Aztech's "Home Entertainment Collection" shareware series features the following titles: Arcade Games Vol. 1 34 games incl: Raptor, Blake Stone, Duke Nuk'em 1 & 2, Wolfenstein 3D, Secret Agent, Scud Attack, etc. Arcade Games Vol. 2 33 games incl: Doom, Halloween Harry, OverKill, Sango Fighter, 3D Tetris, Perestroika, etc. Strategy Games 52 games incl: Oxyd, Risk, Global War, Oil Cap, Wallpipe, Stelcon, Lemmings demo, Sherlock, etc. Adventure Games 28 games incl: BioMenace, Xargon, Dark Ages, Dragons Visual Star Trek, Crusher Castle, Vampyr, Raku, etc. Casino/Card/Puzzles 46 games incl: various poker, mahjong, various solitaire, Uno, Mille Bournes, Gin Rummy, etc. Simulations 29 games incl: F117 demo, Patriot Command, Scorch2, Lob Wars, Monopoly, Sorry, Crime Lab, Skiing, etc. Childrens' Games 30 games incl: Young Picasso, Elf Land, New Clock, Math Rescue, Talking Teacher, Talk ABC, Mario, etc. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Other quality license and royalty-free stock image libraries, shareware compilations and other quality products available from Aztech New Media include: =============================================== The WorldBankTM Overview (Print-Ready Version) =============================================== The WorldBank Personal Stock Image Library (printable version) is the world's first and largest, most comprehensive, annotated collection of hard- to-get, royalty- and license-free high-resolution, color-corrected, color- separated, printable quality photo images ever offered on 24 CD-ROM discs for Macintosh and Windows. The WorldBank is ideally suited to graphic artists and designers, corporate communications/media departments, desktop publishers, educators, printers, pre-press firms, and multimedia producers. They can add incredible impact to any presentation, brochure, advertisement, marketing literature, business card, product packaging, POP displays, editorials, manuals, etc. with the unsurpassed quality content of this collection. Images range from lineups in Russia and rare South American museum artifacts to Easter Island monuments and Japanese panoramas. This beautiful and exotic collection is widely recognized as one of the finest values for photo images in the global market. F E A T U R E S Over 3,000 hard-to-find photo images from around the world in one massive collection: Argentina, Aruba, Australia, Bahamas, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Costa Rica, Cuba, Denmark, Easter Island, Egypt, England, Finland, France, Greece, Holland, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Macau, Malaysia, Mexico, Peru, Philippines, Russia, St. Kitts, St. Lucia, Singapore, Scotland, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, and United States Included in this collection is Aldus Corporation's FetchTM for the Mac and Pixfolio for Windows on the PC. Both programs are mixed-media cataloguing, browsing and retrieval tools, which allow you to quickly browse through a visual gallery or textual list of all files or find just the images you want by specifying keywords, file types, filenames or volumes. All the images are annotated with short descriptions identifying the subject content and/or the location. All the images are cross-referenced by 22 major categories/themes. Some images may apply to more than one category. The number of images per category are: Cities 75 Animals 141 Food 38 People 488 Backgrnd./Texture83 Plants 186 Sports 84 Ruins 485 Artifacts 147 Panoramas 225 Buildings 959 Mood Shots 80 Icons, Great 82 Transportation 127 South America 319 North America 570 Europe 755 Pacific Rim 555 Asia 333 Middle East 291 Relics 146 Religion 358 South Atlantic 315 All images are in uncompressed TIFF format using the universal ISO 9660 standard for CD-ROM. This permits any CD-ROM disc in the WorldBank Collection to be read by Macintosh or MS-DOS-compatible computers and many Unix platforms. It also means all these images are also importable by almost all image-handling applications available in those same computing environments. The 24 CD's are divided into two editions. Edition 1 has the first half of the images (1,500 or so, countries Argentina through first half of Hong Kong) and edition 2 has the second half (second half of Hong Kong through United States). Each image is 32-bit, CMYK (ie. already color- separated), color-corrected, uncompressed TIFF, 300 dpi giving a 150 line screen. The WorldBank is packaged in handsome protective CD wallets. The developer of the wallet states the liner of each pocket in the wallet is comprised of a patented material that lifts minute particles away from the CD each time it is placed