On 12 Sep 2018, Nil wrote in
alt.windows7.general:

PSP 7 is a viable next best choice, so I'll try that soon.

I installed Paint Shop Pro 7.01, then applied a patch I had save to
take it to 7.02. It will be a couple of weeks before I can spend any
time with it, but at least it starts and runs and I can open some .PSP
files.

I also found a copy of PSP 8 that I had forgotten I had. I think I
recall that it was buggy and that PSP 9 was much, much better. But I'll
try it out sometime.