A number of historians were recruited to offer content, including Mike Butzgy of Cary, who wrote much of the content about the navies. The History Channel also offered some two hours of video from its Civil War Journal series. Now that The Civil War Experience is out, SouthPeak is moving on to The Ellis Island Experience, a similar product to be finished early in 2000. It is based on a three-part series produced by The History Channel. From a technical standpoint, installation of Experience is fast and simple - even on a moderately slow PC with a 28.8 modem connection.
System requirements are modest despite the wealth of audio, video and graphics.
And the package didn't eat up all the available hard-drive space either. I loaded the CD at home for an Internet dial-up connection, and when I launched the Web browser it worked on the first try. The package also ran well on a high-speed network connection at a second location. Two reboots were required. It has lots of content and features, is an easy installation, and navigation to the Web is quite easy - a pretty good combination.