No, this isn't a misprint or an April Fools' story. Apple has announced that it has completed and will be licensing Pippin, a CD-ROM game platform similar to 3DO and Phillips' CD-I. According to Apple, Pippin is based on the Mac OS and uses a PowerPC 603 chip and a 4X CD-ROM drive; Pippin titles will run without modification on Macintosh systems, and Mac CD-ROM titles will require only minor tweaks to run on Pippin systems. The company also said that users would be able to play MPEG-compressed movies with a third-party expansion card to be announced.
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