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From: parker@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Jeff Parker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: AmigaVision scripts
Message-ID: <3987@vela.acs.oakland.edu>
Date: 25 Nov 90 03:43:06 GMT
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Reply-To: parker@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Jeff Parker)
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In article <9786@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> rmitchel@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Bob Mitchell) writes:
>Hello,
>  I recently was able to see a "real" Apple Hypercard application...
>  The program was titled Manhole or something similar.  The object was to
>  explore a universe of sorts (intended for younger children.)  The whole
>  thing took about 5 megs of disk space and was very impressive...
>  I am not sure whether I was impressed with the program, its art, sound, or
>  animation or just the reaction of the kids I saw using it...
>
>  And now here's the question...has anyone written anything at all for
>  AmigaVision that is capable of convincing someone that indeed it is
>  more powerful than any other multimedia program.  I would be seriously
>  interested in seeing some of these as the demos from Commodore while
>  helpful in teaching its use, did very little for showing off the Amiga
>  or AmigaVision.
>

Recently, my CBM Edu. Rep. showed off something by Scholastic Software. 
Yep, I said Scholastic, as in a worldwide leader in education.  It was
a very impressive history lesson on the civil war times in America. 
It used a combination of live video (I think Scholastic produced the
disk) and stills from the laser disk.  My rep said that he got the disk
from a guy in Chicago and it was the only one in the area.  It even

I'm pretty sure I saw a blurb in one of the magazines that Scholastic
will be coming out with a large number of these disks/programs.  I can't
wait. 

Jeff P.

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