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Summary: Won't work on XP
Review: If you're using XP, this CD won't work. The R Frost program requires small fonts, so it says, in order to display properly. On my Windows 2000 Pro, laptop, the Frost CD operates correctly (when I have chosen small fonts). This is done by right clicking on your desktop and chosing properties. (Contrary to what the previous reviewer states, my Frost CD has worked on all my windows operating systems until XP.) Under Windows XP, the only options for Fonts are Normal, Large and Extra Large. So... even though the Frost CD would *probably* work on an XP system (if one could edit the program) because XP tells the Frost program that it is using the "normal" font size, the Frost CD refuses to boot. This is a real shame because the CD is beautifully done & well worth the money. The fix is probably a simple one for a hacker. Any hackers out there?
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Summary: Obsolete Software
Review: The multimedia is a nice idea, but it's the poetry that lasts forever. The software is designed to work on Macintosh OS 7.1 or higher, Windows 3.1, or Windows 95. I could not get the software to work on Windows 98 with either the 16-bit QuickTime that comes with the software or the current QuickTime 6.
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Summary: Robert Frost CD ROM Rocks
Review: This is the conclusion of my rhymed review
published in The ROBERT FROST REVIEW,
Fall 1999, pages 75-80.
Copyright (c) 1999 by John Ridland: Who's this book good for in the end?
Anyone, whether foe or friend
Of Frost, or neutral, to explore
His "world" (and ours)--an open door,
Just as its press release declares,
Which leads up/down Escherian stairs,
For "poetry lovers, scholars, schools,
Libraries", with the learning tools
Laid in our hands, or CD drawer,
(Which true-blue Luddites will deplore
As treacherous tautology)
By our last century's technology--
Or several doors by which to enter
And search for one who, in the center,
Sits, like his "Secret" I once got
In a fortune cookie, I kid you not!
HIS Secret, which this disk will guard,
Is out: he's still America's Bard.
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