New Product Announcement - Multimedia ScrapBook for Windows

Washington Computer Services announces the release of Multimedia ScrapBook,
the simplified multimedia software product for use with Microsoft Windows
3.1. ScrapBook is suited to students in primary, middle or high school and
any other people who wish to create personal multimedia while spending the
absolute minimum time learning about software. Multimedia ScrapBook was
developed by Larry Kheriaty the author of SuperLink and all previous
versions of IBM LinkWay(TM) and it maintains an overall compatibility with
SuperLink. Users of LinkWay or SuperLink will find it familiar and
comfortable since it uses the same folder, page and object structure.

Multimedia ScrapBook runs on any Windows 3.1 system with a minimum of a 386
and 2MB memory. Any standard MPC is supported, though not required. Any
printer supported by Windows can be used to print with Multimedia
ScrapBook. Multimedia ScrapBook supports any resolution display screen.

You create your own scrapbooks in Author mode by using simple icons on the
tool bar to drag and drop objects onto the page. Once you create a
scrapbook, you can display it in Show mode, which removes the authoring
tool bar and presents the scrapbook interactively. Or you can place it in
Automatic mode, which will step through the pages of the scrapbook showing
each page for a specified time interval. In either case, the presentation
can be in a window or can show full screen (without any of the Windows
stuff showing.)

Files created with ScrapBook are upward compatible with SuperLink. If you
outgrow the capabilities of ScrapBook, you can load the same files into
SuperLink and continue working, but in the more powerful environment.

Multimedia ScrapBook text handling permits the use of any font installed on
the computer with optional bold, italic, shadowed or embossed
enhancements. Text editing follows the standard Windows conventions for
use of mouse and keyboard to mark, cut, copy and paste sections of text.

Picture objects permit the use of clipped or stretched images which can be
scrolled and/or stretched in real time. Native picture formats that can be
displayed without any conversion are BMP, DIB, GIF, PCX, JPG, FIF
(fractal), Kodak Photo CD, and all LinkWay Live picture formats: PCM, PCV,
PCJ and PCZ. All pictures can be displayed on all display screens --
picture display is completely display device-independent and supports
pictures and displays up to 24-bit true color mode. Special display
effects -- wipes, fades, etc. -- can be selected to happen automatically
for the display of each page.

Button objects can be placed on the page to provide page turning, linking
to other related pages and text popup windows. Unlike SuperLink, ScrapBook
does not permit the use of script buttons.

Multimedia is supported via built in media objects for the common media
types: AVI video playback (Video for Windows), WAV audio playback, CD
audio playback, Videodisc control and video overlay (live video in a
window on the page).

Some Multimedia ScrapBook objects use resources outside the folder -- such
as pictures, WAV audio, AVI video, etc. In all cases, the resources reside
in standard file formats compatible with other Windows programs. The files
can be created/edited by any means and can be located anywhere on the
local hard drive, CD-ROM or on a network. If a scrapbook is to be
transported or published, Multimedia ScrapBook provides the Gather Files
menu command to simplify the process of bringing together all files used.

Multimedia ScrapBook is available as a single-computer license or as a site
license. The site license version is network-compatible and can be run on
any number of computers or networks within a site (defined as an area with
a one- mile diameter.)

For those who wish to publish material created with Multimedia ScrapBook,
an unlimited royalty-free runtime distribution license can be purchased
for a one-time fee. It provides the software necessary to run (but not
edit) your application on the target Windows system. It also provides a
SETUP program which will install your application on the target Windows
system (solving a messy problem for the Windows software publisher.)

Washington Computer Services provides a full range of support services
including training for Multimedia ScrapBook at your site.

Washington Computer Services
2601 North Shore Rd
Bellingham, WA 98226
206/734-8248,   FAX  206/734-4227

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