Amanda Storiesbyby Amanda Goodenough (Author)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.

Format:Macintosh/Windows CD-ROM
SRP:$29.95
Age Level:3 to 5
Curriculum:Fun and Early Learning

These classic children's stories, created by Amanda Goodenough, combine superb storytelling with simple, intuitive interactivity. Kids simply point and click, sending spunky Inigo the Cat and Your Faithful Camel through one rollicking adventure after another! Not only is there a strong narrative--in ten separate stories Inigo explores his house, his dream, the outside world, and Your Faithful Camel ventures as far afield as the North Pole--but where you click actually determines the course of the story. Full of adorable color animations, sound effects, and original music, each tale allows children to explore stories over and over, following different paths.

"These programs are highly recommended for children."--The New York Times

"This interactive storybook's simple drawings will entertain and entrance young children and their parents."--The Multimedia Home Companion

FEATURES

Beautiful color animations

Strong narrative which includes ten different storylines

By clicking the mouse the user determines the course of the stories

Original music and great sound effects

No reading required

Technical 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 inThe International Journal of Digital Curation;Volume 7, Issue 2 | 2012:

Virtual CD-ROM Collections

Although 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 softwaresupport 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.