A N N O U N C I N G

                        OutBurST! 3.0
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                  With Auto-Switch Spooler!!


Sick of slow printout times with Pagestream?  Do you own a high speed
printer that is compatible with the HP LaserJet or Deskjet printer?
If so OutBurST! is the program you have been waiting for.  The
OutBurST! software package consists of high speed printer patches to
the normal Atari TOS driver and the Pagestream printer driver.  With
OutBurST! installed on your ST, printout time can be reduced by a
factor of over 20 relative to TOS.

OutBurST! is a program that reduces the time that Pagestream takes 
to print data to HP LaserJet and HP Deskjet compatible printers.  
With OutBurST! installed on your ST,  the time to send a page of 
data to the printer from Pagestream can be as short as 13 seconds!  
This compares to times as long as 323 seconds using the standard 
built-in TOS routines.

OutBurST! also can reduce the time that Calamus takes to print data to
HP LaserJet and HP Deskjet compatible printers.  With OutBurST!
installed on your ST,  the time to send a page of data to the printer
from Calamus can be as short as 35 seconds!  This compares to times as
long as 111 seconds using the standard Calamus routines.

NEW STUFF!

Version 3.0 of OutBurST! contains a unique "Auto-switch" printer
spooler that can optimize not only your graphic output, but also text
based output. OutBurST! versions 1 & 2 really made Pagestream and
Calamus printing fly! However if you printed very long text based
files (Word Writer, Steno, Word Perfect, etc.) the time to get your ST
back could be improved by the use of a print spooler. This is even in
the case when using a laser printer with a built-in 4 meg memory.  The
laser printer is busy printing and cannot accept a whole lot of text
between printed pages. Thus you sit and wait for your computer to
return control to you. Now OutBurST! version 3.0 has a built-in
spooler that can be configured to automatically switch the spooler in
or out as required. Now all you printing tasks will be optimized.

Also new to version 3.0 is a clearly written 16 page manual that will
lead you through the installation and operation of OutBurST! Among
the new features is the setup editor (OBSET) that will allow you to
set the spooler size and select programs that should not utilize the
spooler (Pagestream, Calamus, Touch-up, Desktop Publisher ST, etc.).
If you wish to override the automatic spooler status, the OutBurST!
Control Accessory can be used to change the setting while in any GEM
application.


BENCHMARKS

Included below are several benchmarks for Pagestream and Calamus:


                8 MHz     16MHz      8 MHz      8 MHz         TT
               HP IIIP   HP IIIP    Deskjet+  Deskjet 500   HPIII
               -------   -------    --------  -----------   -----
OutBurST!        26.6      19.3       45.0       28.0        30.0
TOS 1.4         520.3     300.9      520.3      520.3        ----

        Time required to a full print page from Pagestream
                      ("PRINTING PAGE" Time)



                             8 MHz     16Mhz
                            HP IIIP   HP IIIP
                            -------   -------
            OutBurSTX!        35.1      24.6
            Calamus Driver   111.0      62.0

         Time required to a full print page from Calamus 1.09
                      ("PRINTING PAGE" Time)

                     All times are in seconds

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OutBurST! version 3.0 is available from:

Straight Edge Software
PO Box 6407
Nashua, NH 03061

To order send $25 plus $2 shipping and handling.

If you are a registered user of previous versions, send original disk
and $10.