StormPlayer (latest version 0.9.1)
StormPlayer is a media player for the Cybiko handheld computer. It can play/display the following file types:
| Bitmap (.bmp) : | Uncompressed 24bit,16 colour and mono. 24bit and 16 colour are dithered to give a better image. Maximum resolution of 320x200. |
| Cybiko Pic (.pic) : | The standard cybiko picture format. |
| Cybiko XPic (.xpic) : | The cybiko photo picture format. Picture are converted from 16 colour to 4 colour. |
| Flick animations (.fli/.flc): | Most frame types are supported. |
| Avi Files (.avi): | These must have a maximum resolution of 160x100 and be compressed in Microsoft Video 1 (msvc). |
| Html pages (.htm/.html): | Stormplayer supports most of the basic formatting as well as links and images, tables however are not supported. Also pages should not be longer than three screens. |
| Text documents (.txt/.asc): | Standard text documents. The text reader is not too great at the moment so you could be better off using the standard reader.. |
| VideoNow (.wav): | Stormplayer can play VideoNow clips that have been created using Greg Smiths VideoThen java program. VideoThen can be found on sourceforge. |
| cvc / cvi : | These are two custom formats, one for video and one for images. See the readme file for more details. In case anyone is wondering, cvc=cybiko video container cvi=cybiko video image (both formats use the same compression). |
| Spectrum (.scr) : | This is the Spectrum computers native image format. This format is probably of no use to anyone but was added for completeness! |
| Book (.book/.txt/.asc) : | Any text or cybiko book file can be read. This works like Run Reader. |
This release also contains the latest version of the Avi2Cvc converter program. With it you can convert specially formatted avi files into cybiko video clips! Instructions are included.
 Main Menu |
 Video |
 Browser |
 Video |
New! Download CVC video clips from here
Version History
Changes from 0.9.0
- QAOP can be used instead of the arrow keys
- Minor potential bugs fixed
- Improved snaphot function (pasted from tower.app)
Changes from 0.8.7
- Used conditional compiling to remove most of the traces from the standard version.
- Introdced virtual memory style paging. Memory blocks moved to 'storm.dmp' when not currently needed.
- More dynamic memory allocation. Only allocating what's needed.
- Snapshot feature will now take a snapshot of almost anything displayed (inc. menus..)
- Reduced memory needed for cvc subtitle, may be a little quicker too.
- Introduced huffman based frame type to cvi + cvc, slow but better compression. (Added to tools)
- Fixed bug in 1bit bitmap viewer where width <160
- Games and App menu options, run programs from within StormPlayer!
- Lots of minor and pieces bits fixed or improved.
Changes from 0.8.6
- Image scrolling fixed + optimised so should be a little faster.
- Minor speedup to cvi decoding.
- Minor speedup and changes to display list.
- Reverted back to the slower less memory hungry file searching method.
- Reduced avi memory usage, also better handling for large frames.
- Removed support for Uncompressed AVIs (too slow to be useful)
- Reduced bmp memory usage/allocation by a lot.
- Removed 'Browser+' option (seemed pointless really).
- Minor changes to dither routine.
- Fixed a fault in the dithering routine.
- Seperated 1bit decoding from the bitmap function to remove repeated code (used in html+bmp viewer).
- Compacted the spectrum viewer and reduced memory usage.
- Added .book support. Text files can also be read, run reader style.
- Improved the html viewers drive handling.
Changes from 0.8.5
- Added more TRACEs to help track bugs.
- Loading screens to indicate searching for files.
- Much improved image zoom. Also uses much less memory.
- Xpic image support.
- Minor fixes to html viewer.
Changes from 0.8.4
- The left and right keys act as select/exit on the menus.
- The problem with file case sensitivity is fixed.
- Scanning the drives for files should be faster for some file types.
- Spectrum image support.
Still to come in StormPlayer
The following are features that may appear in newer versions of StormPlayer:
- Audio support.
- Improved text viewing (i.e. a working text viewer)
- An icon and maybe a logo!
- A native version which uses the CybornOS system.
- Compressed folder support (should be in 0.9 maybe earlier)
- Other great features......