Programming
Programming is the mainstay of Miracle
Concepts. The founder of the company has been programming
for 16 years starting with DEC PDP11/70. The main focus of
our programming is for multimedia and educational software.
Products produced range from full multimedia features
including video, audio, digital pictures that cover as many
as 4 CD's to electronic versions of engineering handbooks
for delivery over the internet. What follows is our various
capabilities:
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Languages
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Metrowerks C++
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Symantic C++
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Think C
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MSC
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Borland C++
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Watcom C
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Pascal
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Borland Delphi
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Visual Basic
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Basic
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QuickBasic
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VAX Basic
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Basic-Plus-2
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Pilot
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HyperTalk
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Linkway
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Tutor Tech
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mTropolis
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Authorware
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TenCore
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XBase
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MS-Access
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Miracle
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Assembler
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Java
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Platforms & OS
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Windows 3.x
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Windows 95
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Mac
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Linux
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Apple II & IIGS
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ProDos
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Graphics Preparation
All original graphics are created by an MMDC
Associate (see MMDC). If original print art work is
supplied by the client, such as charts, photographs, etc.,
this prep work is done in-house. We have scanning
capabilites and an artist in-house that can clean and
manipulate the graphics as required for the product.
Graphics can be produced in a variety of formats: BMP, PCX,
GIF, JPG, PNG, etc. for delivery on a varity of platforms:
Windows, Mac, and UNIX.
HTML Production
Miracle Concepts generated all the HTML pages
you see here as well as the pages for
interactiv.lee, inc, and the MMDC pages.
We can produce pages using various HTML editors and also
have in-house capabilities to convert large volumes of data
into interactively linked HTML pages. An example of this is
the "Microelectronics Packaging Handbook". This was first
keyed and prepared into an RTF format. Then it was converted
into HTML form for distribution on a CD-ROM. However, it
could just as well be used as an internet product. Another
example is the "Aircraft Familiarization Demo" which can be
found on the interactiv.lee, inc Web pages.
CD-ROM One Offs
This service speaks for itself. Given the
cost of CDR devices, the need for this service isn't as
great as it was at one time. However, not everyone can
produce CD's for every platform. We can produce CD's for
MS-DOS, Mac, Unix, and Hybri CD's for use on more than one
platform.
Electronic Publishing
Miracle Concepts has produced several highly
regarded electronic publications. Most of these have been
engineering texts and required the inclusion of live math
capabilities. We have provided the presentation of data
using various means. Gieck & Gieck Engineering Formulas
was produced as a Mathcad Electronic Handbook. Several
chapters of "Mark's Standard Handbook for Mechanical
Engineers" was produced using MultiMedia Viewer with
interactive links to a Mathcad Handbook. Sections of the
"Standard Handbook of Engineering Calculations" by Tyler
Hicks were also made using MultiMedia Viewer and interactive
Mathcad links. These along with several other publications
were done for McGraw-Hill.
Other publications have envolved creating HTML version of
the text along with a JAVA Full Text Search Engine. One
example of this is the "Microelectronics Packaging
Handbook", published by Chapman & Hall.(see
Demos)
Data Preparation
Data preparation can take on many forms. Our
speciality is turning complex engineering publications into
electronic products. This data preparation requires the
keying of large quantities of text as well as rendering of
tables, charts, and graphics. Complex graphics are done by
MMDC Associates (see
MMDC).
Keyed data is tagged in SGML, HTML, or a subset or
combination of various tagging methods. Once tagging is
completed, it is then used for display and delivery in the
product. Some cases require that the data be keyed into an
RTF format. In many cases this is the archive version of the
data which is then either converted or ported into the
delivery product.
Video Editing
Full video services are provided by RW
Communications (see MMDC). What we provide are simple video
capture services with digital editing. This service is
provided for those clients that already have some video that
can be used or repurposed for the project. We can digitize
that video and use it where applicable. We will digitize up
to 5-10 minutes worth of video in-house. Any amount over
that is sent out to a speciality house to digitize. It is
more cost effective to do it this way with large video
amounts. We also send out all video that needs to be
provided as MPEG.
In-house we can provide Quicktime, AVI, Audio, all in
using various Codecs and for eventual delivery on various
and multiple platforms. We can also provide Realvideo files
for delivery over the internet.
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