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ATLANTA--At its best, multimedia software is more than eye candy: It teaches history, gives insight, shares experiences.
"Shoot'em-up games and encyclopedias are great for 12-year-olds," says Robert J. Linehan, whose unpublished program, Lebuse's Letters won NewMediaInvision Multimedia Award at the Comdex computer show here. It's based on the true story of his grandmother and her two sisters, separated
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in Czechoslovakia at the start of World War II. A collection of letters details the sisters search to reconnect; you relive the love stories of their marriages, then the German occupation and the emigration of two of them to the USA. The other sister, Lebuse Weisglass, died in a prison camp. The multimedia project was for his thesis at New York's School of Visual Arts,"I was trying to come up with something a cut above what's out there," says Linehan, who's looking for a developer to help bring it to market. Among other winners |
>Best of Show is Passage To Vietnam, a CD_ROM based on the work of 70 photographers in Vietnam (due next month, against all odds Productions, MAC/Windows $50)
>The cartoon History of the Universe, a two-CD set based on Larry Gonick's wacky history lesson (Human Code/Putnam,Mac/Windows,$49.95).
>Dazzeloids, colorful and humorous animated superheros save Boredomtown from TV brainwashing (Voyager,Mac/Windows,$39.95).
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