New SuperCard 3.0 announced.SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 30, 1996-- Allegiant's award-winning multimedia authoring tool now Internet-enabled, with a completely revised, easy-to-use interface Allegiant Technologies Inc. (OTC OTC See: Over-the-counter. OTC See over-the-counter market (OTC). :ALGT) (VcSE:AGH AGH Akademia Gorniczo-Hutnicza AGH Allegheny General Hospital (Pittsburgh, PA, USA) AGH Alpena General Hospital (Michigan) AGH Helsingborg, Sweden - Angelholm/Helsingborg (Airport Code) ) Wednesday announced SuperCard 3.0, a powerful new upgrade to its award-winning multimedia authoring tool. Scheduled to ship within the next 30 days, SuperCard 3.0 includes an all-new, easier-to-use interface and fully integrated support for Allegiant's Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. plug-in, Roadster. "With this release, we are responding to two key audiences: new users who are attracted to SuperCard because of its power, flexibility and value, and our installed customers, who are attracted by the unlimited potential of delivering their SuperCard content on the Web using our Roadster plug-in," explained Stuart Henigson, Allegiant's vice president of marketing. To make the product more approachable, SuperCard 3.0 features the Project Editor, a single editor that combines the functionality of a project overview and object-by-object editing. Key features of the new interface include: -- ClickScript, which automates the generation of thousands of common scripts through its "point-and-click" interface -- Property Inspector, for changing standard properties of objects, including size and position -- New Tools and Colors palettes for faster object creation -- Project Browser, for organizing primary elements of projects such as windows, menus and resources -- Completely rewritten documentation, including a new Script Language See scripting language. Guide -- delivered both on paper and on-line -- that represents the most comprehensive guide ever produced for a HyperTalk-based language "In addition to the gains in ease of use, the breadth of features in SuperCard 3.0 make it the most powerful and efficient multimedia authoring software for anyone creating media-rich Internet applications, training courseware, content titles or custom applications," added Sean Baird, product manager for SuperCard 3.0. Among the new multimedia and application development features in SuperCard 3.0 are: -- User-defined properties -- Visual effects within objects -- Support for URLs for all reference media, to facilitate "one-click" Web deployment -- Continuous sound playback -- Powerful extensions to SuperCard's ability to display external media, including enhancements that increase performance, reduce memory and permit graphics to be displayed within any polygon graphic -- Color icons -- FIle format support for GIF GIF in full Graphics Interchange Format Standard computer file format for graphic images. GIF files use data compression to reduce the file size. The original version of the format was developed by CompuServe in 1987. , JPEG JPEG in full Joint Photographic Experts Group Standard computer file format for storing graphic images in a compressed form for general use. JPEG images are compressed using a mathematical algorithm. , BMP (1) (BitMaP) Also known as a "bump" file, it is the native, bitmapped graphics format in Windows. A BMP can be saved in several color options: 1-, 4-, 8- and 24-bit color provide 2, 16, 256 and 16,000,000 colors respectively. BMP files use the .BMP or . and ART-compressed graphics -- Dozens of new script language enhancements Integrated Web Authoring with Roadster SuperCard 3.0 also breaks new ground by completely integrating a Web development environment within a major multimedia authoring tool. Users can select whether a new document will be deployed on the Web with Roadster, on the desktop or both. For Roadster projects, the SuperCard 3.0 environment provides a browser emulation mode An operational state of a computer when it is running a foreign program under emulation. for design and debugging, including the ability to simulate various modem speeds, as well as automatic creation of an HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. document to embed the project. Allegiant Roadster is an Internet Browser See Web browser. plug-in that Allegiant has been publicly testing for several months on its Web site at http://www.allegiant.com. Roadster lets developers deliver truly interactive multimedia applications within popular Web browsers The following is a list of web browsers. Historical Historically important browsers In order of release:
That multimedia power is augmented with unique script control over media pre-loading and caching -- for maximizing Internet bandwidth and providing more complete control over a viewer's Web experience. "There's never been a more versatile tool for building compelling Web sites and applications than SuperCard 3.0. With an easier-to-use, more efficient Project Editor, brand-new documentation and the ability to deliver projects with Roadster, we're reaching out to customers who have only dreamed of this kind of power in an affordable authoring system," Henigson said. Pricing and Availability The company plans to ship SuperCard 3.0 in the fourth quarter of this year. The upgrade price from all previous versions will be $99.95. The estimated selling price for SuperCard 3.0 will be $329, with educational pricing of $129.95. Customers who purchase SuperCard 2.5 after November 1, 1996, will be entitled to a free upgrade. Site licenses and Educational Lab Packs are available. About Allegiant Allegiant Technologies develops and markets innovative multimedia, Internet and application development software that empowers people to interactively educate, entertain, and present and manage information. CONTACT: Allegiant Technologies Inc., San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. Kevin La Rue, 619/587-0500, ext. 106 info@allegiant.com |
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