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From: bsalter@acorn.co.uk
Subject: Acorn Press Release: BIMA Gold for Acorn CD ROM from ILP
Date: 28 Jun 93 08:16:45 GMT
BIMA Gold for Acorn CD ROM from ILP
Release Date 25th June 1993
A CD ROM offering encyclopaedic information on British Birds has won a
prestigious gold award at the British Interactive Multimedia Association's
awards ceremony in London for its producers, Interactive Learning
Productions of Newcastle.
The disc, which was produced in collaboration with the British Library and
the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, is available in both RISC OS
(Acorn) and MPC formats, but it was the Acorn version that scooped first
prize in the category of Best Education CD ROM Title.
The Acorn version of British Birds offers the capabilities of Full Motion
Video, text, sound, images and hyperlinks and can run on any Acorn
Archimedes 32-bit RISC computers which are commonly found in schools today.
ILP was formed in 1990 following the completion of a project, based at
Newcastle University, which had been set up to research and develop the
potential of multimedia. It works closely with other institutions such as
the British Library, Yorkshire TV, the Ministry of Agriculture and British
Rail, and it plans to release a number of new CD ROM titles in the next few
months.
ILP's Director, Fred Grainger praised the Acorn platform for its
versatility. "The Archimedes is a magnificent machine which offers all the
facilities we need of a multimedia platform. It is because of this that we
author all of our CD ROMs on the Acorn computer prior to porting those
sections of the application over to an MPC platform that it is able to cope
with."
This year's award follows on from the success of last year when ILP won a
Gold Award for an interactive computer display, using 30 Acorn computers,
especially commissioned for the Ministry of Agriculture, and on display for
half a year at Alton Towers.
Acorn's Technical Director Malcolm Bird said "From the early phases of the
project Acorn was attracted by the strength of the combined team approach of
RSPB, British Library and ILP. We have been pleased to support the project
and work with ILP in utilising the strong multimedia capabilities of the
standard Acorn platforms. It is particularly encouraging to find that our
platforms could provide the most cost effective multimedia capabilities for
schools and the British Birds CD for the Archimedes well deserves the
recognition it has now achieved through this award. "
ENDS
Further information from: Fred Grainger - 091 261 1255