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2. DCE manufactures hardware products of the Kato Development Group under licence

»Oberhausen June 1, 1999

And again there are good news for many Amiga users. The DCE GmbH from Oberhausen, Germany, that have been manufacturer of a extended high quality range of hardware accessories for AMIGA computer systems and Kato Development Group, developer of the Melody sound cards as well as of the Twister 1200 announce the conclusion of a licencing contract. So DCE completes their product range after licencing some of the Phase 5 products.

These products are manufactured under licence:

• Twister 1200
• Melody 1200 (Base+Pro)

The Twister1200 is a cheap, but powerful serial interface for the Amiga 1200.

Twister 1200 is supposed to be the only extension for the Amiga with a so-called hardware based automatic data flow control, that avoids buffer overflows.

Still Twister 1200 can be used with a Melody 1200 in a 1200 in a tower case.

Available from June 1999. Price 78.00 DEM (approx. 39.80 Euros)

Melody 1200

The Melody 1200 is a poewrful sound card with a high quality 20 bit Hifi converter for best enjoyment

• high sampling rates from 44.1 kHz and 48 kHz
• Playing and recording at the same time (Full-Duplex)
• Useable for !200 and tower
• Three inputs with variable pre-amplification
• toccata.library (emulation of the well-known sound card)
• Hardware based MPEG-Audio decoding
• (MPEG2.5 Layer 2+3 known as MP2 resp. MP3)
• Can be combined with serial cards as Twister 1200 in the A1200
• Customer prices haven't been defined, yet.«

(Source: DCE)