He also compiled the website for sale in CD-ROM format.
Nearly a dozen companies are or soon will be publishing multimedia magazines that exist only in the CD-ROM format.
However, the game was published in a CD-ROM format with the blue disc bottom.
It was first published on diskette in early 1993, and in an expanded CD-ROM format by the end of 1994.
In 2001, a fifth volume was published in CD-ROM format.
Beginning in 2002 it was available only in CD-ROM format.
The new CD-ROM format will be faster to access and easier to manipulate.
A further updating of the work, with revisions and corrections, was later issued in CD-ROM format.
The earliest efforts at interactive storytelling were on computer games, especially after the CD-ROM format made it possible to include videos and high-quality sound.
The 3rd edition (1983) added 12,000 entries, and was published in CD-ROM format in 1987.