Quicktime and information on 74 creepy crawly insects and reptiles.
Dictionary of the Living World v3..............$199
*The biology of life with maps, 1,000 pictures, animated full motion movies and 2,000 info files covering 5,000 species and families. Requires 2 Meg and 4Meg to run animations.
The Bible......................................$70
Full text of the Bibles and study guides.
The Multi-Bibles CD............................$182
Text from five Bibles including the New Revised Standard, Revised Standard, King James (Authorised) and New King James. Full word indexing and subject index based on Naves Topical Concordance.
Children
Try Word Tales, Four Footed Friends and a A Silly Noisy House for very young children. Aesopolis and Just Grandma and Me for primary school children.
A Silly Noisy House............................$88
*Explore the house with interactive sound and animation.
Adventures of Pinocchio........................$101
Four Footed Friends............................$79
*Interactive children's story with activities.
Goferwinkel's Adventures: The Lavender Land....$70
Comic book with speech, animations and interactive sequences.
It's a Bird's Life with Shelley Duvall.........$91
Original story narrated by Shelly Duval with songs and interactive games.
Living Books: Just Grandma and Me..............$75
Living Books: Arthur’s Teacher Troubles........$100
*Innovative interactive versions of popular children’s books with the original text and illustrations with voices and music. Book presentation can be adjusted to meet the personal needs of each reader.
Putt-Putt Joins the Parade.....................$99
Interactive stories with over 30 locations to explore and problems to solve.
Interactive African Safari visiting more than 80 animals and plants in four different habitats.
Time Traveller.................................$182
6,000 year..time line with graphics, photos, sound and cultural information.
The Velveteen Rabbit...........................$140
A collection of childrens stories with narration, animation and music. Stories include Brer Rabbit, Cinderella, Red Riding Hood and several Beatrix Potter animal tales.
The White Horse Child..........................$70
Story by science fiction writer, Greg Bear, with illustrations and music.
Whale of a Tale................................$145
Original children's story with additional activities and whale information.
**All 8 years of MacTutor/MacTech magazine with all source code. A free copy of Think Reference v2 and On Location 2, heaps of demos and all issues of Ariel's magazine for Basic programmers.
An interactive movie from the dark side of Mike Saenz.Requires Mac II with 4 Meg Memory.
Who Killed Sam Rupert..........................$59
Quicktime based detective adventure.
Encyclopedia
Grolier is the standard, the alternative is Comptons. If you want Comptons then buy the Maxima CD as a second CD Player and get it bundled with the drive.
Comptons: The Electronic Encyclopedia..........$1,425
*The Comptons Encyclopedia from Britannica Software. A major multimedia achievement.
Countries Encyclopedia.........................$185
Detailed profiles of most countroes based on the US Army's Area Handbook. Detailed bibliography with flags, mpas, tables and national anthems.
Electronic Library of Art......................$145
Thousands of colour art images indexed by artist, school and subject wth short essays and artist profiles.
Family Doctor Home Medical Guide...............$134
Database of over 1,000 commonly asked questions with color illustrations and data on a wide range of prescriptions drugs.
Complete US paramedics first aid course with video clips, colour pictures and hypertext.
Long Time, Olden Time..........................$65
The complete audio and pictorial record contained on the Voyager spacecraft.
Murmurs of Earth...............................$82
The complete audio and pictorial record contained on the Voyager spacecraft.
Poetry in Motion...............................$45
*See and hear a wide range of american contenporary poets performing their work.
Seven Days in August...........................$110
*Documentary on the Berlin Crisis of 1961.
SpaceTime and Art..............................$309
An introduction to the Universe with 300 24bit images from the Voyager flyby and space fantasy paintings, 18 QuickTime movies and Hypercard based texts and databases on space related activities.
The Orient.....................................$58
Luscious multimedia travel guide to the Orient Requires Mac II with 5Meg memory. A classic now at runout prices.
View from Earth................................$110
Interactive documentary based on the Time-Life book "The Voyage Through the Universe".
Who Built America..............................$149
Interactive exploration of american history between 1876-1914.
Music
Voyager: Beethoven - Symphony No9..............$149
Hypercard based companion for CD recordings of classical works.
Voyager: So I've Heard - Bach and Before.......$42
Voyager: So I've Heard - The Classical Ideal...$42
Collector's Guides to Audio CD's with essays, notes and upto 50 audio selections.
Voyager: All my Hummingbirds have Alibis.......$62
Contemporary composer, Morton Subotnick's works - All my Hummingbird's have Alibis and 5 Scenes from an Imaginary Ballet.
So You Want to be a Rock'n'Roll Star...........$159
Interactive tutorial to the guitar and keyboard the uses classic rock songs.
Public Domain
BMUG is best if you are new to PD software and want a well organised, current selection. BBS in a Box offers the most current and complete collection, but is poorly organised and everything is compressed. Feels Like Macintosh - the Australian PD CD is the most relevant.
BBS in a BOX IX................................$140
**Extensive collection of public domain information and programs setup for bulletin board use. 1,000 Meg compressed files. Always the latest, but badly organised.
*Captivating,..inventive, interactive art for children and adults.
Some of My Favourite Things....................NFS
Large text archive of all things cyberamic.
Trouble in Mind................................$67
Multimedia novel with video, story, sound and music.
Japanese Multimedia
Japanese multimedia artists have become masters of the rendered image. Low on content, but dripping with production values, charm, style, art and general weirdness, these titles show what happens when you shut talented people in a room full of Quadras.
