Macbeth - Interactive original Voyager Release - Sealed CD-Rom Rare OOP Collect.
William Shakespeare's Macbeth Edited by A.R. Braunmuller Sealed Collectible CD-Rom Rare OOP from original Voyager Production Release Multi Media CD-Rom Software Produced in the Mid-1990s by the Original Voyager Company One of the best developers of multimedia CD-ROMs that ever existed, Voyager Company, released dozens of high-quality educational CD-ROMs between 1993 and 2000 before being bought out by Learn Technologies, which then quietly went out of business sometime in 2002. This is one of their interactive CD-Roms for PC/Windows or MAC. Voyager's Macbeth Format: Macintosh/Windows CD-ROM SRP: $39.95 Curriculum: Literature; Performing Arts This CD-ROM really has a lot to offer. It is of an equally high standard as an academic edition of the play, and combines text and multimedia options (audio and video) to good effect. Voyager's Macbeth is a CD-ROM edition of the play; based on the recently published Cambridge edition (edited by one of the CD-ROM's co-authors, Professor A. R. Braunmuller) with a complete audio performance of the entire play by the Royal Shakespeare Company, directed by Trevor Nunn, and starring Ian McKellan as Macbeth, and Judi Dench as Lady Macbeth. Readers can simply read the play, or just listen, or listen and read; the pages will turn automatically! And clicking on any line of the play takes the reader to that place in the audio performance. There are notes and glosses (1,500 of them), explanatory essays (over 25,000 words worth), video clips from other performances of key scences so you can compare different performances of the same scene, maps, charts, images -- just about everything anyone could want. Readers can make all sorts of notes of their own, and export them with the parts of the play and commentary that they go with, to use in a word processor. FEATURES A new edition of the play, containing over 1,500 annotations and a 24,000-word commentary A full audio reading of Macbeth by the Royal Shakespeare Company A gallery of QuickTime video clips from other performances of Macbeth, including those by Orson Welles, Roman Polanski, and Akira Kurosawa (Throne of Blood) Extensive searching and note-taking capabilities New essays of the history and language of the play, and Jacobean theater A complete index of each character's role in the play Detailed scholarly tools, including a concordance and a textual analysis The Macbeth Karaoke, which allows you to choose a role, and act scenes from the play with professional actorsTechnical requirements for Voyager's CD-Roms Windows: 486SX-33 or higher processor; 640 x 480, 256 color display; 8 MB RAM MPC2-compatible CD-ROM drive and sound card with speakers or headphones; Microsoft Windows 3.1 (TM); MS-DOS 5.0 or higher. Macintosh: Any Macintosh (25-MHz 68030 processor or better); System 7 or higher; 5,000K of available RAM; 13" color monitor; double-speed CD-ROM drive.______________________________________________________________________________________________________The Voyager collection of CD-ROMs represents an era that is fading into oblivion. Due to a lack of computer systems still capable of executing this software, Voyager products that are still available in the original sealed packaging have significant historical value for collectors only.The following discussion of CD-ROM technology and its preservation is found in The International Journal of Digital Curation; Volume 7, Issue 2 | 2012: Virtual CD-ROM CollectionsAlthough the Voyager CD-ROMs have substantial historical significance, they, and most other published CD-ROMs, are destined to have a dwindling user base whose expertise in the systems required to use them is in sharp decline. The physical machines required to execute them have already disappeared from most educational institutions and even the operating systems are increasingly hard to find; at Indiana University, which once had many hundreds of “classic macs”, only one person within our University IT Services had distribution disks of the corresponding operating system software. The physical copies of these CD-ROMs are disappearing from library shelves. In seeking examples for this paper we made extensive use of interlibrary loan and we found that many cataloged copies of Voyager CD-ROMs are either missing or damaged.The long-term probability for individual libraries providing physical access to the Voyager and other published CD-ROMs is nearly nil. The user base is dwindling, the existing hardware and software support disappearing, and the physical media degrading. While we believe these materials have substantial historical significance, their ultimate survival depends upon spreading the preservation burden across many institutions through a virtual collection that enables networked access for a sparsely distributed base of patrons using modern work-stations.
