Trending Search forums. What's new. New posts Latest activity. Question Problem running Cinemania 97, I know there must be a workaround! Thread starter Muse Start date Dec 25, Sidebar Sidebar. Forums Software Windows. JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. Previous Next Sort by votes. Muse Lifer. Jul 11, 32, 4, I bought Microsoft Cinemania 97 at a computer show, yeah about 20 years ago.
I still like to check it out sometimes with older movies. I install it on my PCs, which all run Windows. Microsoft stopped issuing new versions with the release, but they did have some updates, which I downloaded and placed in the versions I copied to my computers. I'm using my new rig running Win10 64bit. I still have the CD. The various elements of the program are tied together with a graphical interface that allows for both casual browsing and targeted searching.
Four editions of the series were released, beginning with Microsoft Cinemania '94 and ending with Microsoft Cinemania Each edition included additional content for that year, as well as further multimedia enhancements. Starting with the 96 edition, Microsoft offered limited-time updates to the software through the Internet. The curated lists, for instance, allow you to follow genres of film and get appropriate recommendations. These features are brilliant: a hugely accessible, entertaining film school.
Get the best of Den of Geek delivered right to your inbox! Ironically, the more multimedia content that Cinemania tried to squeeze on, the more compromises needed to be made. The quality of clips tended to be scaled back a little, to accommodate the approximately pieces of media that made it onto the final release. Which thus made Cinemania , ultimately, more of a database to most. One with a big advantage, and a big disadvantage.
The downside is obvious: it was out of date even as the master copy of the software was being pressed. Monthly updates — which ran through to August — were all well and good, but can you imagine it even trying to keep up with the films of today?
Even with its focus primarily on English-language films, Cinemania struggled to keep on top of everything. But heck, it had a valiant try, and its big advantage, especially using the software now, was its speed. And what a pleasant surprise to click on the classic, and be greeted by a picture of Val Kilmer mid-song.
What you then got was admirable detail, though, even if these was not always much of it.
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