NEWSWIRE...[ANN] New IIGS Emulator

[GUDATH@EZINFO.VMSMAIL.ETHZ.CH (Henrik 'Ratte' Gudat)]

Dear c.s.a2,

I hope you find the announcement below worth the bandwidth.

Shady (Mr. ShadowWrite) and I have been working on this beast 
'secretly' for many months (me since last January), and we're happy 
it's developing the way we'd like. Please note that it's still an alpha 
release, and alpha is alpha and not beta or final. Alpha means: bugs, 
crying programmers on drugs, dead machines.

If you own a PowerMac and do have in-depth knowledge of the IIGS 
hardware, please let me know. We're still looking for beta testers.

One last thing: Andre will leave planet Earth until mid August, so I'll 
have to do all answering *and* programming on my own. Please be patient 
when contacting me. This also means that you should send *all* your 
questions and comments to gudath@ubaclu.unibas.ch. (You might be able 
to catch him *today* 6/24/96 CET, but then he's gone..) Thank you! 

Enjoy,
Henrik


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Contact:

Andre Horstmann             or    Synergetix H. Gudat
Hoehenweg 3d                      Missionsstrasse 38
6300 Zug                          4055 Basel
Switzerland                       Switzerland
andre.horstmann@unifr.ch          gudath@ubaclu.unibas.ch

                                  (Please use only this address
                                   before August 15.)



                      POWERMACS RUN APPLE IIGS SOFTWARE

                   Alpha Version Sent to Selected Testers


Zug/Basel (Switzerland), 6/24/96 -- Fast Eddie Labs, formerly Bright 
Software, announced today the availability of alpha seeds of "Fast 
Eddie" to selected testers. "Fast Eddie" introduces full Apple II 
software compatibility for Power Macintosh computers. It emulates the 
complete line of Apple II computers, including the Apple IIGS.

Fast Eddie is a collection of powerful components such as the Powercore 
CPU and core services component, the Grafitti video engine, the 
CleverPort disk interface and the n-sonic sound emulation. Initial 
versions of Fast Eddie will not patch time-consuming toolbox calls. 
"We're emulating metal", said Andre Horstmann, project manager of Fast 
Eddie Labs. "We want former Apple IIGS users to be able to run their 
favorite entertainment software on their Power Macs."

The Powercore component offers 8- and 16-bit 65816 emulation, including 
interrupts, memory shadowing, bank switching, and much more. Other 
services provided by Powercore are ADB mouse support, Mac-backed real 
time clock, among others.

The Grafitti video engine supports all popular video modes (more to 
come in near future), including Super Hires, b&w Hires and 40/80 text 
display. The video driver is designed to produce accurate screen 
refreshes at maximum speed.

To work with your favorite software, you need some kind of disk device. 
CleverPort is the ultimate answer to your storage needs. Mount 100 
disks of sizes between 1kB and 8Gb at once! CleverPort also features an 
easy to use point & click interface.

Last but not least, real GS software uses the n-sonic sound driver for 
rich, mind-blowing sound. The n-sonic emulates up to 32 channels in 
mono, stereo, enhanced stereo or SonicScape-3D 4-way surround sound.

For more information, please surf the Eddie-web at 
http://www.swix.ch/clan/shadow/eddie.html .

The project "Fast Eddie" was started by Andre Horstmann, author of the 
most popular NDA word processor Hermes (formerly ShadowWrite) and the 
telecommunication software "ShadowDial". Mr. Horstmann joined Bright 
Software in 1990 and greatly contributed to Bright Software's success 
of providing the Apple II community with reliable, innovative software 
solutions.

Mr. Gudat joined the Fast Eddie project in early 1996 and added disk 
and sound support. Mr. Gudat is the author of many software products 
including the award-winning The Gate, Eureka!Symbolix, MultiView, 
cross-platform office automation tools, voice mail & fax-back systems, 
and coauthor of SpaceFox.

Since 1989, Bright Software has been developing innovative software 
products for Apple II computers that improve productivity through 
reliability and added functionality. Fast Eddie is the latest and 
greatest product in this serie and demonstrates our continued support 
of Apple II users and commitment to the Apple II platform.  


Fast Eddie Labs

(reply to:gudath@ubaclu.unibas.ch)


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(C) 1996 Synergetix H. Gudat. Specifications are subject to change 
without notice. Apple II, Apple IIGS, Macintosh and Ensoniq are 
trademarks of Apple Computer Inc. The Gate and SpaceFox are trademarks 
of Seven Hills Software Corp. This document may be distributed freely 
in its original form but may not be reposted by "1WSW" or stored on a 
server affiliated with them.

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