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- What's In That Box? - III was created
- entirely with Computer Magic, the $99.95
- multipurpose creation package. Would you
- like to know more about Computer Magic?
-
- You can use Computer Magic to create your
- own super-professional teaching tutorials,
- catalogs, technical presentations, electronic
- books, graphical user interfaces (GUI),
- retail software, shareware, BBS greeting
- cards, disk-based shows, computer-based
- training (CBT) and freeform databases, which
- will run on any standard IBM-compatible
- computer. Create your own images or use
- scanned pictures or clip art from a variety
- of sources. You can also create your own
- sounds or use "clip sounds."
-
- Built-in features include: complete
- drawing program, simple word processor to
- create text in any font and any color, sound
- effects library, melody composition and
- digitized speech through the ordinary PC
- speaker, Sound Blaster and other sound card
- support, resolutions from 2-Color CGA through
- 256-color VGA, .GIF and .PCX file display and
- creation, ASCII-Vector-Graphics (store up to
- 100 pictures on a single 360k floppy),
- special effects such as fades and "lava
- flow," grid and coordinate display for
- precise drawing creation, super-imposing,
- layering, combining files, hook executable
- programs and batch files into multimedia
- presentations, display scrollable text files
- of unlimited size within any picture in any
- font and color, and much more! Even create
- full multimedia multiple-choice tests and
- on-screen picture puzzles.
-
- Computer Magic comes with a royalty-free,
- multi-faceted run-time program called
- CMSHOW.EXE, with which end users can view
- your presentation screen by screen, forward,
- backward or randomly, and even search for any
- word or phrase within your presentation, or
- via hyperlinks, in which users can point to
- anything on screen with mouse-driven or
- arrow-key driven pointer and be taken to any
- location within your presentation.
-
- How can we do it all for $99.95? Here
- are the answers: You are not paying for TV or
- magazine advertisements. Computer Magic is an
- efficient, fully self-contained package, with
- a complete disk-based owner's manual.
- And, we ship everything immediately via first
- class mail, so no cost is wasted in excess
- warehousing/order processing. You're paying
- for pure state-of-the-art programming, not
- advertising and packaging.
-
- Computer Magic is a complete integrated
- creation environment using the latest WYSIWYG
- (What You See Is What You Get) technology. It
- is so easy-to-use that you can start making
- your own great products the first day you
- own it. To get your copy, send $99.95 plus
- shipping in US funds to:
-
- Gary R. Smith
- OEC Systems
- 4646 North Shallowford Road
- Atlanta, GA 30338-6304
-
- For fastest service, call or fax:
-
- Request catalog or
- place orders only: 800-444-2424
- Phone: 404-394-1000
- Fax: 404-394-1006
-
- Visa or MasterCard accepted
-
- Postage is just $4.00 in the U.S. and
- Canada, $10.00 anywhere else in the world!
- Normally shipped on 3.5" high-density disks,
- let us know if you need different disk type.
-
- Computer Magic requires CGA, Hercules, EGA
- or VGA graphics, 640k RAM and hard disk.
- Supported but NOT required are mouse, sound
- card and color monitor. Computer Magic works
- fine on laptop computers.
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- Real-Life Computer Magic Applications:
-
- Bill Davis of Baton Rouge, Louisiana
- markets Spanish language courses and
- electronic travel guides he creates with
- Computer Magic.
-
- Christopher Parks, with Information
- Innovations headquartered in Carson City,
- Nevada, creates instructional Electronic
- Reports for different businesses. His
- company created a report for the American's
- With Disabilities Act (ADA) and how
- businesses can comply with it and an
- electronic brochure for a temporary
- help agency.
-
- Don Crabill is an investment advisor.
- His CM-developed products help train his
- clients and others on trading strategies
- using computers.
-
- Frank Camper directs a small group of
- computer-literate writers in the
- production of books on disk. His group
- is currently making local phone book
- disks and computer operation tutorials
- for county government and education use.
- Frank has written novels which have been
- published by Dell Publishing, Manor Books
- and Delta Press. He recently completed a
- novel which he is reserving for electronic
- release.
-
- Herb Heller, owner of Portsmouth Trading
- Company in Hampton, New Hampshire, markets
- gourmet food via an on-line catalog on
- services such as Compu-Serve and Prodigy.
