Spectrum Internet Suite press release
Seven Hills Software
Copyright (c) 1997 Apple Users' Group, Sydney
Republished from Applecations, a publication of the Apple Users' Group, Sydney, Australia.
Seven Hills Software is proud to announce Spectrum Internet Suite:
Now you can access the World Wide Web directly from your Apple IIGS!
Using Spectrum 2.1 and its expandable XCMD/XDisplay technology,
Seven Hills Software has developed the Spectrum Internet Suite -
a combination of XCMDs, XDisplays and scripts designed to put you
on the World Wide Web, right from your Apple IIGS - all without
the need for GNO/ME, TCP/IP, or other programs.
All you need is Spectrum 2.1, Spectrum Internet Suite, and a
UNIX shell account or a Genie account!
Building on the power and strength of Spectrum and its associated
plug-in XCMDs and Displays, Spectrum Internet Suite combines
an XDisplay with a new XCMD and powerful Spectrum scripting
to provide a one-stop solution to the Internet.
Features include:
===== NAVIGATION =====
- Optional Toolbar for quick access for frequently used commands
- Proxy server support
- Progress bar reports download status
- Bookmark facility for visting favorite sites
- Perform Basic Authentication security
- History list maintained to return to a visited page
in the same session
- Browse files on local/network disks as well as the web
- Type in URLs without the need of http://
- Automatic URL completion (for standard www. and .com addresses):
type "apple" and it will load "http://www.apple.com/"
===== WEB PAGE GENERATION =====
- Supports the HTML 3.2 standards
- "Netscape Navigator Client Pull" Dynamic Updating
- Frame cells are accessed by links (like Lynx 2.6)
- Exclusive Spectrum specific HTML tags: play Apple IIGS sound
effects and speech from a web page! (the computer viewing
the page must be running Spectrum Internet Suite and have
appropriate sounds/speech software installed for these tags to work)
- Color text
- Multiple fonts and styles
- Emedded IMG tag translation
- Anchors and <base href=..> tags
===== OTHER FEATURES =====
- Display HTML source code
- Save HTML source code to disk
- Save formatted web page to disk or system clipboard -
you can even use it for HTML to Teach conversion!
- Print web page contents or HTML source code
to any Print Manager supported printer
- Using a UNIX shell account allows sending (only) of Email
via Spectrum Internet Suite (email does not work from Genie)
System requirements:
- Spectrum v2.1
- An Apple IIGS running System 6.0.1 with 4Mb of RAM
- A hard disk and an accelerator highly recommended
- A modem with correctly wired hardware handshaking cable
- A Genie account or a dial-up Unix shell account from your
Internet Service Provider (no files are placed on the shell
system, so no filespace is needed on your shell account).
Note: Spectrum v2.1, running with its full complement of XCMDs
and the Spectrum Internet Suite, requires at least 4Mb of memory
to browse the Web. A great deal of processing also needs to be
done to build an HTML display, so an accelerator is virtually a
must. It is also advisable to run Spectrum from a hard disk for
speed and maximum storage capacity.
Retail price $25.
SIS REQUIRES SPECTRUM VERSION 2.1
If you received v2.1 through the mail, you're ready!
If you received v2.1 *AT* KansasFest and did NOT receive
an update via email, you need to request a free update
when you order SIS.
If you own v2.0 you need to order the update to v2.1 for $25.
If you own v1.0 you need to order the update to v2.1 for $30.
If you don't own Spectrum, order SPv2.1 with SIS for the special
price of $95.
Add 7% tax if in Florida. Add $3.50 s&h (per order, not per item).
Email Visa/MasterCard/Discover orders to sevenhills@genie.com
or FAX them to 904-575-2015 any time,
or phone 904-575-0566, M-F, 9am-5pm (leave order on voicemail)
Mail checks/money orders to 1254 Ocala Road, Tallahassee, FL 32304.
For more information, visit the Spectrum Internet Suite Home Page:
http://www.netally.com/shss/iigs/sis/

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