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Writing Fiction Using SubEthaEdit

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the amusing-stuff dept.

Phil Shapiro writes "The recent blizzard on the East Coast makes for some great collaborative creativity opportunities of various sorts, including group fiction writing using SubEthaEdit. Did you know you can write fiction about collaborative fiction writing using collaborative fiction writing tools? We didn't either." Man, the best fiction I've ever produced is some of the project plans created using SubEtha.

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  1. Re:Sorry by KingDaveRa · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Its a shame there's not a windows/*nix version, or a similar thing using AIM or MSN Messenger. Do similar tools exist and I've never seen them maybe? I'd like to do some online collaborations.

  2. Re:Mac OSX only... by the_2nd_coming · · Score: 4, Interesting

    like?

    and BTW.. SubEtha has been around for years.. prior to the name change 3 years ago they were known as HydraEdit.

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  3. Re:For those who don't know... by Space+Coyote · · Score: 3, Interesting
    I would like to add that I wish that codemonkeys would port this tool to Linux or start a project of adding support for their software to talk to there software like this because it would d be nice to use it to actually do collaboration over the net.

    SubEthaEdit is a Cocoa application, which means porting it for Windows / Linux would require nearly a total re-write depending on how much of it is written in Objective-C. And from my experience with writing Cocoa apps vs. Win / Linux apps, you can get a very feature-rich, polished application up and running much more quickly with Cocoa, thanks to its use of frameworks. So a port to another OS might just seem like too much work for the team they have.

    But I would definitely love for more programmers to start using ZeroConf (rendezvous' generic name) on other platforms. It's just a damn neat protocol.

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