Post B6vwFRxGkLYuxsDHH6 by domi@donotsta.re
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 (DIR) Post #B6vw50rYcTYc2nZ52u by vga256@mastodon.tomodori.net
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       after years of digging and research, i finally found the toolkit that was used to make MS multimedia software Encarta, Dinosaurs and Dangerous Creatures.when i fell in love with these programs, i imagined they were built with a rich multimedia authoring environment/IDE like Macromedia Director. e.g. dragging and dropping images, sounds, text and video onto a stage, animating it with keyframes, and then scripting it for interaction.the toolkit used was, as it turns out, a very roughly hewn collection of individual programs. there was no IDE. all of the content was written in RTF files, which were then compiled with links to external resources like wavs and avi's.i cannot imagine what a nightmare this was for the MS Home teams to work with. there is no drag and drop of any kind, no object linking and embedding (OLÉ!), nor animation editor. this is a dog's breakfast of individual programs written by different people.i'm frankly amazed that the MS Homes teams put together such well-designed programs *despite* how painful this toolkit is to usethe one thing i can say in its favour is that it has one badass tetricube logo for cover art :Dhuge thank you to @philpem  for archiving this extremely obscure piece of softwarehttps://archive.org/details/microsoft-multimedia-viewer-2.0-rips-20210921-1.7z#multimedia #cdrom #retrocomputing #win31
       
 (DIR) Post #B6vwC7SIVUO0WA8dOq by nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt
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       @vga256 wait, it's time to make a NEW encyclopedia on this engine, right?@philpem
       
 (DIR) Post #B6vwFRxGkLYuxsDHH6 by domi@donotsta.re
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       @nina_kali_nina @vga256 @philpem mediawiki-to-mmv-converter :blobcatthink:
       
 (DIR) Post #B6vwYTWp7XXlLYuosa by nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt
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       @domi very timely@philpem @vga256