Favourite or old memory of Edutainment titles at School? - Page 3

Paul · 05 February 2002, 18:07

Better Maths - School Software Ltd. - 1 Disk

Amiga Junior Typist - School Software Ltd. - 1 Disk

Uploaded to the zone. Could not get them to work in both emulators. Help

As I am using 720k PC Disks to transfer I decided it would be best to dms the disks so they would fit. Could someone please check to see if they are faulty, before I continue with the rest, using this method. Thanks

Paul · 05 February 2002, 18:44

Game, Set & Match - Genisoft

Words & Numbers - Genisoft

Kid’s Type (4’s – 8’s) - Genisoft

Vol.1 Counties of the British Isles - Genisoft

Weather Watcher - Genisoft

Uploaded and work

Twistin'Ghost · 05 February 2002, 19:03

Very cool - thanks, Paul! I got three of the disks to convert to ADF using DMS2ADF, and the last one that wouldn't convert un-DMS'd fine from AmigaDOS (Better Maths). The disks appear to be fine, looking at them in Directory Opus. I am just now trying to get them to run and will report if I have any luck.

The DMS route seems to be working good!

Twistin'Ghost · 05 February 2002, 19:16

Yeah, the disks appear to be good, but the software (two of them written in Amiga Forth) are really picky. Better Maths and Junior Typist just crashed when booting; Word and Numbers went to the title screen, but no futher, and finally Kids Type seemed to work, but I bailed after the title screen. Andreas, you wanna work on these?

Paul · 05 February 2002, 19:16

Can't do any more ATM the A500+ went black and won't bootup.

It had a red screen yesterday.

Tried powerpack in A600HD and came on but HD is stuck.

BTW try them in winfellow

Twistin'Ghost · 05 February 2002, 22:35

Yikes! I hope the A500+ is OK!

I was gonna try them in WinFellow, but I was already close to being late for work, so I wasn't able. Tonight for sure.

Paul · 06 February 2002, 10:31

Fun School 4 (5’s – 7’s) disk 1 and 2 - Europress Software
Tested and works in WinUAE8r9.exe

Fun School 4 (under 5’s) disk 1 and 2 - Europress Software
Tested and works in WinUAE8r9.exe

Uploaded to the zone as A600HD started working again with A500+ Power pack.

Paul · 06 February 2002, 11:42

Noddy’s Playtime - 1992 - Jumping Bean Co. Ltd.
(BBC Enterprises Ltd.) Disk 1, Disk 2 and Disk 3
Tested and works in WinUAE8r9.exe

Uploaded to the zone

Paul · 06 February 2002, 13:14

Noddy’s Big Adventure - 1992 - Jumping Bean Co. Ltd.
(BBC Enterprises Ltd.)
Disk 1, 2, 3 and 4
Tested and works in WinUAE8r9.exe

Disk 4 is some sort of a word processor. Separate boot disk.

AND

Calendar Quiz - Genisoft

I had problems with this one - when unpacking with xdms I got a crc error, but the adf still worked. Hope it's ok!

Both Uploaded to the zone

BTW I have manuels for both Noddy's (and maps), for the 6 Genisoft titles and for Kids Pix (yet to be uploaded)

Edit
Kid Pix -1991/1993 - BrǾderbund Software/ Electronic Arts
All 3 disks are in the zone
Tested and works in WinUAE8r9.exe

THAT'S THE LOT!
A500+ did die (sigh) but A600HD is now working (but for how long?)

Twistin'Ghost · 06 February 2002, 20:49

This is super-duper, Paul. What a wonderful dumping of cool rarities! I think I am gonna go down to the kindergarten and invite them over for a round of Weather Watchers. It's an edutainment frenzy at EAB this week!

RIP to your A500+...at least the A600 is still alive and well.

As usual, if you need anything posted, lemme know.

Paul · 16 February 2002, 10:35

Scans of Education Kid’s Stuff. Check the zone.

Noddy’s Big Adventure Instruction Manual Cover
150dpi scan, 30 compression ratio jpg file

Paul · 16 February 2002, 11:35

Genisoft Six Compendium Instruction Manual Cover
150dpi scan, 30 compression ratio jpg file

Noddy’s Playtime A3 MAP
75dpi scan, 30 compression ratio jpg file

Noddy’s Playtime Instruction Manual Cover
150dpi scan, 30 compression ratio jpg file

Noddy’s Big Adventure A3 MAP
75dpi scan, 30 compression ratio jpg file

@Twistin Ghost & Dpainter

Paul · 16 February 2002, 15:07

Found these

Better Maths Cover of disk case

Schools Software Ltd Brochure
6 Scanned pages

In the zone

Sorry no Junior Typist, but did find 2 boxes full of manuals and game covers! (Don't have the disk boxes though!)

Twistin'Ghost · 17 February 2002, 04:50

As usual, thanks for all the rare goodies, Paul. A limited market, but we're here!

Chuckles · 17 February 2002, 10:25

I have to admit that the title of this thread gave me a bit of a chuckle, mainly because they didn't HAVE any edu-tainment titles when I was in school. That may have something to do with PC's not having yet been invented, I suppose.

7-Zark-7 · 23 June 2002, 15:06

I don't often go & ressurect old threads,& particulary my own, but since we've had some newer members come on to EAB I thought I should reactivate it.
Anyone else out there has any old programs/games that were supposedly "educating" us in school then?
I recall another one to add to my ones of Raft Away River & Gold Dust Island, Sheep Dog Trial.
You had a grid arrangement & had to herd the sheep back in.
If in two player mode the sheepdogs got too close, they'd start fighting!!

26 June 2002, 05:53

I remember spending quite a bit of time playin "Oregon Trail" on the Apple II's in the computer lad in jr high...also played a text based game called "Pheonix" or "flight of the Pheonix" cant rtemember which....we also used a programn that would predict the genetic out comes of a litter of puppies...so you could try and get a litter of all black starting with two spotted parents etc etc....we had no computers in my grade school...sorry.

jmmijo · 26 June 2002, 06:01

Quote:

Originally posted by ToTalXS I remember spending quite a bit of time playin "Oregon Trail" on the Apple II's in the computer lad in jr high...

Yes and I live on the Oregon Trail, or should I say the end of the Oregon Trail is more accurate

As for my memories of edutainment, well we had a lab full of CPM boxes, the Trash 80's, can't remember wether they were the model I, III or 4's but I remember the geeks, whom called themselves Aardvarks :laugh hogging the machines 24 x 7

Of course this was back in the mid 70's and my time in high school is really best forgotten

I seem to recall my Fairchild Channel F having some edutaintment Video Carts, but I can't be sure, it seems to be long gone now :eek

7-Zark-7 · 08 November 2003, 16:37

*Bumps*
Just to say a sincere thank-you to Sane & Amigaboy, & most of all Gamebase 64, FINALLY will get to see Raft-Away-River & Gold Dust Island again in all their technicolour C64 glory, thanks for that again guys!!

Titler · 16 November 2003, 16:47

I don't remember the system too clearly, but I suspect it was a BBC micro of some sort... nor the year in particular, early in secondary school sometime it was... there was this program see, it was supposed to be teaching us basic economics, or maybe it was supposed to be agriculture... anyway, it was a "farming" program; You had 4 fields I think, and were supposed to grow various crop types in them, in order to make a profit. It had some sort of yield variable programmed in, and we were expected to rotate the crops in order to avoid soil nutrient depletion. However, we very quickly discovered that growing "grass" in every single field, all year around led to the most profits. Perhaps it was those EU subsidies for cutting production those farmers like to complain about getting!

I like to think of it as one of the epithanies that led me to question all assumptions people hold; You see... Our teacher was wrong, although that wasn't the lesson I think they wanted to teach us!

In 1990 sometime, my school upgraded to Acorn Archimedes. When I reached the 6th Form, they'd let us stay in the computer room playing Lemmings and Virus on the machines, even during other peoples lectures, if there were computers spare, and we'd keep the "Oh No's!" down to a responabile level. There was some sort of golfing game as well, which we used to have tournaments on for the best score... until one of us discovered that hitting the ball exactly straight at full power flew the ball perfectly on to the green, where it then hit the flag, rolled down the flag pole, and into the hole for a hole in one. Every time! Sadly, I was unable to apply this lesson, or even interest, to real life golf...

