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- From: pshrink@sashimi.wwa.com (Steven P. King)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.amiga.marketplace
- Subject: Software for Young Kids (3 years old)?
- Followup-To: poster
- Date: 4 Feb 1996 18:31:26 -0600
- Organization: WorldWide Access - Chicago Area Internet Services
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- Can anyone help me locate good software for very young children? I have
- a 3 year old boy who loves playing with the computer. Unfortunately, I
- don't have any good software for him. He has a kid's paint program (My
- Paint) which he enjoys. He also enjoys watching Lemmings and Bubble
- Bobble, but unfortunately he's not quite up to actually *playing* those
- games. Hey, he's 3. Whaddaya expect?
-
- I think he'd really like a program with recognizable objects (cars and
- trucks especially, but also dinosaurs, animals, etc.) that do things
- when you click on them. If there is a point to exercise, so much the
- better. He's nowhere near the math/reading tutor level yet, which is
- what 99% of the "kids software" is designed for.
-
- The computer is an old A500, 1M RAM, NTSC video, AmigaDOS 2.1 (but only
- the basic chipset). I used to use it a lot, before being seduced by the
- Linux side of the Force several years ago. Since then I've fallen out
- of touch with the Amiga world. I've searched AmiNet and the Fish disks
- on the net, but I haven't come up with anything really useful.
- Naturally, there are no Amiga retailers anywhere near me. Can anyone
- recommend a place to find PD software? A mail-order house for
- commercial software? Or, does anyone have kids software gathering dust
- that they'd be willing to sell?
-
- Email answers are preferred, since I don't get to check the net very
- often. I will post a summary of what I find out.
-
-