dmak@LYNX.NORTHEASTERN.EDU (02/06/89)
I had a chance to play with Touch-Up a bit for a few days... These are my initial findings: Yes -- It's got a PARALLEL PORT "Dongle" protection scheme. I have seen a few notes posted earlier concerning this... Basically what it does is connect to the back of your computer (in the printer port) afterwhich the printer cable can go into the back of the dongle (which is in the back of the computer... ok?). In other words - It's a gender changer-like device that doesn't actually change the gender. No -- I haven't found ANYTHING that conflicts with the little thing. It was designed to be a "plug-in and forget" gem. I'd rather have this than a disk-based copy protection that reminds me of itself everytime I load the program. And I'd rather have a dongle than see it proliferate on the disks of parasitic pirates world-wide. System requirements: 1 meg RAM, 1 DS/DD 3.5" floppy, and an Atari ST. It works in color, but shines in Monochrome. It's a pixel-oriented "virtual-page image creation and editing program" (p 1-1 Touch-Up! Manual). Is it good?? It's GREAT! This is the ST's answer to Mac Draw. It's more than just that though. It's a high quality image processor. Everything works as advertised... it's fast, it's powerful and it's flexible. It's great for what it does... but not everyone needs something like this. It's not Easy-Draw, nor is it Degas (won't handle COLOR -- it's a monochrome drawing program). This program has LOTS of neat little features -- it's one of the more FUN painting programs out on the ST. I like the "lasso" clip feature (much like the Mac clip function). and other touchs like that. Just thought some might have wanted to know... Dave Mak dmak@lynx.northeastern.edu No affiliations with Migraph, EA/Batteries Included(RIP), Apple, Atari. My opinions are just that.