So what is it doing here? Well, after using the alpha version and seeing its potential, I badgered them until they finally relented, and, in late November 2005, released the source under an open licence.
Any changes after that point are my own work, and as such, any problems or queries are to be directed to me, James Scholes
I'm glad you asked. When I received the sources for Cretin, the product was in a very unfinished state.
As an IRC client, it worked, and worked rather well. Over most RISC OS clients, Cretin boasts multiple servers, tabbed channels, and lua scripts. The trouble was all the little things: configuration, options, ease of use, that sort of thing.
As such, this it where I've concentrated my efforts. Cretin now boasts:
Currently, Cretin can run on any RISC OS computer with the Nested Window Manager and SharedUnixLibrary
In theory, that's everything from RISC OS 3.1 to 5.11 inclusive. However, it's only been tested on the following: RISC OS 3.7, RISC OS 4.02, RISC OS 4.39 (Select), RISC OS Adjust, VirtualRPC-SE, RISC OS 5.11 (Iyonix). If you manage to run it on anything else, please let me know.
Note that Cretin v0.20b now works on the Iyonix, and, to the best of my knowledge, the A9home. Thanks for this conversion to a 32bit compatible version go largely to James Bursa, and also to all the people on IRCnet I've been bugging about this.
Version 0.20b and later are built against the SharedUnixLib which must be installed. You will also need ZapFonts to use Cretin. Important note: the version of ZapFonts included in a normal Zap.zip archive appears to be missing the AddPath BASIC file, so please make sure you fetch a version from either zapfonts.zip or everything(32).zip. If you've got the wrong version, Cretin can't load any fonts, so it won't work properly.
You can see severalscreenshots of Cretin in action (version 0.16b), showing many of the user options.
View the new help file online.
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