arthur@media.UU.NET (Art Poley) (09/19/90)
Media Cybernetics announces addition to HALO family
Silver Spring, Maryland, August 1, 1990 -- Media Cybernetics, Inc.,
the leading supplier of micrographics software, today announced HALO
Professional, a new product aimed at developers of large,
sophisticated graphics applications. The product will be available in
September.
The HALO family moves into the next generation of graphics tools with
this new addition. Unlike previous HALO toolkits, HALO Professional
lets you write applications that run in protected mode, the most
important feature now required in graphics applications development.
By using protected mode, a huge amount of addressable memory space can
be accessed making large programs written with HALO Professional run
faster and easier.
HALO Professional supports the Rational Systems DOS16M, Phar Lap, Ergo
OS286 and OS386 DOS Extender-based languages, as well as real mode
DOS, and the proprietary Alsys Ada 286. These DOS extenders allow
applications to break the 640K limit. HALO Professional is an
entirely new developer's toolkit that lets you create and incorporate
sophisticated computer-generated graphics into your own applications.
Faster performance, superior functions and an easy, dependable
structure make HALO Professional ideal for extensive programming
development. With a library of more than 200 graphics subroutines,
the product is a time-saver for applications developers.
"This product represents an extension of our existing HALO graphics
technology," said Media Cybernetics President Bill Strum. "While HALO
Professional maintains all the power of HALO, additional features make
this new product a more powerful graphics toolkit." Bit-mapped
cursors allow a professional looking cursor with little programming
effort. Multiple active devices allow graphics on more than one dev-
ice simultaneously.
"HALO Professional is more efficient for running an application
because it's small and flexible in memory usage," Strum said. HALO
Professional lets programmers develop graphics applications requiring
large amounts of memory and high resolution input and output. HALO
Professional is ideal for developing programs such as process control,
scientific visualization, GIS Mapping, grayscale desktop publishing,
and image processing applications.
HALO Professional operates on 286 class (or above) PC and requires a
1.2M floppy disk drive, a hard disk and 640K of RAM. The product
supports the most popular Ada, Assembler, BASIC, C, Fortran, and
Pascal compilers. HALO Professional supports dot matrix, laser, inkjet
and thermal transfer printers, in addition to many popular display
devices, scanners, and plotters.
HALO Professional retails for $595.00. Reseller discounts and license
fees may be obtained on an individual basis. Media Cybernetics is a
private company founded in 1981. The company develops graphics and
image processing software for endusers and applications developers.
Media Cybernetics markets its products worldwide through various sales
and distribution channels.
For additional information about the company and its products, please
contact:
Media Cybernetics
8484 Georgia Avenue, Suite 200
Silver Spring, MD 20910
or call (800) 992-4256. In Maryland, call (301) 495-3305.
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