Macintosh Garden - The Voyager Company

Beethoven & Beyond

OZ1SMB — Sat, 03 Jan 2015 09:48:26 +0000

The third volume of the „So I’ve Heard“ series begins with an explosion - the musical upheavals brought about by the innovations of udwig van Beethoven - and follows the unfolding of the Romantic movement through the compositios of Schubert, Chopin, and Brahms. „So I’ve Heard“ uses CD-ROM technology to create informed, witty guides to classical music. Each volume contains Alan Rich’s tour of over 40 performances of some of the world’s greatest music. - description taken from the box

A Night To Remember

OZ1SMB — Fri, 02 Jan 2015 13:53:19 +0000

For description see box back picture.

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Voyager Presents

mrdav — Tue, 22 Jul 2014 10:28:31 +0000

Application file:

VoyagerPresents.toast_.sit

This is a rare preview disc with over 45 demos of titles by The Voyager Company which was founded in 1984 and ran until 1997. The demos are not playable and are instead non-interactive previews demonstrating what the full versions of the titles featured are like. There's also information about the products and bonus insights from the authors who cooperated on the titles such as Douglas Adams and Stephen Jay Gould. (Adventure Legends)

This is a hybrid Mac/PC disc image, compressed with StuffIt 5.5

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Category:

Reference

Author:

The Voyager Company

Year released:

1995

Publisher:

The Voyager Company

Architecture:

68k

Treasures of the American Museum of Natural History

mrdav — Sun, 20 Jul 2014 22:15:30 +0000

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Treasures of the American Museum of Natural History features In the spirit of exploration, eight guided tours link the treasures thematically and introduce a wide range of behind-the-scenes material: rare photographs, unusual film footage, and lots of surprises. Move around the Visible Woman, the world's first computer-simulated hologram; scroll across the hundred-foot-long Evolutionary Tree of Fishes, from sharks to sunfish; watch a morph of human evolution, from Australopithecus to spear-toting Cro-Magnon man; and navigate around the Akeley Hall of African Mammals using QuickTime VR.

Compatibility:

68040 CPU
SSW 7.5
5 MB RAM
640 x 480 display
256 colours

Category:

Reference

Author:

Learn Technologies Interactive

Year released:

1996

Publisher:

The Voyager Company

System:

System 7.0 - 7.6

Mac OS 8 - 8.1

Mac OS 8.5 - 8.6

Mac OS 9

Architecture:

68k

Poetry in Motion

mrdav — Wed, 25 Jun 2014 00:34:38 +0000

Application file:

Poetry_In_Motion.toast_.sit

This CD-ROM is based on a film which director / producer Ron Mann made in the early '80s (Sphinx Productions, 1982). Footage for the movie was taken from a marathon poetry reading at a New Year's benefit night for the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church Ukrainian Hall in New York City, and at various readings in Toronto.

Compatibility:

68020 CPU
SSW 6.0.7
4 MB RAM
256 colours

Category:

Reference

Author:

Ron Mann

Year released:

1992

Publisher:

The Voyager Company

System:

System 6.x

System 7.0 - 7.6

Mac OS 8 - 8.1

Mac OS 8.5 - 8.6

Mac OS 9

Architecture:

68k

App's manual:

Poetry_in_Motion_Manual.pdf

Criterion Goes to the Movies

mrdav — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 16:09:31 +0000

Application file:

Criterions_Movies.toast_.sit

Among film connoisseurs, the name "Criterion Collection" is synonymous with "quality film releases." Founded by the same founders as Voyager Company, Criterion is dedicated to "...gathering the greatest films from around the world and publishing them in editions that offer the highest technical quality and award-winning, original supplements. Criterion began with a mission to pull the treasures of world cinema out of the film vaults and put them in the hands of collectors.

Compatibility:

25 MHz 68030
SSW 7
3.5 MB RAM
640 x 480 display

Category:

Reference

Year released:

1994

Publisher:

The Voyager Company

System:

System 7.0 - 7.6

Mac OS 8 - 8.1

Mac OS 8.5 - 8.6

Mac OS 9

Architecture:

68k

App's manual:

Criterions_Movies_Manual.pdf

A Silly Noisy House

mrdav — Sun, 22 Jun 2014 07:40:54 +0000

Secret passageways, a teddy bear's birthday party, favourite songs and nursery rhymes, tongue twisters, and magic wands await children in this animated, sound-filled toybox…For ages 3 and up. No reading skills required. (from the CD box).

Here is an account by the author of the making of this CD.

This is a hybrid Mac/PC disc image.

Amnesty Interactive

mrdav — Sat, 21 Jun 2014 15:56:48 +0000

Application file:

Amnesty.toast_.sit

An interactive journey through history and human rights stories in words, pictures, animation, and music from around the world. Examines the people, ideas, and events that have shaped the history of human rights and the issues that influence freedom in countries around the world. Includes human rights documents, bibliographies, and materials about the work of Amnesty International USA. (WorldCat)

This is a hybrid Mac/PC disc image.

Compatibility:

68030 CPU
SSW 7.0
2 MB RAM
640 x 480 display
256 colours

Category:

Reference

Year released:

1995

Publisher:

The Voyager Company

System:

System 7.0 - 7.6

Mac OS 8 - 8.1

Mac OS 8.5 - 8.6

Mac OS 9

Architecture:

68k

The Louvre Museum

mrdav — Mon, 26 May 2014 07:46:37 +0000

Full-screen images of more than 150 of the Louvre Museum's most treasured works of art including the Mona Lisa, Winged Victory, and a self portrait by Rembrandt. A virtual gallery provides instant sense of scale, and multiple close-ups, zoom in on details like tiny animals hiding in Flemish tapestry. More than 100 challenging puzzles turn famous works of art into fun-filled games. For ages 3 and up (From the CD information)

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Who Built America?

mrdav — Tue, 20 May 2014 15:15:39 +0000

Based on a definitive two-volume history of the United States, Who Built America? offers a whole new way to encounter history. Readers can discover how the text was woven from the threads of actual events by accessing some of the thousands of original source documents: audio, video, and text. (From the CD box)

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Who Built America.toast.sit

Compatibility:

SSW 7
68030 processor
5 MB RAM
13 inch (640 x 480) colour or grayscale monitor

Category:

Reference

Year released:

1993

Publisher:

The Voyager Company

System:

System 7.0 - 7.6

Mac OS 8 - 8.1

Mac OS 9

Architecture:

68k

App's manual:

Who_Built_America_manual.pdf