Thanks to all of you who sent in your shareware fee for version 1.0 and 1.1. Usually the payments came with a brief note describing how much fun your children and grandchildren were having with the program. It made my day to find a thankyou and a check every now and then in the mail. I even got a few notes from the children themselves, what a joy that was!
The net result is that you kept me psyched up to expand upon the good start of Coloring Book 1.1.
What is Coloring Book?
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Coloring Book is an electronic coloring book in which children color areas of pictures by selecting a color from the color palette and clicking on the various items. Hidden within the pages to be colored are many surprising animations and enjoyable sounds. The program explores some of the possibilities offered by the new computer medium with activities such as virtual paper dolls and a robot construction set. Coloring Book has received rave reviews in the publications of several of the largest Mac Users Groups. More importantly, it has been delighting children (and a few adults) aroud the world for the last two years.
The help window is now locked, so the kids can't rewrite the help screens.
Some of the longer animations have been trapped to prevent multiple activation by double and triple clicks. The shareware address has been changed to Bennington, VT : -)
Now you can print the pages which have been colored, by selecting PRINT from the FILE menu.
There is a PARENTS menu with general help and page-specific help.
One of the new pages creates an environment where simple shapes can be created, moved, grouped and colored. This page is a lot of fun even for adults.
Another new page contains a old-fashioned railroad engine with lots of fun embedded animation and sound.
And another new page features three icecream cones and a cherry which can't decide which cone it belongs on.
More animation and sounds have been added so that every page now has some magic.
The Expanded Version
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What's really exciting is the new shareware policy. This time when you send in your shareware fee, you will receive a double-sized version of the program with TEN additional pages including the following:
1. Multiplying Rabbits
2. A Space Adventure
3. A Counting Game
4. Things that Begin with B
5. Electronic "Paper Dolls"
6. A Robot Construction Set
7. A Very Active Apple Tree
8. An Octopus with Fancy Spots
9. A Xylophone Which Plays as its Colored and
Records Tunes for Playback
10. A Basketball Game In Which The Home Team
Never Misses.
The Small Screen Version
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For the same 16.00 shareware fee you can order a version of Coloring Book 1.1 which runs on the Apple 12" Color Monitor and the Color Classic. (note this is not the expanded version)
Registered Coloring Book 1.x users:
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If you have paid for version 1.0 you can upgrade to the expanded version of 2.0 for 4.00.
Coloring Book version 2.0 may be copied and distributed by electronic bulletin board or CDROM as long as it is not altered in any way.
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System Requirements:
Coloring Book requires system 6.07 or later and a Mac with a 13" or larger color monitor and 2 Megs of free memory.
