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- December 30, 1993
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- Announcing The Oracle System
- The Multi-line/Multi-Task GEM BBS
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- SCHAUZMOLL Soft. is is about to release a new BBS system like nothing
- you have ever seen on the Atari platform. The Oracle System will
- revolutionize the way you communicate by modem. Forget everything you
- ever known about "BBSing" and enter the area of "GUI-Telecommunication".
- Oracle is like being on the GEM desktop, so you can use your mouse to go
- where you want to go, see what you want and get it without your fingers
- touching the keyboard.
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- From the SysOp point of view Oracle is a totally new approach to
- running and maintaining a bulletin board system. There is no separate system
- editor or user editor programs since they are included in the main BBS
- program. This make Oracles menus react instantly to any changes made to
- the setup of your sigs, message bases, informations sections, etc.. It is
- possible to edit any menu, create message base or files section at will.
- For example, let's say that your Co-SysOp is chatting with you on-line
- and propose adding a new section on programming in GFA basic so he can
- upload his latest creation. What do you do??? You get out of the chat mode,
- you press the help key on your keyboard and the System Editor Menu pops up,
- you press the edit this menu button et voila! You can edit the current menu
- on line, save it and check it out immediately because the change are made
- right away. The system really works like you would go and search for a file
- on a big hard disk with many folders containing many files. In fact all
- the menus in Oracle are like folders on a hard disk. Folders can contain
- files or other folders, so an Oracle menu can contains others menus or
- different kind of files like messages, programs, texts files, doors, etc....
- There is _NO_ limit to the number of sub menus that the system can
- handle. Every items in the Oracle system, from menus to files sections, are
- presented as icons in a window just like the desktop so anyone who has used
- his computer for a couple of weeks can easily travel trough Oracle. Also
- all files transfer (upload & download) are done in the background so you
- can go anywhere else on the BBS at the same time.
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- Here are a couples of Oracles main features:
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- - Can handle 3 phones lines using a MEGA STE
- - User friendly Graphic Interface with menus, windows and icons.
- - Unlimited number of menus, sub-menus, message bases & file section.
- - On board system and user editors.
- - 4 section (windows) can be opened at any time on the BBS.
- - Real message base text editor with GDOS fonts, load, save, copy, cut,
- and quote functions all using the mouse.
- - Attach a file to any message in any message bases.
- - Intelligent files section with archives file extracting.
- - Auto files validation option.
- *** - Possibility to upload and download files simultaneously.
- - Bilingual system capability (English and French)
- - Automated files uploading and new files downloading.
- - Automated message posting and recovering
- - Automated electronic mailing system.
- - Message bases networking (OR-NET, FIDO-NET, ATARI-NET)
- - Advance BBS networking and RTC capability
- - On-line user configurable and editable Data-Base system
- - Advertisement feature (display advertisement like TV commercials)
- - Download picture and display it directly in a window.
- - Files and messages clipboards
- - On-line help in french & English for every function on the terminal.
- - Library Dynamic file distribution
- - Multi-TOS and Falcon compatible
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- The terminal also incorporate a ZIP file extractor and will extract
- downloaded files automatically after logoff.
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- *** The background file transfer is really only possible on system
- with hard disk since floppy disks are too slow.
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- These are some of the possibility that the Oracle system offer you.
- To accomplish all this, and much more, Oracle requires a special terminal
- program capable of displaying properly all the information. This means that
- every one who wishes to communicate with the Oracle system needs that
- special terminal... How can your user get their new terminal??? Easy!
- When a user calls Oracle for the first time the System recognize him
- as a new user and ask him if he wants to register and receive the special
- terminal needed so he can call back and explore the new system. If the
- "new" user agree he can download the terminal using x, y or Zmodem,
- uncompress the file and register at home, then call back to instantly gain
- access to your BBS!
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- It is impossible to explain in every details the depth and power of
- of the Oracle System so check out for the terminal available by the end
- of January and call my BBS to see for yourself the power of Oracle System.
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- *** The Oracle system will be available for the Atari ST
- computer on February 1st 1994.
-
- *** The complete system is selling for 199.95$ and include:
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- - A complete 100 pages SysOp manual.
- - The Oracle Terminal Users manual in a printed to disk format.
- - The 7 days/week SysOp help-line so you can call to get
- help at any time.
- - Free System and terminal programs upgrades for a year.
- - Mini weather station
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- For more information call the OasiSTe BBS at 1-418-623-3729 and leave
- a message to the SysOp (it's me!)
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- SCHAUZMOLL Soft.
- c/o Christian Ernst
- 5550 avenue Guy
- Charlesbourg P.Q.
- Canada
- G1H 4L5
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