{"id":3586,"date":"2011-09-30T22:55:46","date_gmt":"2011-10-01T05:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/?p=3586"},"modified":"2011-10-01T13:05:39","modified_gmt":"2011-10-01T20:05:39","slug":"space-adventure-cd-rom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/space-adventure-cd-rom\/","title":{"rendered":"Space Adventure CD-ROM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I <a href=\"http:\/\/games.multimedia.cx\/acquisition-log-starcraft-ii\/\">acquired a CD-ROM<\/a> entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobygames.com\/game\/dos\/space-adventure\">Space Adventure<\/a> by Knowledge Adventure (I like these people; they make decent, entertaining educational games). The physical media displays a copyright date of 1993, very early in the multimedia era.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/space-adventure-space-movie.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Space Adventure: Space Movies menu\" width=\"477\" height=\"307\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3590\" srcset=\"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/space-adventure-space-movie.png 477w, https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/space-adventure-space-movie-300x193.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 477px) 100vw, 477px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>This 1993 CD-ROM makes proud use of multimedia files. What kind? There&#8217;s a movies\/ directory with 17 .mov files. It would be way too simple if these were QuickTime files, though. These represent a custom format, and video-only since a separate sounds\/ directory contains .snd files with filenames corresponding to the .mov files. The .snd files are actually <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.multimedia.cx\/index.php?title=Creative_Voice\">Creative Voice (a.k.a. VOC) files<\/a>. As for this MOV format, <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.multimedia.cx\/index.php?title=Space_Adventure_MOV\">wiki page<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/samples.mplayerhq.hu\/game-formats\/space-adventure-mov\/\">samples<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/space-adventure-saturn-fly-by.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Space Adventure: movie of Saturn fly-by\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3593\" srcset=\"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/space-adventure-saturn-fly-by.jpg 500w, https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/space-adventure-saturn-fly-by-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>I was also surprised to find the binary ultrasnd.exe file among the drivers on the disc. <a href=\"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/ode-to-the-gravis-ultrasound\/\">The Gravis UltraSound<\/a> was released in 1992. The sound setup utility does not have an option for the GUS, however. No matter since DOSBox has great SB\/Pro\/16 emulation.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also a bit puzzled about why the DOSBox screenshots are 720 x 480 (posted here are various cropping and resizings).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multimedia format archaeology featuring a 1993 CD-ROM title named Space Adventure<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-hacking"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3586","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=3586"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3599,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3586\/revisions\/3599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}