Alice Hill of RealTechNews writes:

While the word processing world is battling it out over templates and clip art, commercial versus open source, a little known dark horse word processor called Dark Room is bringing back the simplicity of the early word processing workhorses in all their green text-on-black screen glory.

“Dark Room is a full screen, distraction free, writing environment. Unlike standard word processors that focus on features, Dark Room is just about you and your text. Basically, Dark Room is a clone of the original 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.” [Source: they.misled.us]

“For Mac users who enjoy the simplicity of a typewriter, but live in the digital world. WriteRoom is a full screen, distraction free, writing environment. Unlike standard word processors that focus on features, WriteRoom is just about you and your text. Requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later.” [Source: Hogbay Software]

We Say: At first I thought this was more of a programming exercise than a viable product, but then after playing around with the simple ASCII look and lack of button rows and collapsible drop down menus, Dark Room is like a breath of fresh air. Like playing Super Mario Brothers or Duck Hunt. Sometimes old school is more fun.

Download Dark Room here.
Note: the download is often down

Download WriteRoom for OS X (Tiger) here.

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