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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: DCTV & AmiExpo...and Ham-E
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Date: 19 Oct 90 23:32:06 GMT
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In <35076@cup.portal.com>, Classic_-_Concepts@cup.portal.com writes:
>Oh, there were two other things I like about the Ham-E I tried at AmiExpo.
>It uses Fast RAM.  Chip RAM is used only to handle the displayed portion, so
>virtual screens can be large, even with all those colors/bitplanes.
>The other was that THE SOFTWARE IS AVAILABLE for the paint program.  They
>apparently make it available through their BBS.  I LIKE this; it could
>ssignificantly lean me in the direction of Ham-E, but someone made mention th
>the producers of DCTV might be a more stable organization.  Wish I could have
>tried the software for DCTV.  Anyone know if they're making source available?

Black Belt Systems is reasonably stable. They have a number of products on the
market, that have been around for quite a while now. These include (in no
particular order; BoardMaster, AVT, and SoftPanel.

-larry


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