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- CHILD'S PLAY
-
- REQUIRES:
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- 256 color video driver, Windows 3.1, VBRUN300.DLL.
-
- INSTALLING:
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- 1. FILE|RUN A:\SETUP
-
-
- INTRODUCTION:
-
- Keep your kids busy for hours with the best paint/art program in the
- shareware marketplace with Child's Play. It's so easy that your kids
- will have this mastered in no time. More importantly, it is FUN!
-
- Child's Play mixes art creation tools, screen erasers and special
- effects to bring out the young artist. This is the one program that
- kids never seem to tire of.
-
- Child's Play takes full screen. This keeps kids from mousing over to
- other places in Windows and potentially destroying something. Although
- they can still Alt-Tab into another program, Child's Play is so mouse
- intensive that it isn't likely that they will do this.
-
- In addition, Child's Play is also an educational tool in that the mouse
- actions used to draw are the same ones used in programs used in adult
- programs. Drawing rectangles, dragging stamps and other actions will help
- prepare them for similar actions such as "drag and drop" later in life.
- Similarly, by supporting the right mouse button (although there is no
- requirement to use it) your child becomes used to the idea that more than
- one mouse button can do things.
-
- OPERATION:
-
- To operate, note that there are 2 3d pushbuttons on screen at the upper
- left. The top one is the "menu" and the one underneath is UNDO. The
- menu button allows you to choose from a list of buttons on a 'flyout'
- bar:
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- Draw Tools/Erasers/Effects/Stamps/Text/Load/Save/Print/Sound/Help/About/Exit
-
- The HELP window will describe the operation of the first 3 sets of tools;
- when you have selected DRAWING TOOLS or STAMPS the red arrow buttons on
- the left of the screen will cycle through the available choices.
-
- STAMPS will smear if the mouse button is being pressed and the mouse is
- moving. This is intentional; kids like the effect. Single stamps can be
- deposited once per mouse click.
-
- TEXT will allow the child to type on screen.
-
- SOUND toggles the sound effects off and on.
-
- HELP brings up a window that describes the drawing tools, erasers, and
- special effects.
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- ABOUT tells you who we are and how to order.
-
- EXIT lets you quit the program.
-
-
- COLORS:
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- Child's Play is a 256 color program and will use either mouse button. If you
- look at the upper left of the screen, you'll see 2 boxes with color in them.
- They correspond to the colors assigned to the left and right mouse buttons.
- (Young children won't much care about the right mouse button, but the older
- kids will.) To select a color for the right mouse button, just choose a color
- from the color palette at the screen top with the right button instead of the
- left. You can access the rest of the color palette by clicking the boxes at
- the upper left described above; a window will pop up with the available color
- spectrum.
-
-
- HOW TO ORDER:
-
- In North America,
- If ordering by credit card, call 1-800-242-4775 and order
- product # 11588. If ordering Child's Play, it is $19.95. "Child's Play Pro"
- (Le Paint Petite) is $24.95.
-
- In Europe:
- If ordering by credit card, call +44 (0) 1889 564601.
- Child's Play is £14.95 + VAT
- Child's Play Pro (Le Paint Petite) is £19.95 + VAT
-
- If ordering by mail in the US, send to:
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- ASL
- P.O. Box 581
- Ruidoso, NM 88345
-
- Make checks payable to "Alston Software Labs".
-
- In the UK and Europe, contact:
-
- The Thompson Partnership
- Lion Buildings,
- Market Place,
- Uttoxeter, Staffs ST14 8HZ
- (0)1889-564601 Fax (0)1889-563219
-
- Make cheques payable to "The Thompson Partnership"
- Visa, Mastercard, AmEx & Diners Club Credit Cards accepted.
-
- Tech Support/general queries in the US is at (209) 522-8666.
- Tech Support/general queries in Europe is at +44 (0) 1889 564601
-
- WHAT YOU GET:
-
- Ordering Child's Play ($19.95) (£14.95) will get you the registered
- version of this program which has more sound effects, no registration
- reminders, and no "Test Drive" marks on saved or printed pictures.
-
- If ordering Child's Play Pro, you'll receive a copy of Le Paint Petite,
- which is a much more advanced program. Le Paint Petite is the same engine
- that is being used in many new retail products (you'll see variations of
- it on a few upcoming CD's from "name" companies if you look.)
-
- Offering many more tools, Le Paint Petite is also faster (we used another
- compiler) and has many other advantages. These are:
-
- 1) 72 Rubber Stamps
- 2) About 2 dozen more drawing tools, including quill pens, charcoal pencils,
- tri-color spray paint, freehand fills, string art, propellers, cloth,
- patterned fills, radio waves, and more.
- 3) 24 screen erasers
- 4) 24 special effects
- 5) Wordless picture loading using thumbnail pictures. What this means is that
- rather than giving a name to a picture to load (and having to guess if it
- is the correct picture), the available pictures are presented in a
- miniature format. Choosing the picture to play with is now as simple as
- pointing to it.
- 6) More sound effects!
- 7) Picture compression. On a 800x600 display, the VB based Child's Play will
- save a picture in BMP format at roughly 421,000 bytes. Le Paint Petite
- uses compressed DIB technology, meaning that pictures of the same sized
- drawing area will be saved in about 1/4 the size.
- 8) Picture management. Use of thumbnails means that the child can also delete
- unwanted or old pictures easily.
- 9) Ability to print on PostScript printers. (Child's Play will only print on
- printers that use a PCL type technology.)
- 10) Installer.
- 11) Le Paint Petite is FAST.
- 12) There's more in this list, but you get the idea.
-
- Le Paint Petite is not available as shareware, but through Child's Play we
- can offer it to our shareware customers. Just remember to order "Child's
- Play Pro".
-
- **************************************************************************
- The latest ASL titles are available online at (209) 883 - 0ASL. (0275)
- Log in with your name, use 'ASL' as the password.
- **************************************************************************
-
- VENDOR INFORMATION:
-
- There are three requirements:
-
- 1) You must include VBRUN300.DLL with any copy of Child's Play sold to the end
- user for purposes of evaluation.
-
- 2) You must include "ASL" in any description.
-
- 3) Don't sell this for more than $6 US, period, under any circumstance. (Not
- applicable to CD vendors.)
-
-
- Child's Play and this document Copyright (c) 1994 ASL.
- Le Paint Petite Copyright (c) 1994 ASL.
-