If you can move a mouse, you can move an audience with Macromedia's Action! for Windows and Macintosh. Action! is a revolutionary application that lets you quickly create dazzling multimedia presentations combining sound, motion, text, graphics, animation, digital video, and interactivity. with just the click of a mouse.
Andromeda Series Filters for Adobe Photoshop Demos
Cytopia Software and Andromeda Software
http://www.cytopia.com/andr.html
$79.95 each series
Macintosh
Series 1 is the best in optical lens effects. Ten filters include: velocity for motion trails; reflection for clear pool adjustable reflections; star for glints, sparks and flares.
Series 2 fulfills 99% of your daily 3D requirements. Wrap your Adobe Photoshop images onto 3D surfaces, fly around the surface to change perspective, and add shading.
Backstage
Macromedia
http://www.macromedia.com/
Windows
All the Web is your stage...and you direct the action with Macromedia Backstage Designer¬ Plus, the easiest way to create multimedia Web pages. Get Web-ready without being a programmer-or spending a lot of money. Produce showstopping Web pages in an intuitive point and click environment-just like using a word processor. Backstage Designer Plus handles all the HTML for you, behind the scenes.
Beyond the Wall
http://www.magnet.com/wall/
$29.99 plus shipping and handling
Windows & Macintosh
Take a vivid, 3D, multimedia journey to the Viet Nam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC, and discover a side to the war you never knew: a personal, moving, and thought-provoking world of humanity, memories, and reflections by the men and women whose heroism is commemorated on this majestic granite wall.
An easy-to-use names database, authentic newsreel footage, multimedia biographies of fallen heroes, and a time-line of the Vietnam War are all part of this award-winning, unforgettable experience.
BUG! Demo
Sega
http://www.sega.com/
Windows 95
"BUG! KNOWS ACTION! The animated 3D action game debuts on the PC. Check out the star, a gnat-brained hero with a little talent, a lot of style, and a huge ego who has to save his insect friends before they are eaten for lunch. Your goal: steer BUG! through six different Island Kingdoms with 18 infested levels to evil widow Queen Cadavra╒s web without getting squashed. With incredible SGI-rendered 3D graphics and animation, BUG! offers great family entertainment with real-time scenarios and awesome play mechanics.
Create Your Own Adventures With Curious George plops kids right down into author H. A. Rey's friendly, familiar world of stylized buildings, cars, and colorful characters. The program's unique story-making feature invites kids to be Curious George's playmate for the day, as they accompany him on adventures that begin in the morning and end by dark. Here is Curious George as never seen before: walking, running, laughing, and playing with a simple click of the mouse. Kids actually become part of the story, choosing which places to go, deciding whether to ride bikes or take the bus, finding missing animals at the zoo, and of course, trying to keep Curious George out of trouble. But the fun only begins at the computer. Kids can print out their own Curious George story books and collect them in a shiny yellow binder that comes free with the product. Reading their stories aloud before bed-time╤or any time╤is an ideal way to improve reading skills.
Deck II
Macromedia
http://www.macromedia.com/
Macintosh
Excellent audio-editing software.
Diablo
Blizzard Entertainment
http://www.blizzard.com/main.htm
Windows
WHAT DIABLO WANTS YOU TO KNOW
1. There are no backwards messages in my game.
2. If my game runs slowly on your system, you can increase performance
by copying Diablo to your hard drive. To do this with Windows Explorer,
select the Diablo folder icon and drag it to your hard drive.
3. You can also increase performance by turning off music in the main
menu, which you access via the Escape key (unlike my domain, from
which there is no escape).
4. This is a prerelease demo. There will be no patches or updates to this
demo, nor will Blizzard Entertainment offer technical support.
5. Diablo requires DirectX 2.0 or later to run properly. If you do not have
DirectX 2.0 or are unsure which version you have, you can find a copy of
it in the DX directory of this CD.
6. !olbaiD gniyalp flesruoy yojnE
Emergency Room
Legacy Software
http://www.legacysoft.com
Windows
Emergency Room is a career simulation where you become the doctor.
Flight Unlimited Demo
Looking Glass Technologies, Inc.
http://www.lglass.com
Macintosh
Very cool flight simulator.
FreeHand
Macromedia
http://www.macromedia.com/
Windows
FreeHand has the power you need to develop everything from simple illustrations to complex designs with a minimum of effort. A complete set of text handling features, from tabs and columns to control over dozens of pages, make FreeHand a power-house for page layout. And capabilities like unlimited layering, editable blends, 100 levels of undo and redo, edit in preview, and TIFF and EPS support, make FreeHand a complete solution for graphics and design on Windows and Macintosh. The result is that FreeHand is the fastest way to go from design to finished project. No other application has the features or the flexibility. No other program releases your creativity like FreeHand.
Goo Demo
MetaTools, Inc.
http://www.metatools.com
Windows 95, Macintosh (PPC)
Allows you to create "liquid images" and manipulate them in real time by smearing, stretching, shrinking, and smudging photos of your choice from a variety of sources.
Locus
http://www.zombie.com/locus2.htm
Macintosh
Experience true virtual-reality sports gaming with Locus. Stunning 3D graphics immerse you in a play-fast/play-hard game of elimination. Network up to nine players (three teams of three) for fast and furious game play. You should know this game was engineered for play inside of a head-mounted display.
Monster Truck Madness is a radical and realistic PC-based racing game that seats players behind the steering wheel of the world's most powerful vehicles as they crush, splatter, jump, and roll their way to victory. Microsoft worked closely with Bigfoot, the Original Monster Truck, to accurately capture the vehicle behavior and sounds for this game. In addition, you can meet and race other players at the Monster Truck Racing Association site.
Painter 4 Demo
Fractal Design
http://www.fractal.com/
Macintosh
Since its introduction in 1991, Fractal Design Painter has consistently wowed the graphics market with its blend of innovative features and graphics pizzazz. Besides inventing Natural-Media painting, Fractal Design has brought many firsts to the graphics market, including multiple floating selections, frame-by-frame animation, synthetic lighting and texture, and the Image Hose. The mission of Painter, and of Fractal Design itself, is to invent the richest set of graphics creation tools available. Taken in this context, Painter 4 is a worthy next-step in the Painter line.
This new version sports usability improvements in almost every area of the program, as well as some eye-popping new technologies. The eagerly anticipated resurrection of Shapes integrates vector drawing tools with Painter's bitmap editing features. The new Mosaics feature introduces an incredible new look for digital artwork. Net-Painter brings the first environment for collaborative artwork creation to desktop graphics products.
This demo includes a save-disabled version of Painter 4.0 and Painter Pizzazz Tutorials, and video instruction on how to get started using Painter.
PhotoGIF 2.0 Demo
BoxTop Software, Inc.
http://www.aris.com/boxtop/PhotoGIF/
Macintosh
PhotoGIF 2.0 is a must-have File Format plug-in for Mac Photoshop 3.x. Provides high capability, ease of use, and many powerful, time-saving features right at your finger tips for creating the smallest, fastest, best-looking GIF images and GIF animations possible. All without ever leaving Photoshop.
TechTool Pro Demo
http://www.micromat.com/mmcs/index.html
Macintosh
The TechTool Pro demo allows you to explore the TechTool Pro application. While the demo is not functional, it gives you a good "first look" at the program, illustrating the depth and power of this new Macintosh utility.
TechTool Pro is the commercial sibling of the TechTool freeware program. With over 300 different tests, TechTool Pro is the premier diagnostic/trouble-shooting utility for Macintosh. TechTool Pro tests:
