What is The 1998 Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia?

This retooled Grolier boasts more multimedia and twice as many videos and photos, but only slightly enhanced articles. The big change in this version is the Online Knowledge Explorer, which allows you to hook up with Grolier’s two online encyclopedias (Encyclopedia Americana, which is more scholarly, and The New Book of Knowledge, which is not so scholarly) and pregathered Web links.

This feature, complemented by smooth and easy navigation, stacks Grolier ’98 higher than many in the encyclopedia crowd for its price range. However, one of Grolier’s other new gimmicks, computer-generated narration, brings it back down. Besides the narration’s constant monotone voice, words continually are mispronounced (“skiing” is “sky-ing”).

As in most other multimedia encyclopedias, the short, often simplistic articles won’t satisfy much of an intellectual appetite. Plus, there’s always more need for movies and graphics.

Mahr, Joe. (February 1998). CD-ROMs. MacAddict. (pg. 71).

Download The 1998 Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia for Mac

Architecture

68K + PPC (FAT)

System Requirements

From Mac OS 7.1

Compatibility notes

Emulating this? It could probably run under: SheepShaver