Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: software for preschooler Message-ID: <7323@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 19 Dec 90 13:13:00 GMT References: <1990Dec7.020450.8408@infonode.ingr.com> <1990Dec18.163352.5965@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Reply-To: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston Lines: 18 In article <1990Dec18.163352.5965@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes: > in AmigaBASIC; my youngest loved to sit and draw pictures, then mess with > the color sliders for R, G, and B for half an hour at a time. Go to your > dealer and find the paint program with the _least_ controls, to simplify > the interface requirements for developing motor skills. According to AmigaWorld, that program is "My Paint" by Centaur, $49.95. They rave about it, but they'll rave about anything. I'm certainly going to try it. My son goes nuts over two programs: "The Dinosaur Discovery Kit", a sort of paint by numbers program (among other things), and "Artlife", a PD version of the old "life" game from the Scientific American Mathematical Games column. Dinosaur discovery kit claims to require 1 MB, but runs fine on my stock 1000 if I disconnect the second drive (thus freeing the buffers) before booting. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .