taylor@limbo.Intuitive.Com (Dave Taylor) (04/12/90)
I'm interested in hearing about what products are currently
available via CD-ROM for the Macintosh. What I know of so far
include:
Manhole & Cosmic Osmo
both from Activision -- games
Electronic Whole Earth Catalog
from Broderbund -- reference work
Professional Art Library: Potpourri Collection
from MultiAd Services/Kwikee InHouse -- clip art
Professional Art Business Holiday, Sports, &c
from MultiAd Services -- clip art
Microsoft Office CD-ROM
from Microsoft -- office applications
I know that Apple is planning on offering A/UX 2.0 on CD-ROM, as
well as the DTS disk "Bill & Ted's Excellent CD". I also have
seen reference to MPW showing up on CDROM too...
What else is there? Please include title, company, and a snippet on
what kind of software it is too, if possible.
Thanks greatly for any help!
-- Dave Taylor
Intuitive Systems
Mountain View, California
taylor@limbo.intuitive.com or {uunet!}{decwrl,apple}!limbo!taylorblob@apple.com (Brian Bechtel) (04/12/90)
In article <626@limbo.Intuitive.Com> taylor@limbo.Intuitive.Com (Dave Taylor) writes: > I'm interested in hearing about what products are currently > available via CD-ROM for the Macintosh. This is part 1 of 2. The full list in a nice format may be downloaded from Applelink somewhere. This list isn't complete, and it dates from February. It doesn't list many of the Apple special market titles. The Bureau of Electronic Publishing seems to carry a wide variety of CD-ROM titles; call them at 201-808-2700 or FAX 201-808-2676. CD-ROM 3rd party product list February 1990 Copyright 1990 Apple Computer, Inc. Apple, the Apple logo, HyperCard, ImageWriter, LaserWriter, and Macintosh are registered trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. AppleCD SC is a trademark of Apple Computer, Inc. PostScript is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems, Incorporated. Mention of non-Apple products is for informational purposes only and constitutes neither an endorsement nor a recommendation. Apple assumes no responsibility with regard to the selection, performance, or use of these products. All understandings, agreements, or warranties, if any, take place directly between the vendors and the prospective users. Activision Entertainment (mediagenic) (415) 329-0500 The Manhole CD-ROM. Developed from the popular HyperCard program-based fantasy adventure, The Manhole is the industrys first CD-ROM entertainment product for the Macintosh computer. The CD-ROM version features enhanced graphics and animation, as well as an original music soundtrack. Suggested Retail Price: $59.95 Currently Available Target Markets: Consumer Cosmic Osmo. With more than 100 megabytes of code and music, Cosmic Osmo for CD-ROM is an animated interactive adventure that incorporates cartoon-quality animations and arcade game sequences to create an environment that is truly delightful. Explore more than six unique worlds with a friendly alien named Osmo who, along with some other colorful characters, encourage players to discover the unusual as well as the familiar in this fantasy universe. Suggested Retail Price: $79.95 Available in June 1990 Target Markets: Consumer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aries Systems Corporation (508) 475-7200 MEDLINE Knowledge Finder. Compatible with the AppleCD SC drive and the Apple Macintosh family of personal computers, this CD-ROM retrieval system was developed by Aries Systems Corporation for use with their MEDLINE database. This database contains biomedical literature citations from over 3,000 medical journals at the National Library of Medicine and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Suggested Retail Price: $595.00 and Up for a one-year subscription Currently Available Target Markets: Medical research, libraries, health care professionals PathLine. The Pathline database includes two CD-ROM disc volumes. Volume 1 (Archive database) contains references from approximately 300 pathology-related journals, and includes material indexed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) during the most recent four prior years. Volume II contains all MEDLINE journal references indexed by the NLM during the current year. This combination assures you of comprehensive coverage of the current literature, combined with access to important pathology literature. Suggested Retail Price: $595.00 & Up Currently Available Target Markets: Clinical, anatomic, experimental, and forensic pathologists RadLine. The Radline includes two CD-ROM discs. Volume 1 (Archive database) contains an archive of references from approximately 100 radiology-related journals, and includes material indexed by the NLM during the most recent ten prior years. Volume II contains all MEDLINE