---------------------------------- Formula Graphics Multimedia System ---------------------------------- Description ----------- Formula Graphics Multimedia System will bring your artwork, sounds and animations together to create highly interactive multimedia titles. The system was designed to simplify the task of authoring on a production level, to allow the creative content of a presentation to be as rich as possible, and to make it possible to achieve an unlimited amount of interactivity. It takes the finished artwork and animations from graphics packages such as Photoshop and Animator Studio, or from image libraries and sound recordings, and it presents this information in ways which give the best possible result for any Windows PC. Formula Graphics is very quick and easy to use. It can be used by anyone in the home, office or classroom to create very professional looking games and presentations. Features -------- Presentation system ------------------- Formula Graphics can be used to produce any type of multimedia presentation. Presentations are divided into screens and screens can be made up of any elements such as bitmaps, buttons, animations, hypertext and sounds. High speed, high performance graphics ------------------------------------- Formula Graphics presentations can be 256 colors or 24 bit color. All the latest video technology is used and the system automatically adapts to any hardware. Formula Graphics knows how to get the best performance out of your computer. Dynamic palette management -------------------------- Formula Graphics dynamically manages palette colors during 256 color presentations. Any number of backgrounds, pictures and animations with different palettes can be displayed at the same time. Interactivity ------------- Formula Graphics presentations and games can have an unlimited amount of interactivity. Buttons and hot areas can be clicked to display new bitmaps or screens. Variables can be assigned with numbers and strings and these can be tested to change the state of the presentation. Object oriented language ------------------------ Formula Graphics has a high performance, object oriented language. This language supports dialog controls, file management, operating system functions, printing, database connectivity and arcade style game action. Formula Graphics has all the power to explore the limits of multimedia. More Features ------------- Formula Graphics is the only multimedia system that has dynamic palette management for 256 color presentations. As the presentation plays, palette colors are automatically allocated and deallocated so that one long stream of ever changing colors can be shown. As each picture is shown on the screen, its colors are instantaneously remapped. Even animations are remapped frame by frame as they are being played. Animation is the strongest feature of Formula Graphics. The system handles five animation file formats and four styles of playback, as well as Video for Windows. It has powerful animation processing, including programmable editing. Animations can be made to blend subtly into the background as complex shapes rather than appearing as boring square boxes. Another key feature of the system is its high performance object oriented language. Similar to Basic and C and highly focused towards multimedia, this language can be used to give your presentations an unlimited amount of functionality. It can be also used to write fully animated sprite based games. Formula Graphics provides the quickest and easiest way of harnessing all of the multimedia power that the Windows operating system has to offer. It is so simple to use and yet it places no limits on the author's creativity. No other package has found such an effective solution to multimedia authoring. Applications ------------ * CDROM titles - everything you need to produce top quality multimedia titles. * Multimedia training - educate the workforce with hypertext and animated graphics. * Sales presentations - build a non stop animated demonstration to sell your product. * Multimedia databases - The power to process and display database information. * Action and adventure games - with infinite amounts of interactivity. * Screen savers - design your own screen saver. ------------------- Harrow Software P/L ------------------- GPO Box 1722 Sydney NSW 2001 Australia Australia phone: 02 9967 4033 International phone: 612 9967 4033 International fax: (612) 810 2077 World Wide Web: http://www.harrow.com.au/formula http://www.magna.com.au/~formula Email: formula@magna.com.au March 1996 ---------------------