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@@ -1,33 +1,54 @@ FujiNetChat - an IRC client for the Atari 8-bit with FujiNET. -For now, this is very rudimentary. It can currently: - -- connect to an IRC server -- complete the user/nick registrations process [*] -- respond to server PINGs -- join a channel (but only one!) -- send/receive channel messages -- receive private messages +For now, this is pretty rudimentary. It can currently: + +- connect to an IRC server. + +- complete the user/nick registration process, including handling the + "nickname already in use" error (by adding _, 1, 2, etc to the + user nick). + +- respond to server PINGs. + +- handles nick changes. + +- multi-window display, with one screens' worth of scrollback per + window. + +- join up to 5 channels, each in its own window. more than 5 channels + can be joined, but the extra ones get multiplexed together in the + server window. + +- send/receive channel messages. + +- "highlights" channel text that contains the user's nick. + +- receive private messages (in a dedicated private messages window). + +- server window to keep the chatty server messages from cluttering up + the channel windows. + - if you use raw IRC protocol, you can send private messages: /PRIVMSG <nick> :this is the message text. -[*] almost: it doesn't recover gracefully from "nick already in use" - or "invalid nick", and if the server truncates the nick, it doesn't - notice. +- input box at the bottom of the screen, allows editing and can + handle up to 239 characters of input. + +- status bar, shows the current window's number, name or channel, + and which other windows have new text in them. disappears (replaced + by the input box) when the user starts typing, and reappears when + the user presses Enter to send the message/command, or Shift-Clear + to abort it. + +Differences from FujiChat: -I have great plans for the future: +- FujiChat does its own TCP/IP and DNS, using SLIP. FujiNetChat offloads + the network stuff to the FujiNet device, freeing up memory for more + client features (e.g. the multi-window display). -- custom display. it will support multiple screens (like linux virtual - consoles), one per channel or query (PM conversation). of course due - to limited RAM, there won't be many windows supported. On a 48K - machine, probably 8 windows, each with a screens' worth of scrollback, - which means 16K of video memory... +- FujiChat only supports joining one channel, and has no multi-window display. -- an 'input box' at the bottom of the screen, so we don't have to keep - redrawing the user's input as data comes in. this will require a - custom display list. +- FujiChat can be used with software 80x25 or 64x32 text modes. FujiNetChat + is (currently) 40 columns, using GR.0 style text mode. -- a status bar that appears in place of the input box, until the user - starts typing (and reappears when he hits Return). it will show the - current window's channel or nick, and activity status for the other - windows. +- FujiNetChat allows you to type the { } ` ~ characters. |