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MGI Software Inc. of Canada has awarded the UK distribution of Calamus SL for TOS-based platforms to Image Applications, the company run by Steve Llewellyn who publishes Calamus User magazine.
Image Applications will be supplying the latest version of Calamus SL (9/96) complete with the English manual for £199.00. Many of the SL modules that used to be available at extra cost are now included in the basic price. These include: Line Art 1.5, StarScreening, Blend, Toolbox, PhotoFX and the External Clipboard.
The new package is now truly MagiC friendly, and besides the usual fixes and system refinements, it includes a number of new features, including:
There will be a number of additional modules (in English, with English manuals) at prices substantially lower than those previously experienced within the UK. For example, the Line Art Module will retail for £99.00 inc. VAT. There will also be a range of Calamus-related products such as DMC's Type Art.
Calamus SL 96 £199.00
Special Intro Price £179.00
109/1.09n to SL 96 upgrade £159.00
S/S2 to SL 96 upgrade £139.00
SL 92-95 to SL 96 upgrade £129.00
All prices include VAT and postage. Add £5.00 for next day delivery.
Steve Llewellyn IMAGE Applications Unit 3, Wellesley House, Walmer Castle Road, Deal, Kent, CT14 7NG Tel: 01304-369364 caluser@cix.compulink.co.uk
The new PC version of Calamus. It is now called Calamus Publisher 2.0 and is distributed worldwide by MGI Software of Canada.
IMAGE Applications have been appointed by Homa House Systems as the European distributor for their Atari Scanner software for use with the TT and Falcon, and any SCSI interface card. See page 5 for more details.
Make Price Mustek 6000cx/12000cx/600sp/1200 £100.00 Hewlett Packard HP IIcx/3C/4C £100.00 Microtek E3/E6 £50.00
It's been a long time coming, but at last it is possible to expand the RAM in a standard ST beyond the MMU limit of 4MB. The Magnum card, available soon from 16/32 Systems, adds an extra 8Mb of memory. The card will only work if it has TOS 2.06 ROMs fitted or if the ST is running MagiC.
Upgrading looks pretty simple -- there are full details on the Aixit web site. Unless you have a socketed 68000 processor you'll need a socket soldering into the machine and the Magnum then simply plugs into it.
Prices (in German DM): Magnum ST 0 MB 229,00 Magnum ST 4 MB 259,00 Magnum ST 8 MB 279,00 Magnum ST 16 MB 379,00 aixit GmbH Hansmannstr. 19 D-52080 Aachen Germany
In his "What Ever Happened To?" column in the March issue of Computer Shopper, John Dvorak has written an article on the history of Atari Corporation:
"Along the way it sued Nintendo over some perceived violation. In 1990 the company took a weak shot at the PC-compatible market with a machine introduced in the UK, called the ABC-386SX/40. It also released the 68030-based TT030 Workstation. Interest in these machines was lagging, and the company continued to milk the ST. In September of 1992 Atari took its last shot by showing a multimedia machine called the Falcon. Two weeks later the company shut down R&D and reported again that it was losing money."
You can read the whole article on the web at:
http://www5.zdnet.com/cshopper/content/9703/cshp0049.html
Caldera, who have bought DR DOS from Novell, are giving away copies of DR DOS to 'not for profit' organisations. There's no news yet on what will be happening to the PC and Atari implementations of GEM. More details from the Caldera web site:
http://www.caldera.co.uk
Richard Karsmakers has set up a Gemulator FAQ mailing list to enable Gemulator users to swap hints and tips. The latest version of the FAQ is on this month's ST Applications OnLine disk.
http://members.iglou.com/rsg0910/gemul8r.faq
Or if you want to get the current version of the FAQ each time it is updated just email:
cronos@worldaccess.com
with the subject line "Subscribe GEMulator FAQ".
Both shows will run from 10am to 5pm, and most of the exhibitors who attended last year's shows plan to attend. For more details contact: Goodmans, 16 Conrad Close, Meir Hay Estate, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, ST3 1SW. Tel: 01782 335650
The latest new release from Homa Systems House is ScanX, a modular scanning utility that supports the Microtek series of scanners, mainly the Microtek E6 and Microtek E3. Support for Umax Vista scanners and others is planned for the near future.
The Basic version of ScanX is an affordable home-user version of the software; the PRO version offers features such as monitor calibration, zooming on prescan, multiple picture format saving, sheetfeeder and transparency support, printing, and photocopying. ScanX Basic retails at $50 while the PRO version costs $125.
