MM CDROM pub:MPC,MAC or?
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Bowers had a good point — CD-ROM can be viewed as a publishing business. If I
were in the business of actively seeking out and publishing CD-ROM titles for
the education market per se, particulalry primary and secondary education, I'd
think long and hard about writing off Macintosh or DOS — there are just too
many of those machines out there (and we make agood living at Online producing
titles for publishers who are in that business, thank you).
On the other hand, it would be suicidal to be approaching the corporate market
without a Windows product, which we have been actively doing for over three
years now.
Dennis McDonald, Online Computer Systems
Germantown, Maryland
I think that's what I said in about twice as many words, but I'm a
professional writer and we get paid by the word and so can't say "Hello" in
less than three lines….
Dennis,
It's amazing that Windows has got such a large base<g>. I think I see more
comments on Compuserve cursing it than praising it<bg>. Having said that, it's
there in a lot (but _not_ all) companies, so you can't ignore it.
Adrian
Ain' it the truth. I started out with Mac in '84 and now use DOS, Mac, Windows,
and OS/2 aps on a regular basis. I'm still amazed at how smoothly Mac
applications operate, and I've developed a real fondness for OS/2 and its
graphical user interface. Maybe these will all be obsolete soon …
Behind all these questions lurks a great market opportunity: To create software
tools that allow publishing CDs for multiple systems (that is: Mac, DOS, MPC,
Windows, CDI, CDTV, Atari, Sony Electronic Book). Most of these could probably
be run from the same CD, others would need CDs that could be created
automatically.
Somehow, nobody has grabbed this opportunity in the last 8 years to a large
extend.
There are some retrieval systems out that do PC and Mac and maybe UNIX (I
designed one such system), but they don't handle user interface issues and
Multimedia materials.
Now I heard of Macromind Director Player for windows, which could be the first
Multimedia CD-ROM platform for Mac and PC. Any experience out there ?
The nice thing is that one can develop on the Mac and port to PC without even
touching that machine.