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A list of known multimedia content is below, in roughly chronological order. | A list of known multimedia content is below, in roughly chronological order. | ||
* 1994 Pickle's Book (CD-ROM) <span style="color: | * 1994 Pickle's Book (CD-ROM) <span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span> | ||
* 1995 Cookie & Ginger (CD-ROM) <span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''</span> | * 1995 Cookie & Ginger (CD-ROM) <span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''</span> | ||
* 1996 Crouton (CD-ROM) <span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''</span> | * 1996 Crouton (CD-ROM) <span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''</span> | ||
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A list of Thoru's HyperCard stacks can be found on the website of ''Motoyuki Tanaka'', where they were hosted.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20050310003241/http://mtlab.ecn.fpu.ac.jp/Yamamoto/works.html</ref> These were a mix of animations and interactive scenes and are listed alphabetically below. Out of a total of 32 stacks only 22 are present in the Wayback Machine archive of the aforementioned website. | A list of Thoru's HyperCard stacks can be found on the website of ''Motoyuki Tanaka'', where they were hosted.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20050310003241/http://mtlab.ecn.fpu.ac.jp/Yamamoto/works.html</ref> These were a mix of animations and interactive scenes and are listed alphabetically below. Out of a total of 32 stacks only 22 are present in the Wayback Machine archive of the aforementioned website. | ||
* A Little Tree <span style="color: | * A Little Tree <span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span> | ||
* Drug Store <span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span> | * Drug Store <span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span> | ||
* Hand to Hand <span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span> | * Hand to Hand <span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span> | ||
* Happy Man <span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span> | * Happy Man <span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span> | ||
* Mid Night Gig <span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span> | * Mid Night Gig <span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span> | ||
* See The Sky (Vol. 1-6) <span style="color: | * See The Sky (Vol. 1-6) <span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span> | ||
* ZiZi Stories (Vol. 1–16) <span style="color: | * See The Sky (Combined) <span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span> | ||
* ZiZi Stories (Vol. 1–16) <span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span> | |||
* ZiZi on the Web <span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span> | |||
Revision as of 14:46, 4 August 2021
ZiZi Stories, Vol. 1 (Title Screen)
Status: Partially Found
Date found: Unknown
Found by: Unknown
Thoru Yamamoto (山本徹)[1] is a Japanese artist. Over time he has released art in many formats, including magazine illustrations, HyperCard decks, CD-ROM, printed books, websites, digital stickers and videos.
Websites
Over the past 30 years Thoru Yamamoto has had many different online homes.
Historial
Below is a list of those that have been found so far, in roughly chronological order judging by the contents.
- 1997 http://mtlab.ecn.fpu.ac.jp/Yamamoto/works.html
- 1998 http://www.bekkoame.or.jp/~thoru/
- 1998 http://www.tky.3web.ne.jp/~thoruman/index.html
- 2002 http://homepage1.nifty.com/okuji/contest.html
- 2002 http://www.eggegg.co.jp/~tango/index.html
- 2004 http://www.thoruman.com/tyhp/works/work.html
- 2007 http://web.mac.com/thoru/thoruman/top.html
- unknown and unarchived http://www.softmaterial.com/tb/
Current
Some websites are still online though all have not been updated in many years.
- 2004 http://pickle.cc/jp/
- 2004 http://www.languagegame.org:8080/zoo/1
- 2008 http://www.youtube.com/user/thoruman
- 2016 http://thoruman.web.fc2.com
CD-ROMs
A list of known multimedia content is below, in roughly chronological order.
- 1994 Pickle's Book (CD-ROM) Found
- 1995 Cookie & Ginger (CD-ROM) Lost
- 1996 Crouton (CD-ROM) Lost
- 1996? Penny (CD-ROM) Lost
- 1996 See The Sky (CD-ROM or Printed Book) Lost
- 1999 Trash (2HD Floppy Disk) Lost
- 1999 Bon voyage Chai (CD-R) Lost
Note: a port of Pickle's Book remains available for iOS[2] but this differs in a number of ways to the older personal computer CD-ROM version, which would install icons to your desktop as you played.
HyperCard stacks
HyperCard is a software application and development kit for early Apple computers, most notably the Macintosh. It gave users of any skill level the ability to put together interactive information.
A list of Thoru's HyperCard stacks can be found on the website of Motoyuki Tanaka, where they were hosted.[3] These were a mix of animations and interactive scenes and are listed alphabetically below. Out of a total of 32 stacks only 22 are present in the Wayback Machine archive of the aforementioned website.
- A Little Tree Found
- Drug Store Found
- Hand to Hand Found
- Happy Man Found
- Mid Night Gig Found
- See The Sky (Vol. 1-6) Found
- See The Sky (Combined) Found
- ZiZi Stories (Vol. 1–16) Found
- ZiZi on the Web Found
Found files have been uploaded to the HyperCard Stacks collection at Internet Archive.[4]
Note: all 16 volumes of ZiZi Stories are still available online as HTML [5], but these versions lack the sound, animated transitions and frame pacing of the older HyperCard versions.
Other Software
Macintosh
- AsistantPickle Lost
PalmOS
- Coconuts World Found
- PalmPickle Found
References
- ↑ http://nobi.com/jp/mac/entry106.html
- ↑ https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pickles-book/id794738212
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20050310003241/http://mtlab.ecn.fpu.ac.jp/Yamamoto/works.html
- ↑ https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Thoru+Yamamoto%22&sort=titleSorter
- ↑ http://thoruman.web.fc2.com/zizi/zindex.html