Boris Fantasy Art CD-ROM

CD-ROM published by Gazelle Technologies, Inc. 1992

Contents: 200 images compatible with PC and Macintosh, and viewer software.

PC-accessible images are in three formats:

• 8-bit colour in small size, Windows Bitmap (.BMP) - image size typically about 50 KB
• 8-bit colour in large size, Windows Bitmap (.BMP) - image size typically about 160 KB
• 24-bit colour in large size, Tagged Image File Format (.TIF) - image size typically about 1 MB

Image quality is good. The CD purports to have 200 images - whilst it is true that there are that many image files on the disc, there are several errors as follows:

• The Aquilonian (AQUILON) is duplicated as Warrior (WARRIOR)
• Colony (COLONY) is duplicated as Space Colonies (SPACECOL)
• The file for The Loch Ness Monster Lives (LOCHNESS) actually contains a duplicate of The Lavalite World (LAVALITE)
• The file 'QUESTZM' is a cropped version of Quest (QUEST.)

The net result of all this is that there are only 196 unique images on the CD. For the sake of brevity I have not included any of the duplicate files in this listing.

There is, unfortunately, no associated text file which gives further image details. I would guess this is true of the Macintosh versions too. The CD predates Windows 95 so the filenames conform to the original DOS (8.3) format.

I can confirm that more recent editions of the CD still contain the same errors although the viewer software appears to be a little more sophisticated than that originally provided.