Dark Room!

Basically, Dark Room is a clone of the original WriteRoom http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/product/writeroom
that is an OS X (tiger exclusive application. It is a child of necessity, as there were no viable alternatives in Windows to produce the same behavior. Sure, you can kind of emulate the behavior by jumping through a bunch of hoops in Word/Writer, but it isn't the same. Also, you can do something similar in emacs, but who wants to learn a bunch of obscure keyboard shortcuts? The goal of the project is to capture the essence of WriteRoom, while keeping it simple and just as free. Download Now http://cloud.github.com/downloads/jjafuller/DarkRoomW/dark_room_0.8b.zip
(version 0.8b / 11/17/2006 **Requirements** * Windows XP 2000 2003 * .NET Framework 2.0 http://www.microsof

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