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Reply-to:     siebert@cs.tu-berlin.de (Steffen Siebert)
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Released: Alternative Movie Database for OS/2
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I'm proud to announce the availability of the Alternative Movie Database
for
OS/2, Version 1.04.

The Alternative Movie Database is a front-end for the Internet Movie
Database
(IMDb) and provides fast and easy local access to the IMDb. It consists
of
several command-line tools for creating and querying the database. A
more
comfortable way to query the database is the also supplied graphical
user
interface for OS/2 Presentation Manager.

The whole package is free software and released under the GNU General
Public
License.

I've uploaded the Alternative Movie Database 1.04 as amd1_04a.zip and
amd1_04b.zip to HOBBES.

The most recent version of the Alternative Movie Database can always be
found
on the following ftp-servers:

  ftp://uiarchive.cso.uiuc.edu/pub/info/imdb/tools/os2/       (USA, main
site)
  ftp://gatekeeper.digital.com.au/pub/imdb/tools/os2/        
(Australia)
  ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de//pub/misc/movies/database/tools/os2/ (Germany)
  ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/culture/tv+film/database/tools/os2/  (Finland)
  ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/tv+movies/imdb/tools/os2/            (Sweden)

The IMDb Movie-Lists, which are needed for the Alternative Movie
Database to
create the database, are also available on these ftp-servers.

For more information on the IMDb, look at it's hompage:
http://www.imdb.com

Visit my homepage at http://www.cs.tu-berlin.de/~siebert for information
about
other OS/2 programs written by me.

If you have no idea, what the IMDb is, here some facts about it:

The Internet Movie Database is an international organization whose
objective
is to provide useful and up to date movie information *freely* available
on-line, across as many systems and platforms as possible. It currently
covers
over 65,000 movies with over 900,000 filmography entries and is
expanding
continuously.

The database includes filmographies for actors, directors, writers,
composers,
cinematographers, editors, production designers, costume designers,
producers
and a miscellaneous catch all section; plot summaries; character names;
movie
ratings; year of release; running times; movie trivia; quotes; goofs;
soundtracks; personal trivia; alternative names; certificates; color
information; country of production; genres; production companies; sound
mix;
reference literature; filming locations; sequel/remake information;
release
dates; advertising tag lines; detailed technical data; alternative
versions;
laserdisc availability; and Academy Award information.

The database aims to capture any and all information associated with
movies
from across the world, starting with the earliest cinema, going through
to the
very latest releases and even movies still in production. Many thousands
of
movies are covered completely from the major actors to the minor bit
players
and crew members. All the information comes from the users of the
database so
please continue to support it and help it to grow. The database is
updated
weekly and is available over the world wide web, an e-mail interface or
for
local installation on Unix, Amiga and MS-DOS machines.

In its five year history the IMDb has grown from a small informal
project to a
major Internet resource. The WWW interface to the database is one of the
most
popular and well-known sites of any class on the web. It is frequently
cited
as a model for how to create and organise a major web site and has
received
numerous awards and honours over the years.

--
Steffen Siebert
siebert@cs.tu-berlin.de