FLASH II SHOWN, AVAILABLE IN JANUARY
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 You couldn't buy it yet, but a coupon offered at the Chicago Atari show
 will give a discount on "FLASH II", to be marketed by Missionware
 Software of Illinois.  Flash II is a totally new product, not related in
 any way to the original and very popular FLASH terminal software that
 was sold by Antic Publishing.  Rights to the name and appearance were
 bought by an Australian developer who has created an impressively
 updated clone.  Loaded with new features and protocols, the new Flash
 will be familiar in operation to all the owners of the original.
 "Upgrade" discounts will be offered despite no real obligation to do so
 by the new company.  It'll be well under $50 when it is released,
 hopefully in January 1992.  Missionware is doing the documentation,
 packaging, and worldwide marketing.  354 N. Winston Drive, Palatine, IL
 60067-4132, 708-359-9565.
 
   
 Some Flash/STalker information from Dan McNamee (Atari) - Cat. 17, Topic 
 3, Msg. 41 - from the ST Roundtable on Genie...
  
    The reason that Flash doesn't have problems at higher speeds while 
    Stalker does is that Flash has it's own custom RS232 routines that go 
    directly to the serial port hardware, which can be a bad thing if 
    anything there ever changes.
    
    Stalker, on the other hand uses standard GEM calls which, while 
    slower, will always work. Since it is using GEM calls, the more TSRs 
    and ACCs you have loaded, the slower the system gets, the faster the 
    buffer fills and overflows and therefore the more characters lost.
    
    So if you are running at 9600, set it to use RTS/CTS (or both, which 
    is what I use) and only have AUXINIT active in the auto folder, and 
    only STalker (an maybe STeno) as accessories. On a TT or an acceler-
    ated ST you might be able to get by with more.