From: hancock....@syncrude.com Newsgroups: comp.bbs.tbbs Subject: Darkstar 102a Date: Mon, 01 Aug 94 05:48:42 PDT Organization: Syncrude Canada Ltd. Lines: 97 Message-ID: <31ingt$9a5@hp06.ux.syncrude.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: rd002443.pc.syncrude.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII About DarkStar V1.02a DarkStar began as a hobby project, dedicated to an elite group of purists with a vision of the online world of tomorrow.That was in 1991. DarkStar was the first BBS platform to offer photo realistic images, the first BBS platform to offer animated bit-mapped video, and the first BBS plat- form to carry online digital audio. That was three years ago. Today, DarkStar is the most technologically advanced BBS system available at any price, the undisputed leader in multimedia telecommunications. With online 256-colour FLI full-motion video, 256- colour still images in PCX, GIF, and BMP formats, online digital audio in MOD, SAM, WAV, VOC, MID, CMF and ROL formats, multiwindow smoothscroll text imports, pull-down barmenus, and the most advanced design tools available anywhere, the difference is apparent at first glance. Now, look a little DEEPER. DarkStar isn't about superficial bells & whistles. It's about efficiency. It's about quality. It's an of what's INSIDE, not outside. Give it a whirl. Take a look around. Then join the growing rank and file of DarkStar purists. The New Electronic Frontier Make no mistake. DarkStar represents the dawn of a New World Order in online telecommunications. Over the course of the next few months, you'll witness the rollout of the most impressive array of new products the BBS community has ever seen. From a front-end mailer to an offline QWK mail reader, MultiMedia Interware games to electronic publishing products, Team DarkStar is poised to change forever the way you look at the online world. Code-named ORION, our front-end mailer combines a DarkStar graphic interface and DarkStar performance with the features of InterMail, FrontDoor, and D'Bridge-style mailers. Unlike the InterMail and FrontDoor-style products, ORION provides a built-in message tosser and full support for Hudson, JAM, MSG and SQUISH formats. And because it's from the people who brought you DarkStar, you can expect nothing less than a world-class product. Our offline QWK reader, QWK-Pro, will roll out in tandem with the release of DarkStar 1.02a. Fully capitalizing on the QWK support built into DarkStar, QWK-Pro is an offline message editor which bundles the DarkStar look/feel with performance unsurpassed in the offline reader market niche. Third-party developers are lining up in support of DarkStar's most entertaining breakthrough, the InterWare MultiMedia doorware plat- form. From Tetris to Asteroids to LightCycles, the list of titles in the single-player and multinode/multiplayer InterWare library is growing at an alarming rate. And with Realtime Virtual-Reality InterWare applications on the horizon, there's no end in sight. With its internal support for custom online databases, DarkStar is ideally suited for the world of business. Managing online database applications in DBase II, III, III+, IV and FoxPro formats, the DarkStar environment provides attached audio and photofields. The design interface is based around our 4GL/CASETool product, and the results... well... YOU be the judge. The 4GL/CASETool product is also the core of the DarkStar Develop- er's Toolkit. With it, application development becomes the simple matter of drawing the screens and defining the fields, switches, & buttons. Facilities are provided for importing a variety of Multi- Media object formats, including FLI, PCX, BMP, GIF, RGI, MOD, SAM, WAV, VOC, MID, CMF, ROL and ICO. With the array of multimedia development tools available through the DarkStar environment, a new frontier opens in the information services arena. The development of a Real Estate multilist service becomes a 1-hour job. Used car database? No problem. Baseball card database to missing children database, DarkStar makes it happen... ..at a price you simply can't pass up. CyberSpace is here NOW. And we're only now getting warmed up good. As you're about to see, DarkStar 1.02a has evolved beyond the def- inition of BBS in the classic sense of the word. It has become an Information Systems powerhouse, and ushers the new world order of the electronic frontier into existence. SOON TO BE RELEASED For more info on DarkStar contacts are: Ken Hancock DarkDsar/DarkNet Canada HQ Voice# 403-791-2724 Jerry Hunter(Author) Darkstar/DarkNet USA HQ Voice# 501-631-9806