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- WELCOME TO
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- KIDS DISK - NUMBER ONE
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- The contents of this disc are copyright © 1993 Duncan Moran.
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- All programmes on this disc were written with AMOS.
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- All "Kids Disk" discs must be supplied complete, unchanged & free of charge.
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- Kids Disks are available through the Public Domain network. However it can
- take a couple of months for a disc to become widely circulated and advertised.
- If you would like to receive yours directly please send £1 (more if overseas!)
- to cover cost of disc/postage/packing etc. for each disc required. State which
- disc number you want. This will be posted to you as it becomes available.
- £4.50 will get you the next 5 Kids Disks. DO NOT send coins through the post.
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- Duncan Moran, 24 First Avenue, Colwyn Bay, Clwyd, LL28 4DQ U.K.
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- 1:
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- I must firstly thank all those who took the trouble to write or phone
- with comments on my previous efforts. Most respondents observed that their
- children enjoyed using my programmes; perhaps this is as much as one could
- ask. There seems to be a general consensus that software for children is
- a) Too expensive and b) Not very good. I am aware that my own efforts could
- well fall into the latter category, but I am happy to make them freely
- available and thus avoid the first charge.
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- 2:
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- The Official Campaign Against White Sliced Software:
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- I would like Kids Disks to become a forum for your ideas and comments
- on software for children. The comments of children on the programmes they use
- would be interesting. Has anyone ever learnt anything, other than how to use
- a computer, by sitting at a computer running some educational software?
- What is wrong with the twee and bland commercial stuff?
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- I would liken most software to white sliced bread. It may not be
- doing you much harm but it certainly is not doing you any good. I find the
- crusty, burnt round the edges but baked to satisfy a hunger rather than to
- fill a perceived marketing níche stuff much more enjoyable. There is at
- present some concern that children are becoming addicted to computer games.
- Surely the worry should be that they are so easily satisfied and that we
- could not find them anything more (or even remotely) exciting to do.
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- 3:
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- The correspondence I have received thus far would often include a
- plea for help with a problem (or two!) that needed to be sorted out in the
- writers own programmes. There is obviously a lot of interest in "Write Your
- Own" software but after the short demonstration routines there are few
- examples that let you see how a whole programme hangs together. To this end
- I have started an art programme which will grow over coming issues of Kids
- Disk into a lengthy example of most of the AMOS commands. If you have a copy
- of AMOS (it was on the cover disc of Amiga Format Jan.1993.) you can load¤ the
- art programme and you may find some of it informative and helpful: or not!
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- ¤Load your AMOS editor. Press the Right mouse button, select MERGE ASCII.
- Double click on "Prog.asc" in the file selector and wait for it to merge!
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- 4:
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- NTSC Users:
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- International acclaim carries with it a certain responsibility....
- OK so every manual I have ever read warns about the problems that can occur
- between the NTSC & PAL modes. I shall try to heed these warnings in future.
- This should be OK apart from Colour The Alphabet (but see the instructions).
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- 5:
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- Interesting Things Number 47:
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- Sometimes ye olde 1.3 Amiga will boot up in NTSC mode so you cannot
- see the bottom part of the screen. If this happens with this disc try
- selecting Colour The Alphabet and once the rainbow effects start you can
- view the whole screen. When you leave the options part and the rainbows are
- gone you are unable to see the bottom part again. Really interesting eh!
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- 6:
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- If you have anything you would like included -
- reviews, programmes, music, pictures, comments in general or ideas
- for future issues please send them to me and I'll see what I can do.
- Remember this is SOFTware - nothing is fixed everything can be changed!
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- Bye For Now {;-) March 1993
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