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Does anyone remember CygnusEd? To this day nothing I use scrolled as nice as that text editor did. Such fluid scrolling. Sigh.

by bleair 9y ago

Flow 9y ago
Yeah, it was a very nice experience. Also, a mouse pointer that was synced to vertical blank together with a mouse that seemed to feed the computer with events fast enough to make it non-laggy and fluid.
abainbridge 9y ago
LOL. Yes. That's what inspired me to write my own Windows text editor with smooth scrolling: http://deadfrog.co.uk http://deadfrog.co.uk It's a bit rubbish. It is written in the Amiga style of every-byte-matters though. If it wasn't for the embedded Python interpreter, the entire install would be about 300k.
- SyneRyder 9y ago
  > It is written in the Amiga style of every-byte-matters though. This needs to be in the marketing of your website! It sounds like you're focusing on programmers, and I think they'll get the nostalgia of "remember the days when every byte mattered?" With the 1TB drive in my laptop I don't actually care about app size, but I love that you have a 1MB text editor in the days of Electron-based hipster minimalist text editors that are over 400MB. The story in your release notes about resisting adding a hi-res Vista icon because you thought 260KB for an icon was obscene, that story is both hilarious and awesome :) It looks like this is mostly just a fun project for you, but as a potential user I'd love to see more screenshots, an EXE installer option instead of .zip, and a big download button on the front page so I don't have to dig through the site to find how to download. But most of all, I think it's hilarious/awesome to see a text editor with a "Frames Per Second" meter! :)
  - abainbridge 9y ago
    Thanks. Hilarious/awesome is about what I was aiming for. Your comments are very sensible. I'll see what I can do.
squarefoot 9y ago
I do. CED was simply amazing both feature wise and for its speed and smoothness. Text searching and replacing was really fast too. Later I became a registered user of GoldEd which was more programmer oriented and incredibly rich in features, scriptable etc, still it could not reach CED speed.

Does anyone remember CygnusEd? To this day nothing I use scrolled as nice as that text editor did. Such fluid scrolling. Sigh.

by bleair 9y ago

Does anyone remember CygnusEd? To this day nothing I use scrolled as nice as that text editor did. Such fluid scrolling. Sigh.

Flow 9y ago

Yeah, it was a very nice experience. Also, a mouse pointer that was synced to vertical blank together with a mouse that seemed to feed the computer with events fast enough to make it non-laggy and fluid.

abainbridge 9y ago

LOL. Yes. That's what inspired me to write my own Windows text editor with smooth scrolling: http://deadfrog.co.uk http://deadfrog.co.uk It's a bit rubbish. It is written in the Amiga style of every-byte-matters though. If it wasn't for the embedded Python interpreter, the entire install would be about 300k.

SyneRyder 9y ago
> It is written in the Amiga style of every-byte-matters though. This needs to be in the marketing of your website! It sounds like you're focusing on programmers, and I think they'll get the nostalgia of "remember the days when every byte mattered?" With the 1TB drive in my laptop I don't actually care about app size, but I love that you have a 1MB text editor in the days of Electron-based hipster minimalist text editors that are over 400MB. The story in your release notes about resisting adding a hi-res Vista icon because you thought 260KB for an icon was obscene, that story is both hilarious and awesome :) It looks like this is mostly just a fun project for you, but as a potential user I'd love to see more screenshots, an EXE installer option instead of .zip, and a big download button on the front page so I don't have to dig through the site to find how to download. But most of all, I think it's hilarious/awesome to see a text editor with a "Frames Per Second" meter! :)
- abainbridge 9y ago
  Thanks. Hilarious/awesome is about what I was aiming for. Your comments are very sensible. I'll see what I can do.

squarefoot 9y ago

I do. CED was simply amazing both feature wise and for its speed and smoothness. Text searching and replacing was really fast too. Later I became a registered user of GoldEd which was more programmer oriented and incredibly rich in features, scriptable etc, still it could not reach CED speed.