This book provides a variety of professionals with a look in to what other companies are doing with multimedia. It provides actual examples of real systems, developed by companies for a variety of purposes. Through these examples, readers will discover how multimedia titles have been developed for use in sales, training, education, entertainment, and referencing. The book focuses on the IBM-PC compatible platform, although some titles developed for the Macintosh are also included. The accompanying CD-ROM contains examples of the titles profiled in the book as well as demo versions of software used to develop multimedia titles. The book: contains interviews with some of the major corporations developing multimedia such as Microsoft Corporation and Broderbund's Living Books, as well as small companies whose first efforts have won major awards; covers products such as Microsoft's Dinosaurs and Encarta, A.D.A.M. software, and Twain's World; and discusses the guidelines - creative, development and marketing - that should prove to be valuable to any multimedia developer.
The CD-ROM contains demo versions of the titles profiled in the interviews, as well as various multimedia development software discussed in the book.
- ISBN10 012705250X
- ISBN13 9780127052502
- Publish Date July 1995
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 21 November 2009
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
- Imprint Academic Press Inc
- Pages 300
- Language English