The National Audubon Society Interactive CD-ROM Guide to North American Birds (National Audubon Society Interactive CD-ROM Series)

Rating:
Summary: Difficult to recommend because of serious flaws.
Review: While this CD-ROM is interesting and has a number of good points, there are several problems with it. Good points: very complete, with much information about each species of bird listed. Interesting video, text, sound, and pictures. Bad points: most important, this CD-ROM DOES NOT RUN under Windows 98 (although it works with Windows 95). It requires you to reset your display to 256 colors, with a corresponding lack of color depth in the included pictures - frustrating in this age of high powered graphics adapters. Sound files are overly loud and some were recorded at too high level, causing noticable distortion. This CD-ROM would benefit greatly from a makeover.