A new Ashland, Oregon company, PC Comix Inc is developing a new family of electronic comic books called HyperComix at $20 a time, which buys 51 colour frames plus sound effects, spot animation and a facility to enable the reader to choose between branching plot lines, following the action from a variety of points of view, branching or returning to the main story line with the click of the mouse; subsequent editions will recognise the presence of earlier issue numbers on a user’s hard disk, and will automatically link to form ongoing books; the MS-DOS software requires VGA, 640Kb and 2Mb of disk space.
