Rembrandt
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K2-'83 and 4-'83 Version
K10 and later Version
This version includes the 2-'84, 2X, 4-'84, 4X, 10 and Robie.
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Spectre’s other offering is called Rembrandt, and it allows you to make drawings and produce bar, line and pie charts. There is even a version for old Kaypro II and Kaypro 4 models that comes with a replacement graphics chip to replace the original that contains no graphics characters.
Rembrandt sells for $79.95 for graphics-capable Osbornes and Kaypros and $89.95 for the early Kaypro models, including the replacement graphics chip.
The graphic results on your screen are serviceable but scarcely elegant. I doubt that anyone would find the quality adequate for actual business presentations. In my opinion, you’ll have to buy an IBM or compatible or Apple Macintosh to get acceptable business graphics.
REMBRANDT is both screen- and printer-oriented, a good all-round program that is the only one to exploit all the graphics capabilities
of the Kaypro. Drawing is done with the entire ASCII set - all 256 characters - on a full-screen canvas. You have 10 graphics characters on your "palette" at one time, choosing one by striking a number key - painting by numbers, as it were. Ordinary keyboard characters can be typed in anytime. Access to the fine-line graphics makes possible much more varied effects than the block graphics allow, such as graphs that look like they're drawn on graph paper. Screens can be chained together for presentation in a "slide-show" format with various effects such as fade-in. Auxiliary programs will prepare various types of graphs automatically from entered data. REMBRANDT
puts out good printed images, and reproduces half-intensity on paper as well as on the screen, but as a printing program it is less flexible than SCS-DRAW; nor is the overall presentation as attractive and fast-moving.