CompuServe Messages

What's great and what's medicore on CD-ROM? The answer depends a great degree on your particular interests. One of the programs that shows the promise of CD-ROM the best in my book is Multimedia Beethoven. If you are interested in classical music at all, this is an excellent music course with accompanying CD quality music as examples. Great example of random access, self-directed learning. Corel includes a CD-ROM version of their Corel 3.0 software which is actually about four graphic arts programs rather than a single drawing program. It's not a MPC title, but it certainly is a pleasure to install from a single CD-ROM rather than a dozen floppies. You can also run some of the programs from CD-ROM. Since they had the room, they included 12,000 pieces of clipart, over 250 fonts and over 100 animation clips. You mentioned Battle Chess. Games are a natural for CD-ROM considering the sound and storage capacity for graphics. I've been playing Loom with my kids (well, that's the excuse). Loom on CD-ROM has beautiful images, a good cinematic story, makes use of CD-ROM for voice and music. Only complaint about Loom is that it is a bit too short. That's a problem with adventure games. They are sort of one shot deals, once you know all the secrets. DeLorme's Street Atlas is a handy tool. It is currently being discussed on this forum. I also enly MS Bookshelf. Handy reference, especially if you work in Windows. –Christopher