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- Downloaded from BBS++ RoboBOARD HQ USA - 619-793-8360 / 619-793-8361
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- DATE: 06/20/93
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- ║ Hamilton TeleGraphics Inc. ║
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- ║ Bus: (819)682-6670 P.O. BOX 633 ║
- ║ Fax: (819)685-0994 Aylmer Quebec. ║
- ║ BBS: (819)685-0957 J9H-6L1 ║
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- ***** OFFICIAL RELEASE FROM HAMILTON TELEGRAPHICS INC. *****
- JUNE, 1993
-
- We are approaching the scheduled release date for our new BBS
- product, which we have named RoboBOARD/FX 1.00 (TM). We are not
- providing an exact date for release but we have started beta testing
- and things are going well. We have made some changes in our company
- and in the ROBO-BOARD Pro and Plus. Please read this letter to find
- out how these changes may affect you.
-
- Seth Hamilton Graphics Inc. has undergone some major changes
- since the original ROBO-BOARD was first marketed in August of 1992.
- The most obvious is the name change, we are now called Hamilton
- TeleGraphics Inc. This restructuring has been done in order to give
- us the organization required to release future RoboBOARDs more
- quickly and soundly.
-
- - Seth Hamilton Graphics Inc. wholly owned by Seth A. Hamilton has
- been disolved.
- - Hamilton TeleGraphics Inc. is a new company with shareholders.
- - Seth Hamilton is President of Hamilton TeleGraphics Inc.
-
- In order to serve you better we have changed the way that Robo
- BOARDs will be marketed. As of RoboBOARD/FX 1.00 we will no longer
- be a shareware product. It is our opinion and the general opinion
- of our customers that people would rather pay a nominal update fee
- to receive professional support and quality, not possible from a
- small shareware company. This is within our rights as explained in
- the licence agreement included with the ROBO-BOARD PRO and PLUS
- series. After much thought we chose to make this change as a
- balance between peoples expectations and the financial necessities
- of running a successful company.
-
- - RoboBOARD/FX 1.00 will not be a shareware product.
- - ROBO-BOARD Pro and Plus will be discontinued when RoboBOARD/FX is
- officially released.
- - RoboBOARD/FX is being rewritten using 100% new code, owned
- entirely by Hamilton TeleGraphics Inc., and will be a new product.
- Hamilton TeleGraphics Inc. holds trademarks on RoboBOARD and
- Tel-FX; Seth Hamilton Graphics Inc. held no such trademarks.
- - People who paid and are in our database will receive RoboBOARD/FX
- 1.00 in the mail at no extra cost, providing we have correct
- mailing information. They will receive the 1 to 8 line version.
- - The 5 UPDATES plan is no longer available to purchase.
- - People who purchased the 5 UPDATES plan and are in our database
- will receive their 5 updates in the mail as well as RoboBOARD/FX
- 1.00 at no extra cost, providing we have the correct mailing
- address.
- - Professional level support will begin with the official release of
- RoboBOARD/FX 1.00.
- - FREE, our high quality Tel-FX Terminal package, for you and your
- users to enjoy.
- - FREE, our easy to use, stand alone Tel-FX Drawing drawing package,
- for you and your users to enjoy.
-
- We have had a ROBO-BOARD BBS sporting a true Graphical User
- Interface on the market since August of 1992. We have learned much
- about Graphical Protocols, their weaknesses and strengths, and are
- bringing our knowledge together into what is going to be a powerful
- and innovative new product.
-
- ***** Uses DOS - no expensive operating systems required *****
-
- BBS - ANSI or VGA or SVGA support
- - multinode operation
- - robust DESQview support
- - multi-language
- - bullet proof security
- - unique security tags
- - enhanced CD-ROM support
- - Fossil support
- - Digi support
- - enhanced logging
- - virus scanning
- - File manager allows for marking, copying, moving,
- editing and deleting files.
