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Last Chance to See
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| Author: | Douglas Adams |
| Publisher: | The Voyager Company |
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Download Last_Chance_Mac_CD1.cdr_.sit
(245.09 MB)
For System 6.x - Mac OS 9
For System 6.x - Mac OS 9
Download Last_Chance_Mac_CD2.cdr_.sit
(277.68 MB)
For System 6.x - Mac OS 9
For System 6.x - Mac OS 9
"We think of Douglas Adams as the author of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy--in other words, as a superb chronicler of other-worldly life forms and one of the funniest people in the world."
"In Last Chance to See, Adams's habitat is earth and his subject is a serious one, but his sense of humor comes through intact. Here is an interesting tidbit of how the book came about, from Voyager's website: "In Adams's words, this inspired collaboration began when "by some sort of journalistic accident" he was sent to Madagascar with Mark Carwardine to look for an almost extinct form of lemur called the aye-aye. (This passage in the CD-ROM is accompanied by a photograph of Adams holding a lurid stuffed version of the hapless animal.) Adams supplies the narrative and Carwardine the zoological expertise, which is lucky since Adams describes the aye-aye as "a very strange-looking creature that seems to have been assembled from bits of other animals." So begins an odyssey which takes Adams and Carwardine to the remotest corners of the earth in search of animals on the edge of extinction: vanishing elephants, egrets, rhinos, dolphins, and more. Getting there is seldom half the fun (imagine twenty hours on a small boat with a goat killed three days earlier--Komodo dragons like their meat smelly), even when the destination offers more poisonous snakes per foot than any other spot on earth ("Don't get bitten," advised an international expert on venom when consulted by an anxious Adams). Adams's adventures are punctuated by reflections on evolution, the human animal, and the variety and fragility of life on our planet."
Read more about this multimedia title at Home Of The Underdogs/Last Chance to See.
The Windows 3.1 version can be downloaded from serveral places:
The Internet Archive Software Collection/The Voyager Company/Last Chance To See CD-ROMs
Oldgames.com/Last Chance to See Download (1993 Educational Game)
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The HOTU/Last Chance link I entered above, do you also think it's incomplete, as it only offers the install instructions file, but not the file in request?
Anyone know if a French version of "Last Chance To See/Les derniers de leur espèce" exists?
(platform doesn't matter. I already got german PC version).
Hurry, this is on France/Germany ARTE television this week:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/lastchancetosee/sites/about/
In 2009, Mark Carwardine and Stephen Fry took a second look
to the places Mark and Douglas visited in the past.
Monday, Apr. 4, 2011 to Friday, Apr. 08, 2011, each 19:30 MEZ time:
French: Les derniers de leur espèce - Série documentaire
German: Die Letzten ihrer Art - Dokumentarfilmreihe von Tim Green
Second CD ROM added.
Finally I got uploaded the first CD of two, for now.
Second CD ROM will be uploaded later.
Compared to the Windows version, available at HOTUD, which offers 16 and 256 colours,
the Mac version offers three different colour depths, namely b/w, 256, Millions.