123SB.ZIP 421792 03-16-94 123-Talk for Sound Boards 1.5 uses digitized | speech and colorful graphics to teach | children number-related activities. (DareWare | Inc.) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $29) 123TALK3.ZIP 265871 01-03-94 123-Talk 3.0R has a voice that teaches | children ages 1-7 how to say numbers, | counting, addition, subtraction and more. It | also has a 1-2-3 song, alluring graphics and | a drawing program that requires a mouse. | Requires 512K. (DareWare Inc.) (ASP) | (Reg.Fee: $30) 1PHONICS.ZIP 1235403 09-10-94 Phonics 123 1.1sw uses VGA graphics, sounds, | and human speech, in a game-like approach, to | teach the basics of phonetic sounds, the | alphabet, and how to spell and read | sentences. (DareWare Inc.) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: | $39) ABC440.ZIP 217283 01-04-94 ABC Fun Keys 4.40 is a children's learning | game that teaches letters, numbers and the | keyboard. It has on-screen scrolling lyrics | for all twenty-seven nursery rhyme songs, | functional arrow keys to the opening kid's | menu, an option to allow PrtScreen to | function, and adjustable timing. The number | of songs can be set with a command line | parameter that allows you to add your own | songs. (Courtney E. Krehbiel) (Reg.Fee: $15) ABCS.ZIP 74751 11-30-90 ABC'S 2.00E uses colorful graphics to teach | children the alphabet. The child must match | upper and lower case letters and letters and | objects. The program also displays objects on | screen in response to keyboard input. (Wayne | Beard) (Reg.Fee: $5) ABCTALK3.ZIP 272107 07-22-94 ABC-Talk 3.2sw is a fabulous talking voice | that helps children ages 1-7 learn how to | talk, read, learn the alphabet, spell and | work with a computer. It also has an ABC | song, alluring graphics and a drawing program | that requires a mouse. Although it will work | with all video cards, you will get higher | resolution and more colors if you have | EGA/VGA. The speech has a lot more life to it | than the speech in most other programs we've | tested. Given the severe limitation of the | PC's speaker, you're not going to find much | better than this. The only weak point was in | "Spell the Word", we could not understand any | of the words. "On" sounded like "ORAN", for | example. Even excluding that section, there | is a lot going for this program. Requires | 512K. (DareWare Inc.) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $29) ABSOUP.ZIP 1105921 12-20-94 Alphabet Soup 1.01 is a creative and | entertaining game which tutors children in | spelling. The game uses graphics, animation, | music, and digital speech to teach children | to associate pictures and spoken words with | their spelled counterparts. The object of the | game is to eat the letters from the bowl of | alphabet soup that spell the object which | appears on the screen. Each player must spell | as many words as possible before the soup | gets cold. This is a professional looking | program that is both entertaining and | educational. Requires 1MB XMS/EMS. Speech and | music require a sound card. (Leapfrog | Software, Inc.) (Reg.Fee: $29) ACLOCK.ZIP 321048 05-31-94 Animated Clock 3.0 teaches children to tell | time in a variety of ways. The program helps | them convert digital time to analog time. | Various levels can be selected to provide | practice in increments of hours, half-hours, | 15 minutes, 5 minutes and one minute. A | cuckoo clock feature does not work in this | version. Requires 640K, EGA/VGA. (Tom IV | Guthery) (Reg.Fee: $$8) ALFABET1.ZIP 1430136 05-01-95 Alfabeto E Parolei is an Italian alphabet | and words program for children with music, | speech and original graphics. Requires 386+, | SVGA, Sound Blaster, 4 MB RAM, 14 MB of disk | space and a mouse. (Baldazzi Mario) (ASP) | (Reg.Fee: $15) ALFABET2.ZIP 964408 05-01-95 See ALFABET1.ZIP AMY.ZIP 85732 01-30-94 Amy's First Primer is a set of six different | programs for ages four through eight. It will | help teach the alphabet, numbers, shapes, | colors, counting, matching, pattern | recognition and problem solving. Color video | is required. (Computing Specialties) | (Reg.Fee: $15) AMY22.ZIP 67424 10-28-93 AMY! 2.2 is for children who are curious | about typing on the computer. It prints large | letters, numbers and symbols on the screen in | different colors. If your child types the | "magic word", the screen lights up with | colors and the computer plays a tune. (John | McCaffrey) (Reg.Fee: $5) ANI_ALPH.ZIP 445098 01-30-94 Animated Alphabet teaches the alphabet to | pre-schoolers through first grade using | animated graphics. When the child matches the | correct letter to the displayed picture, they | are rewarded with a movie-like animation. The | author is an artist with over a dozen years | of experience in classical animation. | Requires 640k, EGA/VGA and either a 1.44meg | drive or a hard disk. (Tom IV Guthery) | (Reg.Fee: $8) ANI_SHAP.ZIP 261531 09-25-90 Animated Shapes 1.0 teaches shape and color | identification to young children. Each | correctly identified shape combines with | other shapes to create pictures. When | completed, the picture is amusingly animated. | Very nicely done EGA/VGA graphics. Requires | 640K and a hard disk. (Tom IV Guthery) | (Reg.Fee: $8) BABYKEYS.ZIP 95245 12-07-93 BabyKeys provides interesting shapes and | sounds for 6 to 24 month old children. Every | time your child hits a key on the keyboard a | tone is played along with a variety of | graphical images being displayed. (Multi | Computing) (Reg.Fee: $15) BALLOONS.ZIP 58641 06-13-95 Balloons 4.2 is a visual delight for | children. It draws a balloon and sounds a | tone when any key is hit. Each key has a | different tone. You can play tunes by | pressing the appropriate keys. Balloons may | be enlarged until they pop into a rainbow as | Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star plays. Suitable | for 18 months and up. (Patti B. Lingafelt) | (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $7) BGN_SNDS.ZIP 94205 01-30-94 Beginning Sounds helps pre-school children | relate to the beginning sounds of words, | which is the first stage of learning to read. | The program displays pictures of several | different objects on the screen, including a | sample picture, and the child is supposed to | pick the two that start with the same letter | as the sample. There is no scoring or other | feedback until you quit the program, so | someone will have to help the child evaluate | his answers as he goes. The program requires | CGA-compatible graphics. The files with an | extension of .BAS are the graphics picture | files used by the program, so do not try to | run them. Just enter BS101 to run the | program. (Custom Programs Unlimited) | (Reg.Fee: $15) BRBIGBOX.ZIP 258616 02-02-94 Brandon's Big Lunchbox 1.7 is a set of | children's educational games. Programs | include Brandon's Lunchbox - a series of | games for 3 to 7 year olds; BoatBox - a set | of reading drills; FlashBox - reading and | memory drills; USABox - and introduction to | the states and geography; and Superbox Menu. | (Joey Robichaux) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $25) BUT34.ZIP 326186 07-19-94 Butterflies, Bees & Hummingbirds 3.4 is a | colorful program which is designed to teach | children about numbers. Children guide the | butterfly, bee, or hummingbird to the | correctly numbered flowers to score points. | Sound effects and vocal pronunciation is | available with sound cards. (Earl Paul | TeBockhorst) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $10) COMPVOIC.ZIP 105329 01-29-94 Computer Voice Tutor is a talking alphabet | tutor for preschool children. It uses | digitized voices through the PC's speaker for | fairly intelligible speech. Polyphonic music | enhances the program. (Forben Software | Engineering) (Reg.Fee: $25-$30) CSHAPES.ZIP 48283 05-08-91 Counting Shapes 1.0 teaches very young | children to count. It displays random shapes | on the screen. The child must press the | number key that matches the number of shapes | displayed. Each set allows three tries with | the third and last try assisting the child. | (Sunbeams and Rainbows) (Reg.Fee: $10) EGAWORD.ZIP 74152 02-24-91 EGA Word Eater 1.1 is a game that test a | child's ability to tell