Mark Ayres & Silva Screen Records'

Enhanced CD Information Page

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These recordings are recommended in the 1998 edition of
The Gramophone Film Music Good CD Guide

Silva Screen Enhanced CDs

Warriors of the Silver Screen
(Silva Screen FILMXCD 187, 1997)
Swashbucklers: Swordsmen of the Silver Screen
(Silva Screen FILMXCD 188, 1997, UK-only release)
The Mark Of Zorro: Swordsmen of the Silver Screen
(Silva America SSD 3010, 1997, US-only release)

Associate producer, multimedia programming and Enhanced CD mastering: Mark Ayres.
Multimedia interface design: Colin Parker

Silva Screen Enhanced CDs are presented in Blue Book Multisession format. The discs will play as normal audio discs on domestic CD players, with the extra data content accessible when you place the CD into the CD-ROM drive of your multimedia Macintosh, Power Macintosh, or Windows 3.1x or Windows 95 PC. For compatibility information, click here. The interactive part of each disc contains extra sleeve notes and photographs, web links, and a video of The City of Prague Philharmonic performing a work featured on the CD.

Enhanced CD Links and Information

Silva Screen Enhanced CDs are presented in Blue Book (Multisession) format. They can be played on standard audio CD players and most multimedia computers (Mac and PC). Your computer will need to be equipped with a multisession CD-ROM drive. Most Macintosh systems manufactured since 1994 and most Windows 95 systems will already be compatible. Note that some CD-ROM driver software needs multisession capability enabling - usually found in the "options" or "preferences" for the driver.

System requirements for accessing interactive data:

• Macintosh system:
  • A Colour Macintosh system with a 68040 or later processor, or a Power Macintosh
  • 4 MB of available RAM
  • Double Speed Multisession CD-ROM drive (300kb/sec transfer rate) or faster
  • System software version 7.1 or later
  • QuickTime 2.1 or later software (included on CD)
  • AppleCD Player (included on CD)
• Windows software-based system:
  • 486 DX2 66 or faster processor
  • 13" colour monitor/256 colours minimum
  • 8MB of RAM minimum
  • 16-bit, 44.1 kHz sound card
  • Mouse
  • Double Speed Multisession CD-ROM drive (300kb/sec transfer rate) or faster
  • Windows 3.1, 3.11, or Windows 95 software
  • QuickTime for Windows 2.0.3 or later software (included on CD)
  • AppleCD Player for Windows (included on CD)
• This may not work on all CD-ROM drives.

The AppleCD Player

The AppleCD Player (both Macintosh and PC versions) included on the Warriors of the Silver Screen CD is a beta version. Updates for both Windows and Macintosh are now available - these latest versions are already included on Swashbucklers: Swordsmen of the Silver Screen and The Mark Of Zorro. The new Macintosh version (v1.0) is a full release, while the new Windows version is still a beta (beta 12 - we supplied beta 8 with Warriors of the Silver Screen) but is much improved and now comes with installers. Please note the bug alert below, however.