Passage to VietnamPassage to Vietnam
Passage to Vietnam takes you on a guided tour of the country and people of Vietnam. Your guides are some of the world's top photographers. This is an in-depth view of a beautiful and little-known country which has played a major role on the world stage.
The main attraction of Passage to Vietnam is the incredible photography. The disk contains over 400 photographs as well as videos and audio clips. There is coverage of all the many ethnic groups of Vietnam, images of the ways different Vietnamese live, photos of major events in Vietnamese life and more. Passage to Vietnam is not a CD-ROM that will entertain for just one evening.
There are several ways to navigate. The primary interface, termed the Quebe, is a three-dimensional interface tool. Each of its six sides does something different. You can view the program sequentially, select the Passages menu for an interactive table of contents, or select a map to view pictures relating to particular locations. Several times during Passage to Vietnam the Quebe opens up to issue special invitations. These can take you to interactive photo editing selections, virtual galleries of a photographer's work, and subject-oriented photos.
I did have some installation problems. The CD-ROM would not run with QuickTime for Windows installed on my hard disk. This problem was covered in the documentation and the workaround (deleting some files then having to reinstall QuickTime to run other CD-ROMs using it) was straightforward if annoying. On the definite plus side--Passage to Vietnam requires no hard disk space to run.
For PC: For PC: 386 or better (preferably a 486), a 256-color VGA card and at least 5 MB memory. This is one of the few CD-ROMs that can actually take advantage of more than 256 colors.
