\nThis set includes the titles Matinee FMV Screensaver, MetaCreations Painter Classic, and Multimedia JumpStart. The second one is likely a creation program. I have no idea what the third one is, while the first title gives me chills just thinking about the implications.<\/p>\n
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Miscellaneous Creativity Software<\/strong> More Multimedia Creativity Software<\/strong> Showcase CD-ROMs<\/strong> Basic Multimedia Software Discs<\/strong> Real Software Collection<\/strong> Clips<\/strong> Wrap-Up<\/strong> Part 4 in the forgotten multimedia software series; the final part (until I find more of this stuff)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[220],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software-museum"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2748"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2760,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2748\/revisions\/2760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nMagic Theatre and Microsoft Home: Creative Writer. I think I loaded up the former once to find a very basic animation program. The latter isn’t necessarily multimedia-related but certainly classifies as creative software. It also reminds me of the ad I once spied in Entertainment Weekly magazine during the mid-1990s for a Microsoft music history CD-ROM. MS branched out into all kinds of niches.<\/p>\n
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\nVideoCraft and U-Create Games & Animation. I wager these would be fun to play around with if I had the time.<\/p>\n
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\n“What Can You Make? Showcase 7” from Macromedia and Microsoft Multimedia Pack 10.<\/p>\n
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\nAs a multimedia nerd, these Apple QuickTime and Microsoft Video for Windows discs make me sentimental.<\/p>\n
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\nGrit your teeth and gaze upon CD-ROM distributions of Real’s software. There is a RealAudio disc back from when Real still called themselves Progressive Networks. “Everything you need to hear the web roar!”<\/p>\n
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\nAnd a few multimedia clip CD-ROMs, along with a disc that promises to test and tune your MPC setup.<\/p>\n
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\nI would be remiss if I neglected to mention a few more pieces of multimedia creation software in my collection. First, there’s the Barbie Storymaker<\/a>. I actually gave that one a go, as you can tragically see from that link. Further, the Taco Bell fast food restaurant chain ran, as one of their many kids meal promotions, a series of 4 simple Comics Constructor CD-ROMs. I played briefly with it here<\/a> and again during an exploration of XML data formats<\/a> and the parsing thereof (which the software uses).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"