IRELAND DISKOVERED

If you love Ireland, you will love this disk. Two years in the making, Ireland Diskovered is the first and only CD ROM to give you an interactive multimedia tour of the Emerald Isle. Here you may experience the grandeur of it's green hills and rocky shores, the nobility of it's people, and learn about the glory and sacrifice in its history.

View over 2000 pictures of everything from Kilkenny Castle to the pubs of Dublin. Read selections from James Joyce or the Irish Constitution. You may look to see what happened in the year your grandfather was born by using the time-line function, or listen to selections of great Irish poetry and song. There are so many useful, easy to use features.

"Diskover" hundreds of castles, abbeys, and other historic sites in all the Irish counties and then locate them on the map with a click of your mouse. You will want to use the slide show as a virtual Ireland screensaver for a beautiful random display of full screen pictures. You may print any picture directly from the disk if you like as well.

Ireland Diskovered is full of facts, pictures and humor, and it's easy to use. You may learn and experience as much about Ireland as if you were there, and when you're ready, test yourself with The Ireland Game, also on the same CD.

The Ireland Game, a separate program, included free is a fun for the whole family program that gives the player 15 seconds to identify a picture of Ireland from a multiple choice of five descriptions. The game gives varying points for easy, medium or hard pictures and whomever leaves the game with the highest score remains "Leprechaun of the Day: until someone else tops that score. It is a wonderful way to learn about the land which is the ancestral home of over 45 millkon Americans.

The Irish Times said of the disk:
"The typos irritate, but they don't disguise the effort and enthusiasm that one man has put into this collection of "facts, figures, oddities, readings and other surprises from Ireland". Al Brenner, of Derry, New Hampshire, came to Ireland, photographed, travelled and wrote. This disc of pictures, places and humour is the result.

It's not thc last word on the subject. but it is the most personal, direct and ironic CD-Rom that has come in to Computimes for review in four years. For this, its sense of humour and for showing that this new medium doesn't belong only to large companies, it may well be worth having."

System Requirements: Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher, SVGA card, optional sound card.