AlphaBoat is an entertaining game which teaches children the Alphabet. In one activity the child is asked to find a "Big" or Little" letter. By choosing the correct letter the child moves a sail boat from one tropical island to the next.
In a second activity the child clicks on a camera and displays a picture of a common object such as a hat. The program then asks "What letter does the word HAT start with?" The target word is pronounced very carefully so that the sound of the starting letter can be clearly heard. Correct answers move the boat forward.
Both activities contain ways to get help finding the correct letter or to find the correct letter by trial and error.
The program is in full color and uses many high quality digitized sounds. Because of the included sounds the program size is quite large (over a MEG when expanded). It is kid tested and approved!
AlphaBoat may be copied and distributed by electronic bulletin board as long as it is not altered in any way.
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Disclaimer:
In the unlikely event that AlphaBoat causes any damage to your computer system or data files, the author of this software assumes no responsibility for such damage.
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System Requirements:
AlphaBoat requires system 6.07 or later and a Mac with a 13" or larger color monitor and 2 Megs of free memory.
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New in version 1.1
The Big and Small Letters card has a button which repeats the question- a much needed improvement.
Multiple clicks are trapped so that tripple clicks won't cause the phrase to be repeated three times.
Several bugs which caused error messages to appear when clicking in certain areas have been fixed.
