Microsoft Cinemania 95: The Entertaining Guide to Movies and the Moviemakers (CD-ROM)

here's a thrift store find Microsoft Cinemania 95 part of Microsoft home and only for distribution with a new PC it's actually one of several different encyclopedia like programs that Microsoft made to join the cd-rom revolution and it promises exciting multimedia content from the likes of Roger Ebert Leonard Maltin and five thousand and one nights at the movies first things first I would like to thank Microsoft for not demanding a serial number during installation copy-protection might feel like a necessary evil but for an encyclopedia program I'm glad they did away with it it was actually a bit of a struggle getting this program to run on modern machines I had to try running Windows 95 in a virtual machine and when that failed I tried 98 which had strange graphical issues but finally Windows XP actually worked and oh man I was not prepared for the techno cd-rom Information Age excitem