journal references indexed by the NLM during the current year. This combination assures you of comprehensive coverage of the current literature, combined with access to the important radiology literature. Suggested Retail Price: $595.00 & Up Currently Available Target Markets: Radiologists CANCERLIT. The CANCERLIT database is produced by the National Cancer Institute, in conjunction with the NLM. The database is a comprehensive collection of citations and abstracts of published cancer literature. Database contents are selected from some 3,000 biomedical journals, from papers presented at meetings, and from books, reports and doctoral theses. The database includes all materials indexed during the current and four prior years. Suggested retail price: $995.00 & Up Currently Available Target Markets: Oncologists, cancer researchers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bowker Electronic Publishing 1-800-323-3288 or (212) 337-6989 Books in Print Plus. Contains almost 1,000,000 book citations accessible via 18 different search criteria, including author, title, subject, publisher, language, price, publication date, audience, and keyword. Citations are available for display and downloading in 7 different formats including Brief, Standard, Catalog Card, MARC Tagged, Order Form, Custom, and Detailed. Suggested Retail Price: $995.00 for a one-year subscription (bimonthly updates) Currently Available Target Markets: Libraries and bookstores Books in Print with Book Reviews Plus. Includes all of the above, plus 70,000 full text book reviews from Booklist, Choice, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, Reference & Research Book News, School Library Journal, and University Press Book News. Citations are available for display and downloading in 7 formats including Brief, Standard, Catalog Card, MARC Tagged, Order Form, Custom, and Detailed. Suggested Retail Price: $1395.00 for a one-year subscription (bimonthly updates) Currently Available Target Markets: Libraries and bookstores Varietys Video Directory Plus. Contains over 40,000 citations for virtually every video in active distribution. Search by title-including subtitle, translated title, original title & series title, performer or director, other contributors, awards won, keyword, hue, ISBN, manufacturer/distributor, order number/UPC code, price, subject/genre, year produced, year released, MPAA rating, language, and other categories. Also includes over 1000 full-text feature film reviews from Variety. Citations are available for display and downloading in 7 formats including Brief, Standard, Catalog Card, MARC Tagged, Order Form, Custom, and Detailed. Suggested Retail Price: $295.00 for a one-year subscription (updated quarterly) Available Summer 1990 Target Markets: Libraries, retailers, consumer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Broderbund Software (415) 492-3200 The Whole Earth Learning Disc. The Whole Earth Catalog has been a resource for self-education and self-sufficiency for 25 years, providing both product reviews and access to essential tools and seminal information. The disc version of the catalog, created using Apples HyperCard software, provides nonlinear access to this information, as well as adding music and sound enhancements in appropriate areas. Suggested Retail Price: $149.95 Currently Available Target Markets: Consumer and education Computer Music Consortium, Inc. (212) 629-4365 ScoreMaster. ScoreMaster is an index of music available for license by commercial and industrial producers. Digitized excerpts allow for rapid previewing of the pre-produced compositions. The first release will include the complete catalogues of 6 of the major music libraries, representing well over 3500 compositions scattered over a few hundred audio CDs. Also included is a project database tied in to the system tracking which selections have been made for which project. This will allow the facility to both track their activity and help manage the paperwork involved in the actual licensing of whatever music is finally selected. Suggested Retail Price: $2500.00 Available March 31 1990. Target Markets: Broadcast, video/audio production facilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Comstock (212) 353-8600 Comstock Desktop Photography. A collection of 449 stock photographs. Comstock Desktop Photography can be used with Aldus PageMaker and other programs that accept TIFF files. Suggested Retail Price: $500.00 Currently Available Target Markets: Art directors and in-house communications professionals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Datapro 1-800-328-2776 or (609) 764-0100 Consultant for the Macintosh. An electronic resource covering Apple Macintosh-related products, concepts and news for business