which words sound | alike, such as sit and hit. It is recommended | for children who are beginning to read. Not | much action, but a fairly good teaching tool. | Requires EGA or VGA. (Anthony J. Aretz) | (Reg.Fee: $15) FABLE1.ZIP 1430726 05-01-95 La Gallina dalle uova d'oro (Lafontaine | Fable1) is a multimedia children's book in | Italian, with music, speech and original | graphics. Requires SVGA, sound card, 4MB of | RAM, and 14MB of disk space. (Baldazzi Mario) | (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $?) FABLE2.ZIP 838492 05-01-95 See FABLE1.ZIP FASTSTRT.ZIP 124582 01-29-94 FastStart uses hand/eye coordination with | pictures, repetitive movements and sounds | such as music in order to enhance a child's | learning ability. For children ages 3 to 10. | The wide variety of graphics and learning | options, along with the sounds and music, | will make this a popular program with young | children. (Hinh Van Nguyen) (Reg.Fee: $15) FUN_LET.ZIP 188539 01-29-94 Fun with Letters and Words is an outstanding | educational program for pre-schoolers (2 thru | 6). Features include numeral recognition, | counting, grouping, adding, and subtracting, | all with animation, colorful graphics, and | large block numbers. It allows you to have | words in any language, and you can use two | different languages at one time. You can also | create theme files to add additional words. | There are many entries for personal words, | and mouse support is provided. Your kids are | going to love this! (Reg.Fee: $19) GEN7TU19.ZIP 436552 03-23-95 GEN7 Children's Tutors 1.9 are two tutorials | designed for children ages preschool through | 3rd grade. The math tutor teaches basic | arithmetic by quizzing for missing digits or | operators in addition, subtraction or | multiplication and division problems. A | memory game is included that tests the memory | of the children. The time tutor teaches | children how to tell time on an analog clock. | A quiz mode is included that requires the | child to move the clock hands to match the | time in the digital clock window. Mouse | required. NEW: file finder, address book | with phone dialer, print spooler, icon and | wallpaper viewer, password protection for | each program function, CMF music file player, | and more.ion, CMF music file player, and | more. (George W. Freas II) (Reg.Fee: $14) GOLDY.ZIP 517946 03-08-95 Goldilocks and the Three Bears - A Modern | Tale 1.0 teaches young children about numbers | and addition with a colorful variation of | Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Follow Goldy | on this journey as she must solve various | counting problems to continue on her way. If | a riddle proves too difficult, the friendly | bear at the bottom of the screen can solve it | for you. Documentation is very skimpy. (Just | Playing Around Software,) (Reg.Fee: $23) IANGAME.ZIP 44170 12-24-91 Ian's Game produces bright colors, shapes, | and sounds in response to a toddler's key | presses. A color display is required. (Mark | Smith) (Reg.Fee: $10) IBA_1.ZIP 1431026 04-25-95 Il Brutto Anatroccolo is a very professional | looking multimedia children's story in | Italian. It uses music, speech, and original | artwork to tell the story of "The Ugly | Duckling" (in Italian). Requires a 486 or | better, SVGA, 14MB of disk space, 4MB of RAM, | and a sound card. NOTE: This program must be | dearchived to your hard disk (which can be | done by selecting Install in the CD access | program), copied to floppies from your hard | disk, deleted from your hard disk, and | installed back to the hard disk from floppies | using the author's installation program. | (Non-CD users: This program is available on | five 1.44MB 3.5" disks for a special disk fee | of $9.99.) (Baldazzi Mario) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: | $40) IBA_2.ZIP 1452780 04-25-95 See IBA_1.ZIP IBA_3.ZIP 1452780 04-25-95 See IBA_1.ZIP IBA_4.ZIP 1452780 04-25-95 See IBA_1.ZIP IBA_5.ZIP 1090452 05-25-95 See IBA_1.ZIP JOECLOCK.ZIP 168870 08-30-94 Joe's Clocks 1.3 helps teach a child to read | analog and digital clocks. The clocks may be | displayed in a 12 hour mode