When you live in an era of rapidly changing information, you need reference materials that keep you up-to-date. That’s the promise of the 1999 Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia — Deluxe Edition, a two-CD package targeted at junior high and high school students. In addition to 36,000 articles, the software features Web links to new and updated articles, along with two online encyclopedias. The New Book of Knowledge, for elementary school students, and Encyclopedia Americana, for high school, college, and adult users.
The encyclopedia uses a browserlike interface, with a search index on the left and tabs along the top that let you quickly move among different kinds of information. For example, choose an article on civil rights, and you can view a video of the 1963 March on Washington, hear a part of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, as well as bring up lists of related articles, photos, and video or sound clips.
Browsing and searching capabilities are strong. By default, all articles are listed alphabetically, but you can find topics through several techniques. You can simply enter the first few letters of the article name in the browse field, use category filters to narrow the list of topics, or search for stories using keywords.
The encyclopedia includes QuickTime movies, sound clips, interactive guides to academic subjects, and, new in this version, virtual-reality panoramas. Video clips and other storage-intensive media elements are housed on the second CD, which helps to minimize disk swapping as you’re browsing text and still images on the first CD.
A built-in atlas lets you quickly zoom in on major cities and see their best-known attractions. In a few mouse-clicks you can move from a map of the United States to a photo of Philadelphia’s Liberty Bell.
The package also includes the 250,000-word American Heritage College Dictionary, third edition, but it’s not integrated with the other content. Instead, you click on the Dictionary button to look up a word.
Beale, Stephen. (December 1998). 1999 Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia — Deluxe Edition. Macworld. (pg. 66).
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Emulating this? It could probably run under: 
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