I have a good dozen CD-ROMs which my boys got a lot of mileage out of
when we stayed in the UAE.
The first thing to do is to extract all the media - and this can be a
right-pain-in-the-bum as quite a lot of
these CDs were authored using MacroMedia products where the media are
embedded in a way which seems
to make them inaccessible.
After that . . .
Run up LiveCode stacks that mimic the FUNCTIONALITY of the original CDs
(this is surprisingly easy).
I have a horde of Dorling-Kindersley CDs that contain stuff that really
rocks (well, up to the point
that media authored for a Mac Performa 5700 is of a far, far lower
quality and size than what is
the norm nowadays).
I wrote to them twice and they never bothered to reply
they did not "essentially" ignore me: they IGNORED me. This is nonsense
as, presumably, there is no obvious way
they can make the odd bob out of ancient CD-ROMS; and if they had a bit
of nous they might realise that they could
climb into bed with you to mutual advantage . . .
so I would merrily chant my favourite mantra:
"abandonware, abandonware" and make sure that anything I did with media
ripped off from those
CDs was splattered with disclaimers and released on a not-for-profit basis.
Richard Gaskin will probably now come after me with the castrating
irons. :)
Even if he doesn't, his knowledge of what-you-can and what-you-cannot
get away with is
both invaluable and far, far more extensive than mine it.
On 23.01.22 14:57, Graham Samuel via use-livecode wrote:
I know I’m old enough to be the father of the average LiveCoder, and maybe the
grandfather of quite a few, so I clearly remember CD-ROMs. I had a favourite
cross-platform one which contains some very attractive material, and I have
often thought of reviving the contents using either an LC standalone, or (as is
presumably now possible), an LC-generated web app. Sadly I have never been able
to have a sensible conversation with the copyright owner (they’ve essentially
ignored me), so this would begin as a private project. I’m still wondering what
the best technical approach should be. The material includes videos (not
interactive) and synchronised text and audio files. After thinking about it for
years, I still think it would be fun to do.
Has anyone any ideas about how to approach this conversion (or re-purposing, or
whatever term you want to use)?
Graham
On 21 Jan 2022, at 19:56, Jim Lambert via use-livecode
<use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
A quarter of a century ago, we called this Interactive Multimedia.
It was usually delivered on a CD-ROM. Ask your parents! ;)
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