Thoru Yamamoto works (partially found interactive media; 1990s): Difference between revisions

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Title screen of ZiZi Stories Vol. 1

Status: Partially Found (Multimedia content)
Partially Found (HyperCard stacks)
Found (Other software)

Thoru Yamamoto (山本徹 or とーるやまもと),^[1] born 1955, is a Japanese artist. Over time he has released art in many formats, including magazine illustrations, HyperCard decks, CD-ROM, printed books, websites, digital stickers and videos.

Websites

Over the past 30 years, Thoru Yamamoto has had many different online homes.

Historical

Below is a list of those that have been found so far, in roughly chronological order judging by the contents.

1992: NIFTY-Serve HFC01543 & CompuServe 101152,1543
1997: http://mtlab.ecn.fpu.ac.jp/Yamamoto/works.html
1998: http://www.bekkoame.or.jp/~thoru/
1998: http://www.tky.3web.ne.jp/~thoruman/index.html
1999: http://www.e-vlab.com/
2002: http://homepage1.nifty.com/okuji/contest.html
2002: http://www.eggegg.co.jp/~tango/index.html
2004: http://www.thoruman.com/tyhp/works/work.html
2007: http://web.mac.com/thoru/thoruman/top.html
Unknown and unarchived: http://www.softmaterial.com/tb/

Current

Some websites are still online, though all have not been updated in many years.

2004: http://pickle.cc/jp/
2004: http://www.languagegame.org:8080/zoo/1
2008: http://www.youtube.com/user/thoruman
2016: http://thoruman.web.fc2.com
2023: DriveToWeb

Multimedia content

A list of known multimedia content is below, in roughly chronological order.

Release Year	Name	Media Type	Status
1994	Pickle's Book	CD-ROM	Found
1995	Cookie & Ginger	CD-ROM	Found
1995–1997	Mole Hole / Pumpkin House / Explore	Interactive Website	Found
1996	Crouton	CD-ROM	Found
1996?	Penny	CD-ROM	Lost
1996	See The Sky	CD-ROM	Found
1996	See The Sky	Printed Book	Found
1997	Trash	2HD Floppy Disk	ref Found
1998	bonvoyageCHAI	CD-R	Found
1999	See The Sky	CD-R	Partially Found
2003	Play with Squeak	CD-R	Found

Note: a port of Pickle's Book remains available for iOS^[2] but this differs in a number of ways to the older personal computer CD-ROM version, which would install icons to your desktop as you played.

HyperCard stacks

HyperCard is a software application and development kit for early Apple computers, most notably the Macintosh. It gave users of any skill level the ability to put together interactive information.

A list of Thoru's HyperCard stacks can be found on the website of Motoyuki Tanaka, where they were hosted.^[3] These were a mix of animations and interactive scenes and are listed alphabetically below. Out of a total of 32 stacks only 22 were present in the Wayback Machine archive of the aforementioned website. The rest were sourced from elsewhere. Found files have been uploaded to the HyperCard Stacks collection at Internet Archive.^[4]

Release Year	Name	Status
1992	See The Sky (Vol. 1-6)	Found
1993	Drug Store	Found
1993	Happy Man	Found
1993	Meet The Moles (Mid Night Gig)	Found
1993	Welcome Menu (Drug Store/HappyMan)	Found
1993	Welcome Menu (See The Sky/MidNightGig)	Found
1993	ZiZi Christmas!	Found
1993–1996	ZiZi Stories (Vol. 1–16)	Found
1994	CHAI	Lost
1995	A Little Tree	Found
1995	Hand to Hand	Found
1996	ZiZi on the Web	Found
2003	See The Sky (Combined)	Found

Note: all ZiZi are still available online as HTML,^[5] but these versions lack the sound, animated transitions and frame pacing of the equivalent HyperCard stacks.

Shockwave animations

In the archive of Thoru's website at eggegg.co.jp/~tango, there are 65 Macromedia Director animations. There are also another ~40 from other locations. These include elements of lost characters like Penny, Trash, Chai and more.

Until they can be archived in a better way, here are two text lists.

Other Software

The following were mostly Shareware.

