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| 1994 || Pickle's Book || CD-ROM || <span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span> | | 1994 || Pickle's Book || CD-ROM || <span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span> | ||
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| 1995 || Cookie & Ginger || CD-ROM || <span style="color: | | 1995 || Cookie & Ginger || CD-ROM || <span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span> | ||
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| 1996 || Crouton || CD-ROM || <span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span> | | 1996 || Crouton || CD-ROM || <span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span> | ||
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| 1996? || Penny || CD-ROM || <span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''</span> | | 1996? || Penny || CD-ROM || <span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''</span> | ||
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| 1996 || See The Sky || CD-ROM || <span style="color: | | 1996 || See The Sky || CD-ROM || <span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span> | ||
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| 1996 || See The Sky || Printed Book || <span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span> | | 1996 || See The Sky || Printed Book || <span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span> | ||
Revision as of 15:25, 26 December 2022
Title screen of ZiZi Stories Vol. 1
Status: Partially Found (Multimedia content)
Found (HyperCard stacks)
Found (Other software)
Thoru Yamamoto (山本徹 or とーるやまもと),[1] born 1955, 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
Multimedia content
A list of known multimedia content is below, in roughly chronological order.
| Release Year | Name | Media Type | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | Pickle's Book | CD-ROM | Found |
| 1995 | Cookie & Ginger | CD-ROM | Found |
| 1996 | Crouton | CD-ROM | Found |
| 1996? | Penny | CD-ROM | Lost |
| 1996 | See The Sky | CD-ROM | Found |
| 1996 | See The Sky | Printed Book | Found |
| 1999 | Trash | 2HD Floppy Disk | Lost |
| 1999 | See The Sky | 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 were present in the Wayback Machine archive of the aforementioned website. The rest were sourced from elsewhere. Found files have been uploaded to the HyperCard Stacks collection at Internet Archive.[4]
| Name | Status |
|---|---|
| A Little Tree | Found |
| Drug Store | Found |
| Hand to Hand | Found |
| Happy Man | Found |
| Meet The Moles (Mid Night Gig) | Found |
| See The Sky (Vol. 1-6) | Found |
| See The Sky (Combined) | Found |
| Welcome Menu (Drug Store/HappyMan) | Found |
| Welcome Menu (See The Sky/MidNightGig) | Found |
| ZiZi Christmas! | Found |
| ZiZi on the Web | Found |
| ZiZi Stories (Vol. 1–16) | Found |
Note: all ZiZi are still available online as HTML,[5] but these versions lack the sound, animated transitions and frame pacing of the equivalent HyperCard stacks.
Other Software
Macintosh
| Name | Status |
|---|---|
| AsistantPickle | Found |
PalmOS
| Name | Status |
|---|---|
| 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