Fast Eddie press release
Fast Eddie Labs
Copyright (c) 1996 Apple Users' Group, Sydney
Republished from Applecations, a publication of the Apple Users' Group, Sydney, Australia.
POWERMACS RUN APPLE IIGS SOFTWARE
Alpha Version Sent to Selected Testers
Zug/Basel (Switzerland), 6/24/96 -- Fast Eddie Labs, formerly Bright Software, announced today the availability of alpha seeds of "Fast Eddie" to selected testers. "Fast Eddie" introduces full Apple II software compatibility for Power Macintosh computers. It emulates the complete line of Apple II computers, including the Apple IIGS.
Fast Eddie is a collection of powerful components such as the Powercore CPU and core services component, the Grafitti video engine, the CleverPort disk interface and the n-sonic sound emulation. Initial versions of Fast Eddie will not patch time-consuming toolbox calls.
"We're emulating metal", said Andre Horstmann, project manager of Fast Eddie Labs. "We want former Apple IIGS users to be able to run their favorite entertainment software on their Power Macs."
The Powercore component offers 8- and 16-bit 65816 emulation, including interrupts, memory shadowing, bank switching, and much more. Other services provided by Powercore are ADB mouse support, Mac-backed real time clock, among others.
The Grafitti video engine supports all popular video modes (more to come in near future), including Super Hires, b&w Hires and 40/80 text display. The video driver is designed to produce accurate screen refreshes at maximum speed.
To work with your favorite software, you need some kind of disk device. CleverPort is the ultimate answer to your storage needs. Mount 100 disks of sizes between 1kB and 8Gb at once! CleverPort also features an easy to use point & click interface.
Last but not least, real GS software uses the n-sonic sound driver for rich, mind-blowing sound. The n-sonic emulates up to 32 channels in mono, stereo, enhanced stereo or SonicScape-3D 4-way surround sound.
For more information, please surf the Eddie-web at http://www.swix.ch/clan/shadow/eddie.html
The project "Fast Eddie" was started by Andre Horstmann, author of the most popular NDA word processor Hermes (formerly ShadowWrite) and the telecommunication software "ShadowDial". Mr. Horstmann joined Bright Software in 1990 and greatly contributed to Bright Software's success of providing the Apple II community with reliable, innovative software solutions.
Mr. Gudat joined the Fast Eddie project in early 1996 and added disk and sound support. Mr. Gudat is the author of many software products including the award-winning The Gate, Eureka!Symbolix, MultiView, cross-platform office automation tools, voice mail & fax-back systems, and coauthor of SpaceFox.
Since 1989, Bright Software has been developing innovative software products for Apple II computers that improve productivity through reliability and added functionality. Fast Eddie is the latest and greatest product in this serie and demonstrates our continued support of Apple II users and commitment to the Apple II platform.
Fast Eddie Labs
Contact:
Henrik Gudat
gudath@ubaclu.unibas.ch
(C) 1996 Synergetix H. Gudat. Specifications are subject to change without notice. Apple II, Apple IIGS, Macintosh and Ensoniq are trademarks of Apple Computer Inc. The Gate and SpaceFox are trademarks of Seven Hills Software Corp. This document may be distributed freely in its original form but may not be reposted by "1WSW" or stored on a server affiliated with them.

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