Macintosh

Release Year	Name	Status
1998	Pickle's Pocket	Found
2000	AsistantPickle (+ character variations)	Found

PalmOS

Release Year	Name	Status
2000	PalmPickle	Found
2001	Pickle's Dance	Found
2001	Coconuts World	Found

References

[1] ttp://nobi.com/jp/mac/entry106.html

[2] ttps://apps.apple.com/us/app/pickles-book/id794738212

[3] ttps://web.archive.org/web/20050310003241/http://mtlab.ecn.fpu.ac.jp/Yamamoto/works.html

[4] ttps://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Thoru+Yamamoto%22&sort=titleSorter

[5] ttp://thoruman.web.fc2.com/zizi/zindex.html

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-|status=<span style="color:orange;">'''Partially Found'''</span> (Multimedia content)<br><span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span> (HyperCard stacks)<br><span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span> (Other software)
+|status=<span style="color:orange;">'''Partially Found'''</span> (Multimedia content)<br><span style="color: orange;">'''Partially Found'''</span> (HyperCard stacks)<br><span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span> (Other software)
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 '''''Thoru Yamamoto''''' (山本徹 or とーるやまもと),<ref>http://nobi.com/jp/mac/entry106.html</ref> born 1955, is a Japanese artist. Over time he has released art in many formats, including magazine illustrations, HyperCard decks, CD-ROM, printed books, websites, digital stickers and videos.
@@ Line 10: / Line 10: @@
 Over the past 30 years, Thoru Yamamoto has had many different online homes.
-===Historial===
+===Historical===
 Below is a list of those that have been found so far, in roughly chronological order judging by the contents.
+* 1992: NIFTY-Serve HFC01543 & CompuServe 101152,1543
 * 1997: [https://web.archive.org/web/20050310003241/http://mtlab.ecn.fpu.ac.jp/Yamamoto/works.html http://mtlab.ecn.fpu.ac.jp/Yamamoto/works.html]
 * 1998: [https://web.archive.org/web/19981205075903/http://www.bekkoame.or.jp/~thoru/ http://www.bekkoame.or.jp/~thoru/]
 * 1998: [https://web.archive.org/web/19981206062417/http://www.tky.3web.ne.jp/~thoruman/index.html http://www.tky.3web.ne.jp/~thoruman/index.html]
+* 1999: [https://web.archive.org/web/20010210023549/http://www.e-vlab.com/ http://www.e-vlab.com/]
 * 2002: [https://web.archive.org/web/20040321134750/http://homepage1.nifty.com/okuji/contest.html http://homepage1.nifty.com/okuji/contest.html]
 * 2002: [https://web.archive.org/web/20040401125138/http://www.eggegg.co.jp/~tango/index.html http://www.eggegg.co.jp/~tango/index.html]
@@ Line 29: / Line 31: @@
 * 2008: http://www.youtube.com/user/thoruman
 * 2016: http://thoruman.web.fc2.com
+* 2023: [https://dxopxz0nuvpxpdmz6fowlq.on.drv.tw/www.G_Thoru.com/dwn2.html?fbclid=IwAR3ytabHZyEvDGXGRIz-Fdon3klxsx5Yex9_EIe-DeU5gveQg6EimvoCcBQ DriveToWeb]
 ==Multimedia content==
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 ! style="background-color:lightblue" | Status
 |-
-| 1994 || Pickle's Book || CD-ROM || <span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span>
+| 1994 || Pickle's Book || CD-ROM || [https://archive.org/details/picklesbook_en<span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span>]
 |-
 | 1995 || Cookie & Ginger || CD-ROM || <span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span>
+|-
+|1995–1997
+|Mole Hole / Pumpkin House / Explore
+|Interactive Website
+|[https://archive.org/details/mole-hole-pumpkin-house-explore<span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span>]
 |-
 | 1996 || Crouton || CD-ROM || <span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span>
 |-
-| 1996? || Penny || CD-ROM || <span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''</span>
+| 1996? || Penny || CD-ROM || [https://web.archive.org/web/19981203014613/http://www.bekkoame.or.jp:80/~thoru/penny_folder/penny/pe1.html <span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''</span>]
 |-
 | 1996 || See The Sky || CD-ROM || <span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span>
@@ Line 52: / Line 60: @@
 | 1996 || See The Sky || Printed Book || <span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span>
 |-
-| 1999 || Trash || 2HD Floppy Disk || <span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''</span>
+| 1997 || Trash || 2HD Floppy Disk || [https://web.archive.org/web/19981205121453/http://www.bekkoame.or.jp:80/~thoru/penny_folder/trash_folder/tr1.html ref] [https://dxopxz0nuvpxpdmz6fowlq.on.drv.tw/www.G_Thoru.com/dwn2.html?fbclid=IwAR3ytabHZyEvDGXGRIz-Fdon3klxsx5Yex9_EIe-DeU5gveQg6EimvoCcBQ <span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span>]
+|-
+|1998
+|bonvoyageCHAI
+|CD-R
+|[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQWn6qEeQPw<span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span>]
+|-
+| 1999 || See The Sky || CD-R || [https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Thoru+Yamamoto%22&sort=titleSorter <span style="color:orange;">'''Partially Found'''</span>]
 |-
-| 1999 || See The Sky || CD-R || <span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''</span>
+|2003
+|Play with Squeak
+|CD-R
