Late Breaking News!

The Spot was just chosen as Cool Site of the Year by Glenn Davis' Cool Site of the Day website. At a luncheon meeting in Los Angeles, the news was given to a crowd of over 200 anxious Web watchers. Stiff competition was all around, but The Spot prevailed. Read about the Award Ceremony now.

Will Mr. Anand updset PCA titleholder Garry Kasparov

If you like chess this is a must see!

The move-by-move action will be on the World Wide Web at San Diego Technical Books, Inc. is sponsoring a series of presentations about the personal and business use of the Internet. These presentations will include finding an Internet gateway provider, using software tools on the Internet, and establishing home pages on the World Wide Web. These programs will be presented by well-qualified people actively working everyday on the rapidly-changing Internet. All of these events will occur on Saturdays at noon. San Diego Technical Books is located at 4240 Kearny Mesa Road (in the Computer City shopping center). Here is the upcoming schedule:

Sept. 9th, 12-2 pm

PowerStation Demo

PowerStation from Electriciti is a simple-to-use software package With it you can create a home page on the World Wide Web in 15 minutes. This is not an exaggeration. You won't believe how simple it is and how good it looks. $495.00. Sale $295.00 thru 9/30. (Includes 5mb server space for one year).

Sept 16th, 12-1 pm

Internet Access to the Great Outside

Looking for a reason to get wired? Lori Saldana is an Internet lecturer, backpacker, kayaker, and author of Backpacking Primer. She'll show how pursue your interests on the Internet. Find friends, advice, menus, tips, manufacturers, clothing, organizations and much more for your outdoor interests--all from your desktop.

IICS (International Interactive Communications Society) San Diego Chapter presents:

The Kingdoms of Rick Dyer

Please join us the evening of Tuesday, September 12 when the legendary Rick Dyer will showcase his cutting-edge "Kingdom™" series of extraordinary animated role-playing games.

Mr. Dyer's credits include Dragon's Lair™, the world's first full-animation video game (a 12-year-old game that's STILL on the top 20 list of best selling games and one of only two games on display at the Smithsonian Institute ), Space Ace™, another top-selling animated adventure, and Time Traveler™, the first and only holographic coin-operated game.

~ This is a very special IICS engagement ~
BE THE FIRST TO SEE Kingdom™: Shadoan™

Kingdom™: Shadoan™, a $3M production scheduled for release this Christmas, is the second in a series of 5 games. The first game, Kingdom™: The Far Reaches™, is currently available for MS-DOS CD-ROM, 3DO and CD-I, with Mac, Sega, and coin-op versions coming soon. Mr. Dyer will show Shadoan™ on a 486 with Super VGA and stereo sound, show The Far Reaches™ on a 3DO player, provide in-depth coverage of the design and development of these games, and maybe even give us a sneak peek at the third episode, Journey Into the Great Abyss™, currently in production!

Come to IICS for the inside scoop on the production of these Kingdom™ features:

It's the first and only game with over 57,000 frames of hand-painted full-motion cell animation.
It delivers laser-disc quality video from a 486 without an MPEG card!
It's the first game with a top-10-bound musical score (composed by Doug and Brian Besterman and Martin Erskin of Beauty and the Beast and Pocahontas fame).
It uses professional voice actors.
It has a unique "zoom" feature for detailed views of every landscape.
It's a non-linear game for all ages, with two levels of difficulty.
It's the first game to utilize book stores as a distribution channel.
The CD-I version of Kingdom™: The Far Reaches™ won last year's Compact Disc Interactive Award.

We've invited developers and press from San Diego and around the world to witness this event. Don't miss it!

For more information about the meeting, call the IICS hotline at 619.530.3522 or e-mail zow@cyberdoor.com. For other information, contact Rick Dyer at VIPKingdom@aol.com.

Date: Tuesday, September 12, 1995

Time: 6-7pm - networking hour with a light buffet, 7-9pm - announcements and presentation.

Place: Proxima Corporation 9440 Carroll Park Drive Cost: Members: Free Guests: $10 donation