Initially I went to look around the vicinity of where I live in southern Australia. ![]() It wasn’t long before I gave Cosmo the flick and asked him to leave.Įncarta 96 World Atlas upon startup running on Windows 98. This was a time when Microsoft was thinking how fabulous animated assistants would be for replacing boring Help files. Loading up Encarta World Atlas for the first time shows the globe in full, and a little assistant named Cosmo pops up to provide help. Encarta 96 World Atlas is also not dependant on having Encarta previously installed either, though the user base were likely to have it anyway. A 486 DX 33MHz PC with 8 MB RAM and Windows 95 installed were the required minimum, with a slight increase in RAM needed if one was using Windows NT 3.51. ![]() Unlike Encarta 96 itself you missed out if your PC was running Windows 3.1. Understanding how the world lives, its statistics, and cultures were also focal points utilising Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia as the data source. ![]() The maps were much more detailed than what was provided in Encarta, though still no substitute for planning your next interstate road trip. ![]() As the name implies this was very much an expansion to the Encarta encyclopedia product line with an emphasis on geography. This was the first in the Encarta World Atlas series.
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