Thoru Yamamoto works (partially found interactive media; 1990s)

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ZiZi Stories, Vol. 1 (Title Screen)

Status: Partially Found

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.

Current

Some websites are still online though all have not been updated in many years.

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) Found
  • 1996? Penny (CD-ROM) Lost
  • 1996 See The Sky (CD-ROM) Lost
  • 1996 See The Sky (Printed Book) Found
  • 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 were present in the Wayback Machine archive of the aforementioned website. The rest were sourced from elsewhere.

  • 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 Found
  • ZiZi Christmas! Found
  • ZiZi on the Web Found
  • ZiZi Stories (Vol. 1–16) Found


Found files have been uploaded to the HyperCard Stacks collection at Internet Archive.[4]

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

  • AsistantPickle [6] Found

PalmOS

  • Coconuts World Found
  • PalmPickle Found

References

  1. ↑ http://nobi.com/jp/mac/entry106.html
  2. ↑ https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pickles-book/id794738212
  3. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20050310003241/http://mtlab.ecn.fpu.ac.jp/Yamamoto/works.html
  4. ↑ https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Thoru+Yamamoto%22&sort=titleSorter
  5. ↑ http://thoruman.web.fc2.com/zizi/zindex.html
  6. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20010203173700/http://www.eggegg.co.jp:80/tango/rbhp/pasist2/pasist.html
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