Created in a Land Before Broadband, the Philips Media Comdex cd-rom was one of the first applications I authored for Comdex 1996. Basically an interactive catalog of Philips devices and consumer products it was created in Authorware with some Director modules in place.
We attempted to make it more ‘fun’ by adding little ‘game like’ elements — but really is a frozen moment in time as t where we were with technology: 256 color palettes, bitmap graphics, fonts that weren’t smoothed. It’s painful to look at now, but at the time we were doing something pushing the boundaries.