into the pocket, thus providing a measure of added protection for each CD. The Collection is also accompanied by six 40" x 28" full-color posters which have been further color-categorized so that individual images appear on the posters in the same order they appear on each color-coded CD - all to maximize easy reference. =============================================== The WorldBankTM Overview (Multimedia Version) =============================================== The WorldBank Personal Stock Image Library (multimedia version) is the world's first and largest, most comprehensive, annotated collection of hard- to-get, royalty- and license-free, computer screen-resolution, photo images ever offered on 6 CD-ROM discs for Macintosh and Windows. The WorldBank is ideally suited to graphic artists and designers, corporate communications/media departments, desktop publishers, educators, printers, pre-press firms, and multimedia producers. They can add incredible impact to any presentation, brochure, advertisement, marketing literature, business card, product packaging, POP displays, editorials, manuals, etc. with the unsurpassed quality content of this collection. Images range from lineups in Russia and rare South American museum artifacts to Easter Island monuments and Japanese panoramas. This beautiful and exotic collection is widely recognized as one of the finest values for photo images in the global market. F E A T U R E S Over 3,000 hard-to-find photo images from around the world in one massive collection: Argentina, Aruba, Australia, Bahamas, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Costa Rica, Cuba, Denmark, Easter Island, Egypt, England, Finland, France, Greece, Holland, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Macau, Malaysia, Mexico, Peru, Philippines, Russia, St. Kitts, St. Lucia, Singapore, Scotland, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, and United States Included in this collection is Aldus Corporation's FetchTM for the Mac and Pixfolio for Windows on the PC. Both programs are mixed-media cataloguing, browsing and retrieval tools, which allow you to quickly browse through a visual gallery or textual list of all files or find just the images you want by specifying keywords, file types, filenames or volumes. All the images are annotated with short descriptions identifying the subject content and/or the location. All the images are cross-referenced by 22 major categories/themes. Some images may apply to more than one category. The number of images per category are: Cities 75 Animals 141 Food 38 People 488 Backgrnd./Texture83 Plants 186 Sports 84 Ruins 485 Artifacts 147 Panoramas 225 Buildings 959 Mood Shots 80 Icons, Great 82 Transportation 127 South America 319 North America 570 Europe 755 Pacific Rim 555 Asia 333 Middle East 291 Relics 146 Religion 358 South Atlantic 315 All images are in uncompressed TIFF format using the universal ISO 9660 standard for CD-ROM. This permits any CD-ROM disc in the WorldBank Collection to be read by Macintosh or MS-DOS-compatible computers and many Unix platforms. It also means all these images are also importable by almost all image-handling applications available in those same computing environments. All the images on the 6 CD's are 24-bit RGB, uncompressed TIFF, 72 dpi (standard 640x480). The WorldBank is packaged in handsome protective CD wallets. The developer of the wallet states the liner of each pocket in the wallet is comprised of a patented material that lifts minute particles away from the CD each time it is placed into the pocket, thus providing a measure of added protection for each CD. The Collection is also accompanied by six 40" x 28" full-color posters which have been further color-categorized so that individual images appear on the posters in the same order they appear on each color-coded CD - all to maximize easy reference. =============================================== The WorldBankTM Overview (Sampler) =============================================== The WorldBank Sampler contains the "thumbnail" images of the more than 3,000 photo images from The WorldBank Personal Stock Image Library. It is regularly updated to also include the thumbnail catalogues of all of Aztech's other image collections as they become available. This same Sampler disc works on Macintosh, DOS and most Unix platforms. The WorldBank is the most comprehensive annotated collection of hard-to-get, license- and royalty-free, low-res. multimedia, and high-res. color- corrected, color-separated, printable quality photo images ever offered on CD-ROM. Over 40 countries are represented, ranging from line-ups in Russia and