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Helm, Amigavision Pro or Scala would be good choices. The latter two, at least, have direct CDTV support built in. My main familiarity is with AV Pro, and I think it's up to the task as you described it. It includes a decent database that's dBaseIII compatible, which simplifies the process of keeping large amounts of alphanumeric information stored in useable form; just run up the data in any dBase-compatible program and import it to AV Pro, then it's easy to link to graphics, sounds, etc through the screen designing functions. AV Pro is a relatively easy way to write a very formidable, interactive, multimedia database application that can be delivered via CD-ROM to Amiga platforms. It can make your application look very fancy without fancy programming (e.g., touch screen capability, "hot" spots accessible via mouse clicks, speech synthesis, audio/video playback, hypertext links, etc.). I'm very high on Amigavision Pro. In theory you should be able to write your application to a large hard disk and then just ship it off to a CD-ROM pressing plant (I think there are 2-3 places that specifically handle CDTV format and now probably CD32 format, but you need a Commodore license to use the format). — Ron Legro from Milwaukee via AUTOPILOT (The only way to fly)