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- Short: LAN Chat program - Oratory Amiga - GOOD!
- Uploader: mag_torg@hig.no (Magnus Rivertz Torgersen)
- Author: mag_torg@hig.no (Magnus Rivertz Torgersen)
- Type: comm/net
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- This is probably the best Chat program available for
- computers connected on a LAN with other Amiga's or
- PC's.
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- No server is needed, and you have a lot of the
- posibilities that IRC have.
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- It's only ment for use on LAN'S, and will NOT work
- through the internet.
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- This is the amiga version of
- Oratory 98 1.00.26 for win95/98
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- Nice GUI! ;)
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- Requirements
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- |-> Computer
- | An Amiga computer
- | Amiga OS 3.0 (2.04+ systems may work, but is not tested)
- | Required: 68020 CPU - Recommended: 68040 CPU
- | Harddisk required
- | Connection to a local area network (Usually ethernet)
- | TCP/IP stack with UDP support (Amitcp/Genesis/Miami)
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- |-> Programs
- Mui (Aminet: util/libs/mui38usr.lha)
- Muirexx V3 (Aminet: dev/mui/MuiRexx_3_0a.lha)
- Rexxmast running (Usually started automaticly at bootup)
- c:copy, c:makedir, c:delete, c:run, c:assign, c:rx (system)
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- More information
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- What is Amitory?
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- Amitory is a chat program made for use on a local
- area network (usually ethernet with tcp/ip packets)
- It does not need any servers because all messages
- are sent by UDP to the broadcast address
- It's probably the best chat program for use
- internally on a LAN!
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- It's designed for a maximum of 254 users, and it's
- required that all users that are going to chat with
- each other have the same three parts of there IP
- addresses. Netmask should (but not nescessarily (?))
- be 255.255.255.0 (check your tcp/ip stack).
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- Static IP is recommended, ore else you will have
- to run the preferences program before starting
- Amitory each time your IP have changed.
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- Background
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- Oratory for PC have existed in some years already,
- but no Amiga version have been made.
- I waited a year for a Linux version to port, but
- the linux port of Amitory didn't progress to fast,
- and was quite buggy.
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- Because of this, I decided to make an Amiga
- version of this program, without building it on any
- code of the pc or linux versions.
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- I didn't have much experience with coding, but I'd
- made some small tools in arexx earlier.
- That is why I decided to use arexx.
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- At first my plan was as simple as just see what
- the other sayd, without any possibility to join or
- to send messages. But after some coding, I found
- out how to expand it. After some days of coding,
- I had a complete Oratory for the Amiga in mind,
- and I called it Amitory.
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- I needed a GUI too, and because I do like MUI,
- the choice was simple -MuiRexx to make the GUI
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- PS: The Win95/98 version uses 4 Mb of memory, and
- are 1Mb of size! :)
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- Author
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- If you have any questions, please let me know.
- Now in the first steps, I would also like to know
- if you have made it work at all, but that shouldn't
- be a problem -I hope....
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- Magnus R Torgersen
- e-mail: mag_torg@hig.no
- ICQ: 28307453
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