Thoru Yamamoto works (partially found interactive media; 1990s)
ZiZi Stories, Vol. 1 (Title Screen)
Status: Partially Found
Date found: Unknown
Found by: Unknown
Thoru Yamamoto (山本徹) is a Japanese artist. Over time he has released art in many formats, including magazine illustrations, HyperCard decks, CD-ROM, printed books.
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
Current
- 2004–date http://pickle.cc/jp/
- 2004–date http://www.languagegame.org:8080/zoo/1
- 2008–date http://www.youtube.com/user/thoruman
- 2016–date http://thoruman.web.fc2.com
CD-ROMS
A list of known multimedia content is below, in roughly reverse chronological order.
- Pickle's Book (CD-ROM) Lost
- Cookie & Ginger (CD-ROM) Lost
- Crouton (CD-ROM) Lost
- Penny (CD-ROM) Lost
- See The Sky (CD-ROM or Printed Book) Lost
- Trash (2HD Floppy Disk) Lost
- Bon voyage Chai (CD-R) Lost
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.[1] 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 this website.
- A Little Tree Lost
- Drug Store Found
- Hand to Hand Found
- Happy Man Found
- Mid Night Gig Found
- See The Sky (Vol. 1-6) Partially Found
- ZiZi Stories (Vol. 1–16) Partially Found
Note that all volumes of ZiZi Stories are still available online as HTML [2], but these versions lack the sound, animated transitions and frame pacing of the older HyperCard versions.