Multi-Media on Floppies- the way it should be. \ VOGONS

Multi-Media on Floppies- the way it should be.

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First post, by Caluser2000

Posted on 2019-09-05, 09:18

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Just going through my stuff and came across two multi-media packages on floppies. This was before CDs were popular in general use.

Space Adventure and Knowledge Adventurer from 1992.

These were available a year before the Mitsumi CRMC-LU005S 1x CD-ROM was release.
Anyone else got stuff like this laying about in floppy format?

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Reply 1 of 2, by Jo22

Posted on 2019-09-07, 06:51

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Cool! The first box shows a picture of Skylab 4! 😎
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylab_4

Anyone else got stuff like this laying about in floppy format?

Personally, not quite. Closest I can remember/own a copy of right now would be Star Flight,
which can save a whole in-game universe whith several hundred star systems on a floppy.
It used some vector graphics, though. As Apple II or C64 games often also did..

As for the thread's title, I can't disagree. 😀
(Pictures must have been compressed here or otherwise stored efficiantly.
Let's see - GIF, perhaps ? It existed since '87 or so. But it's decompression needed quite some CPU power..)

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Reply 2 of 2, by Caluser2000

Posted on 2019-09-07, 21:02

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It was quite impressively done and with out any Windows involved, purely Dos based. The next year when the first consumer 1x CD players started to emerge Gloliers Multimedia Encyclopedia came out in '92 or there abouts.

There's a glitch in the matrix.
A founding member of the 286 appreciation society.
Apparently 32-bit is dead and nobody likes P4s.
Of course, as always, I'm open to correction...😉

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