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BUGS & UPGRADES
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FastRates Program Is A Fake!
Those modem users out there may have come across a program which is
claimed to double the transfer rate of your modem, and indeed upon running
it it does appear to work. But a closer study showed that in fact
FastRates just slows down your system clock to half its speed and since
comms packages use the clock to calculate transfer performance it will not
be reporting back the true performance. All you have to do to disprove
this program is use a stopwatch to time the transfer time and compare that
with how long your software thinks the transfer took. If you are a Sysop
or Co-Sysop you should remove this program and post a message in your
startup for anyone logging on to read. Otherwise next time you log on to
a BBS leave a message regarding this program. -S-
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VIRUS WARNING!
The author of VMK (VirusMemKill) has recently posted a message out into
the Net that there is an illecit version of VMK being spread around. This
is VMK V3 which does not exist and the real author of VMK has had a look
and it seems to be a "virus installer", not a remover. So beware. If you
see this program on any BBSs please advise the Sysop to remove it from the
system.
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Brilliance V2.0
This brilliant paint program has been upgraded and "debugged" from V1.0
to V2.0. Now Brilliance is slightly faster and new features have been
added such as the enhanced Rub Thru item (which makes use of
transparencies) and the ability to visually mark the start and end
positions of an animated brush to move rather than previously just doing
it numerically (DPaint also does it numerically). Upgrades are $US49 to
V1.0 registered users).
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Wordworth 3B
Upgrade from Wordworth 2 for $110. This new version fixes all the
problems you may have heard about with Wordworth 3A. Upgaders send in
original disk to Amadeus Computers. Tel: (02) 6522712.
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Scala InfoChannel IC500
This is the soon to be released updated version of IC400. This is a
very powerful multimedia and presentation package and will incorporate
support for MPEG, an automatic system for logging and invoicing ads for
use in networked kiosk systems, etc and a host of new authoring features.
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Imagine V3.0 Bug
Evidently, Imagine V3.0 has a rather major bug in that it won't accept
postscript fonts. Since this was one of the major features of V3.0 a lot
of people have been caught out by buying a lot of fonts disks. I suggest
writing away and complaining.
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Deluxe Paint 5 on the way
This should be here about November at a price of about $100.
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EGS with a NEC 4FG Monitor
GVPs EGS card can be made to work with NEC's 4FG monitor by grounding
pin 5 and passing the rest of the pins through.
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