rare South American museum artifacts to Easter Island monuments and Japanese panoramas. All the images are cross-referenced and keyword searchable by 22 major themes. Features of this Sampler: 3,000 viewable, annotated, thumbnail images, keyword selectable Aldus Corp.'s browser version of the mixed-media cataloguing tool, Fetch for the Macintosh Full license image manager Pixfolio for DOS Windows incl: .AVI and PhotoCDTM support Operates on Macintosh, DOS and most Unix platforms 25 license- and royalty-free images are included on this disc in lo-res multimedia and high-res printable formats The thumbnail images and catalogs for various other Aztech license and royalty-free collections including Underwater Realms, Floral Tapestry, Abstract & Graphic Backgrounds, Visual Rhythms, Jurassic Dinosaur, Gems, Fashion/Advertising/Lifestyle I & II, African Peoples, African Cultural Mosaic, Glamour I & II, Magnificent Marbles, and more. Technical Details: No hard disk requirements, min. 4MB RAM Lo-res: 72 dpi, 24-bit RGB, uncompressed TIFF, avg. 1.1 MB each Hi-res: 300 dpi, 32-bit CMYK uncompressed TIFF giving 150 line screen, avg. 5.5 MB each (Fashion I & II, Glamour I & II average 10 MB each) ISO 9660 standard CD-ROM Countries: Argentina, Aruba, Australia, Bahamas, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Costa Rica, Cuba, Denmark, Easter Island, Egypt, England, Finland, France, Greece, Holland, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Macau, Malaysia, Mexico, Peru, Philippines, Russia, St. Kitts, St. Lucia, Singapore, Scotland, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, and United States Categories: Cities 75 Animals 141 Food 38 People 488 Backgrnd./Texture83 Plants 186 Sports 84 Ruins 485 Artifacts 147 Panoramas 225 Buildings 959 Mood Shots 80 Icons, Great 82 Transportation 127 South America 319 North America 570 Europe 755 Pacific Rim 555 Asia 333 Middle East 291 Relics 146 Religion 358 South Atlantic 315 ================================================== Aztech's Photographic Image Collections' Overview ================================================== Aztech offers a variety of photographic image collections. Each CD contains either 50 or 100 license and royalty-free photographic images by professional photographers from around the world. The images may be used for any purpose, whether for video display, print media broadcast, or otherwise, and whether for commercial or personal use, as often as you wish, with no further license fees or royalties payable except where the primary value of the product you are creating is the images themselves. The images on this collection are subject to the terms and conditions of Aztech's License Agreement. A single-user, non-exclusive license is granted to the purchaser on the condition that the purchaser understands and agrees that this license does not permit the purchaser to re-sell, distribute or provide to others, in whole or in part, the images in any form, where the primary value of the product or service the purchaser is providing, is the images themselves. The user is encouraged to contact Aztech for a copy of the license agreement or to discuss any other questions concerning this license. The purchaser further agrees not to use any image in this Collection in any work that is of an immoral, scandalous, controversial, political, derogatory, obscene or offensive nature. The images may also be morph'd or modified as you see fit, subject to the condition that the image is not used in an immoral way (please see our license for more complete details). Add realism and impact to marketing collaterals, slide shows, video presentations, exhibit designs, point-of-purchase displays, advertisements, packaging, editorials, brochures, newsletters, multimedia projects, etc. All these images may be imported by almost all image handling applications available on Macintoshes, DOS PC's, and many Unix platforms. The images are on an ISO 9660 disc in two resolutions on the same disc: (a) 32-bit non-compressed, color-corrected, color-separated (CMYK), 300 dpi TIFF format giving a 150 line screen (avg. over 5-10 MB each), and (b) 24-bit non-compressed, RGB, 72 dpi TIFF (avg. 1.2 MB each). ============================================================ Aztech's Photo Image Collections' Descriptions ============================================================ Aztech's FASHION, ADVERTISING and LIFESTYLE I Collection features 100 stunning license and Royalty-free* female and male model photo images created by world-class fashion photographer Joaquin Compta. He has worked in the fashion districts around the world including New