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.
Indeed, truly amazing what you could do with such a humble machine!
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 :o
aldus.png
PageMaker:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_PageMaker
Thanks for showing us the eternal power of the CPCs. :) :) :) :) :) :) :)
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.
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.