StoryServer late alpha/early beta release is (finally) here ....

Posted by airchecklover
Mar 4, 2019 at 02:32 PM

Hello again to all and esp. to Pierre.

Sorry my intro to group was not as smooth as we all would have liked.

IF CURIOUS: I did the EverEcco project while recovering from cancer and subsequent health b.s. It forced me to ‘super-learn’ Ecco b/c I needed then and still need now a tool like Ecco for my next big project. I ran extensive memory tests on Ecco and used my wife as a test subject to figure out how to configure Ecco so that a techie person could use it in a multi-user networked environment. Coloring Ecco Icons and creating new ones was part of the project, as were coming up w/ some scripts. Given that I am a dyslexic creative type, the colorizing icons was the easy part. Coding and me do not get along.

CONCLUSION: As wonderful as tool as EccoPro (+EE) is, do not put your important business life into a multi-user EccoPro setting. Some have done it and are still doing it but unless you work with all Mensa-level computer brainiacs, you will end up doing too much support on top of admin.

ENTER SS: Every past and present EccoPro user wanted or wants a 64-bit clone. Ecco’s downfall is not inherent complexity - even with the wonderful but complex & kludgy EE patch - it is the three waaaaaay undersized memory buffers on top of smallish 32-bit addressing. SS showed up and I started pestering developers. I see a long coding road ahead to make SS a finished reality but I think, based on what I’ve seen in 6 months, the gifted coders at Polywick can pull it off.

ME & SS: My fingers are crossed and cheer-leading outfit is on. I’ve offered to be the interface between Polywick developers and a couple boards and they accepted.

OK, hope that helps explain things.

If anyone does test the SS alpha & you know Ecco+EE, you will notice two things:
• this release truly is an alpha (read-only at this point)
• this project is ambitious, embracing all past ideas and suggesting new innovation is coming.

Cheers,
Mark