Some of these pictures by
Mark Ferrari are from an old program called "
Seize The Day".
It's a nice and quite well-designed daily journal, with quotations, birthdays and death dates for each day, with alarms and on and on and so on. I would make a really good use of this program in the present if it had modern looks and were available both for Windows and Linux.
A nice quirk of this program is the Living Worlds, those pictures animated by pallette tricks. Canvas Cycle has the extended versions of these pictures, but perhaps some of you would enjoy the originals.
It works in Windows 3.1, and the full version was lost and gone
until recently.(To moderators: this program is an abandonware and is no longer sold, and one of the developers, Ian Gilman, is controlling the Get Satisfaction section I'm linking to, and he actually allowed the program's distribution in its current abandonware status. If you think this link violates any of the forum rules, please remove the link to the Get Satisfaction page but keep the link to the Ian Gilman's site. Thank you for reading this.)Another good program by Ian Gilman is
Heaven and Earth.
It's a beautiful puzzle compilation, which includes tricky Illusions, calm Pendulum and patience-like Cardgame.
It is for DOS and classic Mac, and works quite fine in
DOSBox.
More than that,
I would recommend playing this game to anyone who reads this topic. =) It is calm, and trying to find the solution to most Illusions (except Cursor Warping, perhaps) wakes up your mind.
Pendulum is nice when you need to calm down, and Card Game is simply beautiful and a bit unusual.
If you want more challenge, click on the monastery which you can see from the Gateway. The Pilgrimage is as addictive as crawling the dungeons, but it is more creative.
It is one of the few games I really love, and I really would like you to check it. There is too much destruction in modern games, and such gems are truly rare.
If you want the sound to work, install the game with
setup -s instead of
setup.