Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!van-bc!
From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Black BElt Video
Message-ID: <973@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca>
Date: 3 Jan 90 04:22:24 GMT
Lines: 44
Return-Path: <lpami!lphillips>
To: van-bc!rnews

In <25a12198:3611comp.sys.amiga@tronsbox.UUCP>, tron1@tronsbox.UUCP (HIM) writes:
>There has been some talk on the net about an expanded Video adapter from
>BLACK BELT. Well, I gave them a call today and they are for real. developer
>units are hoped for in January , and the commercial right after (the FCC).
>
> [ lengthy specs deleted ... ]
>
>Currently, we have talked to Impulse (Silver), NewTek (Digipaint),
>MicroIllusions (Photon Paint II), Electronic Arts (DPaint, Deluxe Photo
>Lab) and ASDG (Professional ScanLab, ScanLab 100) about the HAM-E. All
>were enthusiastic and interested, and all have already ordered units
>from the developer run. Support has been promised for format conversion
>for the various 24 bit file formats that are out there, and we have
>barely scratched the surface as of yet.

Ben Williams, designer of the HAM-E board, and VP/Engineering of Black Belt,
has posted a correction to the above on Compuserve. I asked him if he'd like
to have the posting here corrected, and he said yes, so here it is.

NewTek has changed their mind about supporting the HAM-E product, giving the
reason as (paraphrased) "we have been working on a similar board for some time
now".  This change of heart came about two weeks after they received the specs
on HAM-E and expressed interest in supporting the Black Belt product.

Because of the discussion that ensued on Compuserve in response to this news,
and because of NewTek's reaction to same, both by telephone, email, and public
messages, I feel that I am forced to include here, the following statement:

Disclaimer: I am repeating the gist of the messages, one from Ben Williams, one
from Tim Jenison of Newtek, that were posted in the public message base on
Compuserve's Amigatech forum.  I have no business affiliation with Black Belt
Systems, newTek, Ben Williams, or Tim Jenison, and I refuse to enter into any
public discussion of the possible motives of either company or the people who
represent them.

-larry

--
"Cavett Emptor - Let the talk show host beware!" - Evan Marcus
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ 
|   //   Larry Phillips                                                 |
| \X/    lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca -or- uunet!van-bc!lpami!lphillips |
|        COMPUSERVE: 76703,4322  -or-  76703.4322@compuserve.com        |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+