Music ISLAND vol.5: The Blue Danube (うつくしく青きドナウ) is a CD-ROM-based music entertainment title. It features the musical waltz The Blue Danube by Johann Strauss II, presented with animation.[1]
Features[]
Three different editions of Music ISLAND vol.5 were produced: The Original edition includes bilingual English and Japanese support. It also supports General MIDI playback, either with built-in MIDI software or an external sequencer like Cubase, allowing the user to isolate instruments. The Lite edition omits English support and MIDI capabilities. The "Oke Pit" Orchestra & Piano Trainer edition includes the orchestral score sheets and a picture book with musical arrangements for piano solos.[1][2][3]
Release status[]
Win/Mac CD jacket (Original edition).
Music ISLAND vol.5 was developed by Oracion (オラシオン) with Macromedia Director and released in Japan around 1996 as a set of separate discs (not hybrid) for Windows and Macintosh. Though it is compatible with older Macintosh computers with 68040 processors and older PCs running Windows 3.1, MIDI support requires a Power Macintosh with a PowerPC processor or a PC running Windows 95.[2]
Unlike earlier volumes from the Music ISLAND series, a Pippin version of The Blue Danube is not known to have been released.[4]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 パソコンで楽しめる音楽ソフト 「Music ISLANDシリーズ」。 (Japanese), Oracion. Archived 1997-07-12.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 The Beautiful, Blue Danube, Oracion. Archived 1997-07-12.
- ↑ The Pippin and MIDI (French) by Pierre Dandumont, Journal du Lapin. 2018-01-24.
- ↑ PIPPIN@MARK software release list (Japanese), Retrogeme.
See also[]
- Music ISLAND vol.1: Peter and the Wolf
- Music ISLAND vol.2: The Nutcracker
- Music ISLAND vol.3: The Four Seasons
- Music ISLAND vol.4: Carnival of the Animals
External links[]
- Educational Software (Japanese) at Oracion (archived 1997-07-12)
- Music ISLAND Orchestra & Piano ヨハン・シュトラウス２ (Japanese) at VCDS