We'd like to tell you about Media Magic, the $29.95 multimedia creation package. Use Media Magic to create your own teaching tutorials, catalogs, technical presentations, electronic books, BBS greeting cards, disk-based shows, etc, which will run on any standard CGA, EGA or VGA-equipped IBM-compatible computer. Built-in features include: complete drawing program, simple word processor to create text in any font and any color, sound effects library, music composition and optional synthesized speech through the ordinary PC speaker, Sound Blaster and other sound card support, resolutions from 2-Color CGA through 256-color VGA, .PCX file display and creation, store up to 100 pictures on a single 360k floppy, special effects such as curtains, granular fades, and swipes, grid and coordinate display for precice drawing creation, super-imposing, layering, combining files, hook executable programs and batch files into multimedia presentations, display text files of unlimited size within graphics windows or full screen, more, more, more! Media Magic comes with a royalty-free, multi-faceted run-time program called MSHOW.EXE, with which end users can view your presentation screen by screen, forward, backward or randomly, and even seacrh for any word or phrase within your presentation, or via hyperlinks, in which users can point to anything on screen with mouse-driven or arrow-key driven pointer and be taken to any location within your presentation. How can we do it all for $29.95? Here are the answers: Media Magic is advertised via shareware, so our advertising cost is low and therefore the price to you is low. Media Magic is an efficient, fully self-contained package, with a complete disk-based owner's manual. Finally, we ship everything immediately via first class mail, so no cost is wasted in excess warehousing/order processing. Because it is easy-to-use, you can start making professional products with Media Magic the first day you own it. To get your copy, send $29.95 in US funds to: Another Company P.O. Box 3429 Ashland, OR 97520 USA or phone 503-482-3611 or order via CompuServe (GO SWREG) Postage is free, anywhere in the world! Please specify if you need 3.5" disk size. Media Magic requires CGA, Herc, EGA or VGA graphics, and 512k RAM. Supported but NOT required are mouse, hard disk, sound card and color monitor. Media Magic works fine on laptop computers. Media Magic - Technical Specifications: (subject to change) Main Creation program: MM.EXE, size: 238556 bytes Runtime program: MSHOW.EXE, size: 41315 bytes Video modes: 320 x 480 x 256 XGA, 640 x 480 x 16 VGA, 320 x 200 x 256 VGA, 640 x 350 x 16 EGA, 720 x 348 x 2 Herc, 640 x 200 x 16 EGA 640 x 200 x 2 CGA, 320 x 200 x 4 CGA Fonts provided: 10 (total with option: 40) PC speaker support: 2 digitized speech systems, melody composition, custom sounds, sound effects library. Sound Card Support: All brands File Encryption: (yes - option) Incorporate external EXE, BAT & COM programs: yes Multiple-choice & true/false test creation (yes - option (incl encrypted results file on disk!) Special features: Hyper-link (on screen arrow), Live text - incorporate scrolling ASCII text of any size within any picture in any font, color or video mode, menu-driven interface for end users, search for text within any picture, animation, grid, coordinate display, more, more! __________________________________________________ End - press [Esc] or right mouse button.