CyberMistress
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Basic information
CyberMistress is a program that combines most and certainly the best features of both PCMistress (no longer in development), which was developed for sessions, and VirtualMaster (development on hiatus), which was developed for 24/7 control.
It also includes novelties such as keeping a blog within the program. New features that are exclusively available in CyberMistress include negotiations and the Mistress's mood.
Target group
CyberMistress was initially created for subs who can't find a dominant or who are too shy to explore their bdsm preferences, but it is also used by dominants as an additional training instrument. The program can easily be customised to suit your needs and there's also a whole range of custom content available at the CyberMistress website [1] (FREE registration required).
It combines the two varieties of training: sessions and 24/7 control.
Custom Content
A lot of users have published their creations at the website, so you can download new sessions and scripts for free.
There's also a tool, the Milovana Converter, which allows you to convert teases from Milovana [2] (online webteases) so they can be ran offline in the CyberMistress program instead.
History and codenames
Development started around September 2005. It is a spare time project that is maintained by Kenneth Lejeune, who is the only programmer.
Codename Kala The first real codename that was used for a major update for CyberMistress, was Kala. It is a Hawaiian name which means 'Princess'. This major update had two phases: half of the original code was rewritten in order to boost performance and making new implementations easier. It marked the first major, unique features of CyberMistress: her mood (not to be confused with your attitude points) and negotiations, an option which allows sub to negotiate about assignments and punishments in order to get an alternative.
Codename Freya
Freya is the name of another major update which is already in development, but will not be released before 2009. Freya refers to the Goddess of Beauty (Norse mythology), which is a wink at the skinning feature. It will add a timers feature and a skinning feature. Performance will be seriously boosted. There will be other minor improvements as well and all official tools will be revised. A completely new asset will be a script for the MsgPlus!-add on for Windows Live Messenger.
More details to be announced.
Platform
CyberMistress is freeware developed for the Windows platform. It is based on the Visual Basic framework. The source code is private though.
The latest version is definitely compatible with Windows XP and Windows Vista, but it could work with previous Windows versions as well.
Since Windows 7 is based on Windows Vista, it is expected that CyberMistress will still be compatible with it.
Despite several requests, there will be no versions for other platforms such as Linux. Users have tried to run it on a virtual machine with variegating success.
Official tools
Script Manager A tool which was developed to import, export and restore scripts. Since there are very few scripts and possibilities with this tool are limited, it is barely used.
Script Editor
The editor mainly serves to help users who already know the syntax. There is syntax highlighting and a function to validate the content. Code Snippets allows the user to quickly insert a bunch of blocks. There are also buttons to list several things used in the script (pictures, media, flags, values,...)
A more user-friendly Script Editor with both very basic and advanced users is a work in progress.
Milovana Converter
A tool to convert non-Flash teases from Milovana.com to a CyberMistress session.
WLM Plugin
Actually a script for the MsgPlus! add-on for Windows Live Messenger.
It will allow the Dominant to retrieve information from CyberMistress and launch a session.
This tool is not released yet. More options are being researched.
