NEWS

For Immediate Release

For more information:
EMAIL: info@stone.com
TEL: Katie Graunke, (505) 345-4800
http://www.stone.com/pr/STONE_CD_3_SHIPS.html
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                 STONE DESIGN Ships the STONE CD volume 3

ALBUQUERQUE, NM,  March 4, 1996 - Stone Design today shipped the
STONE_CD v3 for NEXTSTEP.

Andrew Stone, CEO of Stone Design said, "Besides containing the
latest versions of DataPhile, Create and 3DReality, this is a very
special CDROM. We have reintroduced Andreas Glocker's CheckSum as
StoneWare. This CD is destined to become a classic. As we enter
our eighth year shipping NEXTSTEP software, we celebrate the NEXTSTEP
community with this CD."

The CD includes the Stone Explorer application which makes navigating
the CD simple and exciting.

Highlights of the STONE CD include:

StoneWare:
    *  DataPhile 3.1 - the premier Database manager for NEXTSTEP
    *  CheckSum 2.0 - basic accounting made easy
    *  Create 3.1 - most powerful drawing and layout package for NS
    *  3DReality 2.1 - the easy 3D modeling and rendering program
    *  Stone_Order - get quotes and place orders via EMAIL
       with this handy app

StoneFun:
    *  Stone Rave Pictorial Archive - over a 100 full screen TIFFs
       of the last three Stone parties
    *  Time Wave Zero for NEXTSTEP - an application for understanding
       the fractal nature of time
    *  Bear's Choice - What's cool in the NEXTSTEP community

STONE Partners Apps & Objects:
    *  MiscKit 1.7.1 - Source and binary to the NEXTSTEP community's
       collaborative object library effort, your host Don Yacktman!
    *  Netsurfer - the most powerful Internet browser available
       on any platform
    *  Mesa - demo of Athena Design's excellent spreadsheet

3D Rendering
    *  Blue Moon Renderer - Larry Gritz's rendering tools;
         an alternate rendering engine
    *  Musgrave Shaders - more excellent shaders for your collection
    *  Wave's World - the latest version of Michael B. Johnson's
         rendering and animation package, including binary, source,
         and a treatise on the architecture of WW

Icons & Fonts:
    *  Chinese font - Jackson LTD's public domain KaiSu-Regular font
    *  Icons - hundreds and hundreds of icons from Tim Reed's
         next-icon@gun.com mailing list

The price for the STONE CD is just $15 - every cent of which is
refundable on your next software purchase from Stone.
Also available is the commemorative Stone Design Tshirt - a 100%
black cotton shirt featuring the Stone Seal on the front, and the
"StoneWorker" hammering away on the back. These are available for
$15 each while they last, and for a limited time, you can get both
the CD and the tshirt for $22.

To find out more about Stone Design, visit our WWW site:

         http://www.stone.com/

To reach a human, please call 505-345-4800 between 9am and 5pm
Mountain Standard Time.

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Stone Design Corporation of Albuquerque, New Mexico, founded in
1984, develops a variety of productivity applications for NEXTSTEP.
3D Reality, DataPhile, and Create are trademarks of Stone Design
Corporation. The Stone Design logotype is copyright Stone Design
1994. All other brand names mentioned are trademarks or registered
trademarks of their respective owners.