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Subject: Darkstar 102a
Date: Mon, 01 Aug 94 05:48:42 PDT
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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