Authoring Languages and Programs
Authoring Software Under $1000
Authoring Software Under $1000 is a database of over 30 authoring tools with comparison of all main features.Apple Media Tool (AMT)
The Apple Media Tool allows users to assemble media elements and add interactive features without writing any code. It uses object-based authoring, for rapid creation of prototypes using rough-draft media elements. The Tool allows you to author on Macintosh and simultaneously deliver projects on Macintosh and Windows systems.Authorware
Authorware is a leading cross-platform development tool for computer based training featuring a icon-menu based development environment. This page contains information on Authorware and especially the discussion list AWARE.Digital Chisel
Author your own multimedia lessons with just a few clicks of your mouse Now accelerated for the Power Macintosh, this exciting new release allows teachers and students to create presentations, storybooks, lessons, reports, or interactive CD-ROM titles with point-and-click ease. This MacUser Editor's Choice award-winning program (Best New Multimedia Software of 1994) features paint and draw tools, QuickTime movies, text-to-speech, animation, question templates, and an integrated database.Director
Advertised as "the most powerful tool for multimedia production", Director is well known behind the scenes of numerous commercial titles. The Director Web includes demos. Director, a FAQ, XObjects for downloading as well as a searchable collection of tips posted by members of the Direct-L listserv.HyperPlus
ObjectPlus is the developer of HyperPlus which translates HyperCard 2.1 stacks to run on PC's using WinPlus. This does not include the resource fork which contains XCMDs, XFCNs, etc (except for icons which are converted). The HyperPlus tool reads HyperCard stacks and writes them as WinPlus stacks on a PC running Windows 3.1.HyperStudio
Our PHILOSOPHY is STUDENT-CENTERED, because students learn by doing! Our APPROACH is CONSTRUCTIVIST, because students learn best when they create meaning using multimedia tools! Our SOFTWARE adopts a MINIMALIST DESIGN, because keeping things simple helps people learn. Our LANGUAGE is NON-TECHNICAL, because we want people to spend their time using our product, not figuring it out.IconAuthor
IconAuthor lets you access all of the application features that you need in a CD-ROM or local area network over the Internet. IconAuthor delivers all of the bells and whistles required for a great user interface. Your Internet application will have all of the features provided by the desktop operating system including dialog boxes, list boxes, combo-boxes, and pull-down menus. IconAuthor even provides an interface to allow you to access databases over the Internet.Klik & Create
Take the spark of innovative genius which lit up game creator Klik & Play; apply it to the huge scope of multimedia and you have Klik & Create - the latest product to be announced by Europress Software. Like its predecessor, Klik & Create is an Anglo/French collaboration with the brilliance of Gallic programmers François Lionet and Yves Lamoureux, backed by Europress Software's UK development team. At its core is the same powerful engine which launched Klik & Play to international success. Klik & Create puts the boundless opportunities of multimedia creation into the hands of amateur and professional users alike, allowing them to produce a wide variety of multimedia programs for business, leisure and education.MediaLink
MediaLink is a hypermedia authoring tool that allows users to develop their own multimedia lessons by assembling a variety of text materials, sound files, digitized photos, or QuickTime movies. MediaLink currently runs on the Macintosh, but will be available for Windows in the first quarter of1996.MetaCard
MetaCard is a multimedia authoring tool and GUI development environment for Unix/X11 workstations. Using MetaCard is the easiest way to build Motif applications, Computer Based Training (CBT), on-line documentation, and a wide variety of other products.mTropolis
This new authoring tool sports a graphic development environment for quickly creating cross-platform products using object-oriented programming. Currently feared for the high-end professional, early reports suggest that the decrease in development time offsets the high cost of the software.Multimedia ToolBook
Asymetrix Multimedia ToolBook provides all the tools you need to easily and quickly integrate hypermedia text, graphics, animation, sound, digital video and audio into your applications. Multimedia ToolBook provides a powerful authoring system that is recognized as the easiest to learn and use for real-world multimedia developers. The Toolbook User's Web (also has a European mirror server) is a reference for Toolbook developers.Oracle Media Objects
Oracle Media Objects is a new tool similar in metaphor to HyperCard, but with hooks and a future for Oracle's plans of distributing multimedia via CD-ROM and networks. For a limited time, you can download a full working version.PowerProduction Software
Interactive Production Software for...Multimedia...Film...Video...and the World Wide Web. Digital Box Office The powerful and easy-to-use multimedia authoring tool for creative interactive designers and producers. From first-time creatives to experienced desktop producers, Digital Box Office makes it easy to author your multi-media project. All the power with no programming language! Announcing a New Product from PowerProduction Software webburst. Add Multimedia to Your Web Page with the Power of Java Without Grinding Any Code.Quest
Quest for Windows is designed for developers at all levels. All multimedia tasks that are frequently used are available at the entry level. Developers work from WYSIWYG displays and floating toolbars to assemble graphics, text, audio, video motion, buttons and animations, or to set up branching and interactions. Novices can design and create dynamic titles and courses with Quest. At the same time, skilled experts will not be inhibited, either. All the power of "C" programming code is embedded in the system.Question Mark
Question Mark is a program that allows you to use a computer to write, deliver and analyze tests, surveys and study guides. You enter your questions into any computer (PC or Mac) and individuals answer them on-line. Questions might be delivered via floppy disk, a local area network, email or the World Wide Web. Question Mark then marks and analyzes the answers for you with full confidentiality.RAD PowerMedia
PowerMedia is a new open systems client/server multimedia authoring tool that allows delivery over the Internet, client/server corporate networks, and CD-ROM across all major computing platforms - Windows, Windows NT, and Macintosh desktop computers and Sun, Hewlett-Packard and Silicon Graphics workstations and servers.SuperCard
From Allegiant Technologies, "SuperCard allows you to author application media with the look-and-feel of either a HyperCard stack, a Director animation, a standard multi-windowed Macintosh application, or something completely new." And still "coming soon" is the Windows version.
| Allegiant announces ROADSTER, their flexible delivery environment for the World Wide Web. It looks like Macromedia are going to have some competition for Shockwave! |
Australian SuperCard Group
This group is a 'virtual' organisation for people interested in multimedia development and SuperCard in particular. This site is intended to allow multimedia developers to find each other, to find resources and to be able to seek help in solving problems. The site was established in November of 1995 and is located at Curtin University of Technology in Perth, Western Australia.Visual Basic
Among a list of other resources, this page features Ask Dr. VB!, which allows the Visual Basic users on the Net to get answers to questions about Visual Basic.Others
AuthorBase
AuthorBase is a database of authoring systems. These software tools are "programmerless" environments for creating interactive multimedia and computer-based education and training programs.AuthorBase is a collaborative project of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the U.S. Army Research Institute (ARI). The underlying search engine birx is the command line interface to the irx text retrieval system, provided by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine.