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[ continuation ] built in editor which permits you to create hot spots for mouse input, either invisible (for over a graphic), outlined, with text inside, or using a "brush" (i.e. a small graphic created in a paint program which is layered over the background text), and you can have a mouse click change the brush as part of its operation. (BTW — you can substitute "touch screen" or "keyboard" for any mouse input statements here). Now, as powerful and easy to use as it is, AmigaVision is not the end-all hyper/multi-media tool all by itself. For example, there are things (like with text file viewing, manipulation and integration) where AmigaVision is a bit more limited than I like. No problem! CanDo (another hyper/multi-media application) has that (and it's cheap — you can get AREXX, AmigaVision AND CanD0 for about $250 total street price). Since CAnDO has AREXX capabilities, AmigaVision and CanDO can toss the ball back and forth, as needed, for example. Let's put some of this together. I made a demo about the AMiga. It has a three minute intro where a four voice musical score plays over a series of graphics/text screens, using all kinds of neat wipes, moving brushes (and one real-time full screen animation), etc. which deal in a general way with the Amiga's abilities. This ends with a screen depicting eight buttons, each of which is a 3.5" floppy disk with a graphic tied to DTP, Video, Games, Music etc. (the words are also under each). AT the top it says "click a disk to learn more". If you click the music one, for example, you get a new screen with buttons that, if clicked, review various kinds of software (showing screen shots, and with an Amiga computer-voice-over talking about what it does, and naming similar software from other suppliers). There is a second set of bottons you can click to hear four-voice musical scores — a rock one, classical one, and pop one. If you click one of those, it plays, and a text box comes up describing the source of the tune, its arranger, and which AMiga [ MORE ]