William Hart, publisher of MACazine, the nation's largest independently owned Macintosh magazine, announced the formation of STAX!, Inc. today. "The new company is a logical extension of our core business—bringing infor mation to Macintosh users. HyperCard gives us a unique new way to publish. I'm very excited about it."
Bob LeVitus, editor-in-chief of MACazine, and C.E.O. of STAX! says: "This is a wonderful opportunity for us. We have tremendous belief in HyperCard. It gives us the chance to publish information that helps Macintosh owners in a format that's totally Mac-like. And, with CD ROM just around the corner, I think we're just seeing the tip of the HyperCard iceberg now. Publishing in formation in the HyperCard format is going to be a huge industry. We intend to be a major player."
STAX! first 3 products will be:
The Macintosh Bible: HyperCard Edition™
The book The Macintosh Bible is widely regarded as the best and most in formative book ever written about using a Macintosh. Peter Lewis, of the New York Times, says the book is "Like having a Macintosh expert at your side whenever you need one." The HyperCard Edition takes it one step further and puts that Macintosh expert right inside your Mac!
The Macintosh Bible: HyperCard Edition is a three-disk set of the best hints, tips, shortcuts and Mac info the paper edition has to offer...archived electronically for fast and easy access. In addition to answering a wide variety of Mac questions, the HyperCard Edition incorporates updates more efficiently than paper databases, allows you to create new records based on your own Mac know-how and even lets you expand upon its existing data. Innovative implementations of the HyperCard "find" command and multiple, cross-referenced indices work together to help you search effectively for information by title, subject, and/or class--then go to the item or series of items you seek at the click of your mouse. The uncluttered and friendly user interface keep all the complicated interrelationships of the data behind the scenes and make the HyperCard version of The Macintosh Bible one of the easiest-to-navigate stacks in the business.
A copy of the 420 page book, and a 48 page illustrated reference manual are included with each three disk package. The suggested retail price of The Macintosh Bible: HyperCard Edition is $69.95.
HyperCard Helper™
HyperCard Helper is a three disk set of hints, tips, buttons, scripts, and stacks that make using HyperCard more fun than ever...just as Hamburger Helper makes eating ground round a treat! There's no need to reinvent the wheel every time you build a stack. Just bring on HyperCard Helper where dozens of canned scripts are waiting to help you with sorting, finding, indexing, special effects, import/export tasks and animation routines to create screen motion and rhythm to name just a few choice functions available from our smorgasbord of generic scripts that are yours for the pasting.
A 48 page illustrated reference manual is included with each three disk pack age. The suggested retail price of HyperCard Helper is $49.95.
HyperCard Sound Effects Studio™
HyperCard Sound Effects Studio combines a SoundCap to SND converter, a pitch and speed modifier, a sound library and database, an automatic sound in serter (for putting sounds in stacks without ResEdit) and over 100 professionally recorded sound effects.
The sound range from high tech mechanical (such as the sound of film advancing in a camera) to a wide variety of background music (both original and classical); from human and animal sounds (including crowds, monster, and traffic noises) to the sounds of nature (found in woods, seashore and sky). In addition, the Studio comes with a whole phantasmagoria of category defying tones, notes, twitters, peals, hums, squeaks, jangles, bellows, and booms that no self respecting sound effects engineer can live without.
A 48 page illustrated reference manual is included with each three disk package. The suggested retail price of HyperCard Sound Effects Studio is $49.95.
All STAX! products come with an unconditional 30 day money back guarantee. Each product has extensive on line help and most scripts are annotated to provide a better understanding of the techniques we used. STAX! products are not copy protected in any way.
STAX! products will be available through retail software sales channels, mail order vendors, and direct from STAX!.
The products will be released on April 1, 1988. If you'd like to participate in our ßeta testing program, please contact:
