The interface is easy enough to explain-quite simply, it will look like whatever graphical web browser you throw at it. For the purposes of this review, I used AMosaic 1.4 (not having upgraded to the 2.0 beta as of yet.) While World-Info '95 is being marketed for "any" computer platform with graphical web browsing capabilities, the "feel" is that it was aimed at the Amiga, if for no other reason than it lacks a text-based search utility, which at the time the CD was being compiled was not available on the Web browser of the day, AMosaic 1.3.
What you do get is a way to search through the facts Danny and friends have compiled for you. You can start all the way at the most general way to delineate the world (landmasses and oceans), then break it down to continents (interestingly enough, they percieve North and South America as one continent for some purposes), and so forth, right down to latitude and longitude of major world cities. Along the way, you can pick up such national data as the usual almanac entries of population, inflation, birth/death rate, literacy rate, and the like, as well as major pollution concerns and human rights violations. Full-color flags are included, and several countries have a portfolio of several pictures available for viewing.
Translation of common phrases between popular world languages (although not the top ten by usage) is included. I'll be well prepared in Armenia. :)
All of the data is included on the CD-ROM in both English and German, which in short means that basically half of the 538 megs on the CD are used for informational purposes, since the German and English data is reproduced, with pictures, in separate directories. It is worth noting that the human rights data seems to be in English exclusively-apparently too huge of a task for translation.
World-Info is a useful resource, but not something that offers an earth-shakingly significant quantity of information. While the international telephone prefix directory is in some ways useful, and certainly is not unwelcome, it is a good capsule of the CD as a whole-interesting, but not stunning. Data does not delve as deeply as it could, particularly when it comes to individual cities, reduced to coordinates and population. Pictures, while nice to view and readily organized in a thumbnail system, should have descriptions by those thumbnails. After all, the idea of a preview is to entice the viewer to dig into the full picture, and telling them what the sight will be in full glorious 256 colors (your capabilities may vary) is a serious help.
The data that has been compiled is certainly worth having access to, particularly in the realm of human rights. (Fascinatingly enough, there is a "no entry" for the US-I presume that is because the reports seem to have originated here.)
In fact, that is one of the major negatives to the CD. Much of the information has been compiled, but not written, by Amor and the D'Addeo sisters. As such, there is an inconsistency in writing style. I am also troubled by the total lack (on the copyright page) of recognition for the various sources that were used to complete the CD.
The team should be applauded for using HTML to create an open resource for many computer users. There is an axiom used to describe many large CD-ROM projects, and it does apply here-"there is something for everyone." Few resources like this exist for the Amiga. But don't rely on it alone to plan your winter holiday.