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Screenshot from Cooking with Dom DeLuise

Cooking with Windows recap

We made recipes from CD-ROM cookbooks. Here are our thoughts about them and their (mostly terrific) food.

This Saturday, we’re cooking with Windows

On April 8th, 2017, a few friends and I will attempt to cook recipes from old CD-ROM cookbooks. It could be amazing or a total disaster!

MindGym

This unique, stunning surrealist self-help guide gets arrogant when it uses the strengths of the multimedia CD-ROM format to make players examine how they think.

Screen capture of CNET's CD-ROM Central page "CD-ROMs for Your Coffee Table"

Reclaiming the multimedia “coffee table”

An old CD-ROM review directory serves as a reminder of the cultural significance of multimedia – and why that period is worth reevaluating.

Sierra LandDesigner 3D

Sierra’s line of home productivity software (really!) included this gardening tool, which makes it easier to plan a garden but doesn’t necessarily teach how to landscape well.