Specifications
| Return Shipping Will Be Paid By | Buyer |
| All Returns Accepted | Returns Accepted |
| Item Must Be Returned Within | 30 Days |
| Refund Will Be Given As | Money Back |
| Format | CD-Rom |
| For Operating Systems | Windows and/or MAC |
| Country/Region Of Manufacture | Canada |
| Language | English |
| Brand | Voyager Cityrom |
| Type | Arts & Culture |
William Shakespeare’s Macbeth Edited by A.R. Braunmuller Sealed Collectible CD-Rom Rare OOP from original Voyager Production Release Multi Media CD-Rom Software Produced in the Mid-1990s by the Original Voyager Company One of the best developers of multimedia CD-ROMs that ever existed, Voyager Company, released dozens of high-quality educational CD-ROMs between 1993 and 2000 before being bought out by Learn Technologies, which then quietly went out of business sometime in 2002. This is one of their interactive CD-Roms for PC/Windows or MAC. Voyager’s Macbeth Format: Macintosh/Windows CD-ROM SRP: $39.95 Curriculum: Literature; Performing Arts This CD-ROM really has a lot to offer. It is of an equally high standard as an academic edition of the play, and combines text and multimedia options (audio and video) to good effect. Voyager’s Macbeth is a CD-ROM edition of the play; based on the recently published Cambridge edition (edited by one of the CD-ROM’s co-authors, Professor A. R. Braunmuller) with a complete audio performance of the entire play by the Royal Shakespeare Company, directed by Trevor Nunn, and starring Ian McKellan as Macbeth, and Judi Dench as Lady Macbeth. Readers can simply read the play, or just listen, or listen and read; the pages will turn automatically! And clicking on any line of the play takes the reader to that place in the audio performance. There are notes and glosses (1,500 of them), explanatory essays (over 25,000 words worth), video clips from other performances of key scences so you can compare different performances of the same scene, maps, charts, images — just about everything anyone could want. Readers can make all sorts of notes of their own, and export them with the parts of the play and commentary that they go with, to use in a word processor. FEATURES A new edition of the play, containing over 1,500 annotations and a 24,000-word commentary A full audio reading of Macbeth by the Royal Shakespeare Company A gallery of QuickTime video clips from other performances of Macbeth, including those by Orson Welles, Roman Polanski, and Akira Kurosawa (Throne of Blood) Extensive searching and note-taking capabilities New essays of the history and language of the play, and Jacobean theater A complete index of each character’s role in the play Detailed scholarly tools, including a concordance and a textual analysis The Macbeth Karaoke, which allows you to choose a role, and act scenes from the play with professional actorsTechnical requirements for Voyager’s CD-Roms Windows: 486SX-33 or higher processor; 640 x 480, 256 color display; 8 MB RAM MPC2-compatible CD-ROM drive and sound card with speakers or headphones; Microsoft Windows 3.1 (TM); MS-DOS 5.0 or higher. Macintosh: Any Macintosh (25-MHz 68030 processor or better); System 7 or higher; 5,000K of available RAM; 13″ color monitor; double-speed CD-ROM drive.______________________________________________________________________________________________________The Voyager collection of CD-ROMs represents an era that is fading into oblivion. Due to a lack of computer systems still capable of executing this software, Voyager products that are still available in the original sealed packaging have significant historical value for collectors only.The following discussion of CD-ROM technology and its preservation is found in The International Journal of Digital Curation; Volume 7, Issue 2 | 2012: Virtual CD-ROM CollectionsAlthough the Voyager CD-ROMs have substantial historical significance, they, and most other published CD-ROMs, are destined to have a dwindling user base whose expertise in the systems required to use them is in sharp decline. The physical machines required to execute them have already disappeared from most educational institutions and even the operating systems are increasingly hard to find; at Indiana University, which once had many hundreds of “classic macs”, only one person within our University IT Services had distribution disks of the corresponding operating system software. The physical copies of these CD-ROMs are disappearing from library shelves. In seeking examples for this paper we made extensive use of interlibrary loan and we found that many cataloged copies of Voyager CD-ROMs are either missing or damaged.The long-term probability for individual libraries providing physical access to the Voyager and other published CD-ROMs is nearly nil. The user base is dwindling, the existing hardware and software support disappearing, and the physical media degrading. While we believe these materials have substantial historical significance, their ultimate survival depends upon spreading the preservation burden across many institutions through a virtual collection that enables networked access for a sparsely distributed base of patrons using modern work-stations.
