Author: O. Veli
Date: 22:18:10 06/11/00
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On June 12, 2000 at 00:31:19, Mike S. wrote: >On June 11, 2000 at 19:00:17, D Ridge wrote: > >>Hey, i heard a rumour that Novag is coming back from the grave with a Palm-like >>chess device. > >Yes, at the german toy trade fair in Nuremberg 2000, Novag presented the "NOVAG >star sapphire". It was said that it will have an improved Sapphire program. It >has a touch sensitive LCD board (some will remember the "Savant", which already >had one) and an IR port to connect with an electronic chess board. It was >reported that the processor will be the 68EZ328 with 256 KB RAM. As the >scheduled release date, October 2000 was given. > It was supposed to be released on May or June so it got postponed. The program is supposed to be 50-80 points stronger than Sapphire II and the price is in the 300-350 USD range. It is way high from the current 200 USD.
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