for beginners, or | a full 24 day mode, in which the digital | clock may be displayed in PM/AM or 24 hour | formats. Requires VGA. (Joe Weisman) | (Reg.Fee: $10) JOHNCMP.ZIP 201614 05-31-94 John's Animated Computer Game 3.0 helps young | children develop an acquaintance with the | computer. There are 20 different animated | sequences and sound effects that result at | the touch of a key. Requires 640K and | EGA/VGA. (Tom IV Guthery) (Reg.Fee: $0) KATIE.ZIP 56593 02-16-92 Katie's Clock 2.1s is a tool to help parents | teach their children how to tell time. Color | video is required. (TZK Publications) | (Reg.Fee: $10-$20) KCART10.ZIP 1288884 04-25-95 Kinder-Carton 1.0 is a set of 27 phonics, | math, and logic activities for the advanced | preschooler to second grader. It utilizes | colorful VGA graphics, and voice files for | the names and sounds of each letter of the | alphabet, twenty six blends and digraphs, as | well as the numbers from zero to one hundred. | Phonic activities include letter matching, | letter sequencing, alphabet book, I spy, | blends and digraphs, rhyming words, three | letter words, amazing words, and word race. | Math and logic activities include lasso | count, ordinal numbers, greater than/less | than/equal to, manipulative add and subtract, | hundred board add and subtract, arrows, count | down, missing numbers, skip count, guess | number, number line add and subtract, number | problems, mazes, tic tac toe, box game, and | patterns. Requires 2.5MB of disk space. | (Vicki Watson) (Reg.Fee: $20) KIDSND.ZIP 5292 11-04-91 Kid Sound makes a sound when a key is | pressed and displays the letter or character | in the center of the screen until another key | is pressed. (Wes Myers) (Reg.Fee: $0-$4) LLETTER.ZIP 74755 04-28-94 Learning Letters will assist in the learning | of upper- and lowercase letters of the | alphabet. For children ages 3 to 5. | (Sunbeams and Rainbows) (Reg.Fee: $15) NIKLAS.ZIP 29191 12-09-93 Niklas 1.3 is for pre-school computer | wizards. It displays a variety of colorful | shapes and plays sound effects each time your | child presses any key on the keyboard. | Requires VGA or better. (T. Little) (Reg.Fee: | $0) PCSTORY.ZIP 357841 07-13-93 PC Storybooks 2.0 are short graphical stories | intended to introduce preschoolers to | computers. Graphics are CGA and not very | fancy, but should still be of interest to | young children. (Rebecca Thomas) (Reg.Fee: | $20) PPK22.ZIP 1149578 04-25-95 Preschool Pack 2.2 uses graphics, songs, and | speech to teach preschoolers counting, number | recognition, the alphabet, colors, matching, | and classifying. All activities contain music | and animation sequences. Activities include | Animal Homes, where animals must be placed in | their appropriate homes; Balloons, in which | the child clicks on a color block matching | the color of a rising balloon before it pops; | Matching, a memory game with an animated bee | rewarding all matches located; Counting, the | child counts along with the computer as a | variety of colorful images are displayed; and | ABC's, in which all letters that match a | displayed letter must be found. Speech is | used in ABC's to pronounce each letter as it | is selected. Requires 640K, 1.5meg of hard | drive space, EGA/VGA and a mouse. NEW: | sound card support, more graphics, animal | sound effects and animations. (Vicki Watson) | (Reg.Fee: $10-20) PREBOX.ZIP 815873 03-04-94 Brandon's Preschool Graphics Lunchbox 1.0 | teaches young children number skills as the | PC talks to them. It also plays music. It | covers number relationships, verbal skills, | simple addition and subtraction, number | grouping, counting, plus more. Features VGA | graphics, SoundBlaster/PC Speaker sound | support, sound track, and guitar riffs. | Requires 512K RAM, VGA, and a hard drive. | (Robichaux and Associates) (Reg.Fee: $10) RAINA.ZIP 43017 10-17-91 Raina makes colorful geometric shapes and | sounds as your young computer | genius-in-diapers pounds at the keyboard. | Requires an EGA/VGA. (Stewart Johnson) (ASP) | (Reg.Fee: $5) RASCALAM.ZIP 133593 10-04-94 Rascal's Alphamaze 1.0 teaches the alphabet | with an attractive maze-style game. Help | Rascal the Raccoon get home by finding the | letters of the alphabet in the correct order. | This version goes from "A" to "J". Music and | sound effects require a SoundBlaster | compatible sound card. (Rob Sherwood) | (Reg.Fee: $15) RASCALNL.ZIP 115378 10-04-94 Rascal in Numberland 1.0 teaches | pre-schoolers numbers and counting. Help | Rascal the Raccoon count the number of balls | on the pool table in Number's Pool Hall. (Rob | Sherwood) (Reg.Fee: $15) SARAH.ZIP 54401 06-07-90 Sarah 1.0 is a program for entertaining | toddlers. You can select colors and designs | which fill the screen in an animated way. | Infants as young as three months will become | fascinated by the quickly changing bright | pictures and will learn to press the keys to | change the design. By five months, two fisted | banging begins - but can be controlled by | parents encouragement. By nine months the | baby will have learned that certain function | keys play music and have favorite letter | keys. (Meg Noah) (Reg.Fee: $15) SCIRCUS.ZIP 391968 06-28-94 Billy Bear Joins the Circus 1.0 is an EGA | children's storybook which includes colorful, | animated images, music, and sound effects. | Requires a hard drive, and a mouse. A | SoundBlaster compatible sound card is needed | for digitized speech and music. (Loraine | Wauer) (Reg.Fee: $11-17) SEQUENCE.ZIP 4530 03-19-84 Sequence is a child's game for pre-readers | that requires parents to be present. It | mainly deals with figuring the next number in | a sequence. (Reg.Fee: $?) SHOWKEYS.ZIP 38358 03-06-90 ShowKeys is for children (ages one to four) | who like to play on the computer keyboard. | The letter of each key pressed will appear on | the screen in attractive graphics accompanied | by a musical tone. You could even play simple | tunes for the kids. (Michael Allen) (ASP) | (Reg.Fee: $0) SLA33.ZIP 745849 04-25-95 Sounds Like A... 3.3 contains two | entertaining games for children from 1.5 to 7 | years of age. The program features colorful | graphics and a variety sounds. In the first | game, the child must identify the picture | which matches a sound. As each picture is | matched with the sound, parts of a larger | underlying picture are revealed. There is | also a memory game in which the child must | match pairs and its appropriate sound. For | example, if the child clicks on a block | revealing a picture of a donkey, he must find | the block which contains the "Hee Haw" sound | in order to make a match. Requires 640K, 900K | of hard disk space, EGA/VGA and a mouse. | (Vicki Watson) (Reg.Fee: $10) SMVGA10E.ZIP 627629 12-16-95 StoryMaker+ VGA 1.0e lets you create talking | story books with animation, music and sound | effects. It provides a paint module for | scenery background, shape editor for | animation, melody editor with animated piano | for music, and a text editor for creating | text-to-speech. It accepts CMF and VOC files. | This version is for VGA only. (Elson Embry) | (Reg.Fee: $26) SNAKE101.ZIP 77130 11-10-94 Snakes and Ladders 1.01 is a computer version | of the classic children's board game which is | also designed to help young children learn to | count up to 100 in steps of 1 to 6. The | player must answer an addition problem to | move across the board. Children can play | against the computer or a friend. Requires | 640K RAM and EGA. (Sue Pardoe) (Reg.Fee: $25) SONGS1.ZIP 99992 12-07-94 Songs1 1.1 is a pre-school educational | learning tool that introduces children to the | alphabet, numbers, colors and sound. NEW: | a painting program for kids. (PolyVision) | (Reg.Fee: $5) STORYDSK.ZIP 43072 02-09-91 StoryDisk 2.0 is an electronic storybook, | with eight original, entertaining stories for | children. Aaron Shepard's work has sold to | the prestigious Cricket Magazine, among | others. (Aaron Shepard) (Reg.Fee: $0) STORYMKR.ZIP 348570 05-19-94 StoryMaker+ 2.3 lets you create talking story | books with animation, music and sound | effects. It provides a paint module for | scenery background, shape editor for | animation, melody editor with animated piano | for music, and a text editor