It was back in March of this year that Alive MediaSoft announced it's intentions to enter into the Kids Software market and this has now led to their first release in this range, called Adiboo.
Readers will be aware that the Amiga Market is a diverse place featuring Creative to Business software and as covered on Amiga Flame, Games Software. It is therefore pleasing to see that the Educational and Kids Software end is once again getting the coverage that it deserves by companies like Alive MediaSoft.
The Press Release below reveals all you'll need to know about Adiboo and how to purchase your copy:-
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ALIVE KIDS - ADIBOO is the latest exciting release from Alive MediaSoft
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 ALIVE KIDS - ADIBOO is the latest exciting release from Alive mediasoft.
How many of you out there have kids? How many of you are frustrated at the
lack of childrens software available on the Amiga? Well don't despare we have
the answer.
Alive kids - Adiboo is a state-of-the-art piece of childrens software.
Join Adiboo in his magical wonderland where you can read, count draw, invent,
play and explore!
Meet his crazy friends where your kids will learn lots and have hours of fun.
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Adiboo comes on 2 CDs. The first CD is for 4-7 year olds.
It features 10 great discovery activities to learn through play.
These include:
Puzzles - put the jigsaw together to hear a song!
Flower Garden - water and care for your flowers and watch them grow!
Painting Game - extremely easy to use paint package to draw, colour and print
your pictures!
Cartoon Creation - create your very own cartoon with ready made scenery &
characters!
Portrait Game - test your memory and re-create a face by picking out a certain
nose, eyes etc..!
Kitchen - Make cakes with the ingrediants in the game or print the receipe and
make it for real!
And much much more...
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The 2nd CD is for 6-7 year olds. This features "I can read" and "I can count"
"I can read" has 15 varied activities to develop memory, understanding,
reading and writing skills.
"I can count" has 15 activities in 3 difficulty levels to develop numeration,
counting and ordering skills.
Adiboo has a specially designed interface to make it as easy as possible for
children to use it un aided. For example, in the drawing package, you only
need click the mouse once and it will draw continuosly until you press it
again. This is essential for small hands so they don't have to keep the
button pressed whilst drawing.
A full tutorial is provided at the start of each game courstesy of your friend
- Adiboo.
He talks you through each game in detail and describes what every icon is for.
There is also a friendly worm to help you out if you get stuck.
Adiboo has been developed with full teachers support so you can feel safe in
the knowledge that your child is being taught according to the national
curriculum.
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Alive Kids Adiboo comes packaged in a big gift box containing both CD's, full
colour manual and a free activity book and colouring crayons.
This is a complete conversion of the Macintosh version onto the Amiga.
Minimum specification required is Amiga '040 or PPC, 8mb, Hard-drive and
CD-Rom. Adiboo runs in 256 colour in a 640 x 480 screen.
We recommend that you use a gfx card but it`s not essential.
Alive kids software will revolutionise childrens software on the Amiga.
Never again will the Amiga be left behind by other platforms - we've had the
capabilities for years and now we have the software.
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Adiboo is fully upgradable by way of future upgrades and add-ons.
No price has been confirmed as yet.
More details about Adiboo and other releases can be found in our 16 page
Autumn/Winter adition catalogue. This is going out to over 4000 readers in
the next few weeks. If you aren't on our mailing list and would like to
receive your free catalogue with the full 14 game review section then send us
your snail-mail address today - don't miss out!
Any questions or comments will be greatly appreciated.
Contact:
Alive MediaSoft
PO Box 940
Nottingham NG17 7FA
Tel: 01623 467579
E-mail your support to:-
stevenalive innotts.co.uk
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