York, Japan, Spain, Montreal and Toronto. The models in all 100 of these hard-to-find images, are all fully released. This collection is available only as a 2-CD set of non-compressed TIFF images, with both low and high-resolution versions on the same disc set. _________________________________________________________________________ Aztech's FASHION, ADVERTISING and LIFESTYLE II Collection is a sequel the highly successful FAL I and features a further 50 fully-released license and royalty-free* female and male model photo images. These were also created by world-class fashion photographer Joaquin Compta. Like the first collection, this CD also features a variety of full body and head shots of models reflecting current and traditional themes in fashion, advertising and lifestyles. This is accomplished with the models photographed in a variety of different settings with a diverse range of clothing and props. This collection is available as a single CD of non-compressed TIFF images, with both low and high-resolution versions on the same disc set. __________________________________________________________________________ Aztech's VISUAL RHYTHMStm Collection features 100 rare and unusual license and royalty-free* photo images by top professional photographer Paul Smith. These 100 unique images focus on content of a repetitious nature: a string of boats, a bed of roses, bamboo poles, panes of glass, stone brick patterns, etc. The images serve a variety of graphic design functions including backgrounds, textures, thematic scenes, and individual component objects. This collection is available as a single Kodak PhotoCD format disc or in a 2-CD set of low and high-resolution, non-compressed TIFF format. __________________________________________________________________________ Aztech's ABSTRACT AND GRAPHIC BACKGROUNDS Collection features 100 license and royalty-free* photo images by top professional photographer Paul Smith. These 100 unique images are a combination of original conceptual perspectives and graphic art as seen through the lens of Paul Smith's camera. The content is designed to induce a variety of atmospheres and represent metaphorical characteristics in abstract and interesting ways including ethereal, turbulence, whimsical, strength, impact, progressive, birth, mystical, decisive, practical, etc. Aside from their mood-setting qualities, these images may also serve other graphic design functions including backgrounds, textures, thematic scenes, and individual component objects. This collection is available as a single Kodak PhotoCD format disc or in a 2-CD set of low and high-resolution, non-compressed TIFF format. _________________________________________________________________________ Aztech's GEMS AND SEMI-PRECIOUS STONES Collection features 100 license and royalty-free* photo images by photographer Al Copley. Mr. Copley has visited many museums and galleries to provide these hand-picked images of precious and semi-precious gemstones including the diamond, ruby, quartz, amethyst, agate and many others. All the images are annotated with their respective technical names. This collection is available as a single CD of non-compressed TIFF images, with both low and high-resolution versions on the same disc. _________________________________________________________________________ Aztech's JURASSIC DINOSAURtm Collection features 100 license and royalty- free* photo images by photographer Al Copley. The images are of dinosaur skeletons and other paraphernalia and are all briefly annotated including Tyrannosaurus, Pentaceratops, Triceratops, Allosaurus, dinosaur eggs and tracks, a dinosaur evolution chart, and much more. This collection is available as a single CD of non-compressed TIFF images, with both low and high-resolution versions on the same disc. _________________________________________________________________________ Aztech's UNDERWATER REALMStm Collection features 100 license and royalty- free* by expert underwater photographer Joel Auerbach. The images range from exotic, multicolored fish and other animal life, to incredible coral formations, underwater lighting effects, and shipwrecks. This collection is available as a single CD of non-compressed TIFF images, with both low and high-resolution versions on the same disc. _________________________________________________________________________ Aztech's FLORAL TAPESTRYtm Collection features 100 license and royalty- free* by photographer Douglas Guthrie. This collection comprises a mixture of tight shots and background settings of some of the world's more exotic wild flowers including the Rose, Daffodil, Iris, Daisy and many