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- Company Profile
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- Aztech New Media Corp. is a leading publisher of intellectual property on CD-
- ROM for the global market. As of early 1995 the Company has published 17
- shareware titles, 47 license and royalty-free photographic image titles, 6
- commercial games titles, 5 license and royalty-free music titles, 3 general
- reference titles and a variety of custom titles for bundling purposes,
- including a 12-CD multilingual set. After producing its first few shareware
- titles, Aztech acquired the rights to manufacture The Case of the Cautious
- Condor and Murder Makes Strange Deadfellows, two of the world's first truly
- interactive, award-winning, comic book-styled murder mysteries.
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- Aztech's most ambitious project was The World PhotoPhileTM Stock Image
- Library, a 31-CD set of high-resolution photographic images from 40 countries
- around the world, and cross-referenced by 22 thematic categories. It was over
- six months in the making. The World Photophile was the world's first, and
- still is the world's largest, compilation of annotated, printable quality,
- color-corrected photographic images ever offered on CD-ROM. The World
- Photophile Collection is about 18 gigabytes (18 billion bytes) in size. The
- tape backup requirements during development was about half a terabyte
- (0.5 trillion bytes).
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- In addition to The World Photophile Library, Aztech also offers Visual
- RhythmsTM, Abstract Graphics and Backgrounds, Gems, Fashion-Advertising-and-
- Lifestyles I and II, Jurassic Dinosaur, a product line Sampler (#3), Textures
- and Backgrounds, Floral TapestryTM, African HeritageTM, African Traditional
- Peoples, NASA SpaceViewsTM I & II, Ghost Images & WatermarksTM, Geological
- MicrophotographyTM, and Underwater RealmsTM image libraries. Shareware
- titles include The Complete Office Automation System, Windows MasterBlendTM
- I, MegawareTM, DOS MasterBlendTM, Super Shareware Games, Incredible Game
- Pack, MacSilverWareTM I, II and III, and the top-selling 7-CD Home
- Entertainment Shareware CollectionTM. Commercial game offerings include
- ImagiSOFT's Entertainment EmporiumTM, MVP's Most Valuable ProgramsTM,
- The Perfect GeneralTM and The Lost AdmiralTM, which are all Aztech-
- exclusive game compilations. Music titles include The Music Works!TM I and
- II, Nature CallsTM I and II, and The Sound FX Works!TM.
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- Aztech's products have been well-received in the global marketplace. In late
- Spring, 1994, Aztech developed a European top-ten 12-CD collection titled, The
- Home Entertainment and Professional Multimedia Collection. In the first six
- weeks of introduction, over 100,000 cd's were sold from this collection. A second
- game collection has sold over 100,000 copies in less than six months.
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- Aztech produces everything in-house that is required for its CD-ROM titles.
- This includes all creative design and artwork for inserts, liners, CD
- labels, brochures, advertisements, retail packaging, point-of-purchase
- materials and other marketing collaterals, software development, licensing,
- quality control and assurance, film output, scanning, and CD-ROM pre-
- mastering. Aztech utilizes its own Optronics drum scanner, various flatbed
- scanners, a Kodak Prophecy color-correction system (with Aztech's own
- proprietary, custom color-calibration tables), various image setters and
- film developers, a powerful, optimized inhouse Ethernet backbone that inter-
- connects all output devices with the Apple Quadra's and 80486/66 development
- workstations, and several CD-ROM pre-mastering systems with both inhouse
- developed applications and the latest available pre-mastering applications
- the industry has to offer.
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