05 February 2002, 18:44	#42
Paul RIP Friends Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: UK Posts: 2,157	Game, Set & Match - Genisoft Words & Numbers - Genisoft Kid’s Type (4’s – 8’s) - Genisoft Vol.1 Counties of the British Isles - Genisoft Weather Watcher - Genisoft Uploaded and work Last edited by Paul; 05 February 2002 at 19:12.

06 February 2002, 10:31	#47
Paul RIP Friends Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: UK Posts: 2,157	Fun School 4 (5’s – 7’s) disk 1 and 2 - Europress Software Tested and works in WinUAE8r9.exe Fun School 4 (under 5’s) disk 1 and 2 - Europress Software Tested and works in WinUAE8r9.exe Uploaded to the zone as A600HD started working again with A500+ Power pack. Last edited by Paul; 06 February 2002 at 10:48.

06 February 2002, 13:14	#49
Paul RIP Friends Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: UK Posts: 2,157	Noddy’s Big Adventure - 1992 - Jumping Bean Co. Ltd. (BBC Enterprises Ltd.) Disk 1, 2, 3 and 4 Tested and works in WinUAE8r9.exe Disk 4 is some sort of a word processor. Separate boot disk. AND Calendar Quiz - Genisoft I had problems with this one - when unpacking with xdms I got a crc error, but the adf still worked. Hope it's ok! Both Uploaded to the zone BTW I have manuels for both Noddy's (and maps), for the 6 Genisoft titles and for Kids Pix (yet to be uploaded) Edit Kid Pix -1991/1993 - BrǾderbund Software/ Electronic Arts All 3 disks are in the zone Tested and works in WinUAE8r9.exe THAT'S THE LOT! A500+ did die (sigh) but A600HD is now working (but for how long?) Last edited by Paul; 06 February 2002 at 16:51.

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05 February 2002, 18:07	#41
Paul RIP Friends Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: UK Posts: 2,157	Better Maths - School Software Ltd. - 1 Disk Amiga Junior Typist - School Software Ltd. - 1 Disk Uploaded to the zone. Could not get them to work in both emulators. Help As I am using 720k PC Disks to transfer I decided it would be best to dms the disks so they would fit. Could someone please check to see if they are faulty, before I continue with the rest, using this method. Thanks

05 February 2002, 19:03	#43
Twistin'Ghost Give up the ghost Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: U$A Age: 33 Posts: 4,662	Very cool - thanks, Paul! I got three of the disks to convert to ADF using DMS2ADF, and the last one that wouldn't convert un-DMS'd fine from AmigaDOS (Better Maths). The disks appear to be fine, looking at them in Directory Opus. I am just now trying to get them to run and will report if I have any luck. The DMS route seems to be working good!

05 February 2002, 19:16	#44
Twistin'Ghost Give up the ghost Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: U$A Age: 33 Posts: 4,662	Yeah, the disks appear to be good, but the software (two of them written in Amiga Forth) are really picky. Better Maths and Junior Typist just crashed when booting; Word and Numbers went to the title screen, but no futher, and finally Kids Type seemed to work, but I bailed after the title screen. Andreas, you wanna work on these?

05 February 2002, 22:35	#46
Twistin'Ghost Give up the ghost Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: U$A Age: 33 Posts: 4,662	Yikes! I hope the A500+ is OK! I was gonna try them in WinFellow, but I was already close to being late for work, so I wasn't able. Tonight for sure.

06 February 2002, 11:42	#48
Paul RIP Friends Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: UK Posts: 2,157	Noddy’s Playtime - 1992 - Jumping Bean Co. Ltd. (BBC Enterprises Ltd.) Disk 1, Disk 2 and Disk 3 Tested and works in WinUAE8r9.exe Uploaded to the zone

06 February 2002, 20:49	#50
Twistin'Ghost Give up the ghost Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: U$A Age: 33 Posts: 4,662	This is super-duper, Paul. What a wonderful dumping of cool rarities! I think I am gonna go down to the kindergarten and invite them over for a round of Weather Watchers. It's an edutainment frenzy at EAB this week! RIP to your A500+...at least the A600 is still alive and well. As usual, if you need anything posted, lemme know.