- - forums
- - mouse driven, windowed configuration
- - sound card support
- - 5 minute installation
- - 100% configurable
-
- FILES - Xmodem, Ymodem, and Zmodem file protocols
- - super fast Database File System
- - supports popular FILES.BBS format
- - unlimited areas
- - high speed user configurable queries
-
- MAIL - Hudson support
- - Full screen message editor
- - message uploads & downloads
-
- CHAT - multinode chat
- - multichannel chat
- - private chat
-
- TEMPLATES - 100% configurable
- - control input fields, numeric, alpha, length, colour
- - create questionaires
- - do online marketing
- - make templates to accept credit cards
- - automatically creates ANSI and Graphics version
- - write data to ASCII file or printer or both. Allows
- developers to integrate with BBS.
-
- MOUSE - Microsoft or Compatible mouse support
-
- GRAPHICS - 16 colour VGA or 256 colour SVGA or Mono VGA
- - 640 x 480 or 800 x 600 or 1024 x 768 resolutions
- - real realtime vector and BIT Mapped graphics
- - realtime compression/decompression
- - adheres to industry standard Graphical User Interface
- - dragging windows, buttons, scrollers, dialogue boxes
- - realtime 24 BIT colour JPEG Photographic images.
- - display JPEGs in 256 or 16 colour modes
- - realtime lightning fast GreyPEG Photographic images
- - do cataloguing
- - do online publication
-
- FXphoto - GIF management
- - Image scaling and cropping
- - conversion from GIF to JPEG
- - colour to GreyPEG conversion
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- FXdraw - create Bulletins, Art, Menus, assign buttons
- - accepts 24 bit images
- - 256 SVGA colour
- - creates 64 colour pallette in 16 colour VGA mode
- - automatic colour conversion from 256 to 16/64 colour
- - context sensitive icon driven interface
- - fast flyout menus, and pop up dialogues with scroller bars
- - polygon based, like Corel, Windows, Harvard, and
- Postscript.
- - draw in a configurable sizeable window
- - giant to tiny Mondo fonts; stretch, flip, warp, twist,
- & colour fill, multilanguage character set, math symbols.
- - BIT Map text, multilanguage character set.
- - morphing ellipse, stretch into any elliptical shape
- - intuitive 3 point arc
- - pop up state of the art icon editor and manager, visually
- merge files, rotate, mirror, copy and delete
- - powerful intuitive edit mode function, pick and drag, no
- spilled flood fills
-
- FXterm - light weight yet powerful
- - point and shoot icon driven interface
- - ANSI emulation
- - auto conversion from 24 BIT colour to 256/16 colour
- - maintenance free icon management
- - no icon duplication
-
- Tel-FX - the definative graphical protocol
- - easy implementation
- - 7 bit transfers
- - plain english source files, easy for developers to work
- with.
- - compiled picture files contain only necessary data, for
- high speed transmission
- - colour depth independent (24 BIT input).
- - resolution independent.
- - realtime high ratio compression/decompression on special
- entities such as icons.
- - support for multiple pointer devices ie: mouse
- - independent dragging layered windows, scrollers,
- buttons, and dialogue boxes.
- - realtime JPEG and GreyPEG support.
- - realtime icons. Icons never duplicated even if named
- differently. Icons are not overwritten if named the
- same but are visually different.
- - polygon vector graphics can be scaled, clipped, rotated
- shifted, mirrored, flipped, stretched and morphed.
- - protocol designed to be portable between operating
- systems.
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- We thank you for your patience, and understanding as we finish
- the new RoboBOARD/FX. We will post notices in the echoes and on
- support systems when the beta boards are up. Above all else our
- intention is to bring you and your users a superior BBS package!
-
-
- Thank you very much.
- Seth Hamilton.
- President of Hamilton TeleGraphics Inc.
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- RoboBOARD is a trademark of Hamilton TeleGraphics Inc.
- Tel-FX is a trademark of Hamilton TeleGraphics Inc.
-
- The features we listed, are based on existing technology, we have
- developed in house. We reserve the right to change, add to, or
- remove from the RoboBOARD/FX list of features, without notice.
-
- --- FMail 0.92
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