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P REVIEWS weasel. They giggle uncontrollably as a pig does the moonwalk in a cornfield. If it's unusual for your kids to use brain power on Saturday morning, wait until you boot up a copy of Electronic Arts' Cartooners. The Flintstones were never like this. Cartooners uses the excellent graphics and sound capabilities of the IlGS to full advantage, Background scenes take on a 3-D effect. Clouds, for example, look multilayered in the sky behind the windmill. And the only way to improve the lively and complex mu sic would be to hook your Apple IIgs into vour stereo. ffdd Scene Blank Scene Cemetery Cornfield •Country.Rood Write your own gags and be a comic genius with Cartooners. These fantastic features extract their price. You'll need at least one megabyte of memory and, though the program will run on one drive, you should have a second disk drive. Cartooners comes with a program disk and an art disk; another drive makes the program easier for young children to use. If you've been waiting to add memory to your computer, this pro gram gives you a pretty good excuse for opening your wallet. Making animation with Car tooners is a blast. The instructions are easy to follow, and the menu-driven program is easy to use. The menu bar across the top of the screen allows for every scene, actor, action, and text needed for creating a cartoon. While the program disk carries some of the infor mation, the art disk has most of the selections. The program includes plenty of background scenes, ranging from a cornfield to a park to a graveyard on a dark night. Choose one and you're on the way to producing your first cartoon. The next step is to select the actors, which can be animal characters or ob jects such as clouds, shrubs, weasels, and butterflies. Each actor can be pro grammed to move independently of the other actors in the scene. The rabbit can walk. hop. turn around, or freeze. The 72 COMPUTEI butterfly can fly forward, backward, up, or down. You can also program the timing and speed of the action, but you'll need practice to get everything coordinated. You can have one actor walk in front of or behind another. Five copies of an actor can be placed on the scene at once: for example, you could have a group of squirrels dancing around a campfire and a raccoon doing the shimmy nearby. The cartoon's action is controlled by the number of frames it takes to complete a move. The menu bar at the bottom of the screen provides the op tions for movement. To set the frames, click on the forward button and ad vance it as far as needed. To go back. click on the rewind button. When the play button is clicked, the cartoon starts from the beginning. The frame counter indicates which frame the cartoon is showing and changes according to the action on the screen. Actors speak through the use of speech balloons, which you can fill with as much or as little text as needed. An invisible balloon programmed to move upward and off the screen can give the effect of a scrolling caption. Speech bal loons are controlled the same way the actors are; a pause feature lets you hold a frame, giving you time to read the text. After you've created and saved your cartoon, you can string it with others to run as a show. You can also record your cartoons on videotape, freeing you from the computer when you want to put on a show. Cartooners does import graphics from Deluxe Paint II; however, the color palette may be a little different, so be watchful. Music can be composed and imported as well, using Instant Music. If you get up really early next Sat urday morning, maybe you'll beat the kids to the computer and get to try Cartooners for yourself. Bui since most kids think they can operate a computer bet ter than any adult can. don't be sur prised if they find you funnier than the cartoon you create. — Nancv Rentschler Cartooners For... Apple IIgs—S59.95 From... Electronic Arts 1820 Gateway Dr. San Mateo, CA 94404 (415)571-7171 Flodd, the Bad Guy In a kingdom far. faraway, kindly young King Alex rules, and everyone lives happily and without a care in the world. Alex and his canine cohort, 01lic. have great times together. Life is so terrific, in fact, the young monarch has never had to use his magic lamp with its genie and three wishes. This peaceful scene is the setting for Flodd, the Bad Guy. an electronic lapware adventure from the Reading Magic Library of Tom Snyder Produc tions. The program builds reading, problem-solving, and decision-making skills in youngsters ages 2 through 6 while giving kids and adults the oppor tunity to share a computer. It's known as lapware because kids can sit in a grownup's lap while reading the story and playing at the computer. In the story. Flodd, the bad guy, sneaks into town one summer night. He pulls the plug from the water tower, leaving Alex's subjects high and dry. Alex summons the genie and uses wish number 1—rain to fill up the tower. When Flodd threatens to pull the plug again. Alex rubs the lamp once more for wish number 2—the water tower plug to stick forever. he .genie cane oul < ttle. "What sited Share a tale of genies, magic, princes, and villains in Flodd, the Bad Guy. In a fit, Flodd kidnaps Ollie, Alex's trusty companion. In desperation, Alex summons the genie for wish number 3, his last. Much to everyone's surprise, however, Alex doesn't plead for Ollie's return. Instead, he asks the genie to make Flodd happy. The story ends on a heartwarming note when Flodd returns. carrying Ollie in his arms, and the boy king and his dog are reunited. The story of Flodd, the Bad Guy is simple. The accompanying graphics are colorful, but not exceptional. The ani mation is dynamic, yet uncomplicated. Nevertheless, the program is a success. Prereaders will find its highly interac tive quality very appealing. >
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