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...trekked over to his audio compact disc player, but raised his hand, preventing me from explaining to him that CDROM's couldn't be played on your average Sony shelf system. He reached for a compilation CD of all the James Bond movies and queued the CD to repeatedly play the introductory Bond theme. He then dashed around the room--in a frenzy I haven't seen since the OS/2 Presentation Manager days--making sure to hit the power switch on his computer before he got too tired...
...technology available at this point is largely autoerotic. Pornographic compact discs were on the cutting edge in 1992, with items such as "Cyborgasm," a recording of various sexual situations. Most notable is the dominatrix episode, which features an audio mistress clicking a pair of scissors and saying, "snip, snip, snip!" Although "Cyborgasm," fancied itself revolutionary by "exploring new media for erotica," it was merely a novelty and more or less fell flat; the sex noises on it are barely more interesting than the ones heard through the average fire door. As CD-ROM drives for personal computers have become more...
Stafford said players chose their prizes from among headphones provided by Audio Lab, two copies of Microsoft Word and other offers...
...have the time and the inclination, however, the game promises to be worth it. Over 90 minutes of live-action video add spice, and the interface is visually appealing, once you remember what all the icons mean. The on-line help system includes recorded audio descriptions of most object encountered in the course of the game, so you may never need to refer to the manual...
...have already transformed cinema. Lanier embodies a whole new genre of music that uses computers to create and disseminate its own distinctive sounds. Another practitioner on the rise is Italian astrophysicist Fiorella Terenzi, 30, who has been described as a cross between Madonna and Carl Sagan. Terenzi has used audio telescopes to intercept radio waves from a galaxy 180 million light-years away, then fed them into a computer, applied a sound-synthesis program to convert her data into music and produced Music from the Galaxies. Result: part New Age, part Buck Rogers sound track, played on an oscilloscope...