Newsweek Interactive: Unfinished Business (PC, CD-ROM) Software Toolworks - 1993 USA, Canada Release (OEM)

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Newsweek Interactive: Unfinished Business
TitleNewsweek Interactive: Unfinished Business
Product ID24294-11313oem
Product UPC024294113130
Platform(s)PC
MediaCD-ROM
Publisher(s)Software Toolworks
Category(s)Reference, Periodicals

Description from the packaging.

Volume 1. Issue 1.

The multimedia news program you control! Tune into the world like never before with Newsweek Interactive, the first CD-ROM newsmagazine. You won't just read the news. You'll explore the news, using the very latest in CD-ROM technology. In each edition the editors of Newsweek combine original text, audio, video, animations, narration and photo essays into fascinating, easy-to-use multimedia presentations. Each feature can be enjoyed as a documentary and also explored at depth.

Much more than just a periodical on disc, Newsweek Interactive offers lasting reference value, with topics of enduring interest reported with the same editorial skill that has made Newsweek the choice of 24 million readers worldwide.

In the premier DOS edition of Newsweek Interactive, original feature stories examine global threats to the environment in the Nineties, and the intriguing behind-the-scenes business of baseball.

Unfinished Business: Mending the Earth
From videos of endangered species to colorful animations of global weather phenomena, Mending The Earth provides lively explanations of these dilemmas and positive solutions from experts in the field.

Bye-Bye Baseball?
America's national pastime is in big trouble. From interviews with the greats to wry commentary by Newsweek's sports experts, Bye-Bye Baseball? lets you find out where the money is- and where the sport is going.

Plus:

  • A permanent archive of the previous three months of Newsweek-500,000 words-with full searching capability.
  • Four hours of radio interviews with newsmakers from the weekly program "Newsweek On Air."
  • Nearly two hundred Washington Post articles related to the feature stories, arranged in clipping folders by topic, fully searchable.
  • A narrated "Getting Started" section for new readers.


System Requirements

PC MS-DOS 5.0
Required CPU386-33
Required RAM4MB
Req. Hard Drive3MB Free
Requires MouseYes
Required AudioYes
Supported VideoSVGA

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