growing up in the #90s with an IBM-crompatible Amstrad PC meant living in the golden age of #edutainment
among a glut of educational software companies, a few stood out as absolute masters of the medium. a personal favourite of mine was Knowledge Adventure. their attention to detail, sense of humour, playful UIs and unique hexagonal boxes made the software absolutely memorable.
while 3-D Dinosaur adventure is most warmly remembered for its anaglyph 3d movies, i adored its older cousin: Undersea Adventure. our family didn't own a CD-ROM in the early 90s, and I was blown away when I found out it included digitized video *on floppy disk* in 1992. the program uses a purpose-built educational book interface, similar to Hypercard. i still love the narrator's voiceovers for marine life and locations.
Hamilton Altstatt's incredible soundtrack stood out so much to me that i extracted all of the compressed general MIDI files, and @demodulated recorded it on his Roland SC-55:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loMDvI7z-as
I also captured the non-interactive demo with SB FM music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ46Y_wZHpc
and recorded a podcast episode about the software and company too:
http://vga256.com/podcast/episodes/episode9-undersea.mp3