for creating | text-to-speech. It accepts CMF and VOC files. | Requires 512K, EGA/VGA, hard drive and a | mouse. (Elson Embry) (Reg.Fee: $23) SVAC.ZIP 683140 06-05-94 Billy Bear's Summer Vacation 1.0 is a | children's story with animated EGA graphics, | music and sound effects. Requires a hard | drive, and a mouse. (Loraine Wauer) (Reg.Fee: | $18) TABC4.ZIP 394493 01-24-95 Talking ABC's 4.1 uses speech and graphics to | teach the alphabet. Three approaches are | used. The first requires the child to press | the key which was pronounced by the program | and which is displayed on the screen. The | second allows the child to press any keys, | which results in the letter being pronounced | and an associated graphical image displayed. | The third displays images and requires the | child to find the one whose name beings with | the letter pronounced. Requires a hard disk, | 512k RAM. (Karen Crowther) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: | $23) TATRHEAD.ZIP 21038 05-18-92 TatrHead is a simple Mr. Potato Head game | for young children. A mouse is required to | drag the blinking eyes and other features | onto the faces. (Axelgraphics) (Reg.Fee: $?) TNUM22.ZIP 500234 04-25-95 Talking Number Machine 2.2 helps children | recognize, say, and write numbers from 1 to | 9,999,999,999,999. High quality digitized | speech is used to say the numbers that appear | on screen. The program displays interesting | number facts with accompanying graphic | images. Activities include entering numbers | as digits, writing numbers as words, having | the computer speak or write numbers, and | counting by increments of 1 to 10. Requires | 640K, hard drive, 425K, EGA/VGA, and a 286 or | higher for speech capability. (Vicki Watson) | (Reg.Fee: $10) TTIME22.ZIP 408463 04-25-95 Talking Time Tutor 2.2 teaches children to | tell time. The time is spoken using high | quality digitized speech. Four different | activities are included, each with three | skill levels. Activities include setting the | analog clock to match the digital clock, | setting the digital clock to match the analog | clock, setting the analog clock to the spoken | or written time, and setting the analog clock | to a future or past time. Requires 640K RAM, | hard drive, 640K, and EGA/VGA. A 286 or | higher is needed for speech capability. | (Vicki Watson) (Reg.Fee: $10) TYPING27.ZIP 17136 03-18-94 My Typing Program 2.7 is a typing program for | smaller children. (James Huckabey) (Reg.Fee: | $5) WNDRBOOK.ZIP 151909 01-29-94 Wunder Book is a set of five educational | games for children 3 to 10 years old. Explore | objects, numbers, alphabets, words, shapes, | and four different languages including | English, Spanish, French, and German, using | graphics. It features colorful pictures, | mouse support, music, and scores. Requires | EGA/VGA. (Hung P. Le) (Reg.Fee: $15) WRDALIV1.ZIP 155990 09-21-94 Words Alive 2.2 is an entertaining set of | educational games for children. The program | uses colorful animated pictures, popular | children's tunes, and excellent quality | PC-speaker speech to teach spelling, letter | and case recognition, and telling time. The | games are easily adjusted to various | difficulty levels, and you can also control | the speech and music. Requires EGA/VGA, and a | hard drive is recommended. The voice option | requires a 286+, and a mouse is supported but | not required. (Lana Chakoff) (Reg.Fee: $19) WRDALIV2.ZIP 184483 09-21-94 See WRDALIV1.ZIP WRDGALRY.ZIP 329237 01-29-94 Word Gallery is an educational program for | children that will help them associate the | printed word with the object it describes. | The program consists of four separate levels. | It provides a set of colorful word-object | flashcards. Children, aged 4 to 7, will enjoy | watching the screen filled with color as they | match the words with their pictures. EGA/VGA | is best, but CGA is supported. A mouse is | optional. Also included are five separate | games which will appeal to an older child. | Support is provided for several foreign | languages including German, Spanish, French, | Dutch, and Italian. (David C. Swope) | (Reg.Fee: $24)