Ultimate Companion for Windows (US Dreams, Windows, 1994)
@misty forget windows, I will install it onto my brain once we all get forced to get brain chips. /s
@misty this is the copilot we want
@misty @MrNuclearMonster wow....... I havent felt that Windows envy in a while.....

@misty I literally looked at this image and before even parsing the text thought "That is the most mid-90s raytraced computer book cover I've seen since Waldenbooks." I can almost smell the plastic sleeve that it probably had glued to the inside back cover to hold a 3.5" floppy disk.

This is great; thank you for sharing!

@misty Ah, The Internet tells me it was a shareware cdrom. So close, yet so far away!
@misty computer books used to look so cool
@misty In the time since publication, the Ultimate Companions have migrated to various flavors of Linux, as they were not constructed with TPM chips.

I know several who have migrated from being dragons, among other changes, as well.
@misty I can see the background noise of a mid-90's computer show right now.
@misty I knew that dragon looked familiar to me. I've got a CD here called 'World of Mpeg', with the same style CGI dragon on it. Different landscape though. CD is from 1995.
@trinsec Huh, I wonder if it's from the same artist? I bet this is random art they took from somewhere and not original to this CD.
@misty The dragon itself looks exactly the same as your image and is even printed on the CD itself. CD cover shows copyright 1995 US Dreams Inc., so it's probably legit.

This CD is supposed to be filled with 550+ MB of movies and programs, and even 140 FLI films. I cannot check it out anymore, as I don't have an actively working CD/DVD player.
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I think what lured me in to buy it back then were the FLI films, as I loved that format and those were (for that time) beautiful animations.
@misty is this what the How to Train Your Dragon books novelized?
@misty the picture has PoVray vibes!