Amigavision?
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Mark,
Thanks for the comments. I'm looking forward to trying AmigaVision, but
you are slightly inaccurate about it being the only authoring system for
Amiga hypermedia — have you seen INOVAtronics' CanDo? I use that, and I'm
very impressed with it. It is older than AmigaVision, too. I plan to do a
side-by-side review of both products when I get AmigaVision for my column.
Interesting that your wife is doing language courseware. I'm also doing
that kind of thing, but right now I'm using the Macintosh since I don't
know many schools with Amigas.
More later,
Kathy
I have CanDo, and I would probably debate its usability for multimedia not
hypermedia. I consider both buzzwords to be quite different.
CanDo is neat for creating applications but it is not well suited (in my
opinion) for multimedia presentations. What is it lacking? It *needs* a
database module, and ability to handle various wipes / scrolls etc. It
should have direct support for laser disk as well.
I have CanDo and like it, but it is not AmigaVision 🙂
-mark=
Mark,
I see your point, but I think you are limiting the concept of hypermedia
too much. I consider any online publishing method that incorporates
hypertext, sound, animation, etc. to be hypermedia. This includes
educational programs, specialized databases, etc. as well as presentations.
My language CAI programs are what I consider hypermedia, but they are not
presentations. I have not tried AmigaVision yet, but I've seen it, and I
think I'd have a hard time doing with it what I do with CanDo. Yet what I
do is hypermedia, not just hypertext.
Kathy
Katherine,
Without a built-in ability to build "links" dynamically, I don't believe
CanDo is really a "hyper" product. It can build static applications with
much greater ease than before, but because a CanDo programmer has to
program links from scratch, it becomes more difficult to focus on content.
CanDo needs more "hyper" functionality to really be powerful, if that is
where they want their market to go. Perhaps you've been able to work
around this?
*** jd
John,
I don't know of any microcomputer based hypermedia product that allows one
to build links dynamically. Even Concordia on the Symbolics is all
"hardwired" during the authoring phase. Do you know of some that I'm not
aware of? I'd be glad to hear about them. Another feature of "true"
hypertext/hypermedia that is missing from most micro implementations is the
ability to annotate the work in a personal or shared file. Oh, for Xanadu
to be released!! <grin>
Kathy