgic text editing experience with full keyboard shortcut support, file operations, and portability on a USB stick. The project is interesting for its faithful emulation of a retro interface using modern web technologies.

Target audience: backend devs

Repository: https://pascar.run · HTML · MIT

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