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From: knudsen@ihwpt.ATT.COM (mike knudsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m6809
Subject: Re: Shack Catalog -- CoCo3 stuff
Message-ID: <1988@ihwpt.ATT.COM>
Date: Tue, 8-Sep-87 14:21:22 EDT
Article-I.D.: ihwpt.1988
Posted: Tue Sep  8 14:21:22 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 9-Sep-87 06:27:35 EDT
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Summary: US prices, addiutions, comments

In article <2021@lsuc.UUCP>, jimomura@lsuc.UUCP (Jim Omura) writes:
>      I finally had a chance to see the Canadian Shack catalogue for
> '88 (which won't be distributed for another couple of weeks).  I guess
> you US fellows know about all this, but I saw some nice stuff for the
> CoCo3.  First, Multiview is listed at the same price as Deskmate
> ($139.00 Canadian) and I'm going to have to buy that ASAP.
>  I hope someone will "sound off" as soon as it's spotted
> in *any* store in North America.

Hmmm...Multiview is only $50 US in my '88 catalog, and $100 buys
the new Development System, which does NOT include a new C compiler.
Wonder if it includes new .defs for C?
Also any docs for interfacing to Multiview?
Multiview by itself doesn't do much (a desk calc and doodle pad);
you have to plug in your existing programs.  This is according to
the catalog, for what it's worth.

>      There's a new art program which had a *very* low price tag.  I'm
> hoping that it'll cover 320 * 192 * 16 colors.  I'm also hoping it's
> a drop-in replacement for the art program in Deskmate.  I'm also hoping
> worth standardizing on.  (I'm also hoping these programs are running
> under OS-9 -- but I'm fairly confident they are :-).

This is written by Steve Bjork, is only $30 US, and is OS9.
Multiview supposedly lets you plug in ANY OS9 application program
and click it from the menu.  Wonder if you can create your own icons?

> I can't get DynaStar to run.  It can't
> find my 'termset' file.  I've stuck 'termset' everywhere I can think
> of (/dd/SYS, /dd/CMDS, the current work directory, combinations
> of these at the same time).

On Coco it's /dd/SYS/termset.  Irks me how this file contains nothing
about the Coco, yet DS won't run if it can't find this file.
No idea why OSK version won't run.

Other items in the '88 catalog worth waiting for--
two-button mouse ($50) and a Sub Simulator game ($30).
PS: I hear that Canadian Shacks don't even have the HiRes mouse
adapter box yet.  Maybe Sardis wud've shipped my controller on time
if I'd paid in HiRes boxes instead of US dollars....
-- 
Mike J Knudsen    ...ihnp4!ihwpt!knudsen  Bell Labs(AT&T)
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