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- KID'S GAME
- copyright (c) Dan P. Sydow 1991
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- WHO KID'S GAME IS FOR:
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- Any child learning to spell. Kid's Game contains only basic words such
- as "cat", "man", "tree", etc.
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- INSTRUCTIONS:
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- Only a mouse is needed to play Kid's Game! No keyboard input is required.
- Have your child click the mouse on any one of the six pictures on the
- left of the screen. Then have your child click on the matching word on
- the right of the screen. That's all there is to it! The talking face at
- the bottom right of the screen will inform your child as to whether the
- choice was right or wrong.
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- Clicking on the ARROW icon at the top right of the screen cycles through
- the "pages" of the game. The fully-functional version has eight separate
- pages, each with six pictures.
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- Clicking on the FACE icon that appears next to the ARROW icon opens up a
- dialog that gives you talking face options. The fully-functional version
- has six different faces, not just the elephant. Your child simply clicks
- a face. The dialog will disappear and the face your child clicked on will
- appear in the lower right of the screen in place of the elephant.
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- The Options menu allows you to change the way the words on the right of
- the screen are displayed. You may choose uppercase or lowercase.
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- So that your child does not accidently bring up interfering Desk Accesories,
- DA's have been disabled.
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- PURCHASING KID'S GAME:
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- There are two versions of Kid's Game available, both are described below.
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- KID'S GAME (standard version) - contains eight (8) pages of pictures, each
- page having 6 pictures for a total of 48 pictures. Each page has six
- pictures and the six corresponding words. Clicking the ARROW icon cycles
- you through the pages. This version contains six talking faces to choose
- from. The face can be changed at any point in the game. There's an
- elephant, clown, lion, and three others. The cost of this version is $11.95.
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- KID'S GAME (personalized version) - Kid's Game can be personalized! If you
- send along a disk with your own bitmap images, they will be included in
- a version of Kid's Game just for you! You may send in as few or as many as
- you like, up to 48 pictures. We'll put six pictures on each page, along with
- the corresponding words. You can have up to eight pages. The cost of this
- version is $22.95. Details for creating bitmap images are on the next page.
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- IDEAS FOR A PERSONALIZED VERSION:
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- Use a paint/draw program to draw likenesses of you and your other family
- members. We'll put these on a page or pages, along with the names you
- provide ("MOM", "DAD", "BROTHER", or sibling names "JOE", "SUE", etc.).
- You can also send scanned images of people.
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- Send ethnic or religious bitmapped pictures. "Theme" pages can be made for
- various holidays or events. This will teach your child the spelling of words
- that he or she might not see often.
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- If your child is having trouble spelling particular words, send bitmapped
- images of pictures that represent those words.
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- Foreign languages - teach your child the spelling of simple foreign language
- words. Send pictures, along with the proper spelling of the words
- associated with each picture. Any language will work - be sure to include
- correctly spelled words!
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- INSTRUCTIONS FOR OBTAINING BITMAPPED IMAGES:
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- Kid's Game uses PICTs. These are bitmapped images. Bitmaps can be in color
- or black and white. The following are some ways that you can obtain bitmapped
- images to be used in a custom copy of Kid's Game:
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- 1). Draw or paint any small pictures you desire, using ANY paint or draw
- program that you have. Use the programs "COPY" to copy each picture
- into the Scrapbook. You can make the selection rectangle around a picture
- any size you want. We'll crop it down to size. When you have all the
- images you want in your Scrapbook, open (double click) your System Folder.
- In there you'll find a file called Scrapbook File. Copy it to another
- disk. We will extract the PICTs from this file. This is the preferred
- method.
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- 2). Use a paint or draw program to draw small pictures. Save and copy each
- document to a disk. Using this method you may use any one or more of the
- following programs: Fullpaint, MacPaint, MacDraw, Canvas DA, Pixel Paint.
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- 3). Send copies of public domain clip art that you already have. These can
- be Fullpaint, MacPaint, MacDraw, Canvas DA, Pixel Paint documents. Or
- copy them to the Scrapbook and send the Scrapbook File, as in Method 1.
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- 4). If you have a scanner, scan images that you want. Bring these images
- into the Scrapbook File and copy it to a disk.
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- OVERALL INSTRUCTIONS (FOR PERSONALIZED VERSION)
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- 1). Create bitmapped images. Copy them to a disk, preferably by means of
- the Scrapbook File. Send up to 48 pictures. If you send less, we will
- add the remaining amount of pictures to fill up eight pages, unless
- you specify that you want only your pictures used.
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- 2). Include either a text file or a hand written list of the words that
- are to be associated with all of the pictures. For foreign language
- words, be sure to include correct spelling!
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- 3). If you have an arrangement preference (what pictures are grouped
- together), fill in the bottom of this page.
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- 4). Send $22.95 check or money order per version.
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- List the picture grouping that you prefer for the pictures you send. There
- will be six pictures per page. Fill in the correct number of pages.
- Example: If you send in 18 pictures, fill in Page 1, Page 2, and Page 3.
- Leave the lines of Page 4, Page 5, and Page 6 blank.
- If you have no preference of picture layout, leave all pages blank. If you
- send less than 48 pictures, we will add the remaining amount of pictures to
- fill up eight pages, unless you specify that you want only your pictures used.
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- Pictures to go on each page:
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- Page 1: ___________________________________________________________________
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- ___________________________________________________________________
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- Page 2: ___________________________________________________________________
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- Page 3 ___________________________________________________________________
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- Page 4: ___________________________________________________________________
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- Page 5: ___________________________________________________________________
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- Page 6: ___________________________________________________________________
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- Should we add color to your pictures? Yes _____ No ______
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- If less than 48 pictures, should we add
- more pictures to create a total of 8 pages? Yes _____ No ______
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- KID'S GAME ORDER FORM
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- Educational Engineering Software
- 8220 W. Grantosa Drive
- Milwaukee, WI 53218
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- Your shipping address:
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- Name _________________________________________________________
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- Address ________________________________________ Apt. ________
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- City __________________________ State _____ Zip ____________
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- Quantity Item Cost Each Subtotal
- __________________________________________________________________________
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- | | Kid's Game (standard version) $11.95 ea. | |
- |________|____________________________________________________|__________|
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- | | Kid's Game (personalized version) $22.95 ea. | |
- |________|____________________________________________________|__________|
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- | Total | |
- |_____________________________________________________________|__________|
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- Mail the above form to:
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- Educational Engineering Software
- 8220 W. Grantosa Drive
- Milwaukee, WI 53218
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- If ordering a personalized version, include the preceding page (page 3).
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