#Incredible?
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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
Well thanks for the reply, but I see you seem to be have about the same
access to titles as I have…I guess that I was hoping for more to be
available on CD than there is..but I may take you advice and get the
Bethoven disk as it is available at a good price at Egghead
From your note, I couldn't tell how far you'd searched for CD-ROM titles.
I think many of us are waiting for more releases and greater variety. I get
the feeling that many of the titles we're seeing now have been rushed to
market. In several cases they are simple straight transfers of floppy-based
programs to CD-ROM. It's a good sign that Egghead and Software Etc are
carrying CD-ROM, but they do seem to have just the same two dozen titles.
MS products, games, a few reference works and books on CD-ROM.
There are quite a few offerings in special professional areas though and
I'd expect that to grow. For example, Sweet's (a division of McGraw-Hill)
publishes a product catalog that architects use to specify building
materials. Sweet's has developed a CD-ROM version of their multi-volume
catalog. I know similar things are going on in the legal and medical
profession.
If you live near a sizable library you might ask if they have a copy of
either "CDROMs in Print" or "The CDROM Directory." Both these contain
thousands of titles listed in a variety of ways. The directoroies cost
between $100-150, so they're not exactly a consumer item. BTW, the next
editions of both are likely to contain something like 5-6000 listings!
Rich Bowers