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The Realmagic/Reelmagic MPEG Decoder card was an obscure card that made it so that slow PCs with 386/486 or slow pentiums could playback very high quality 30fps or higher video (in some instances) at up to 32 bit color in resolutions as high as 1280x1024 (later cards may have changed this, but no games were really written for the final cards)

when released, they cost a lot of money, around $700+, and as a result, some software developed for them either didn't really come out, only came out as a demo, or was not released in large quantities.

MPEG/Realmagic/reelmagic editions of software would feature FMV close to DVD quality in fullscreen instead of tiny bad quality grainy windows, and sometimes have different dialogue options or paths not included in standard editions:

Footage of games that have been found so far: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncUNCzsHJlY The Psychotron https://youtu.be/6yYHKxRiqak?t=276 Flash Traffic City Of Angels

Reelmagic/realmagic/mpeg edition game versions that are lost Cowboy Casino Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia Conspiracy/K.G.B. Entity (this one may not be as lost as the others, just no dumps available) Dune (the special mpeg edition) Lord Of The Rings Man Enough Video Cube Space World Atlus by the software toolworks The 11th Hour Escape from Cybercity kings quest VI Gabriel Knight Dragon's Lair 2

other ones that are mentioned in documentation in the packs but no video: Mediaclips - Animal Kingdom by Aris Entertainment The Digital Bar -Bindernagel-Ross Mozart Visits Yellowstone/Yosemite/Grand Canyon/Hawaii - EE Multimedia Productions Inc Matinee - Video Toys Software Under A Killing Moon - Tex Murphy (a special mpeg version) The New Basics Electronic Cookbook

lastly: here are some scans of boxes, demo cds, booklets, manuals for the two realmagic cards I own, perhaps it may help in the search since the booklets and mpeg files show some of the games and developers

https://archive.org/details/realmagic-maxima-pro-manual-hd

https://archive.org/details/fullvideo-digital-reelmagic-lite-mpeg-decoder-bundle

If anyone uncovers any of these rare articles of history and does not own a card capable of running the software, I'll gladly run it on my amd k6 DOS/windows 3.1 PC with one of the two realmagic cards I own and get us some high quality footage.