and professional users of the Macintosh. Application areas covered include desktop publishing, Macintosh LANs desktop presentation, word processing, database management, and spreadsheets. Updated quarterly, the service features audio-visual critiques of Macintosh software products, electronic comparison tables for locating and examining the specifications of software and hardware, and ratings for major products as determined by Datapro and its division, National Software Testing Laboratories. Suggested Retail Price: Published quarterly at $899.00 per year or $299.00 for a single copy Available in April 1990 Target Markets: Business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Discimagery (212) 675-8500 Color Backgrounds, Textures, and Graphic Effects. An incredibly versatile resource for desktop designers. Contains 100 high quality clip-photos, stored as 24 Bit color TIFF files. Includes marble, stone, wood, metal, skies, water, fabrics, grids, starbursts, etc. Compatible with all popular color layout and retouching programs. Create eye-catching backgrounds, or add textures and special effects to graphic objects and headlines. Includes copyright license for unlimited, royalty free usage. 35mm color slides available of each photograph if required. Suggested Retail Price: $199.00 Available: July 1, 1990 Target Markets: Ad agencies, publishers, corporate communications departments, schools. The Professional Photography Collection CD-ROM. Contains 100 royalty-free clip-photos, stored as 24 bit color TIFF, and 8 Bit Black and White TIFF files. Includes copyright license for unlimited use in ads, brochures, demonstrations, software, newsletters, and countless other uses. Compatible with Macintosh and PC's. Photographs can be retouched, combined and manipulated using many popular software programs. All photos also available as 35mm color slides at low cost if required for final reproduction. Suggested Retail Price: $149.00 Currently Available Target Markets: Publishers, corporate communications departments, schools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Discovery Systems (614) 761-2000 PD-ROM. This disc, which is produced in conjunction with the Berkeley Macintosh User Group, contains several hundred megabytes of public-domain software, shareware, clip art, and technical information for Macintosh users. Suggested Retail Price: $100.00 Currently Available Target Market: Consumer Educorp Computer Services 1-800-843-9497 Educorp CD-ROM 4.0. Contains over 625 megabytes of public domain and shareware software accessible through a HyperCard interface. Software categories include: Utilities, DAs, Games, Clip Art, Business, Education, Fonts, Sounds, Graphics, Programming, Communications, Productivity, HyperCard stacks and more. The interface allows you to view pictures and fonts, read instructions, hear sounds, and see a description of the file before choosing it. A click of the mouse will launch the program or copy the program to your hard disk drive or floppy. Suggested Retail Price: $199.00 Currently Available Target Markets: Consumer and education Exotica-ROM. This is the first Macintosh CD-ROM dedicated to a single artists work. This electronic gallery features exotic art painted by the world-famous artist Olivia, scanned in brilliant color, grayscale, and black and white. The over 300 high-quality reproductions on this disc make it a true collectors item. Suggested Retail Price: $199.00 Currently Available Target Markets: Consumer Educorp Clip Art CD-ROM. The disc contains over 90 megabytes of EPS art, laser art, bit-mapped images. Utilities are also provided to help you manipulate the images. Catagories include: animals, business, people, cars, home, sports, tools, and maps. Suggested Retail Price: $59.95 Currently Available Target Markets: Consumer, schools, business Educorp Stacks CD-ROM. This CD has over 150 megabytes of Stackware from Educorp's library of public domain and shareware software. The disc includes a HyperCard interface for locating files. HyperTalk utilities, XCMDs, XFCNs, and games are examples of some the software on this disc. Suggested Retail Price: $59.95 Currently Available Target Markets: Consumer BABEL-ROM: The Language CD-ROM. Contains Hyperglot Software's language tutors on one CD-ROM. Learn to speak Russian, Spanish, French, German, or Japanese. The disc includes lessons on grammer and pronounciation. Suggested Retail Price: $499.00 Available March 1990 Target Markets: Home, schools, business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Facts on File (212) 683-2244 Public Domain Software on File. A collection of nearly 200 Apple II programs for beginners and advanced users. Programs offer a broad spectrum of business, personal finance, word processing, speed