more. Each image is briefly annotated with its technical latin name. This collection is available as a single CD of non-compressed TIFF images, with both low and high-resolution versions on the same disc. _________________________________________________________________________ Due for release soon is the first of Aztech's extensions to The WorldBank. These first two CD's, to be titled, " African Peoples" and "African Cultural Mosaic" features photographs from 16 different African countries. This collection captures the amazing diversification of this vast continent. Included is a leopard lounging in a tree, hippos mud bathing, elephants walking under a pillar-based hotel, natives with spectacularly stretched lips, native artifacts, panoramic views, and much more. Atzech is adding new titles to its product suite monthly. Call or fax (see end of this file) Aztech New Media for the lastest listing and descriptions. ========================================================================== Aztech's Shareware Collections' Overview ========================================================================== All of Aztech's shareware collections are designed with quality, simplicity and elegance in mind. All the applications in our Point-Click-RunTM Collections are hand-picked, virus-checked and accompanied by a "runme.bat" file so that the user does not need to know the name of the executable program. Each application is uncompressed and in a separate directory, which comes in handy (along with the runme.bat file) when a user wants to copy a specific application to give to a friend. We employ a friendly, mouse-driven menu program so that every application is accessible with the click of a mouse or the push of a keyboard letter. Many of the applications run directly from the CD so that little or no hard disk space is required. the menu program itself executes directly from the CD and requires only 4KB of temporary hard disk space while running. Benefits to the customer include: . No system crashes from bad programs . Little hard disk space required . No decompressing of files . No figuring out which programs to run . Hand-picked applications guaranteed to provide great value . Every application works . Easy to copy and provide to friends ============================================ Aztech's Shareware Collections' Descriptions ============================================ Azech's Best of the Best VGA/EGA SHAREWARE GAMES, VOL. I comprises about 172 commercial-quality shareware games of every conceivable kind; children's games, educational, mind games, strategy, board games, adventure, arcade, card and casino games. Included are such titles as Wolfenstein 3D, Duke Nuke'm, Secret Agent, Scrabble, Galactix, coloring books, Bananoid, Crimelab, Dark Ages, Jill of the Jungle, Kung Fu Louie, Joust VGA, Oilcap 6, Megatron, pinball, roulette, jigsaw puzzles, Wheel of Fortune, Lobwars, Blockout, various Tetris-like games, various poker and casino games, and much more. Requires a 286 PC (most of these games will run on a 286) or better with a CD-ROM drive properly installed for MS-DOS and EGA or better. This CD-ROM title is for DOS (excluding Windows) only. __________________________________________________________________________ Azech's Best of the Best VGA/EGA SHAREWARE GAMES VOL. II is the long-awaited sequel to the highly-successful original VGA Games I. Like the original, this collection features the very best in shareware entertainment and includes over 150 arcade games, puzzles, board and table games, role playing, strategy, sports and word fun games. Games on this disc include: Doom, Blake Stone, Duke Nuk'em II, Xargon, Oxyd, Halloween Harry, Sango Fighter, Aquanoid, Earth Invasion, Bumpy's Fantasy, Galactic Battle, Two Bit Poker, Patience Abroad, Kosynka, Balloon Challenge, Connex, Robix, Wallpipe, Chess Magic, Warships, Yahwho, 4 Queens, and much, much more. Requires a 386 PC or better with a CD-ROM drive properly installed for MS-DOS and EGA or better. This CD-ROM title is for DOS (excluding Windows) only. __________________________________________________________________________ Aztech's Best of the Best SHAREWARE MASTERBLENDtm contains 156 high-quality education, desktop publishing, finance, business, graphics, clip art, home, hobby and games, mail and utility applications. Included are tutors for calculus, algebra, Russian, Hebrew, Spanish, MS-DOS, What's in Your PC. There is modem doctor, spelling, video chemistry, 50 high quality games, about 500 clip art images for Word Perfect and another 500 for New Print Shop, NeoShow and NeoPaint, bike repair, calorie mate and many, many more. This