16 February 2002, 10:35	#51
Paul RIP Friends Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: UK Posts: 2,157	Scans of Education Kid’s Stuff. Check the zone. Noddy’s Big Adventure Instruction Manual Cover 150dpi scan, 30 compression ratio jpg file

16 February 2002, 11:35	#52
Paul RIP Friends Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: UK Posts: 2,157	Genisoft Six Compendium Instruction Manual Cover 150dpi scan, 30 compression ratio jpg file Noddy’s Playtime A3 MAP 75dpi scan, 30 compression ratio jpg file Noddy’s Playtime Instruction Manual Cover 150dpi scan, 30 compression ratio jpg file Noddy’s Big Adventure A3 MAP 75dpi scan, 30 compression ratio jpg file @Twistin Ghost & Dpainter

16 February 2002, 15:07	#53
Paul RIP Friends Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: UK Posts: 2,157	Found these Better Maths Cover of disk case Schools Software Ltd Brochure 6 Scanned pages In the zone Sorry no Junior Typist, but did find 2 boxes full of manuals and game covers! (Don't have the disk boxes though!)

17 February 2002, 04:50	#54
Twistin'Ghost Give up the ghost Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: U$A Age: 33 Posts: 4,662	As usual, thanks for all the rare goodies, Paul. A limited market, but we're here!

17 February 2002, 10:25	#55
Chuckles The Ancient One Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Kansas City/USA Age: 69 Posts: 685	I have to admit that the title of this thread gave me a bit of a chuckle, mainly because they didn't HAVE any edu-tainment titles when I was in school. That may have something to do with PC's not having yet been invented, I suppose.

23 June 2002, 15:06	#56
7-Zark-7 Zone Friend Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Brisbane/Australia Posts: 1,270	I don't often go & ressurect old threads,& particulary my own, but since we've had some newer members come on to EAB I thought I should reactivate it. Anyone else out there has any old programs/games that were supposedly "educating" us in school then? I recall another one to add to my ones of Raft Away River & Gold Dust Island, Sheep Dog Trial. You had a grid arrangement & had to herd the sheep back in. If in two player mode the sheepdogs got too close, they'd start fighting!!

26 June 2002, 05:53	#57
ToTalXS Posts: n/a	I remember spending quite a bit of time playin "Oregon Trail" on the Apple II's in the computer lad in jr high...also played a text based game called "Pheonix" or "flight of the Pheonix" cant rtemember which....we also used a programn that would predict the genetic out comes of a litter of puppies...so you could try and get a litter of all black starting with two spotted parents etc etc....we had no computers in my grade school...sorry.

08 November 2003, 16:37	#59
7-Zark-7 Zone Friend Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Brisbane/Australia Posts: 1,270	Bumps Just to say a sincere thank-you to Sane & Amigaboy, & most of all Gamebase 64, FINALLY will get to see Raft-Away-River & Gold Dust Island again in all their technicolour C64 glory, thanks for that again guys!!

16 November 2003, 16:47	#60
Titler Zone Friend Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: UK Posts: 303	I don't remember the system too clearly, but I suspect it was a BBC micro of some sort... nor the year in particular, early in secondary school sometime it was... there was this program see, it was supposed to be teaching us basic economics, or maybe it was supposed to be agriculture... anyway, it was a "farming" program; You had 4 fields I think, and were supposed to grow various crop types in them, in order to make a profit. It had some sort of yield variable programmed in, and we were expected to rotate the crops in order to avoid soil nutrient depletion. However, we very quickly discovered that growing "grass" in every single field, all year around led to the most profits. Perhaps it was those EU subsidies for cutting production those farmers like to complain about getting! I like to think of it as one of the epithanies that led me to question all assumptions people hold; You see... Our teacher was wrong, although that wasn't the lesson I think they wanted to teach us! In 1990 sometime, my school upgraded to Acorn Archimedes. When I reached the 6th Form, they'd let us stay in the computer room playing Lemmings and Virus on the machines, even during other peoples lectures, if there were computers spare, and we'd keep the "Oh No's!" down to a responabile level. There was some sort of golfing game as well, which we used to have tournaments on for the best score... until one of us discovered that hitting the ball exactly straight at full power flew the ball perfectly on to the green, where it then hit the flag, rolled down the flag pole, and into the hole for a hole in one. Every time! Sadly, I was unable to apply this lesson, or even interest, to real life golf...

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