reading, entertainment, and home management subjects. Suggested Retail Price: $195.00 Currently Available Target Markets: Business, education, and home management Facts on File News Digest. A fully indexed, weekly compilation of national and foreign news gathered from leading United States and international news sources. The Facts on File News Digest currently covers 1980 through 1988; updates will be provided annually ($195.00 each). Suggested Retail Price: $770.00Current subscribers ($670.00Others) Currently Available Target Markets: Libraries and schools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Farallon Computing, Inc. (415) 596-9100 MediaTracks Multimedia Pack - CD-ROM Version. Contains two basic components: MediaTracks - A group of programs that allow you to record, edit, and playback any Macintosh screen activity, and combine it with graphics, sound, and HyperCard-like buttons for controlling playback and navigation within a presentation. and MacRecorder Sound System - A group of programs that let you record, edit, playback, and modify sound. The MacRecorder Sound System includes a hand-held digitizer, with a microphone and inputs for other audio sources, that lets you record sound directly into your Macintosh. In addition, the disk includes extensive on-line tutorials, example tapes made using MediaTracks, and a variety of other support materials. Suggested Retail Price: $495.00 Available 2nd calendar quarter 1990 Target Markets: Training, including interactive tutorials, product demonstrations, and on-line documentation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Grolier Electronic Publishing, Inc. 1-800-356-5590 The Electronic Encyclopedia. Based on the Grolier Academic American En-cyclopedia, The Electronic Encyclopedia contains more than 9 million words and 30,000 articles, or 90 megabytes, of information. Sophisticated indexing and cross-referencing searches are possible. Grolier also offers Online Encyclopedia, the most widely distributed on-line educational database in the world. The 1990 edition will also include hundreds of digitized illustrations and photographs. Suggested Retail Price: $395.00 Currently Available (1990 version in May) Target Markets: Education, consumer, libraries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Highlighted Data (703) 241-1180 Merriam-Websters Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary. The electronic version of this best-selling reference work features digitally recorded pronunciations of more than 160,000 entry words, as well as the full text and graphics of the print edition. Suggested Retail Price: $199.95 Currently Available Target Markets: Broad, with special emphasis on higher education Electronic Map Cabinet. Information from more than nine federal government mapping sources has been used to generate this 600-megabyte database of United States geographic information. Includes detailed city street maps for nearly 300 of the countrys largest metropolitan areas, where more than 85 percent of the nations households are located. Suggested Retail Price: $199.95 Currently Available Target Markets: Business, local and state government, and education Image Club (403) 250-1969 ArtRoom 4.0. ArtRoom contains more than 3,000 PostScript images. The ArtRoom Retriever places images in your documents using any desktop publishing program that supports PostScript. Suggested Retail Price: $999.00 Currently Available Target Markets: Advertising and desktop publishing DarkRoom. DarkRoom is a stock photo library of more than 500 professional ready-to-use photos in four categories: sports, lifestyle, business, and travel. A photo can be placed in any desktop publishing program that supports the TIFF file format. Suggested Retail Price: $399.00 Currently Available Target Market: Desktop publishing LetterPress CD ROM. Contains 613 licensed PostScript fonts. All fonts are type one and Adobe Type Manager software compatible. All fonts come with an Adobe Illustrator art file allowing unlimited potential for type based designs. Suggested Retail Price: $4999.00 Currently Available Target Markets: Desktop publishing, advertising, consumer Art & Type Vendor CD ROM. Contains 613 type one licensed PostScript fonts and twenty volumes of award winning clip art. By purchasing access keys over the phone, the user pays and has access to only those fonts that are needed. Twenty fonts and a variety of clip art are included with the initial purchase. Suggested Retail Price: $199.00 Currently Available Target Markets: Desktop publishing, advertising, consumer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . --Brian Bechtel blob@apple.com "My opinion, not Apple's"
blob@apple.com (Brian Bechtel) (04/12/90)
