This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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I think the CD is a great deal. The images are varied lot, and it may be difficult to find a specific image of interest at any given time, but there a lot of pictures for $40. I've heard many people say similar things about LinkWay after seeing a demo…
#CD-I / CD-XA
Message #52225
I work on contract for Eduquest, the IBM educational products company, doing work related to the development and marketing of LinkWay, LinkWay Live!, and LinkWay for Windows, and multimedia products for education which are based on these development systems. I have been involved in development of many Eduquest demos for…
IBM and Toshiba both sell adapters for CD-ROM's for Microchannel. Future Domain makes a SCSI adapter with driver software for M/C which should be able to work with almost any SCSI drive. I have used the Hitachi 1503S and Hitachi 1701 CD-ROM drive on a Model 55 as well with…
There are two good examples of DOS multimedia products which illustrate the combination of text, graphics, animation, and sound- National Geographics "Mammals: A Multimedia Encyclopedia" and "The Presidents: It All Started With George." Both of these were developed using IBM LinkWay 2.01, using IBM Photomotion for the movies. Mammals uses…
#25626-
BEST SOUND FORMAT???
Message #25654
LinkWay Live! uses .WAV format files for its sound recording and playback and is a DOS program. LinkWay Live! supports 8 bit or 16 bit sampling, with sampling rates from 8K to 44K samples per second. I have downloaded .WAV files from Cserve and used .WAV files from Toolbook applications…
That's great! I'll pass this info along to the people at IBM who are supporting Mammals. This fix should make systems like yours run LinkWay correctly inthe MCGA mode. Larry
Multimedia
Message #14990
IBM has provided a solution to the sound differences in redbook sound and wave file sound in the newly announced ultimedia computer – the model 57 SLC. The machine has a bulit in CDROM drive, and a 16 bit audio card built in. The output from both are connected internally…
No, not from videodisc. THe movie portion of the Presidents is entirely done using software. THe data file contains the animation and audio information, and a playback routine puts it on the screen. The data has nothing to do with any CD formats, it is simply a DOS data file.…
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#Encyclopedias?
Message #14120
The pictures in the Groliers Encyclopedia are done in a display mode that some plain vanilla VGA cards may not support- it is a mode which IBM calls "VGA-8" with a resolution of 360 X 480 pixels, with 256 colors. This is a mode which is present in IBM PS/2's,…
"The Presidents" uses the same movie technology as the "Mammals" CD from national geographic, ('Presidents" is also a NG product), except that the software for the movie production has been improved significantly in a few different ways. The files are compressed much more than in "Mammals", to as little as…
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#Mammals Help
Message #13517
The mammals movies run at about 9-10 frames/second. There is no sound with the movies in this version of mammals. National Geographic is working on a new CD-ROM called The Presidents: It All Started With George, which includes movies with sound. I just finished creating a demo piece for a…