disc requires a 286 PC or better (many of the applications will run on a 286) with a CD-ROM drive properly installed for MS-DOS and EGA or better. This CD-ROM title is for DOS only (excluding Windows). __________________________________________________________________________ Best of the Best WINDOWS SHAREWARE MASTERBLENDtm features an incredible wealth of shareware applications like 112 high-quality education, entertainment, multimedia and general interest applications plus 447 wave, 519 MIDI, 56 animation flics and 843 bitmaps. Everything is driven from a very elegant Aztech-developed Windows interface and many of these applications run directly from CD. The mouse-driven menu system automatically indicates whether or not it has to be installed to the hard disk, permits automatic launching of sound and viewer applications when clicking on a sound or image file, and provides a wealth of information about the application including amount of disk space required, fees, default install directories, and whether or not it needs VBRUNxxx (Visual Basic). Requires a 386 PC or better with a CD-ROM drive properly installed for MS-DOS and EGA or better. This CD-ROM title is for Windows only. __________________________________________________________________________ The cOMPLETE SHAREWARE OFFICE SYSTEM has everything the office requires from the very best the shareware world has to offer including word processors, fully-functional spreadsheets, databases, list managers, business graphics and tools, on-line communications programs, computer and application- specific tutorials, vertical market-specific applications and a wonderfully rich suite of utilities. More specifically, you can find tutors for business plans, personal finance, bill collecting and an incredibly robust tutorial on computers in general, the Alite electronic spreadsheet, Breeze and PC-Write word processors, MyBase, PC_File, Status and other database management applications, MyComm, TeleMate, AceComm, Kermit and other communications programs, VMIX stable multi-user & multi-tasking environment, utilities for calendar, backup, CD-ROM, DOS shell, editors, graphic file viewers, menus, security, phone dialer, sort, zipcode, file compressors/archivers, and much more. Vertical market applications include accounting, church, investment, medical, non- profit, property, retail, video, law and others. Most interesting of all is a very powerful demo version of Geoworks integrated windowing environment. Since most business applications require that you record information (which you cannot do to a CD) of one type or another, we thought it would be a great time-saver if you could view the application before commiting your valuable computing resources to it. One of the most interesting features of this CD is that we have set up the applications so that you can try them out (kind of a demo mode) before installing them to your hard disk. Requires a 386 PC or better with a CD-ROM drive properly installed for MS-DOS and EGA or better. This CD-ROM title is a mix of DOS and powerful Windows applications. __________________________________________________________________________ Aztech's Best of the Best MACSILVERWARE has over 70 commercial-quality games of every kind, a variety of educational applications, system extensions, desk accessories and more. Many of the applications utilize the latest features for sound, animation and color on the Mac. Titles include an address book, dental pro, molecular modeller, engineering assistant, easy envelopes, ChooserUser, colorswitch, Greg's buttons, ramdisk+, trimmer, airports, graphtooolz, alias director, alias boss, MacMath, Colorize, file buddy, Desert Trek, Digital Messiah, Quagmire, Shadow Keep, A-S Baseball, Air Warrior, Arashi, Armor, Bolo, Bonk, Light Cycle Duel, MacBzone, MacTrek, MacPong, Maelstrom, Microcosm, and many, many more. This disc requires a System 7 compatible Mac with a CD-ROM drive properly installed for HFS and at least 4 MB of RAM. ******************************************************************* ******************************************************************* All specifications are subject to change without notice. ******************************************************************* ******************************************************************* All of Aztech's CD-ROM products may be ordered directly from North America: Aztech New Media Corporation 99 Atlantic Avenue, Suite 100 Toronto, Ontario, M6K 3J8, Canada Phone: (416) 539-8822 1-800 361-0669 (North America ORDERS only please) Fax: (905) 738-1961 Europe: Peacock AG Graf-Zeppelin-Strasse 14 D-33181 Wnnenberg-Haaren Germany