Short: LAN Chat program - Oratory98 PC -win ver. Author: oratory98@hotmail.com Uploader: mag_torg hig no (Magnus Rivertz Torgersen) Type: comm/net Architecture: m68k-amigaos This is the pc version of Oratory. Compatible with Amitory on Aminet. This is probably the best Chat program available for computers connected on a LAN with other Amiga's or PC's. No server is needed, and you have a lot of the posibilities that IRC have. It's only ment for use on LAN'S, and will NOT work through the internet. This is the Oratory 98 1.00.26 for win95/98 What is Oratory? 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! 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). Background 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. 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. 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. 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. I needed a GUI too, and because I do like MUI, the choice was simple -MuiRexx to make the GUI This is the windows version. It's freeware, and I've got permission to spread it from it's author. Author Amigaversion 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.... Magnus R Torgersen e-mail: mag_torg@hig.no ICQ: 28307453 Author PC version Anders Stalheim Øfsdahl oratory98@hotmail.com Oratory is freeware as long as the users are students or not part of a non-commercial organization.