+|<span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span>
 |}
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 {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
 |-
+! style="background-color:lightblue" | Release Year
 ! style="background-color:lightblue" | Name
 ! style="background-color:lightblue" | Status
 |-
-| A Little Tree || <span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span>
+| 1992 || See The Sky (Vol. 1-6) || <span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span>
 |-
-| Drug Store || <span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span>
+| 1993 || Drug Store || <span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span>
 |-
-| Hand to Hand || <span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span>
+| 1993 || Happy Man || <span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span>
 |-
-| Happy Man || <span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span>
+| 1993 || Meet The Moles (Mid Night Gig) || <span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span>
 |-
-| Meet The Moles (Mid Night Gig) || <span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span>
+| 1993 || Welcome Menu (Drug Store/HappyMan) || <span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span>
 |-
-| See The Sky (Vol. 1-6) || <span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span>
+| 1993 || Welcome Menu (See The Sky/MidNightGig) || <span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span>
 |-
-| See The Sky (Combined) || <span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span>
+| 1993 || ZiZi Christmas! || <span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span>
 |-
-| Welcome Menu (Drug Store/HappyMan) || <span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span>
+| 1993–1996 || ZiZi Stories (Vol. 1–16) || <span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span>
 |-
-| Welcome Menu (See The Sky/MidNightGig) || <span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span>
+| 1994 || CHAI || <span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''</span>
 |-
-| ZiZi Christmas! || <span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span>
+| 1995 || A Little Tree || <span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span>
 |-
-| ZiZi on the Web || <span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span>
+| 1995 || Hand to Hand || <span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span>
 |-
-| ZiZi Stories (Vol. 1–16) || <span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span>
+| 1996 || ZiZi on the Web || <span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span>
+|-
+| 2003 || See The Sky (Combined) || <span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span>
 |}
 '''Note:''' all ''ZiZi'' are still available online as HTML,<ref>http://thoruman.web.fc2.com/zizi/zindex.html</ref> but these versions lack the sound, animated transitions and frame pacing of the equivalent HyperCard stacks.
+==Shockwave animations==
+In the archive of Thoru's website at eggegg.co.jp/~tango, there are 65 Macromedia Director animations. There are also another ~40 from other locations. These include elements of lost characters like Penny, Trash, Chai and more.
+Until they can be archived in a better way, here are two  [https://gist.github.com/gingerbeardman/3487f5c8997d95ba7871c21cce86540a text] [https://gist.github.com/gingerbeardman/4d4d6ad86fa9b27d7be20bbc75ddb685 lists].
 ==Other Software==
+The following were mostly [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shareware Shareware].
 ===Macintosh===
 {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
 |-
+! style="background-color:lightblue" | Release Year
 ! style="background-color:lightblue" | Name
 ! style="background-color:lightblue" | Status
 |-
-| AsistantPickle || [https://web.archive.org/web/20010203173700/http://www.eggegg.co.jp:80/tango/rbhp/pasist2/pasist.html <span style="color:green;">'''Found''']</span>
+| 1998 || Pickle's Pocket || [https://archive.org/details/macpower-1998-08 <span style="color:green;">'''Found''']</span>
+|-
+| 2000 || AsistantPickle<br>(+ character variations) || [https://web.archive.org/web/20010203173700/http://www.eggegg.co.jp:80/tango/rbhp/pasist2/pasist.html <span style="color:green;">'''Found''']</span>
 |}
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 {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
 |-
+! style="background-color:lightblue" | Release Year
 ! style="background-color:lightblue" | Name
 ! style="background-color:lightblue" | Status
 |-
-| Coconuts World || <span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span>
+| 2000 || PalmPickle || [https://www.vector.co.jp/magazine/pocket/spotlight/030423/sl030423114.html <span style="color:green;">'''Found''']</span>
+|-
+| 2001 || Pickle's Dance || [https://archive.org/details/macpeople-2001-06-15 <span style="color:green;">'''Found''']</span>
 |-
-| PalmPickle || <span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span>
+| 2001 || Coconuts World || [https://web.archive.org/web/20040321134750/http://homepage1.nifty.com/okuji/contest.html <span style="color:green;">'''Found''']</span>
 |}