What is Leonardo da Vinci?

As innovative as the artist himself, Leonardo da Vinci breaks new ground in bringing art to the masses. Not only does the disc show off da Vinci’s complex and spectacular designs and scientific theories, but it takes his world renowned, scrawhng, 72-page journal and makes it easier to read than a John Grisham novel.

Go out on a limb with the disc’s nifty tree-like interface for demos of his scientific principles, even those that weren’t quite on the mark. Or if you’re saving the best for last, take a peek at da Vinci’s world-famous diary, The Codex Leicester.

Untranslated, the Codex can make for a tough read: Leonardo did most of his scribbling in Italian, right-to-left and backward, the latter two so that his ideas would not be easily stolen. To make the Codex readable, but still authentic, discmakers categorized the Codex by subject and provided a new tool called a Codescope. Readers simply pass it over a section of text to see it translated into perfect, left-to-right English or transcribed Italian. An invention so amazing, da Vinci would have been proud.

Mahr, Joe. (May 1997). CD-ROMs. MacAddict. (pg. 78).

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Architecture

68K + PPC (FAT)

Compatibility notes

Emulating this? It could probably run under: Basilisk II