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From: spock@wrkof.incom.de (Martin Georg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: AppleFest-Reports from GEnie
Summary: AppleFest-Reports from GEnie-Vitesse
Keywords: GEnie, AppleFest, Report
Message-ID: <1990Dec8.091816.20958@wrkof.incom.de>
Date: 8 Dec 90 09:18:16 GMT
References: <1990Dec8.091115.20670@wrkof.incom.de>
Organization: Ing. Buero Winfried Koenig, Offenbach
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Category 35,  Topic 11
Message 4         Fri Dec 07, 1990
L.BOTEZ [Lucky]              at 15:42 PST
 
Vitesse, Inc., though a relative newcomer on the Apple II scene, is probably
one of the most prolific developers, regularly coming out with new and
innovative software and hardware.  The Quickie hand scanner is selling like
hotcakes.  Their utility software makes maintaining an Apple IIGS with a hard
drive a breeze.

Right now they are offering all their utility software under one package; with
one low price.  It is called "Salvation Supreme".  The retail price is
$199.00, and for that you get  1) Guardian - an easy to use backup utility; 2)
Renaissance - a disk optomizer; 3) Exorciser - a virus detector and correction
program; 4) Wings - an incredibly versatile program launcher; and 5)
Deliverance - a hard drive repair program, which will allow you to copy
retrievable files over to disk before you actually execute the program. 
Vitesse has a special show price of $125.00 for the entire package; a real
bargain if you're looking for any of these programs.  You can also purchase
each utility separately. 

They are also offering the Apple Quickie hand-scanner for $205, and include a
free Vitesse T-shirt.

The Vitesse people are also talking a lot about Inwords, a new optical
character recognition program that is being developed by Westcode (a couple of
former Beagle Bros programmers).  It will run on the Apple IIGS and will be
compatible with the Quickie scanner from Vitesse.  This OCR software will be
able to convert text you scan with the Quickie (and probably other IIgs
graphics scanners) to standard text files.  It will sell for $129.00 and
should be available soon.

Vitesse is also demonstrating their new Harmonie printer drivers with the HP
PaintJet XL printer.  It's really amazing to see the quality of the pictures.
One picture I saw which was quite impressive was the infamous  "King Tut"
color image from Deluxe Paint II. Besides the HP Deskjet, and Laserjet
printers, there is an improved Imagewriter II driver which offers more control
over your printer.  Harmonie sells for $30.


OK, Guys that's all what I've picked up here in Frankfurt/Germany so far.
Interesting to see that these mails are sent on Genie from the USA to Europe
just to make their way back to the US :-)

Martin Georg
Frankfurt, Germany
----> Apple II forever! <----
GEnie: A2.Martin