Director 8 received rave reviews when it debuted, including one from us... and though the half-step up to version 8.5 may have you thinking “maintenance upgrade,” 8.5 is anything but. 3D for the Web is a reality — if you’re...

What’s faster than a barreling tyrannosaur, more powerful than the Force, and able to render complex 3D models in a single pass? The mighty Electric Image Animation System (EIAS), of course. Now dubbed Electric Image Universe, this well-known...

CineStream was originally called EditDV from Digital Origin before Media 100 acquired it.  It would capture video through the FireWire port from a DV source.  The last version was 3.1.  That version was also available for...

Regardless of how hefty your hard drive is, you probably scramble for space whenever you burn a CD or install software, all the while wondering where those gigabytes fled. Casady & Greene’s Chaos Master helps you minimize hard drive...

Software to mount Server Message Block (SMB) shares on Windows machines. Similar to Thursby Software’s Dave. Like mosquitoes, Windows PC networks are everywhere, and eventually you may have to connect your Mac to one. Nobody can...

FileMaker has been the leading database program on the Mac platform for more than a decade, and version 5.5 continues the winning streak, adding support for Mac OS X along with a number of minor but useful improvements. If you only handle a small...

Early video digitiser More information available at digital-vision-inc

Word processing program, include Tycho TableMaker. Serial 8068354-34

Infosphere’s ComServe allows all members of an AppleTalk network to share devices connected to the modem ports of other Macs — a simple, easy-to-use, and cost-effective way to share expensive peripherals, without additional hardware or...

Cyclically moving 3D surfaces under multicoloured lights (unless weirder settings) for your webpage or desktop backgrounds, this time with optimized palettes to generate those animated GIF images. You can use one surface to define a distortion of...

For less than $900, graphics professionals can explore the world of 3-D design with a package that rivals high-end 3-D software. Infini-D. the latest entry in the burgeoning 3-D-design software arena, is a modeler, renderer, and animator that offers...

When most people think of multimedia authoring package, they think of Macromedia Director. Director is a top tool for creating interactive titles, but it isn’t the ideal program for every project. Its support for text is minimal, and you need...

Adobe ScreenReady is designed to bridge the gap between PostScript and the world of bitmaps. It’s a utility that essentially lets multimedia designers design with PostScript and then “print” to pixels, creating a PICT...

Schedule+'s most notable strength is its simplicity. Users will take to it quickly and easily. When you log in. the program's main display shows a monthly calendar, a scrolling day timer, a list of users on the network, and a notes Held....

Animation Works is an 8-bit (256 colors) cel animation application for early 90's 68K Macintoshes.  It feels complete with events, sounds, cel (sprite) bitmap editor, realtime playback preview, canvas scrolling, color palette swapping and...

FontMonger includes four built-in font alterations: small caps, inferior, superior, and slant. You can also add custom alterations such as slanted small caps. Double-clicking on a character brings up the Alter Character dialog box, which lets you...

Metamorphosis Professional is a substantial upgrade to Metamorphosis, the Mac's first font-conversion utility. This version is an industrial-strength converter, capable of convening fonts among all Mac formats. The software also produces...

MacTools is an early HFS file attribute editor and can report some drive technical DATA as well.  It has a mass find feature to search for files on your drives.  MacTools can also easily let you change the creator/type codes on...