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- Subject: THE STORM Allan Page
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- From: sheppard_r@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
- Date: 5 Nov 1992 10:13:14 GMT
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- Well here is one more bit that I found care of ST-Report 837...
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- Alan Page, the author of STORM, tells us:
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- "Storm is completely different from Flash. It's also completely
- redesigned. As much as possible I made it modular and internally
- multitasking. The terminal emulations and file transfers are loadable
- modules. Right now I have CompuServe Vidtex (which is a whole lot like
- VT52) and TTY. Current file transfer modules are X/Ymodem and CIS
- BPlus with resumable downloads.
-
- The editor is in a resizable movable window with FULL word wrap. e.g.
- delete and backspace will activate wordwrap. No more hitting the F10
- key to reformat. You can have as many editing windows as GEM will let
- you (with MultiTOS, the number of windows seems to be limited only by
- memory).
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- The capture buffer is an editor window, but with the special property
- that text gets added to the end of it from the serial port. You can
- create a new capture buffer and turn the old one into a regular edit
- window. You can edit a file at the same time text is being captured.
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- File transfers run in the background. Not full background/reset-proof
- like Shadow, but better than STalker which stops when you enter the
- menu bar.
-
- Command language is a full Basic interpreter. It also multitasks with
- the rest of the program. So you can run Basic, edit files, do file
- transfers, all at the same time. Basic has re-entrant execution. So if
- you define a function key to execute a Basic command, it stops the
- current Basic program, creates a new Basic interpreter (less than 1K
- overhead), runs the function key macro, then the current Basic program
- restarts. Same thing for the dial directory autologon.
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- Basic (and the rest of the program) allocate memory sparingly and
- release memory back to the system. The program is completely MultiTOS
- compatible and in fact run 90% of the time in MultiTOS.
-
- Storm also supports the Atari clipboard for cut and paste. I use a
- custom font and driver for extra speed. However, it doesn't cheat with
- GEM and works on TT and should work on other programs. It's 12 pixels
- high with monochrome so you get 24 lines in a window with room for a
- typeahead."
-
- Albert Dayes asks some good questions:
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- "Within the Window does STORM give you 80 columns? In some other
- windowing software one gets less than 80 columns due to the scroll
- bars etc? Also is there a 132 column mode? Since everything is
- loadable one should be able to create almost any type of emulation.
- Will there be a special developer kit for this or will it be included
- in the program?"
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- Alan Page answers:
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- "You get 80 columns in the terminal window. There is not as yet 132
- columns. I will probably have 132 columns, but you would have to
- scroll unless you have a machine with higher resolution graphics. I
- will release source code for the loadable emulations at some point. I
- will probably not have documented it enough to release it at the time
- we ship Storm because getting the program out is the #1 priority."
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- Hal Dougherty asks Alan Page:
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- "Didn't you write the original Flash?"
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- Alan answers:
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- "Yes I wrote the original Flash. However, Antic Publishing owned the
- trademark. Apparently, before they went bust they sold the trademark
- (even though they owed me $$). Storm is a completely new program. Not
- a line of code from the original Flash is in it."
-
-
- Brought to you by ST-Report 837..
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- If you bury your head in the sand and don't read ST-Report thats your problem,
- there are otheres here that have access to GEnie but do nothing for the net,
- how about getting of your buts and doing some thing postive..:-)...
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- Also those of you that will never know as you have me in your kill files, well
- all I can say get a New Brain as you do nead one...
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-
- Roger.............
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- I don't live by kill files but by my intellegence....
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- I wish more netters had some of that...??
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- sheppard_r@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
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