Microtek scanners can do full-page photo quality scans in True Colour on any Atari computer that has a SCSI port or a SCSI interface, such as the ICD Link II.
There are more details about Microtek scanners on their web site:
http://www.mteklab.com/
Microtek scanner features supported by ScanX:
Homa Systems House PO Box 52127 Ottawa, Canada, K1N 5S0 Tel: (613)722-0901 Fax: (613)722-9061 aa414@freenet.carleton.ca http://www.magma.ca/~nima
IMAGE Applications have now been appointed by Homa House Systems as the European distributor for their Atari Scanner software for use with the TT and Falcon, and any SCSI interface card.
IMAGE Applications Unit 3, Wellesley House, Walmer Castle Road, Deal, Kent, CT14 7NG Tel: 01304-369364 caluser@cix.compulink.co.uk
Just when the music press has written off the Atari as a viable tool for musicians along comes another new software house supplying music software. Electronic Cow write MIDI and Audio software for Atari computers, have two commercial titles on the market, and they are working on more new projects.
A software-based sound chip synthesiser program for all Atari computers (with a high resolution display and at least 512KB of RAM). Sounds are synthesised and played using the YM2149 chip, and then exported as AVR samples to use in other software.
Main features include:
A miniature MIDI sequencer for creating arpeggio-type patterns. MIDI Arpeggiator can be used as a compositional aid (since patterns can be saved as type 0 or 1 MIDI files) to programs such as Cubase or Notator, or live (since all the functions can be performed in real-time). Requires a high resolution display and at least 512KB of RAM.
Main features include:
Both programs come with a printed manual, free updates and user support. They cost £10 each plus £1.50 for postage.
Electronic Cow 350 Broadwater Crescent Stevenage Hertfordshire SG2 8EZ Tel: 01426 281347 abi91@dial.pipex.com or dm176@mdx.ac.uk http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/terrace/abi91/cownet.htm
German publishers ASH have bought the rights to version 2 of the CAB Atari web browser and they will be releasing it as a commercial package. Although CAB will no longer be freeware there will be a free demo version that is fully functional, with the exception that the hotlist can't be saved and it'll have some annoying 'buy-me-now' dialog boxes. CAB 1.5 will remain freeware and will continue to be supported in the UK by Interactive.
CAB 2 runs on any Atari computer with at least 2MB of RAM and it runs in all screen resolutions. Some features, such as background music require the use of a multitasking operating system such as MagiC or Mint/N.AES.
CAB 2 is available at £19.95 from System Solutions. The demo version is available online or on FaST Club disks AP.405 and AP.406. CAB 1.5 is available on disk AP.942.
CAB 2.0 supports GIF animations, frames, background images, background music (using GEMJing by Götz Hoffart), HTML 3.2 plus the HTML extensions supported by Netscape Navigator 3.0 and some of the MS Internet Explorer extensions.CAB 2.0 supports BubbleGEM -- a new online help format that puts up help notes (in a speech bubble) whenever a button or edit field is right-clicked.HTML spell checker.CAB now has its own form of Netscape-style plugins; objects within <EMBED> tags are passed on to suitable OLGA-ID4 servers.
WebSpace is now up to version 1.45b and in France it costs 290FF, so it'll probably arrive in the UK as a £39.95 product once Oxo have finalised their UK distribution.
OXO Concept 5, Rue des Varennes, 89160, Lezinnes, France Tel: (41) 22 796 95 38 oxo@oxo.ch http://www.oxo.ch
Oregon Research are working on an Atari version of the Amiga TemiteTCP TCP/IP stack. It is a 100% BSD socket-compliant implementation of TCP/IP with integrated PPP driver. It fully supports all of the current Internet standards as specified in the RFC's. To set it up, all you need to know is your ISP's phone number and your user name and password. Everything else is automatically negotiated with the host. The base system will ship with FTP, Telnet, and e-mail clients as well as a software developers' kit for third party clients.
Oregon is rumoured to be working with the German developers and publishers of CAB so that CAB 2.0 will support TermiteTCP when it is released. Termite is written in hand-optimized assembly code, which means it's small and fast; the only bad news at the moment is that it still needs a multi-tasking version of TOS: MiNT or MagiC.
There's no official price or launch date for the Atari version of TermiteTCP; the Amiga version retails at $69.95 and comes with a 150-page manual. The UK distributor will probably be either HiSoft, who have sold all previous Oregon Research products, or System Solutions, who have the UK rights to the commercial release of CAB.
Oregon Research 16200 SW Pacific Hwy. Ste 162 Tigard, OR 97224, USA Tel: (503) 620-4919 Fax: (503) 624-2940
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