Astound Presentation

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File Format
Name Astound Presentation
Ontology
Extension(s) .asd, .smp, .asv
MIME Type(s) x-application/Astound
Type Code DCDC
Released 1992

Astound Inc. was a multimedia software company which developed Presentation software for Macintosh and Windows. Originally developed by GoldDiskM[1][2] and then later sold to Genesys in 2001[3].

Contents

File Information

Astound Presentation software saved its documents using the ASD extension[4][5].

Format Information

  • Astound Presentation versions 2-3 are binary files with the ascii header AWND
  • Astound Presentation versions 4-8 are a Microsoft Compound File with a Summary Information file as well as an "Astound Data" file with the same contents as the older version[6].

Screenshots

Astoundv5-Open.png

Sample files

References

  1. https://techmonitor.ai/techonology/astounding_presentation_program
  2. https://indexarticles.com/business/business-wire/gold-disk-inc-reinvents-itself-to-better-serve-customer-base-existing-gold-disk-management-buys-multimedia-software-assets-to-form-new-company-focused-on-business-multimedia-authoring/
  3. https://news.cision.com/genesys/r/genesys-conferencing-reports-financial-results,c56177
  4. https://web.archive.org/web/20001012143623/http://www.astound.com/a7/astound7/ast5_tutorial.pdf
  5. https://web.archive.org/web/20010614060100/http://www.astound.com/programs/astound/80/Astound8.pdf
  6. https://web.archive.org/web/19961229021632/http://www.astound.com/releasenews.html
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