This is part 2 of 2. Laserscan Systems, Inc. (305) 739-7715 RealScan Real Estate Information System. RealScan provides information on all properties in selected Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas (SMSAs). Data includes ownership, property type, lot size, sale history, and mortgages, as well as detailed information on buildings (number of bedrooms and bathrooms, dimensions, and amenities). Currently available for Dade and Broward counties in Florida, RealScan will be offered to 25 other major metropolitan areas by 1990. Suggested Retail Price: $995.00 for software; updates are $275 monthly Currently Available Target Markets: Real estate brokers (commercial and high-end property), banks, government agencies, lending services (mortgage companies, banks, and so on) and lawyers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Letraset 1-800-343-TYPE Letraset Studio Line CD. Letrasets Studio Line of graphic design software for the Macintosh is a complete set of electronic tools for the design, creation, and production of print media or video materials. DesignStudio delivers a professional page layout program; ColorStudio provides true-color image manipulation or creation with access to high-end output devices; LetraStudio delivers high quality display typography and special effects with access to all the popular Macintosh typefaces; ImageStudio supports full grayscale image manipulation or creation; and FontStudio allows the creation of that special logotype from an existing font, or the invention of an entirely new one. Using CD technology, the user has the con- venience of the entire StudioLine at his fingertips. In addition with audio-visual animation, Letraset is able to deliver a compendium of information about adjacent services and products, which is vital to anyone building an electronic graphic arts studio. There is also a friendly Hypercard stack to Suggested Retail Price: TBA Available Second Quarter 1990 Target Markets: Graphic arts professionals, including creative, designers, and production artists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MacroMind, Inc. (415) 442-0200 MacroMind CD-ROM. A collection of clip animations, clip art, clip sounds, charts and black & white movies. It is designed for professionals and presenters who can use a database of animation and art for their own presentations. The disc can be viewed without the use of MacroMind Director. Suggested Retail Price: $195.00 Currently Available Target Markets: Business,education, artists, animators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Media Clip-Art, Inc. (609) 795-5993 CD-650. This disc contains 650 megabytes of color and black-and-white images that can be altered, sized, scaled, sheared, and rotated using Adobe Illustrator 88 or Aldus Freehand. The images are from a wide variety of categories such as: food and beverage, occupations, sports, technology, industry/trade, and animals. Suggested Retail Price: $495.00 Currently Available Target Markets: Business, education, desktop publishing, travel, and entertainment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Microsoft 1-800-227-6444 or (206) 882-8080 The Microsoft Office. A collection of four popular business applications on CD-ROM: Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, and Microsoft Mail. Included on the disc is the entire documentation, HyperCard navigational tools, templates, clip art and a number of third-party applications that enhance the value of The Microsoft Office. Suggested Retail Price: $949.00 Currently Available Target Market: Business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Multi-Ad Services, Inc. (309) 692-1530 ProArt Trilogy 1 CD-ROM. A CD-ROM from the ProArt Professional Art Library, this disc contains three collections of PostScript images for desktop publishing and presentation systems. The Business, Holidays, and Sports collections each contain more than 100 files, for a total of more than 300 high-quality illustrations. Suggested Retail Price: $375.00 Currently Available Target Markets: Desktop publishing and presentations, and graphic arts Ad-Builder Electronic. This product is designed for the advertising professional who needs a continuous supply of high-quality desktop graphic images and complete advertising ideas. Subscribers receive a CD-ROM every other month with seasonal ideas, headings, borders, illustrations, and so on. Suggested retail Price: $145.00 per month Currently Available Target Markets: Desktop publishing, advertising, and presentation Multi-Ad Creator. The first Macintosh application designed and created to take advantage of CD-ROM, this product combines the power and text handling capabilities of page layout software, with the graphics handling of object-oriented programs. This unique combination, with