Xref: utzoo comp.sys.mac:15499 rec.games.misc:2073 Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!accelerator.eng.ohio-state.edu!czei From: czei@accelerator.eng.ohio-state.edu (Michael S. Czeiszperger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,rec.games.misc Subject: Re: DarkCastle on a CD? Message-ID: <160@accelerator.eng.ohio-state.edu> Date: 29 Apr 88 20:48:56 GMT References: <158@accelerator.eng.ohio-state.edu> <28186@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> Reply-To: czei@accelerator.eng.ohio-state.edu (Michael S. Czeiszperger) Organization: The Ohio State University Dept of Electrical Engineering Lines: 59 In article <28186@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> jellinghaus-robert@yale.UUCP writes: >In article <158@accelerator.eng.ohio-state.edu> czei@accelerator.eng.ohio-state.edu (Michael S. Czeiszperger) writes: >>Has anyone seen the new magazine HyperMedia? It had an article > >I THINK SO TOO!!! Which is why your posting is incredibly frustrating! >WHO is doing this porting??? WHO is being hired??? WHAT hardware will >be needed to run it??? WHERE can I buy a CD-I player??? WHEN will >it be available??!?!!! And HOW MUCH WILL IT COST!!!!!!! > >Ah, the agony of the rumor mill... > Ok, Ok. HyperMedia magazine is a special publication of Mix Magazine that was published for one issue this summer. It is available from Mix Magazine, whom I expect would tell you more information if you called their office at (415) 653-3307. I say "expect" because I havn't called them; after all, I have my own copy. As for the compact disk interactive Dark Castle..... The company's name is American Interactive Media, a joint Philips/PolyGram venture chartered to promote the production and marketing of CD-I in the United States. (I know because I was trying to find work coding CD-I authoring systems. No luck so far..) Their reasoning in choosing Dark Castle for a first project was simple: "If Dark Castle is that exciting on the Mac, just think what it will look and sound like with full-color visuals and high-fidelity audio". The people creating the CD-I disk are: 1. Larry Lowe - Program designer 2. Jesse Silver - Visual production 3. Dwight Marcus - Music composition/sound effects 4. Jonathan Gay - Programming (original author of Dark Castle) The first CD-I disk was demonstrated at Microsoft's third CD-ROM conference in Seattle. Commercial CD-I players probably will be manufacted by the fall of this year, with sales to the public starting in summer 1989. I don't think anyone's got a CD-I player fully designed yet, and in fact, I don't think any manufactures have even started to look into it. The first CD-I drivers should cost about as much as CD-ROM drives, which are running about $800-$2000. Once production runs are started for CD-I I can't see why the cost wouldn't go down a bit. Although no-one has ever seen a CD-I player, it most likely will look just like a regular CD player, and will play regular audio CD's. The differences are the CD-I player will probably have an RCA or video plug on the back to hook up your TV, as well as someplace to plug in a mouse. Other modes of input are unknown at this time. These aren't rumors. I've talked to Larry Lowe personally, albiet a year ago, and now firsthand that AIM does exist and is promoting CD-I media projects. They are taking great steps to see that HyperMedia and CD-I do not go the way of the videodisk. -- Michael S. Czeiszperger | "The only good composer is a dead composer" Systems Analyst | Snail: 2015 Neil Avenue (614) The Ohio State University | Columbus, OH 43210 292- cbosgd!osu-cis!accelerator!czei | czei@accelerator.eng.ohio-state.edu 0161