Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom Path: cdrom.com!barrnet.net!sgiblab!sgigate.sgi.com!olivea!charnel!rat!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!ames!news.Hawaii.Edu!uhunix3.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu!horton From: horton@uhunix3.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Bruce Horton) Subject: Re: ?CD-ROMs in higher ed - recommendations Message-ID: Sender: news@news.Hawaii.Edu Organization: University of Hawaii References: <1994Jan27.053043.2642@news.unomaha.edu> Date: Sun, 20 Feb 1994 20:26:18 GMT Lines: 59 In article <1994Jan27.053043.2642@news.unomaha.edu> hagen@cwis.unomaha.edu (Beverly Hagen) writes: >I am looking for these type of disks as well. Hope we get >an answer. > >Beverly Hagen > >-- >Beverly Hagen >hagen@cwis.unomaha.edu Aloha! I run a PC-based multimedia lab, with over 40 cd-rom titles. Currently, my favorites are mostly reference titles. Encarta 94 - Good breadth of knowledge, not very in-depth, however. Thousands of photos, hours of music, tons of narrated science animations. The most cluttered interface I have ever seen (IMHO). Grolier's / Software Toolworks Encyclopedia - Not as pretty or as integrated as Encarta, but faster. More video clips, which impress visiting VIPs (impressed people = $$$$). Twelve Roads to Gettysburg - A SLLOOOOOWWWWWW disk, with *excellent* content. A very entertaining, accurate treatment of the events leading up to that turning point in the war, as well as the battle itself. But so slow! DISKS TO AVOID: Any version of the World Atlas before v4 MPC. Time Table of History disks. Most Textware disks. Voyage to the Stars / Voyage to the Planets. Actually just one disk, the cd is labeled one way and the program runs the other way. All the pictures appear to be very similar, and the program wants 590k free. Amazing Universe (same product, different pictures) is better. Well, mail me if you want to talk some more. Jason ***************************************************** Jason Forester Instructional Media Services Hawaii Pacific University e-mail will reach me at: horton@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu