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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.


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