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*** Amiga Main Meeting
3-D Graphics Programs
Tuesday, May 21
7:30 p.m.
*Level: All levels
*Infoline: (617) 621-0881 --->211
*Access: MBTA, Wheelchair
Amiga artists Carlos Caicedo and James Shook demonstrate the latest
Amiga 3-D graphics programs, including Imagine, 3-D Pro, and Turbo
Silver.
*More information: Jonas Green at (617) 491-4061 after 6:00
p.m.
*Location: MIT Building E51, Room 302.
*** Amiga Open House Special Event
Hands-on Amiga
Friday, May 17
6:00 p.m.
*Level: All levels
*Infoline: (617) 621-0881 --->210
*Access: MBTA, Reservations, Wheelchair
Another Amiga Open House at the New Resource Center; another chance to
get some hands-onompiler, with Steve Krueger
*** Amiga Tech Group Meeting
Monday, May 6
7:30 p.m.
*Level: Intermediate
*Infoline: (617) 621-0881 --->212
*Access: Wheelchair
Steve Krueger, of the SASInstitute, presents the SAS/C 5.1 compiler.
*More information: Charles Stern, (617) 787-0798
*Location: Building 2 Auditorium, Draper Labs, Broadway,
Cambridge, MA.
*Directions: Kendall Square T station on the Red Line.
Amiga Video Subgroup
For more information about this group, contact Phillip Nathanson,
(617)524-3074.
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| Joint Meeting of
BCS Amiga and Hypermedia Groups
Tuesday, June 18, 1991 7:30 PM
MIT Building E-51, Room 329
Cambridge, Mass
Introducing CDTV
Gail Wellington, Director of Special Projects at Commodore
Business Machines, Inc., will introduce CDTV, Commodore's newest
product, at a joint meeting of the BCS Amiga and Hypermedia
Groups.
This unit connects to your TV and offers you remote control of
interactive presentations using ISO standard 9660 CDROMs. The
unit plays CD+Graphics and standard CD audio compact discs
using 8x oversampling. CDTV interactive titles will be
multimedia, combining audio, video, graphics and text. they will
range from adult entertainment to children's readers to games to
a full line of home reference works. About 30 titles are
available today, with 100 promised by the Christmas shopping
season.
Whether you are interested in CDTV as a potential consumer or a
potential programmer, you will want to hear Gail's description of
this exciting new product.
[Following the form feed is a press release on new CDTV features,
and directions to the meeting site. This note also posted in
LPSTCK::MULTI_MEDIA note 75.]
WEST CHESTER, PENNSYLVANIA, U.S.A., 1991 JUN 11 (NB) -- Commodore
International has announced new features for its CDTV multimedia
computer that improve the device's video capabilities. The
company also said it would extend CDTV's availability.
One new feature, CDXL, will let developers display video images
from a CD-ROM disk on screen. Limited to images covering about
one third of the screen because of the amount of data that must
be transferred, CDXL is an interim solution until the Motion
Picture Expert Group (MPEG) standard is completed.
Commodore spokesman David Rosen told Newsbytes no additional
hardware or software is needed to use CDXL. Software developers
simply need specifications from Commodore to know how it works,
he said.
CDXL can display about 12 frames per second, or half what is
normally used for full-motion video.
CDTV-PIP allows a standard video image from an outside source,
such as a television feed or video cassette recorder, to be
displayed simultaneously with a running CDTV application.
CDTV-PIP will require a plug-in video card that replaces the
current video card but requires no software upgrade. It is
expected to be available early next year, Rosen said.
Commodore announced plans to make CDTV compatible with Kodak's
new Photo CD system. Photo CDs, planned for June 1992
introduction, can store up to 100 35-millimeter photographic
images on writable CD- ROM discs. Consumers will be able to
insert the Photo CD discs into the CDTV player and view their
high-resolution photographs on standard TV sets, Commodore said.
Commodore also said it would make CDTV available in a number of
additional U.S. centers and in France, Germany, and Italy during
June. CDTV was launched in five U.S. cities and in the United
Kingdom and Canada in May.
(Grant Buckler/19910610/Press Contact: David Rosen, Commodore,
215-344-3040)
Directions to meeting site:
Note: Department of Transporation Building has been unavailable
due to the recent war. No word yet on when BCS Amiga will return
there.
To MIT, Building E-51, for General Group Meetings:
By car, west on Memorial Drive from Longfellow Bridge to
Wadsworth St. (first street on your right); turn right. The
building on your left is E-51; entrance to the parking lot at the
rear is from Amherst St., the first left on Wadsworth. The rear
entrances are on the 100 level.
By MBTA Red Line Subway, from the Kendall Square station, exit to
Main St. Go east to Hayward St. or Wadsworth St. and turn right.
Amherst St. is the first left from Hayward or first right from
Wadsworth, and E-51 is the building on the corner of Wadsworth
and Amherst.
MBTA parking is available at Alewife station on Rte. 2, and
several places on the Orange Line near Rte. 93.
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