info-mac@uw-beaver (02/06/85)
From: roy@nlm-vax (Roy Standing)
Since I posted a message about finding several DAs on a disk named
VideoWorks 0.15 I have received mail asking "What is VideoWorks".
Given the amount of mail, I will respond here:
To be honest, I don't know yet myself. I have no documentation and
was looking at a pre-release demonstration disk. My impression is:
1) Like Ann Arbor's Animation Toolkit, VideoWorks permits on screen
animation.
2) Unlike Animation Toolkit, it allows simultaneous animation of a
"cast" of eight images (the demo appears to have 4 separate
images of which all but one are static and just move across the
screen while one cycles through approximately 4 'forms' as it moves
across the screen.)
It has the following windows:
1) Stage -- The Mac screen, on which the "play" is performed
2) Panel -- Start/Stop/Direction/Scene Counter/Cut/Splice
3) Score -- The "play" score
4) Cast -- There is room for 8 entries, each entry can have 8 'forms'
5) CheapPaint -- A MacPaint-like window for creating "cast" 'forms'
The demo, Tour deFrance, was very interesting. It had a cyclist moving
along the road passing foliage on one side and being passed by a car on
the other side.
The disk had the following 'about VideoWorks':
VideoWorks 0.15 *EXPERIMENTAL*
by Jay Fenton, Marc A. Canter, & Mark S. Pierce
(C) Copyright 1985 MacroMind, Inc. All Rights Reserved
I know I've seen the name MacroMind somewhere before but I can't find
a reference (or telephone number).info-mac@uw-beaver (02/07/85)
From: mazur@harvard.ARPA (Eric Mazur)
Marc Aaron Canter and Mark Stephen Pierce (Macromind Inc.) are the authors of
Musicworks for the Mac, and many other video games for other PC's. The
distributor for Macromind seems to be Hayden Software, Lowell MA, 617-937-0200.
Eric Mazur
Harvard University
ARPA: mazur@harvard
UUCP: {seismo,harpo,ihnp4,linus,allegra,ut-sally}!harvard!mazurinfo-mac@uw-beaver (02/07/85)
From: Ron Thielen <SYSTEMS.RJT%UChicago.BITNET@WISCVM.ARPA> Videoworks is the next product from the people who wrote Musicworks. They are located here in Chicago, and I saw a demo 2 or 3 months ago. What they are aiming for is a product which will combine animation and sound. Some of these people used to work for Bally and would like to do arcade quality games for the Mac. Ron Thielen sysront%uchimvs1.bitnet@wiscvm.arpa -------