She is also a member of Scratch, ViewletCentral, ModArchive, BetaArchive, Vetusware, Tar Heel Reader, Equestrian Beats and her Local Public Library. She likes StarFlyers, My Little Pony, Sonic the Hedgehog, Nyan Cat, Hatsune Miku, Vocaloid, The Land Before Time, Benji, Zax & the Alien Prince and others. KatieCadet2012 (Formely MiaFan2010) is an advanced Scratcher since August 2011, a BetaArchive Collector since July 2012, a ModArchive tracker since May 2012, and an Equestrian Musician since October 2012, and is one of the experienced internet users from Canada. If you like this blog post, keep checking back for more here at Katie Cadet’s Computer and Video Game Collection! In the meantime, have fun learning with Encarta and take care! When you don’t have an internet connection, bring Encarta with you! But if you are looking for up-to-date information, or have an internet connection, then try out Wikipedia, which is a better choice containing a million articles written by a community of users. Anyways, to sum it up, Microsoft’s Encarta is an interesting encyclopedia computer software, even though it’s dated by 2020 standards. I believe the dictionary component was first used in Microsoft’s Bookshelf, which is a similar software before they did Encarta. Recent versions of Encarta include a section for children, as well as a dictionary. Only two native versions of Encarta for the Mac are available, and they are versions 95 and 97.
I’ve tested Microsoft’s Encarta 96 using SoftWindows 3.0 (Windows 3.11) on a Macintosh Performa 6400 (180 MHz) running Mac OS 8.6, and Microsoft’s Encarta 2000 using Microsoft’s Virtual PC 7.0 (Windows 98) on a Power Mac G4 (MDD 2003) running Mac OS X 10.2.8 (Jaguar), and no issues were found.
It’s not a hardcover paper book anymore! You can now type in a word of what you are looking for in the search box, and an article appears in an instant! Multimedia components such as music clips and animations are nice additions to Encarta, something that competing encyclopedia computer programs of the 80s didn’t have! Picture of a Macintosh Plus on Microsoft’s Encarta! ? I always love encyclopedias! My late grandparents used to have them as a book format, but there were no computers back then in fact, I wasn’t even born yet! Fast forward to the 80s, and CD-ROM was born! CD-ROM contained originally 650 MB of data, but in the early 90s, that limit was bumped up to 700 MB of data, the same timeframe when Microsoft started developing an encyclopedia for Microsoft Windows-based machines, and that resulted in Encarta! Encyclopedia article featuring the personal computer. Interactivity featuring languages of the world. But the Macintosh versions 95 and 97 can be found on the Macintosh Garden.
Microsoft is no longer supporting Encarta due to Wikipedia having more than a million articles written by a community however, if you want an offline encyclopedia for your Windows computer, most of the versions can be found on the Internet Archive and WinWorldPC. Early versions are released on CD-ROM, while the current versions are both released on CD-ROM and DVD-ROM.
I had no problems running Encarta Premium 2009 on my HP Pavilion a6010n running Windows 10 (32-bit).
The latest version is called Encarta Premium 2009, which is what I’ll be using in this blog post.
Microsoft’s Encarta is a multimedia encyclopedia computer software that ran from 1993 to 2009 for Microsoft Windows 3.1 up to Windows 10 and for Mac OS 7.0 up to Mac OS 9.2.2 (68030 and PowerPC).