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DBMan is also an Amiga relational data base
management system using windows, the mouse
and pull-down menus and retailing at $149.95.
It is dBase command compatible but, according
to VeraSoft, is 60 times faster. Included is a
symbolic debugger/editor, data encryption and
error trapping with automatic recovery. You
can define multi-child relationships with 192
variables and have ten active data bases open
at once (memory permitting), and it will
accommodate a whopping 2 billion records per
file. Versions are available on several personal
computers (with no royalties or site licenses
required) and it's available now. We can't tell
you how it stacks up with other DBMSs from a
trade-show once-over. Contact Verasoft
Corporation, 4340 Almaden Expressway, Suite
#250, San Jose, CA 95118, 408/723-9044, for
more info.
CLI-Mate is an Amiga disk management
program that bypasses the CLI and Workbench,
allowing disk operations with the mouse. By
typing only rarely, you can rename and delete
files, create directories and make multiple file
copies even to the RAM: disk. CLI-Mate will
let you adjust print or display options like
page length, margins and page numbers and
produce output with or without line numbers
in hexadecimal or ASCII. It has a fast format
utility and pattern/wildcard matching. CLI-
Mate was done by Chris Nicotra, author of the
public domain program DIRUTL which is
similar but less extensive. $34.95 from
Progressive Peripherals & Software (see above).
The Polaroid Palette was shown at the
reception. It's an Amiga peripheral that lets
you take instant Polaroid or developed 35mm
screen shots without focusing a camera.
Pictures are taken internally with the Imprint
software included with the unit which consists
of a Polaroid Palette film recorder, 35mm
camera back, 3-1/4 by 4-1/4 instant camera
back (back means there's no lens assembly), and
Polachromc instant film processor. In seconds,
it will it plunk into your hand a perfectly
focused, instant Polaroid snapshot of any
image you can get on the screen (low, medium
or high resolution), and it will produce 4-color
separations and do continuous-tone black-andwhites
as well. My untrained eye was amazed
at the quality of the instant prints (no raster
lines or screen-bend) but if that's not good
enough, you can use 35mm film and have it
developed. The unit itself is about
H"Dx6MWx5"H. It plugs into the composite
video and serial ports, and comes with cables
and all accessories. It's available now for
$2,495 from Liquid Light, 2301 W. 205th Street,
Suite 106, Torrance, CA 90501, 213/618-0274.
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Unicorn Software introduced an extensive
line of educational software for the Amiga.
They demoed Fraction Action for ages 8 and
up, and Decimal Dungeon for ages 9 and up,
both for 1 or 2 players with individual
difficulty level settings and optional timers.
Three more programs will ship in January:
Kinderama for preschooler to 6-yr-olds, Math
Wizard, 1 or 2 players aged 5 to 13, and Animal
Kingdom featuring zoological species including
prehistoric, jungle, fish, insects, amphibians
and birds in six activities for 1 to 4 players,
ages 6 to 12. Each is $49.95. Unicorn plans to
release an Amiga package each month next
year. Unicorn Software, 2950 E. Flamingo
Road, Greenview Park Suite B, Las Vegas NV
89121, 702/737-8862.
Hearsay 1000 is a speech synthesis and
recognition device that lets you hear and
respond to your C64/128 by voice. It retails
for $79.95 and will work not only with their
special programs but with pre-existing thirdparty
software as well - it was demonstrated
with Infocom, Epyx, Spinnaker and Batteries
Included programs. Hearsay's Software for
Children ($29.95 each) will run with or without
the unit and includes: Rhyme & Reason, which
uses nursery rhymes to teach 2 to 5 year olds
language concepts and names of animals, etc.,
Aqua Circus which teaches shapes, colors and
numbers to 2 to 5 year olds, and Think Bank,
for 6 to 10 year olds, which does numbers,
equations and math problem-solving. The
Hearsay Talking Terminal ($29.95) when used
with the Hearsay 1000, will auto-dial on voice
command and speak incoming text. Hearsay,
Inc. 1825 74th Street, New York, NY 11204,
718/232-7266