EasyBase

Easy Base was the name of a RAM -based full text - database that for the Atari ST was developed machines. It was an attempt to implement the principle of the index card on the computer. The specialty of the software was that you did not have to specify any data record criteria such as "Surname, first name, street, city". The data was entered as if on a piece of paper. EasyBase had a screen divided into four areas. The bottom row was occupied by “menu icons” that could be operated with either a mouse or keyboard . On the right edge of the screen, EasyBase had nine freely definable "function buttons", similar to a "clipboard". These could be assigned functions that were needed repeatedly during work. So you were only “a mouse click away” from the “worksheet”. Two “overlapping” windows formed the center of the EasyBase desktop. One of the windows showed a selection / list of data records, for example after entering a search term, the other window showed the "history" of the last work steps. EasyBase had a command line at the top of the screen .

EasyBase could be started either as a program or as an "accessory". The Atari computers enabled "incomplete multitasking ". In addition to the main program, this allowed max. To keep 6 other so-called accessories in the RAM memory and to switch between the individual programs. However, these had the disadvantage that they could not be terminated while the system was running, and thus cost storage space. EasyBase could be used both as a main program and as an "accessory" by simply renaming it (EXE <> ACC). EasyBase was developed by Omikron, which today specializes in the development of tools in the area of ​​data quality. The popular Omikron BASIC and Mortimer , a multifunctional tool that combined the most important tools under one user interface , also came from Omikron .