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From: dave@PRC.Unisys.COM (David Lee Matuszek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Software for 2 and 3 year old kids
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Date: 20 Dec 90 17:00:28 GMT
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In article <11591@goofy.Apple.COM> rmh@apple.com (Rick Holzgrafe) writes:
>In article <1990Dec18.201133.9600@cs.utk.edu> wnn@ornl.gov (Wolfgang N. 
>Naegeli) writes:
>> Is there any Mac software designed for use by two or three year old 
>> children (under supervision)?
>
>Try any of Amanda Goodenough's HyperCard story stacks. These include 
>"Inigo Gets Out" and the rest of the Inigo series, and the "My Faithful 
>Camel" stories. Inexpensive and highly recommended. I think they're 
>published by a company named "Voyager" - my copies are at home and my 
>memory's leaky, sorry.

While I like Inigo, there just isn't very much of it.  Along the same
lines, but much bigger, are Manhole and Cosmic Osmo, by (I think)
ActiVision.  Both use HyperCard and hide the menu bar, so they're
relatively safe for children to use (under Finder).  Both have
animation and graphics.  Manhole was their first and is good; Cosmic
Osmo is their second, and is bigger and IMHO significantly better.  Be
warned that Cosmic Osmo ties up about 4 Meg on your hard disk.  When I
only had 20 Meg, this was a problem.

Best of all is Cosmic Osmo on a CD-ROM, which I bought recently for my
daughter's birthday.  It's 100 Meg, has about twice as many places to
explore as the hard disk version, maybe twice as many animated
sequences (I'm not sure), and great sound.  However, if you don't have
a CD-ROM player, the hard disk version is still great.

Highly recommended.  I have no connection, etc.--just a satisfied
user.


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