the addition of the programs own interactive abilities, has created a new program category for the layout of single-page documents and display advertisements. Suggested Retail Price: $995.00 Currently Available Target Markets: Desktop publishing, advertising, and presentations Inhouse PAL Potpourri. Contains 300 illustrations covering a variety of subjects including: animals, careers, education, food, sports, holidays, leisure, religion, hearts, flowers, and vacation. PAL can be imported into any program that accepts EPS art. Suggested Retail Price: $189.95 Currently Available Target Markets: Desktop publishing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (614) 764-6474 OCLC has long been a leader in publishing CD-ROMs for use in the library. Now, with the introduction of the Macintosh version of the access software, its line of discs becomes available to Macintosh computer users. Includes resources for science and industry, agriculture, and education (including the ERIC database). Suggested Retail Price: Prices for individual discs range from $300.00 to $2,195.00 Available Winter 1990 Target Markets: Libraries and research facilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Optical Media International (408) 395-4332 Universe of Sounds. The Universe of Sounds disc contains thousands of sound samples using DigiDesigns Sound Designer sound file format. Universe of Sounds Volume I features percussion; Volume II features musical instruments, synthesizers, and percussion samples. Suggested Retail Price: $399.00 Currently Available Target Markets: Professional music studios and audio postproduction for film and video Desktop Sounds Volume 1. Volume 1 of Desktop Sounds is a CD-ROM containing 400 digitally recorded, professional-quality sound effects, music effects, and percussion samples in the Apple Sound Resource format. The disc contains a HyperCard user interface for finding, editing, auditioning, and moving sounds into various Macintosh applications. Suggested Reatil Price: $120.00 Currently Available Target Markets: Business, desktop presentations, and education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Personal Bibliographic Software, Inc. (313) 996-1580 Pro-Cite for the Macintosh. Pro-Cite, a Macintosh bibliographic information management application, is now compatible with the Aries Systems Knowledge Finder retrieval system, allowing effortless importation of data from the MEDLINE medical databases. Suggested Retail Price: $395.00 Currently Available Target Markets: Library sciences and academic research, professors, and higher education Biblio-Link interface for Pro-Cite Records downloaded from the Aries Systems Knowldge Finder retrieval system can be put directly into a Pro-Cite database with this Pro-Cite companion product. Suggested Retail Price: $195.00 Currently Available Target Markets: Library sciences and academic research, professors, and higher education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Quantum Access, Inc. (713) 622-3211 ClubMac. This collection of public-domain software contains more than 400 megabytes of applications, files, utilities, and HyperCard stacks, as well as other useful information. Includes a resource for bulletin board services and Apple User Groups, and a Classified Ads section. Suggested Retail Price: Published quarterly at $350.00 per year; $199.00 per single copy Currently Available Target Markets: Consumer and technical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Semaphore Corporation 408-688-9200 A Quarter Million Mac Users. This disk contains over 250,000 names and addresses of Macintosh users in the United States. Over 42,000 of the records include phone numbers. The complete Mac-style interface makes full use of multiple windows, instant lookups, and scrolling through the database. Users can be located by ZIP code and address, by phone number, by personal name, or by company name. Any selection of records can be exported to custom files. Suggested Retail Price: $4900.00 Currently Available Target Markets: Vendors of Macintosh products and services Z-5. This disc contains the U.S. Postal Service national database of addresses and five-digit ZIP codes. Z-5 lists the correct name for all cities and post offices, and the correct street names and house number ranges for all cities with multiple ZIP codes for streets. Z-5 is useful for ZIP lookup and verification, comparing or merging mailing lists, and address correction. Z-5 can be shared by any number of users over a network. Suggested Retail Price: $299.00 Currently Available Target Markets: Business Irv Brechners Industry Lists. This disc contains over 27,000 names and addresses organized as ten different mailing lists: computer stores, software developers, value