Surrealist multimedia work by Japanese artist Haruhiko Shono. Based on Lewis Carroll’s ‘Alice in Wonderland’, paintings by Kuniyoshi Kaneko and music by Kazuhiko Kato.
All useful multimedia samplers. The Best of Quicktime v2 is a inspiration for any Quicktime producer and Superstacks for any Hypercard creator. The Macromedia Sampler and the Art of MacWorld have some the best published computer art work.
Art of Visual Computing........................$39
Animations and digital video samples created with Swivel3D, Modelshop II, FilmMaker and QuickPics
*The first MacWorld Interface multimedia magazine and the 28 award winning 1991 HyperCard Superstacks.
The Art of MacWorld............................$49
*Collection of computer art and illustration from the pages of US Macworld.
The Best of Quicktime v1 & 2...................$120
**3 CD's with the winning clips from the first and second Annual QuickTime Awards. Wonderful examples of the Quicktime genre. It doesn't get any better than this.
The Best of Quicktime v2.......................$80
**2 CD's with the winning clips from the second Annual QuickTime Awards. Wonderful examples of the Quicktime genre. It doesn't get any better than this.
*Verbum digital art Magazine on CD. Includes the Verbum gallery – art, animation, music and the Verbum RoundTable.
Various Information Titles
Most of these CD’s were originally produced for the IBM PC and converted to Macintosh format. They usually use the Textware system that features a text window with index and word search. Images are usually converted from PC PCX format and displayed in a separate window. Mac users used to Hypercard or multimedia CD’s will find the interface disappointing, so should consider these titles for their content.
Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary with cross references and audio pronunciation of all items in the main dictionary.
Winning Elections: A Political Reference.......$99
Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary with cross references and audio
Books
We have a small range of the good books. For the complete range try Hotline Books and Dymocks in Sydney. McGills and the Technical Bookshop in Melbourne.
Little System 7.1 Book.........................$28
Friendly introduction to System 7.1 for people upgrading to System 7.
Mac Bible 4....................................$60
Famous survey of all things relevant to personal Mac use. Dense, encyclopeadic.
MacWorld Music & Sound Bible...................$80
Masterwork on everything relating to music and sound for the Macintosh.
The best guide to Mac networking. Not for novices, but substantial, useful information for building and designing localtalk and ethernet networks.
Zen and the Art of Resource Editing............$50
Includes ResEdit and detailed manual. The best way to understand resource modification and hacking.
Expanded Books
Expanded Books provide the full text of popular books in an innovative Hypercard format. The books come on 1.4M floppy disks and can only be used in a SuperDrive equipped Macintosh.
Fiction
A Wrinkle in Time/Wind in the Door - L'Engle...$39
And I Quote - Ashton Applewhite................$30
Basin and Range/In Suspect Terrain - McPhee....$30
Book - Robert Grudin...........................$30
Coming Apart at the Seams - Sands & Gammons....$30
Complete Annotated Alice - Lewis Carroll.......$35
Complete HitchHikers Guide - Douglas Adams.....$35
Conduct Unbecoming - Randy Shilts..............$30
Devil in a Blue Dress - Walter Mosley..........$35
Gone to Soldiers - Marge Piercy................$35
Guardian Angel/Indemnity - Sara Paretsky.......$35
Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison..................$30
Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton...............$35
Maybe the Moon - Armistead Maupin..............$35
Mostly Harmless - Douglas Adams................$35
Neuromancer Trilogy - William Gibson...........$35
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck...............$35
Pleading Guilty - Scott Turow..................$30
Rich in Love - Josephine Humphreys.............$35
Sailor Song - Ken Kesey........................$35
Selected Stories of Eudora Welty...............$30
The Autobiography of Malcolm X - Alex Haley....$30
The Complete Amanda Stories ...................$88
The Complete Stories V1 - Issac Asimov.........$35
The Magic Bus: An American Odessy - Brinkley...$35
The Mind's Sky - Timothy Ferris................$35
The Pelican Brief - John Grisham...............$35
The Tao of Pooh - Benjamin Hoff................$35
Virtual Light - William Gibson.................$35
Waiting to Exhale - Terry McMillan.............$35
Zen & the Art of MM / Lila - Robert Pirsig.....$35
Non-Fiction
Amusing our Selves to Death - Neil Postman.....$35
Backlash - Susan Faludi........................$35
Diet for a New America.........................$35
Genius - James Gleick..........................$35
Get Rich Slowly - William Spitz................$35
I Love Boston Guide - Appleberg................$35
I Love New York Guide - Appleberg..............$35
I Love Washington Guide - Appleberg............$35
Revolution from Within - Gloria Steinem........$35
Savage Inequalities - Jonathan Kozol...........$35
The Autobiography of Malcolm X - Alex Haley....$35
The Empowered Manager - Peter Block............$35
The Fragile Species - Lewis Thomas.............$35
The Internet Companion - Tracy LaQue...........$55
The Road less Traveled - M. Scott Peck.........$35
The Road to Wellville - Boyle..................$35
Things that Make us Smart - Don Norman.........$35
Random House Modern Library
All that Remains - P. D. Cormwell..............$35
Bullfinch's Mythology - T. Bullfinch...........$35
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky.......$35
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens............$35
In Search of Lost Time V1 - Marcel Proust......$35
In Search of Lost Time V2 - Marcel Proust......$35
Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison..................$35