He also reminded me of the company I couldn't think of before. It's General Magic. A number of the HyperHeads were part of that aborted, ahead-of-its-time effort. He says the Danger HipTop "is a great reallization of what Gewneral Magic was starting to do many years ago." Have to check that out.
Dan
On May 19, 2005, at 9:45 PM, Chipp Walters wrote:
Richard Gaskin wrote:
One last bit of trivia:
Today the world's most popular multimedia authoring system is Flash, and while we know it as a Macromedia product it was actually an acquisition.
Who originally produced it?
FutureSplash, a company owned by Charlie Jackson.
And in fact, FutureSplash was called 'SmartSketch' even earlier. The same programmers who wrote SuperPaint, which was sold to Aldus along with SuperCard, Super3D and Digital Darkroom, (and the rest of Charlie's Silicon Beach companies products) also wrote FutureSplash.
PS: in the early '90s a magazine premiered called "New Media" -- anyone here have the first two issues?
Perhpas. We were awarded the New Media Award of Excellence that very first year for our SuperCard project "MarsBook", a 3d walkthrough of a Mars Habitat we designed for NASA and Johnson Space Center.
Interesting story, I was asked to come to San Jose to pick-up the award and told to wear a tuxedo. Of course, no self-respecting Apple type would be caught dead in a tux, but I did go there. It was amazing, like the Oscars for Multimedia. They had TV cameras, red carpet, teleprompters, and around 4000 people -- and me the only one in jeans;-).
Someone was going to a lot of trouble to make sure 'multimedia' was the next big thing. I think there were only 8 Awards of Excellence given, and we were proud to have gotten one of the first. My good friend Dan Backus, wrote 'ADAM' a medical dissection multimedia project in SuperCard, and he won the covetted 'Best of Show.' For a number of years after, the Invision Awards were among the most elite awards in Multimedia-- though it never exceeded the hype and production of that first year.
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