added resellers, consultants, laser printer users, hardware developers, distributors, mail order dealers, computer journalists, and CAD/CAM specialists. The complete Mac-style interface makes full use of multiple windows, instant lookups, and scrolling through the database. Names and addresses can be located by ZIP code and address or by company name. Any selection of records can be exported for custom mailings. Suggested Retail Price: $1900.00 Currently Available Target Markets: Business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Software Mart, Inc. (512) 346-7887 CD-ROM Developers Lab. The CD-ROM Developers Lab is a comprehensive, multimedia production reference for creating CD-ROM applications. Unlike expensive seminars, this innovative resource assembles on your desktop a fully searchable, full-text database of proven how-to information on design, programming, project management, data preparation, assembly, and the mastering process. Suggested Retail Price: $795.00 Currently Available Target Markets: Anybody thinking of developing a CD-ROM. Media-Mixer. Contains a set of subroutine libraries that allows developers to prototype and create full-text or multimedia CD-ROM databases and retrieval software. Tools are written in Turbo Pascal and Microsoft C. Some data preparation tools are UNIX-based. Licenses are available for source code usage. Suggested Retail Price: Usage licenses start at $1750.00. Source code licenses start at $3500.00. Currently Available Target Markets: Anybody thinking of developing a CD-ROM. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SuperMac Technology (408) 245-2202 PixelPaint Art CD-ROM. The disc contains PixelPaint Professional, the first true-color paint program for the Macintosh. Included on the CD-ROM are over 100 8-bit and 32-bit color images as well as a SuperCard tutorial and documentation. A slideshow program allows theusertoautomaticallyviewallthefilesontheCD ROM. Suggested Retail Price: $799.00 Available Summer 1990 Target Markets: Graphic designers, industrial designers, illustrators, archictects, fashion designers, scientific illustrators, desktop publishers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Voyager Company (213) 451-1383 Ludwig Van Beethoven, Symphony No. 9 Voyager CD Companion Series, By Robert Winter. Noted music historian, pianist and UCLA professor Robert Winter explores Beethovens Ninth Symphony, painting a vivid picture of the com-posersworld,explainingtheinnerworkingsofthe music in a lively and entertaining fashion, and ap-plying these explanations to a close reading of the work. The package contains a five-part HyperCard program plus a commercially available compact disc recording of Beethovens Ninth Symphony. First in a new series that combines the interactivity of HyperCard with a CD audio disc to provide insight into a specific piece of music, using text, graphics and audio examples taken from the CD. Suggested Retail Price: $99.95 Currently Available Target Market: Home, school,higher education, music enthusiasts The Voyager AudioStack. Create your own Beethoven-like stack using this toolkit for controlling commercial off-the-shelf CDs from HyperCard. This toolkit lets you play and precisely control any commercially available audio CD from your Macintosh. Select your favorite artist or recording, then use the toolkit with Hypercard to create your own multimedia work. Included in this package is a CD of popular show tunes to get you started. Suggested Retail Price: $99.95 Currently Available Target Markets: All Macintosh users, developers and music lovers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . UniDisc (415) 962-0577 Guinness Disc of Records 1990. The Guinness Disc of Records 1990 is a multimedia CD-ROM product based on the world's best-selling copyrighted book, the Guinness Book of Records. Published by Pergamon Compact Solution of London, England, the Guinness Disc of Records 1990 brings world records to life by using pictures, sound, and animation. Included on the disc are: 5000 comprehensive world records, all searchable; 300 color photographs; 30 minutes of sound; 25 animations. Most of the color photographs have never been seen in the U.S. The audio includes such things as the worlds fastest backward talker, talking to you right through your Macintosh. Suggested Retail Price: $125.00 Currently Available Target Markets: Education and consumer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Warner New Media (818) 955-9999 Audio Notes #1: The Magic Flute. The first in a Music Discovery series, Mozarts The Magic Flute, fills three CD-ROM discs with both HyperCard stacks and CD audio content. Roger Englander, the television producer of Bernsteins Young Peoples Concerts, provides music commentary. Includes