bursting into the room to say HI! i was thrifting today + found THIS!!

it's a fun little CD-ROM i found mixed in with the music there, thought it was cool, saw it was cheap, bought it, annnnd....
UPLOADED THE ENTIRE THING TO ARCHIVE.ORG!! (for funsies :3)

soooo here's the *.*liiinnkkk!*.*
((also if anyone can run the program and get it working i would actually love to see it <3))

I'm working on loading it up on my win95 VM! I'll let you know how it goes.

For the record though, it's better to archive stuff like this as an ISO: I use ImgBurn, it's freeware and pretty easy to use, you can just click "Create Image from Disc" on the main menu and give it a filename, and it'll quickly be done.

An ISO may capture more metadata than a zip file of the contents, but in this case I don't think it should matter. Just something to keep in mind for any future disc archiving you may do!

INSTALLING! This is the stuff on the disc:

The screensaver seems to be a pretty generic show-a-bunch-of-images program that's been slightly customized for Star Trek Voyager. (UPDATE: some of them are animated! that's not standard. So maybe more custom than it seems at first)

The images it uses aren't standard file extensions: probably it's encoding/compressing them to keep you from simply grabbing out the images and sharing them on BBSes/usenet. This was annoyingly common for 90s screensavers.

OK I just checked the files: they're BMPs that are renamed. I'll convert and upload them all soon.

There's also Personal Desktop: This tool lets you set your windows sound effects to a bunch of Voyager sound effects. I'll upload those too.

It's also got a Random Wallpaper tool: This picks an image (from a different pool than the screensaver!) and sets them as your windows background. It installs itself to run at startup, so every time you boot up Windows 95, you get a fresh new image!

(The images on the disk are full-color, but my win95 is running at 256 colors, which is why this looks kinda horrible)

It's also got a game called JIXXA. You pick an image (from yet another pool: 20 images) and it gives you jigsaw pieces to put together.

Give me a moment...

Aside from that, it's got some utilities to help you get all this stuff working on Windows 3.x which may not have had the multimedia/screensaver support yet.

The dates on these files show that this was put together in October-November of 1996, so shortly into the run of Season 3 of voyager (which started in September 1996)

OKAY so I'll collect all the media files, convert them to modern formats where applicable, and do a separate upload for those. Watch this space.

oh my god it has a clip from threshold

why does it have a clip from threshold

OKAY I've extracted like 95% of the disc. Here's the preview of the images:

I'm still missing the jigsaws (I want to extract the images, if different, and also make it playable in the browser) and the static images that are supposed to wrap-around the movie clips.

But all the movie clips have been converted to MP4, the images to PNG, and the sound clips are included (they're standard WAV so there's no need to convert)

I'll finish off those last bits when I get back from errands.

I like these little datasheets they include:

The download is here:

You can now play the Star Trek Voyager Jigsaw game in the browser, thanks to the internet archive: