HELLO, WORLD ...
GREETINGS FROM THE WRONG SIDE OF HISTORY!
The EBM System/800 is a FREE full-featured, low-res, distraction-free text editor aimed primarily at developers. You can use it as a Notepad replacement too. Pico-8 mode fitted as standard!
It's available for Windows PC, and if there is interest, can be made available for Linux and Mac. No mouse or icons, yet designed to be familiar to Windows users, with familiar mappings like CTRL-C to copy text. An Executive Edition with special features will also be available. The free version will remain 100% usable and will never nag you to upgrade.
Click itch.io to download.
FEATURES
- Mainframe console-style Terminal Mode with DOS-style commands
- Editor Mode merging WordPerfect-style status bar with familiar modern features
- Windowed and fullscreen modes, plus low-distraction half-fullscreen mode
- Genuine 8-bit font - not a modern PC font with a 'pixel art' style
- Change text height and width independently
- Three monochrome colour combinations with visible scanline option
- Find/replace with whole-word and case-sensitive functionality
- Extended "Mnemonic" clipboard, mapped to alphabet keys
- Bracket matching feature
- Jump between sections such as functions or chapters with CTRL+UP/DOWN
- Assemble/compile/launch your project at the press of a key
- Simple auto-complete feature that learns as you type
- Pico-8 mode with syntax highlighting and the Pico-8's 26 special characters
- Workspace management including reordering documents and save workspace
- Keyboard only - computer mouses are for WIMPs
EBM S/800 in distraction-free Half-Fullscreen Mode ... with Aseprite pixel art sprite editor to the right - www.aseprite.org
Auto-complete Mode: user typing "player_lives" ... shown in two of the three Monochrome Colour Modes, both with Visible Scanline Mode cranked up to 11, with Inverse Mode on the right
PICO-8 MODE
Type F1 to enter Terminal Mode, type INSTALL PICO8 to install the Pico-8 module, then load a .p8 or .lua file and type F2 to enter Editor Mode. Save all your project files to the same folder and type LOAD "folderName" to load all files in your folder.
- Forced CAPS like the Pico-8 editor
- 26 Pico-8 special characters
- Pico-8 colour palette
- Lua syntax highlighting
EBM S/800 in Pico-8 mode ... Froggo is available in Splore lexaloffle.com
READY?
Click itch.io to download the free edition or buy the Executive Edition.
Extended "Mnemonic" clipboard, which allows user to save words and phrases to be pasted by certain keys, features keys A-Z in Executive Edition, keys A-H in free version. Edit up to 32 documents in Executive Edition, 4 in free edition.
Executive Edition includes Extended Tab Mode for extended tab control. Executive Edition allows user to more than double the number of rows in Editor Mode. Executive Edition includes bonus Inverse Colour Mode.
Any issues, email me via the CONTACT page (coming very soon). We aim to fix issues within days, but we can only fix issues we know about. Include as many details as you can. If there's been a crash, send the debug .txt file from your S800 folder.
Essex Business Machines accept no liability for Robotrons developed using this product.
Responsible coders code while listening to Supertramp.
Liberal use of GOTO is encouraged.