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Think back to when you had the first CD-reader, and think back before we had the Internet or Wikipedia: which reference software did you use, if you've used one.
I'm just doing some experiments on installing CD-ROM encyclopaedias onto the Windows 3.1 sitting on the DOSBox. I hope it works.
Which CD-ROM encyclopaedias, if at all, did you use and like?
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I still have copy of encarta, not cd, but dvd, that is Microsoft Encarta 2009 Premium.
now I have very rarely used it.
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My Creative Labs multimedia kit 2 came with Grolier; great content but at the time software wasn't that good - we are talking DOS.
The best was Star Trek 25th Anniversary Deluxe CD Edition. So good my punk cousin's even punkier friends stole it. I was pirated!
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No, you were blagged!
Mines was Encarta '95. A very robust encyclopaedia if I may say so myself.
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Microsoft Encarta was what I used... That isn't to say the others were bad, but Encarta (came with MS Student) was all I was exposed to.
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Thanks Semar, I'll finally check out what I missed by buying the non-MS multimedia kit.
