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Egypt: Voyage to the Land of the Pharaohs DVD by Victory Multimedia

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Model: Victory Multimedia Media: CD-ROM Hardware Platform: Unix Operating Machine: Unix
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Thoth, Akhenaton, Champollion, and the Rosetta stone–gods, people (ancient and modern), and artifacts that each one anticipate discovery on the packed DVD-ROM Egypt: Voyage to the Land of the Pharaohs.

There are several options for exploring the material, and the best for gaining an summary are two narrated introductory movies: History (the bias is against ancient History, with only some minutes protecting the last century) and Civilization. Divided into brief sections, that you could watch these sequentially or pick sections at random. The Movie option is equivalent with 4 sequences of Film, once more break up into sections. The quality is excellent and the script is fascinating, although even with an updated COMPUTER, the Movie ran a bit of jerkily on occasions. Thumbnails of associated issues appear because the Film runs; these will also be adopted to further images and textual content.

There are Also aerial maps of components of Egypt. On The Other Hand, even if you can zoom in to a level, that you may't see in reality distinct views from the air. Also, the geographical map has quite little detail and doesn't show the u . s .'s borders.

Navigation can be more straightforward: the position of the main menu bar on the bottom of the reveal implies that it's all too straightforward to pop up the Home Windows Start menu. Should You're simply following your nose during the contents, the use of the index, thumbnails, and hypertext hyperlinks, efficiency can feel sluggish. The Trip Log is a great idea, Then Again; it constructs an itinerary from locations you select as you browse.

All manner of attention-grabbing element unfolds as you peruse this comprehensive Egyptian compendium. –Mark Whitehorn

Platforms

Home Windows NT, Mac, Linux, Unix, Windows Ninety Eight, Windows 2000, Home Windows Me, Windows Ninety Five

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Writer: Victory Multimedia Class: Historical Past Binding: CD-ROM


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