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n reviews As a parent or other adult reads the story aloud, the child gets to "turn" the pages by pressing any key on the key board. Children may turn pages for ward or use the left-arrow key to go back to previous pages. Once a page is turned, the built-in timer waits fora full second before the child can advance the story any further. This keeps the child from skipping ahead before the pages can be read. At numerous points in the narra tive, youngsters must make decisions about what happens next. Should Alex ask people where Flodd lives, or should he follow Ollie's nose? Should he and Ollie enter the dark passage or the lit one? Is it better to follow Flodd to the aquarium or take the shortcut? Children decide how to proceed by pressing the first letter of the choice word. To ASK, for example, a child would press A; to take a SHORTCUT, the child would press S. Each choice word appears onscreen in colorful capi tal letters, with its first letter standing out from all the rest. Every choice word is accompanied by an expressive graph ic clue—kids use it to figure out the cor responding letter. Next, they locate the letter on the keyboard and press the key. The story continues when the cor rect letter is pressed. There's no nega tive feedback if the youngster presses an incorrect key. however, once a decision is made, it can't be reversed. The story's numerous turning points are highlighted by flashing ani mated graphics with positive-sounding audio reinforcement. Some kids will want to hear the story again and again in order to try out all the possible plot variations. Others will feel more com fortable making the same choices every time. Either way, this tale provides a wonderful opportunity for prereaders to polish their early reading skills in a nonthreatening electronic setting. Besides promoting reading skills, Flodd, the Bad Guy introduces young children to the computer keyboard and promotes shared computer time be tween adults and kids. This successfully interactive storybook strengthens letter and word recognition as it gives chil dren a sense of power over their com puting environment. The package comes with a copy-protected program disk, an instruction booklet, and a color poster. You may purchase a backup for $ 10 or swap the 5 '/t-i nch floppy for a 3'/2-inch version (or vice versa) for $2 plus the original disk. The next time you turn on your computer, think about Flodd, the Bad Guy (or any of the other stories in the Reading Magic Library) and share your 74 COMPUTE! lap and some time with a small person. If you sit still and don't misbehave, your child may even let you make some of the program's important decisions. — Carol S. Holzberg Flodd, the Bad Guy For... Apple II—$34.95 IBM PC and compatibles with CGA— $34.95 From... Tom Snyder Productions 90 Sherman St. Cambridge. MA 02140 (800) 342-0236 or (617) 876-4433 And... Also in the Reading Magic Library lire. 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It uses the familiar GEM interface with drop-down menus, scroll bars, and a sidebar that contains the mode selector and a list of files or attributes. You can view a page as actu al size or double size, and in full-page mode. With Lite, you create up to six col umn guides to help you design pages. These guides don't print, but appear on the screen as dotted lines. The guides also have a snap-to feature that aligns your frames within the column guides. Use your frame to place text or graphics on the page. You create a frame by clicking on the frame icon and then clicking and dragging the mouse. If you don't already have a frame select ed, Lite presumes you want to create one. You can then create four styles of lines around the frame box: thin, thick, thicker, and double. To load text, click on the frame and then on Import Text, which dis plays a list of file formats. Publish-lt! Lite! reads files from WordWriter and Quintet but doesn't directly read files from WordPerfect. WordStar, or Micro soft Word. To import text from those programs and others, you'll have to save your work in ASCII. This limita tion means Lite can't import bold, un derline, or italic attributes from your word processor. However, it does con vert normal typewriter quotation marks into real typographic quotation marks—a small victory. If all your text won't fit in one frame, you can create another. Lite automatically redirects text so that it wraps around a new frame placed on top of a frame already filled with text. This feature helps you create more at tractive and professional-looking pages because text will continue to wrap around the frame no matter how often you move it, making it easier for you to experiment with design. Besides im porting text from a word processor, you can also type directly onto the page. Lite automatically scrolls the screen and offers a handy scareh-and-replace function—even Ventura Publisher lacks these features. Publish-lt! Lite! offers low-cost entry into the world of desktop publishing. You place graphics on the page as you place text—by creating a frame and importing the graphic. Lite will read only PC Paintbrush and GEM Paint files; while this is somewhat limiting, these are the two most popular bit-
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