the original German libretto and the English translation, as well as newly recorded sidebars about the music, the symbolism and opera forms. Linear play time exceeds 210 minutes. Suggested Retail Price (3 CD set): $66.00 Currently Available Target Markets: Home and education Audio Notes #2: Beethovens String Quartet No. 14. Often referred to as the greatest work of chamber music ever composed, this quartet receives the full Audio Notes series treatmenta virtual exploratorium of Beethovens work, including an audio-visual, interactive activities section on the basics of music. Suggested Retail Price: $66.00 Available Summer 1990 Target Markets: Home and education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wayzata Technology Inc. 1-800-735-7321 or (612) 460-8438 The World Factbook 1989. Called the World Almanac of the Federal Government, the CIA World Factbook is produced annually by Directorate of the Central Intelligence Agency. It includes extensive examinations of territories and countries world-wide. Socio-economic, Geo-political, demographic and other country specific data is included. The Bureau of the Census, Defense Intelligence Agency, Defense Nuclear Agency, Department of State, Department of the Interior, and the United States Coast Guard have also contributed data to the Factbook. Information in the Factbook for the U.S. and U.S. dependencies was compiled from material in the public domain and does not represent Intelligence Community estimates. Suggested Retail Price: $99.00 Currently Available Target Markets: Consumer U.S. Civics/U.S. Citizenship. The U.S. Civics Disc is designed especially for persons seeking U.S. citizenship, researching the origins of the U.S., and teaching American history. The database was acquired from the U.S. Department of Justice Immigration and Naturalization Service series known as the Federal Citizenship Instructors, Citizenship Education and Naturalization Information, United States History 1600-1987 Level I and II, U.S. Government Structure Level I and II. Suggested Retail Price: $99.00 Currently Available Target markets: Education and persons seeking U.S. citizenship Seals in the U.S. Federal Government. The Seals CD-ROM contains 588 identifying images of the U.S. Federal Government at 300 dots-per-inch in the TIFF format. A HyperCard stack provides user friendly and quick access to each image. The CD-ROM also ships with TIFF image viewing software, which allows you to view each image directly. All seals and devices contained on the Seals CD-ROM represent art on file at the Government Printing Office. The seals and devices have been approved by the departments and agencies they represent. They are subject to change at any time. Suggested Retail Price: $69.95 Currently Available Target Markets: Consumer QuickArt. Contains over 2200 crisp images at 300 dots-per-inch in the TIFF format. A HyperCard stack provides user friendly and quick access to each image. The CD-ROM also ships with TIFF software which allows you to view each image directly. QuickArt provides top quality, reproduction clarity images which are ideal for importing into your favorite page layout or desktop publishing program. Suggested Retail Price: $249.95 Currently Available Target Markets: Desktop publishing and consumer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Xiphias (213) 821-2790 Time Table of Science & Innovation. An interactive history of scientific development featuring stories from more than 6,000 important events taken from more than 50 reference works. Bibliographic citations and keyword searches are provided. This product uses Xearch, the companys proprietary HyperCard retrieval engine. Suggested Retail Price: $185.00 Currently Available Target Markets: Marketed as an encyclopedia for all age groups and as an educational tool for K-12 students, high school students and undergraduates The National Directory. A compendium of the key listings for North Americas businesses, industries, and government agencies. This disc boasts over 120,000 up-to-date listings, plus more than 80,000 fax numbers. The accompanying software can rapidly find any listing, and then auto dial via modem, auto fax via fax modem, and print mailing labels with Apple LaserWriter or ImageWriter products. Suggested Retail Price: $195.00 Currently Available Target Markets: Telemarketers, direct mail, research and general business Copyright 1990 Apple Computer, Inc. Apple, the Apple logo, HyperCard, ImageWriter, LaserWriter, and Macintosh are registered trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. AppleCD SC is a trademark of Apple Computer, Inc. PostScript is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems, Incorporated. 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