Sumeria, the San Francisco-based multimedia publisher, has teamed up with Scientific American magazine to produce Exploring Ancient Cities, an interactive CD-ROM-based exploration of four ancient civilizations.
Stories originally appearing in Scientific American are brought to life with design, imagery, video, music, and narration from Sumeria-allowing the reader to wander through each of these sites. The CD features narration by Academy Award winner Rod McKuen and music by Academy Award winner John Lewis.Exploring Ancient Cities provides full coverage of four unique cities. Explore hundreds of photographs on subjects like Minoan writings, Teotihuacan murals, Pompeian frescoes, and Nabataean tomb architecture.
The CD contains all new photography and video of the excavation sites, as well as interactive geographic and site maps. Roam the streets of Teotihuacτn, the houses of Pompeii, the craggy hills of Petra, and the coastal palaces of Crete. All the pictures, text, and movies on this CD-ROM can be easily exported and reused for noncommercial applications.
MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Macintosh:System 7.0; 6MB of RAM; 13-inch monitor (256 or better colors); CD-ROM drive (double-speed recommended).
IBM-Compatible:CPU with 486/33MHz or higher processor; 8MB of RAM; DOS 5.0; Windows 3.1; VGA+ display (256 or better colors at 640 x 480 resolution); sound card; CD-ROM drive (double-speed recommended).
ABOUT THE CD
Like other Sumeria CD-ROM titles, Exploring Ancient Cities utilizes a HFS/ISO dual format standard, or -hybrid+ for short. Sumeria hybrid CDs can be run on either a Macintosh or IBM-compatible computer without any special software (other than your normal CD driver software). Unlike hybrid discs of the past (which effectively split the CD into two partitions), all 600MB of data are available on either platform.