-
- Paul Scime, a high school electronics teacher
- in Orlando, Florida, used Computer Magic to
- develop the instructional software programs
- "Aerospace and Flight," "Introduction to
- Electronics," and "The Student Financial
- Aid Guide."
-
- Willis Sherman is an inventor in Schiller
- Park, Illinois. He creates computer
- presentations that demonstrate his
- inventions to prospective investors
- and manufacturers.
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- Technical Specifications
- Computer Magic
- (subject to change)
-
- Main creation program:
- CM.EXE - size 368k
-
- Royalty-free runtime engine:
- CMSHOW.EXE - size 49k
-
- Total size with all files:
- approximately 2000k (2 megabytes)
-
- Video Modes supported:
- CGA 640 x 200 x 2-color
- CGA 320 x 200 x 4-color
- EGA 640 x 200 x 16-color
- EGA 640 x 350 x 16-color
- Hercules 720 x 348 x 2-color
- VGA 640 x 480 x 2-color
- VGA 640 x 480 x 16-color
- VGA 320 x 200 x 256-color
- XGA 320 x 240 x 256-color*
- XGA 320 x 400 x 256-color*
- XGA 320 x 480 x 256-color*
- SVGA 640 x 400 x 256-color
- SVGA 800 x 600 x 16-color
- SVGA 800 x 600 x 256-color
-
- *XGA runs on ordinary VGA systems!
-
- Drawing tools provided:
- Lines
- Dotted lines
- Freehand
- Rectangles
- Filled Boxes
- Circles
- Ellipses
- Arcs
- Triangles
- Pixel Editing
- Fill
- Spraypaint
- Layer
- Zoom
- Change format (AVG to PCX, GIF, etc)
- Flip block
- Copy block
- Move block
- Erase block
- Animate block
- Change palette Color
- Change contrast, brightness, hue
- save/import portions of GIF or PCX images
- Regular Text
- Centered Titles
- Block Text Import
- Live Text
- FlexiFont
- Fill Page
- Menu of Special Effects
-
- Fonts Provided: 40
-
- Special Effects:
- Fade Out
- Fade In
- Granular Fade
- Slant
- Diamonds
- Expansion
- Expanding Box
- Swipe
- Open Curtains
- Close Curtains
- Roller Shade
- Roller Replace
- Large Blocks
- Small Blocks
- Rainbow
- 1-Color Slide
- 4-Color Slide
- Nova
- Lava Flow
- Fingers
-
- Sound systems:
- PC speaker sound effects library
- PC speaker melody composition
- PC speaker digitized speech
- (2 systems included, 800k speech provided)
- Sound Cards: All brands supported
-
- Requirements: 640k RAM, hard disk,
- any standard graphics system
-
- Options (not required, but supported):
- Mouse, Color, MS-Windows, EMS, XMS,
- Sound card.
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- Special Built-In Features:
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- Hyper-Link - Present an on-screen arrow,
- movable with mouse or arrow/number keys,
- that the user can move to anything in
- picture (icon, text, etc) and be taken to
- any place in your presentation.
-
- Live Text - Any standard ASCII text file can
- be displayed within any picture in any font
- or color, and it will scroll with mouse or
- arrow keys, including search, print and
- auto-scroll functions.
-
- ASCII-Vector-Graphics, so you can edit exact
- locations of objects within your pictures,
- or the pitch and duration of sounds, or
- modify animations, etc;
-
- Presentation mode - which gives the end user
- menu bar from which to advance to next
- screen, or back up, or GOTO, or search for
- specific word or phrase.
-
- Automode - for un-attended, self-running
- presentations.
-
- Puzzle - make any on-screen image into a
- memorable picture puzzle which end users
- can reassemble with mouse or arrow key.
-
- Multiple-choice/True-false test creation. 1
- to 100 questions. Records students' scores
- in encrypted file on disk. Allows honest,
- un-attended study. Optionally link
- presentations to each answer, offering
- remedial information for incorrect answers,
- or rewarding students for correct answers.
-
- Intelligence - You can create presentations
- which react intelligently to users' input
- typed in plain language at keyboard.
-
- Help & Documentation: On-line help with [F1]
- key, plus 227k of text files on disk
- callable from within main program.
- Adjustable context-sensitive automated
- help level (1-100). Also, optional hint
- bar at top of screen during many functions.
-
- Images: Import or create .PCX in all
- graphics modes, .GIF in 16 and 256 color
- modes, full or partial-screen size.
- ASCII-Vector-Graphics.
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