The Kudo application and all the catalogues reside only on disc 6. Insert the CD into your
CD-ROM drive and type GO. Follow the installer instructions. Every time after installation
look for the Kudo Program group in Windows and run. Insert whatever disc is asked for
by Kudo.
NOTE TO PC USERS: It was not possible to put the 21.5 MB catalogue onto every CD - there
wasn't enough space. Therefore, whenever you use Kudo (only on disc 6) and wish to preview
an image (by double-clicking on that image), you will be asked to insert the correct disc (unless the desired image is on disc 6 in which case the image will be automatically displayed). BEFORE you preview another image you must FIRST put Disc 6 back into your CD-ROM drive.
Also, if you wish to preview the image in a larger format than "thumbnail" then select "image"
from the pull-down menu then select "Display Original". If you double-click on a thumbnail, Kudo will attempt to load whatever application you own and which is "associated" with a "TIF" type file. For example, Kudo may try to start up Corel's PhotoPaint, Adobe's Photoshop or Microsoft Paint. If there is no "TIF" association or the application no longer exists that used to be "associated" with TIF files, then you will be asked to look for it. Just cancel and use the "Display Original" feature described earlier.
TO BEGIN USING FOR MAC: The Fetch application is on every CD. WHILE HOLDING
DOWN THE "ALT Option" KEY, insert the desired CD (or any CD) into your CD-ROM
drive. Then double-click on the Fetch application or drag-and-drop one of the Fetch catalogues
on top of the Fetch application.
There are some incompatibilities between the old file system of earlier Mac operating systems and more recent Mac/OS versions. Holding down the "ALT Option" key while inserting the CD into your CD-ROM drive ensures that the proper file name is associated with the Fetch thumbnail image. If you do not hold down the option key while mounting the CD, you will still be able to view all the thumbnails but when you double-click on an image, you will not be able to view it in its larger format.
Productivity Cube, 6-CD Home@Office Multimedia Cube, 6-CD Home@Office World
PhotoCube, 6-CD Home@Office Clipart Cube (featuring images from SPC, makers of
Harvard Graphics), 6-CD Home@Office Document Cube, 6-CD Home@Office Business
Mgmt. Cube
Titles for MAC only:
MacSilverWareI, II & III (all discontinued), The 7-CD MacCube (Cube IV), MacAttack!
10-Pack, German-Only and French-Only Family Entertainment 5-Packs
COMPANY BACKGROUND:
Aztech New Media Corp. is a publisher of intellectual property on CD-ROM for the global
market. As of late 1995 the Company has published 47 license and royalty-free
photographic image titles, 6 commercial games titles, 5 license and royalty-free music
itles, 3 general reference titles, 36 shareware titles, 14 multi-pack collections, and a variety of custom titles for bundling purposes, including a 12-CD multilingual set. Aztech has
introduced two 10-CD-ROM software bundle packs called Publishers' Pick Blue and
Publishers' Pick Green, five 7-CD-ROM "Cube" trademarked compilations and five 4-CD-
ROM "Album" trademarked packs. Recently, Aztech introduced a 48-CD series titled The
Home@Office Suite featuring such titles as Harvard Graphics, Hutchinson Multimedia
Encyclopedia, Peter Norton's Windows 95 Tutorial, Pressworks, 1st Design, Bizforms,
Maximizer, and Xerox's TextBridge. This collection comprises everything one might need
to produce a printed item or multimedia presentation. Aztech manufactures under license
every title in every pack.
A particularly popular multi-pack targeted specifically for Macintosh owners includes such
titles as The 7th Guest, Harpoon II, and Dragon's Lair.
After producing its first few shareware titles in 1992, Aztech acquired the rights to
manufacture The Case of the Cautious Condor and Murder Makes Strange Deadfellows,
two of the world's first truly interactive, award-winning, comic book-styled murder mysteries. Aztech's most ambitious project was The PhotoPhileTM World Stock Image Library, a 31-CD set of high-resolution photographic images from 40 countries around the world, and
cross-referenced by 22 thematic categories. It was over six months in the making. The
Photophile Library was the world's first, and still is the world's largest, compilation of
annotated, printable quality, color-corrected photographic images ever offered on
CD-ROM. The Photophile Library is about 18 gigabytes (18 billion bytes) in size. The tape
backup requirements during development were about half a terabyte (0.5 trillion bytes).
Aztech's products have been well-received in the global marketplace. In lateSpring, 1994,
Aztech developed a European top-ten 12-CD collection titled, TheHome Entertainment
and Professional Multimedia Collection. In the first six weeks of introduction, over 100,000
cd's were sold from this collection. Two other titles have sold over 70,000 and 100,000
copies respectively in less than six months of each title's release. Series 1 of The Cube was
rated in the top 15 for over 5 months in 1995 on the Bestseller List of New Media
Magazine, achieving #12 in August 1995.
Aztech currently has distributors in 25 countries including Canada, the United States, the
U.K., Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Holland, Belgium, Norway, Sweden, Denmark,
Finland, Greece, Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Japan and more.
Aztech produces everything in-house that is required for its CD-ROM titles. This includes
all creative design and artwork for inserts, liners, CD labels, brochures, advertisements,
retail packaging, point-of-purchase materials and other marketing collaterals, software
development, licensing, quality control and assurance, film output, scanning, and CD-ROM
