---------------------------------- Formula Graphics Multimedia System ---------------------------------- * Bitmaps, animations, sprites, video, sound, buttons, dialogs, graphs and more. * Easy to use graphical interface with a powerful multimedia development system. * 256 color dynamic palette management makes palette handling quick and easy. * Support for 16 and 24 bit color presentations using GIF, FIF, JPEG and TGA file formats. * Five animation formats with transparency, palette management and asynchronous playback. * Convert bitmaps or animations to AVI with sound or Netscape GIF animations with transparency. * Animated 3D Studio objects and TrueType 3D titles in realtime with texture mapping. * Scrolling transparent hypertext with full topic and keyword search, and page printing. * High speed multimedia language with animated sprites and unlimited interactivity. * Install any presentation as a screen saver or play directly across the internet. * Ideal for games, corporate presentations, multimedia databases and screen savers. Formula Graphics Multimedia System ---------------------------------- Formula Graphics can be used to develop interactive multimedia slideshows and presentations. It has an easy to use graphical interface and there are no limits to the sounds, images, animations or interactivity that can be produced. Formula Graphics can be used to develop business applications that open databases and download files and other information from the internet. Information can be displayed using both hypertext and graphics. Formula Graphics has a powerful object oriented language with over 500 operators, functions and instructions. Formula Graphics has programmable 3D graphics and arcade quality sprites which can be used to develop highly animated action and adventure games. Presentations can be played from floppy disk, or cdrom, or played directly through the internet, or an intranet, or embedded in a web page or other document. They can be installed as screen savers, or even screen savers that play through the internet !. Formula Graphics has dynamic palette management and supports 8, 16, 24 or 32 bit color. It supports many bitmap and animation file formats including JPG, FIF, FLC, AVI and internet GIF animations. It can do sophisticated batch conversions between these formats. Features -------- Formula Graphics has plain, tiled or stretched background bitmaps, stretched and rotated pictures with transparency, colored text with drop shadows, Help compatible hypertext, HTML, 256 color or 16 bit color synchronous or asynchronous animations with transparency, AVI or MOV video, 3D key framed animations, 3D key framed animations, animated 3D truetype text with bevels and texture mapping, windows sound, midi and CD audio, text and picture buttons, hot areas and hot colors with unlimited interactivity. Edit boxes, list boxes, combo boxes, menus, progess bars, 2D and 3D graphs. Another key feature is the high performance object oriented multimedia language. The language has over 500 different instructions, functions and operators. It features bitmap manipulation, sprite collisions, database connectivity, 3D modeling and internet programming and can be used to give unlimited amounts of interactivity to your games and presentations. Formula Graphics is the only multimedia system that has dynamic palette management for 256 color presentations. As the presentation plays, palette colors are allocated and deallocated and images are mapped to the changing palette. Any number of bitmaps and animations with different palettes can be displayed on the same screen. 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. Animations can be made to blend subtly into the background as complex shapes rather than appearing as boring square boxes. Using Formula Graphics powerful 2D and 3D animation tools you can include 3D Studio mesh files directly into your presentation. You can also animate 3D beveled title text with texture mapping for real graphical impact. Formula Graphics games and presentations can be played as standalone executables. They can be played directly across a network or the internet. They can be installed to play as screen savers. Formula Graphics includes a customizable setup utility. Formula Graphics provides the quickest and easiest way of utilizing 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. ------------------- 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 ---------------------