NewMedia Magazine's May Highlights: Windows 95: Can It Beat the Mac at Multimedia?; Passage to Vietnam and Star Trek: The Next Generation CDs Are Awesome; New Bestseller CDs: Interactive Encyclopedia '95, Learn to Speak Spanish 4.0, and NASCAR Racing.SAN MATEO San Mateo (săn mətā`ō), city (1990 pop. 85,486), San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1894. It is a commercial and retail center with some high-technology manufacturing. San Mateo, Spanish for St. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 11, 1995--Is Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. 95 a Mac clone See Macintosh clone. or a Mac killer? NewMedia Magazine's intrepid Technical Editor Tim Tully and Multimedia Lab Assistant Michael Lynch Michael Lynch or Mike Lynch may mean or refer to:
"Window 95 shows advanced functionality," said Tully. After years of sneering sneer n. 1. A scornful facial expression characterized by a slight raising of one corner of the upper lip. 2. A contemptuous facial expression, sound, or statement. v. at proponents of the Macintosh, Windows 95 is clearly influenced by the Mac's System 7, offering a lot of tools that Macintosh users have enjoyed for years--The thorny Program Manager is replaced by a clean desktop and new icons. You can drag icons into and out of any window, move them to the Recycle Bin Starting with Windows 95, a simulated garbage can used for deleting files and folders. The recycle bin keeps the files intact in case the user wants to restore them, but can be "emptied" from time to time to save disk space. (the Windows 95 trash can In the Macintosh, a simulated garbage can used for deleting files and folders. The trash can keeps the files intact in case the user wants to restore them, but can be "emptied" from time to time to save disk space. ), change an icon's name just by clicking and typing up to 255 characters. "When you do get to the multimedia part of Windows 95, things get even better, though the promised land still lies over the horizon," Tully added. Windows 95 has been geared up to become the platform for all the various new media out there, from sound and motion "multimedia" to on-line networks, e-mail and fax as well. Whatever the ship date, Windows 95 is quite appealing, concludes Phil Hood, editor of NewMedia Magazine. The product is supposed to ship in August, but some 200,000 users will get to drive the final beta of the system software starting this month. "The product test is designed to overcome the enormous bug potential, but may also be brilliant marketing," said Hood. AWESOME And THUMBS UP Awards Every issue of NewMedia Magazine contains comparative reviews and ratings of multimedia software and CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). titles based on the test criteria of the NewMedia Lab and industry experts. There are five user-friendly ratings icons -- DORKY dork n. 1. Slang A stupid, inept, or foolish person: "the stupid antics of America's favorite teen-age cartoon dorks" Joshua Mooney. 2. , NEEDS WORK, DOES THE JOB, THUMBS UP and AWESOME. May's AWESOME and THUMBS UP awards are: -0- AWESOME Company Title
Against All Odds Productions Passage to Vietnam
Gold Disk Astound 2.0 for Windows
Headbone Interactive AlphaBonk Farm
Macromedia Action 3.0 for Windows
Schreiber Instruments Inc. IPAS Disk 6 and IPAS Disk 7 for
Autodesk 3D Studio
Simon & Schuster Star Trek: The Next Generation
THUMBS UP Company Title Autodesk 3D Studio Gold Disk Astound 1.01 for Macintosh Grolier Electronic Publishing Wyatt Earp's Old West Lotus Development Corporation Freelance Graphics 2.1 Macromedia Action 1.0.4 for Macintosh Maxis Coral Reef! Philips Interactive Media Litil Divil Software Publishing Harvard Graphics 2.1 Virtus Corporation Virtus WalkThrough 2.0-0- Note to Editors: Passage to Vietnam also received a Gold INVISION Award, an Award of Excellence and named Best of Show at the 1995 NewMedia INVISION Awards held at COMDEX/Spring in Atlanta. The NewMedia INVISION Awards honor excellence, creativity and innovation in multimedia applications. It is the premier recognition for multimedia applications in the industry. NewMedia Magazine's CD-ROM BESTSELLERS Also this month, check out NewMedia's BESTSELLER list of CD-ROM titles, compiled exclusively for NewMedia Magazine by G. Meier Inc. (Numbers in parentheses See parenthesis. parentheses - See left parenthesis, right parenthesis. indicate previous month's position.) -0-
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Month Month
1 1 Myst Broderbund (Mac/Win)
2 5 Encarta '95 Microsoft (Win)
3 8 DoomII: Hell on Earth Id/GT Software (DOS)
4 4 Lion King Animated Storybook
Disney Interactive Inc. (Win)
5 12 X-WING Collectors CD Lucas Arts (DOS)
6 6 Wing Commander III: Heart of the Tiger
EA/Origin (DOS)
7 - The 7th Guest Virgin Interactive (Mac/Win)
8 - Interactive Encyclopedia '95
Compton's NewMedia (Mac/Win)
9 7 Street Atlas USA 2.0 Delorme Mapping (Mac/Win)
10 - Learn to Speak Spanish 4.0
Learning Co/Hyperglot (Mac/Win)
11 - D!Zone Collectors Edition Wizard Works (DOS)
12 - NASCAR Racing Virgin (DOS)
13 - Microsoft Cinemania '95 Microsoft (Mac/Win)
14 - SimCity 2000 Maxis (DOS)
15 - Magic Carpet Electronic Arts (DOS)-0-
This chart is based on sales information for January 1995 and supplied by the following software industry sources: 800-Software ABCO ABCO Angelo Brothers Company Distributors, American Software, Ameriquest, Babbages, Baker & Taylor Software, CompUSA, Computability, Computer Discount Warehouse, ComputerWare, Egghead Discount Software, Electronics Boutique Electronics Boutique is an international computer and video games retailer, established as an American company in 1977 by James Kim with a single, electronics-focused kiosk, located in a suburban Philadelphia mall in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. , Gate/FA, GTSI GTSI Government Technology Services, Incorporated GTSI Greyhound Travel Services, Inc. (former subsidiary of Greyhound Lines) GTSI Government Technology Services Inc. , Ingram-Micro, Josha Distributing, Kenfil, Liuski International, MaxMedia/Mr. CD-ROM, Merisel, Multiple Zones, Navarre Corp., PC Connection, Software Spectrum, Software Etc., Tech Data and Waldensoftware. (This list does not include sales data for application, utility or clip art A set of canned images used to illustrate word processing and desktop publishing documents. CD-ROMs.) -0- Note to Editors: Phil Hood, editor of NewMedia Magazine, and Tim Tully, technical editor and principal designer of the NewMedia Lab, NewMedia's multimedia production and testing facility, are available for interviews. Please call Joyce Covington, 415/573-5170 x254. CONTACT: NewMedia Magazine Joyce Covington or Blythe Egan, 415/573-5170 ext.254 |
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