Apple's StarCore Group Announces Distribution Agreements with InterOptica
Publishing Ltd. and Time Warner Interactive Group

SANTA CLARA, California--December 7, 1993--StarCore, the new software
publishing and distribution group formed by Apple Computer, Inc., has
announced agreements with InterOptica Publishing Ltd. and the Time Warner
Interactive Group to distribute CD-ROM software for Macintosh and Windows
platforms worldwide.

The new agreements allow StarCore to distribute more than 40 CD-ROM titles
from the two companies under its StarCore affiliate label program by
year's end. With the addition of these titles, Apple's StarCore group will
bring to market more than 50 CD-ROM titles in 1993.

InterOptica has signed on with Apple's StarCore group to provide exclusive
worldwide distribution of 25 CD-ROM titles including eight electronic
guides which InterOptica has published in conjunction with The Sierra
Club: The Blue Whale; The Amazon Rainforest; The Grand Canyon; The Great
Barrier Reef; The Indian Monsoon; Mount Everest; The Wildebeest Migration;
and Seven Natural Wonders of the World, an omnibus edition containing all
seven titles. The InterOptica/Sierra Club CD-ROM titles, featuring
animations, illustrations, original interactive text and narrated video
and photo vignettes, can be played using either a Macintosh or
Windows-based personal computer.

In addition, StarCore will distribute InterOptica's Journey to the Heart of
Japan; Astonishing Asia; and the Multimedia Dictionary of Knowledge, based
on the best-selling book, Dictionary of Cultural Literacy.

StarCore will also distribute dozens of multimedia games, interactive
information, and early learning titles published by the Time Warner
Interactive Group including Hell Cab, the critically acclaimed interactive
time-travel adventure featuring virtual environments; Murmurs of the
Earth: The Voyager Interstellar Record, a unique collection of colorful
images and sounds of the Earth recorded from the spacecraft Voyager; and
the Lifemap Series, created by the California Academy of Sciences.

StarCore distributes both StarCore published and affiliate label software
through thousands of outlets nationwide, and throughout Europe and the
Pacific Rim. StarCore also assists companies working under the StarCore
affiliate label program in marketing their products through in-store
promotions, catalogs, brochures and public relations.

Apple's StarCore group publishes and distributes software on CD-ROM for
Macintosh and Windows platforms and on PCMCIA cards and diskettes for the
Newton platform. Apple's StarCore titles are focused around six software
categories: edutainment, sports, entertainment, reference, business
applications and self-improvement.

Apple Computer Inc, 20525 Mariana Ave, Cupertino, CA 95014
408-996-1010

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