Desktop Publishing - STOP PRESS + VIDI

[ComSoft6128]

This is the AMX STOP PRESS (SP) DTP program being used with the VIDI video digitiser.
The mode 2 images being displayed on a portion of the SP "page" are in rea ltime and come from a YouTube video I made recently.
This is remarkable programming from the Advanced Memory Systems team considering it dates from 1986 and runs on a computer with only 128K of memory.

Best viewed on a large screen at 720p (YouTube Setting)

SP reviews:
https://cpcrulez.fr/applications_pao-stop_press.htm?t=Uw==

Links:
https://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/Stop_Press
https://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/Advanced_Memory_Systems

Not emulated - original hardware and software.
Please note that the aspect ratio for this YouTube video is 16:9 but the CPC monitor
has an aspect ratio of 4:3 so you may wish to adjust your viewing device accordingly.

[Gryzor]

Indeed, truly amazing what you could do with such a humble machine!

[ComSoft6128]

Agreed, not a vast amount of difference between the Aldus Pagemaker image below and CPC output.

Except PageMaker 1.0 for the PC would set you back $495 in 1986

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PageMaker:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_PageMaker

[GUNHED]

Thanks for showing us the eternal power of the CPCs. 

[seanmcmanus]

That was an amazing technology. The WACCI covers sometimes used designs made with VIDI, I think, but I never saw the software or hardware in use. I remember once going to the seaside and being excited by a digitized photo booth that took your photo with a video camera and printed it out in ASCII art on tractor feed paper, which seemed like the coolest thing in the world at the time.

[ComSoft6128]

The software also enables the user to creat a varaiable size graphics window anywhere(!) on the SP "page" and digitise directly into that, so for example you could have a page full of text and at least one graphics window - which could look quite impressive when finished.