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Beetex Brochure and Review for the Microbee - ChickenMan - 25-08-2023
From my recent purchase of Microbee material there was a BeeTex Brochure with a product review. It is A4 in size and 6 pages long. Scanned at 600dpi and converted to a searchable PDF as usual.
BEETEX is the MOST POWERFUL GRAPHICS WORD-PROCESSOR for CP/M
Microbees. It is designed for teachers, students, scientists, in fact
anyone who has special needs and wants to get the HIGHEST POSSIBLE
QUALITY from a MicroBee with a dot-matrix printer. ANY PCG shapes can
be included in a document: mathematical symbols, foreign language
characters, chunky graphics, specialized fonts, circuit diagram
symbols etc... It is also able to import BeeArtistic pictures into
your document!
BEETEX was written by Dr Alain J Rémont and released via Remont Software, North Adelaide in 1988. The cost was $125, which includes a comprehensive manual. This program needs a disk system and you must specify which disk system you have. Unfortunately we dont have the program, just a pic of a 3.5" disk in the repository. But I read a very complex setup procedure is required to get around the program's complicated copy protection; you have to dump certain files, under program control, onto a second disk, then insert that disk and the original into the Microbee in turn!
If anyone can help with either a disk or manual that would be greatly appreciated, thanks.
So in the MbeeTech Repository in the Microbee/Documentation//Brochures folder we placed
beetex_brochure_and_review.pdf