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History - The Multimedia Workshop
In December 1990, I released my first major shareware
product, Bicycle Tune-up & Repair, a pictures & text
tutorial. To create it, I made my own drawing program. I
also wrote my own runtime program to display the pictures, so
that end users could move forward, backward or search for
anything within the presentation. I had tried to use other,
ready made drawing programs to put this together, but could
not find anything that did what I wanted.
This bicycle presentation was done in CGA monochrome
graphics. In it I mentioned that I was thinking about
doctoring up my home-made software so that others could use
it to create their own presentations. I also mentioned that
the price would probably be around $100. Checks for this
vaporware product started coming in!
So, of course, I finished it, wrote instruction files, and
called this first monochrome, text and drawing program
BLACKBOARD. It had no .PCX or .GIF import capability, no
(true) color support, no sound effects, and no hyperlinking.
Then I made a VGA version, and shortly after that came a
version which would work in various video modes from CGA
through VGA. This was renamed Another Program.
After several major improvements, I made a new version
with a new name: The Multimedia Workshop. TMW started with
version 3.00, since it was built on two preceding products,
or "generations". After version 5.00 ("Fifth Generation"), I
started yet another major rebuild, adding several more
features, much greater smoothness and speed and renamed it
yet again to Media Magic.
Media Magic's development has been continuing, but a
consolidated product with a shareware version was required.
Media Magic, a close cousin to TMW, is currently at version
9.84. Every minor or major change has caused the version
number to increment by one hundredth.
And, so to answer all those who asked, "Whatever happened
to The Multimedia Workshop?" here's version 10 - the Tenth
Generation, now once again available as shareware!
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