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ALIVE SOFTWARE
presents ... M A G I C C R A Y O N (tm)
1.................. INTRODUCTION
2.................. WARRANTY
3.................. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS AND OPTIONS
4.................. GAME OPERATION
5.................. SPECIAL NOTES FOR SHAREWARE VERSION
1. INTRODUCTION
Welcome to Magic Crayon, featuring fun coloring book activities for
children 3 to 8 years old. A creative and challenging experience for
young children who like to explore and experiment with color and shapes.
It encourages hands-on, active, artistic, exploration.
Magic Crayon features: four sets of pictures, two levels of difficulty,
icon-based interface, mouse support, Soundblaster music support and
great graphics.
Magic Crayon is distributed as Shareware: if you like the program
and you wish to receive the latest version, the additional pictures,
please use ORDER.TXT to order it. Feel free to pass this program around
to friends and relatives, as long as all of the files are included in
the distributed disk and are not altered in any way. If you are a
vendor and plan to distribute this program, please read files
LICENSE.TXT and VENDINFO.DIZ
The Magic Crayon files, program, graphics, sounds and manuals on paper
or on disk, are (C) copyright 1990-96 by Alive Software. All Rights
Reserved. Programming, Graphics and Music by Bill Dedes.
2. WARRANTY
THIS PROGRAM IS PROVIDED "AS-IS", NO WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, ARE MADE AS TO IT OR ANY MEDIUM IT MAY BE ON. WE WILL PROVIDE
NO REMEDY FOR INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES
ARISING FROM IT, INCLUDING SUCH FROM NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY, OR
BREACH OF WARRANTY OR CONTRACT, EVEN AFTER NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
SUCH DAMAGES.
3. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS AND OPTIONS
REQUIRES: * PC 386 compatible with 512K memory
* Mouse
* VGA or EGA graphics card
OPTIONAL: Soundblaster/AdLib compatible, Laserjet & Dot-matrix printer.
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4. GAME OPERATION
To start the program run MC.EXE by simply typing MC <Enter>
GENERAL : The program will detect your display card. It will also
sense if there is a mouse attached by checking for the mouse driver.
Please make sure that a mouse driver is installed before running MC.
All of the Magic Crayon files must be present at your current disk
drive and directory.
The object of Magic Crayon is to color in all the Yellow sections of the
picture. You may pick any color you wish from the palette.
:-------------:
: NEW PICTURE : The "happy face" icon in the upper left corner selects
:-------------: a new picture from the current library.
:-------------:
: UNDO : The "unhappy face" icon in the upper left corner undoes
:-------------: your last coloring action.
:-------------:
: VIEW COLOR : The "eye" icon in the upper right corner, colors in the
:-------------: picture on the screen. If you get stuck or bored with
a picture, select this option to finish it off.
:-------------:
: HELP : The "Questionmark" icon shows brief description of the
:-------------: game objective.
:-------------:
: INFO : "Crayon" icon, shows information about the program:
:-------------: title, version and copyright notice.
:-------------:
: 1. : "Fish" icon selects Miscellaneous pictures for coloring
:-------------:
:-------------:
: 2. : "Hat" icon selects pictures from the color alphabet and
:-------------: number collection. Teaches simple words and numbers.
:-------------:
: 3. : "Camel" icon selects pictures from the color shading
:-------------: picture collection. The object of this game is to color
in the Yellow sections of the picture which make-up the
hidden shape.
:-------------:
: 4. : "Owl" icon selects funny cartoon characters from the
:-------------: color critter collection.
:-------------:
: MENU : The menu icon, lets you set personal preferences or
:-------------: quit the program
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1. SET LEVEL Easy level displays colored squares, which serve as
--------- coloring guides for young children or beginners.
2. SOUND Turns on or off the sound effects or music. If you have
----- Adlib or Soundblaster compatible, select option number 3.
3. PRINT PICTURE Prints the black outline of the picture on a Dot-
------------- Matrix or Laserjet printer. This is great for hand
coloring.
4. SHOW MAGIC DEMO Self-running demonstration of Magic Crayon.
---------------
5. QUIT Lets you to end the game.
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TO START : Run MC.EXE by typing MC followed by <ENTER>. Then the
theme song will start playing. You can either wait until the whole song
is played or you can press a keyboard key or press a mouse button to
stop the music before it finishes. Now you are ready to start.
TO PLAY : For a quick start just click on the "happy face" icon, point
and click on a color from the palette and start coloring in.
When all of the Yellow sections are colored in, you will hear a new
music song.
MAGIC CRAYON GAME PHILOSOPHY
Magic crayon combines the challenges and rewards of games with teaching
basic visual principles. This approach works well because it is fun.
Magic Crayon will help children explore and play with colors. It brings
out the artistic qualities in them. There are 100 pictures to color
again and again.
The color shading collection teaches visual discrimination and visual
perception . These skills are very important in geometry and geography.
Magic Crayon is also a great introduction to using the mouse as a
pointing device.
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5. SPECIAL NOTES FOR SHAREWARE VERSION
Here is a list of benefits you will get by ordering the complete
Magic Crayon series.
* YOU WILL GET THE LATEST ENHANCED version of Magic Crayon which
includes:
100 pictures with subjects suitable for children to color again
and again
1. More pictures of cartoons and animals
2. Kids Color-in and learn new words and numbers
3. Color shading to reveal hidden shapes
4. More Funny cartoon characters
* When you order from Alive Software you will also get more FREE
Shareware, our catalog, newsletter, new product announcements and low
cost updates.
* Registered users Get TECHNICAL support through phone, mail, fax or
Email.
For more information run program ALIVECAT.EXE, our catalog containing
detailed descriptions of our programs. For Contact or ordering
information, print or list and fill ORDER.TXT, and mail, fax, Email
or phone your order today.
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