“Le Louvre, the Palace and its Paintings” is published by the Imagine the World label. This label is well known for the quality and creativity of its work. It suggests a sense of freedom and of wonder and aims to encourage users to invent their own world by stimulating their imagination. The Louvre, the Palace and its Paintings is the first title by Montparnasse Multimédia to be published under the Imagine the world label.
From the original fortress built by Philippe Auguste to the Grand Louvre today, this journey through the palace’s eight centuries of history will help you to become familiar with the greatest museum in the world.
You can choose a period and discover the designs of Kings and architects, wander through the different wings of the Palace, or go into a room and look at a painting.
One hundred paintings, amongst the museum’s most important works, illustrate the history of the major European schools (French, Italian, Flemish, Dutch, Spanish and English) from the very early artists (primitives) up until the 19th century masters.
Travel through time and through the collections, stopping at your favourite master pieces. Admire the colours, reproduced faithfully thanks to a special selection. Hear and share the story of each work and that of its artist.
Enjoy the paintings presented full-screen, the zoom functions, the interactive commentaries on details and the animations. A timeline, an index, a glossary, more than two and a half hours of sound commentary and twenty minutes of music all enhance the ways of exploring this fully interactive CD-Rom.
Now go and discover the Louvre and its treasures!
Configuration required:
A Macintosh LCIII or higher range model with at least 3.5 Mo RAM to run the application.
System 7 or a more recent version.
An Apple compatible double speed CD-Rom player.
A 13” screen with at least 256 colours.
The Quicktime extension is optional, but improves performance.
The Sound Manager 3.0 extension is also optional but improves the sound quality.
You will find these extensions in the “place in the system” file, to install them, drag them onto your system file.
It is advisable to de-activate all system extensions, as well as the General controls files, which are not necessary in order to run this application (e.g. screen saver).
If you wish to increase the quantity of memory allowed for the application, copy “Le Louvre” onto your hard disk and change the reading in the “read the information” window of the Finder. Two pre-prepared applications are available on the CD-Rom: a 3Mo version and a 5Mo version.
Tip : If you use a 3M version, you can display the zoom image full window by pressing the "Alt" key while clicking on "Zoom" button. Please note that the display time is longer. If you do it again, you can display the zoom image medium window. If the image is not displayed full window, your configuration has not sufficient memory. Try to improve the performance of your configuration by increasing the quantity of memory allowed for the application.
Sound problems may occur if your virtual memory is activated or Ram Doubler is installed
Some problems may occur if QuickTime PowerPlug is activated (it is advisable to de activate this extension or to remove it from your System Folder)
Some problems may occur if "modern memory manager" is activated (it is advisable to de activate this option in the "Memory" panel)
