Educational software

Hi everyone,

Can anyone suggest some educational software for children, old or new?

Maths, language, writing, reading etc...

For the Amiga obviously

@TheDaddy

Not necessarily for children but certainly educational is Digital Universe, http://www.digitaluniverse.org.uk/


Bill.

@BillE

Thanks

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I'm assuming you mean Amgia Classic.
What age are the kids? I have many educational game that my kids used as they were growing up. Now they are all over 18 to I don't think they will be playing them any time soon. I'd be happy to box some up and ship them to you for the cost of shipping but I don't know how expensive it would be to ship from the US to the UK. They are all NTSC versions as well. Not sure how well they would work on a PAL system.

Here are some of the titles I have:

Castle of Dr. Brain -- Sierra
My Paint -- Saddleback Graphics
Barny Bear Goes to School -- Free Spirit Software
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles World Tour -- Merit Software
Kinderama -- Unicorn Educational Software
Amy's Fun23 Adventure -- Devasoft
Mixed Up Mother Goose -- Sierra
Dinosaur Discovery Kit -- First Byte

I believe all the above are boxed with original disks and manuals.

In addition I have original floppy disks only for the following:

Chicken Little, A Robot Reader -- Hilton Android
ABZoo -- MichTron
Planet Probe -- MIcroEd
Genlock Holmes -- MicroEd
Early Math -- MicroEd

Two DevWare PD floppies that contain the following:
Flags of the World Game
Math Game
Spelling Game
States (United States) Game

Not sure what condition the floppies are in but I can put them in the floppy on my uA1 and do a quick check to see if they can be read.

@ktadd

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Unless you have a Catweasel PCI card in your AmigaOne, I dont think you will be able to read a Classic Amiga formatted disk.

As far as I know, the A1's only had a standard PC floppy disk controller.

@TheDaddy

There is also the "Where on earth is Carmen SanDiego" series.

Chris

Yes, I remember buying my a son his own A500 with A590 HD and monitor when he was 2... He just wanted too much time on DADDYs Amiga :p

Later he got an A1200 etc

These days he likes a LapTop of course

Anyway, my suggestion is this, pick up an A1200 with 030 50mhz with HD or an alternative and install the stuff you can install and get an extra disk drive for the stuff you can't and also perhaps install the odd one via whdload or another HD installer system.

adios :D

I too own quite a lot of educational software along with a magnitude of Amiga Hardware, but I suffer from an illness called 'can'tpartwithanythingamiga' and that is my biggest assest and also my largest downfall LOL

anyway, good luck with whatever path you go down

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I do have a Catweasel in my uA1 and it reads the floppies just fine. In fact I found an old floppy that contained a program I wrote in AmigaVision years and years ago to teach my kids colors and how to spell them. Imagine my supprise when it actually ran on OS4, minus the speech of course.

@ktadd

excellent. :)

Edit: Oh btw, our avatars are very similar!

@ktadd

That's great. Amigavision was a good looking program, never did think Scala was as nice but then, it's about performance not visuals?

My experience with Amigavision was a shop owner threw me the package asked me to learn to use it and create an interactive demo for the shop to show off the Amiga. So I did. Not sure if I ever did anything for myself outside of that. Always knew it had potential though.

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Hey, your right! I never noticed that before. :)

@TheDaddy

A demo of Amy's Fun23 Adventure can be found on Aminet here: Amy's Fun23 Demo
A screenshot of the main menu of the program can be found here: Any Fun23 Main Menu
Rated for kids 2-6 years of age.

A review of "The Dinosaur Discovery Kit" can be found here; Read Review!

I also discovered that the Kid Pix Demo runs perfect on OS4. Just assign it about a 640x254 8bit screen in Screen Preferences and it looks and works great. It's a nice little kids paint program. You can find it here: Kid Pix Demo

@ktadd

>>I'm assuming you mean Amgia Classic.

Both, but mainly classic (for now).

I was mainly looking for a good maths program for 4-7 years old, something funny and interesting, not too complicated.

I will have a look at those titles you suggested.

Thank you

@QuikSanz

Thanks

@ktadd

>>A demo of Amy's Fun23 Adventure can be found on Aminet here: Amy's Fun23 Demo
A screenshot of the main menu of the program can be found here: Any Fun23 Main Menu
Rated for kids 2-6 years of age.

A review of "The Dinosaur Discovery Kit" can be found here; Read Review!

I also discovered that the Kid Pix Demo runs perfect on OS4. Just assign it about a 640x254 8bit screen in Screen Preferences and it looks and works great. It's a nice little kids paint program. You can find it here: Kid Pix Demo



Excellent! Thank you very much for the links

@TheDaddy

You could try the Fun School games, there's a few listed on Ebay at the moment.

Link.

the biggest problem is probably the language !

all listed titles are english ONLY, and as you might know, the world is not only populated by english speaking people !

@Lio

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But this is an English speaking board and TheDaddy is seeking English titles, as far as I can see. And you are replying in English and no one is asking for other Languages.

You having a bad day Lio?

@Lio

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The Kid Pix Demo program I provided a link to provides support for several languages. Italian, Spanish, French and German I believe. Of course that doesn't help if you don't speak one of those languages either. :)

@TheDaddy
how about some of the old CDTV titles:
Time Table of history
World Vista
Insight Technology
Insight Dinosaurs
Guinness disk of records
The connoisseur Fine Art collection
Hutchinson Encyclopedia
Epic Encyclopedia
Grolier Encyclopedia
World Atlas
A Bun for Barney
Learn French with Asterix
Sherlock Holmes on a disk
Garden Fax - Indoor plants
those are just some of my collection but there are loads more,
Don't forget the Fun School series of programs also