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╓─╥────────────────────╥─╖ ║ ║ FLIX Productions ║ ║ ║ ║ Animated Software ║ ║ ║ ║ Documentation ║ ║ ╙─╨────────────────────╨─╜ __________________________________________________________________ Winner of: Shareware Industry Award - "Best Educational Software" Ziff-Davis Shareware Award - "Best Puzzle Game" Shareware Magazine's Editor's Choice Awards __________________________________________________________________ HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS FOR ALL FLIX PRODUCTIONS ANIMATED SOFTWARE: IBM PC/XT/AT, EGA or VGA Display, 640K RAM, Hard Drive (Some programs are VGA only) _________________________________________________________________ "The Animated Alphabet" is a fun educational program that uses pictures to represent each letter of the alphabet. When the child chooses the correct letter, the picture turns into an entertaining animated sequence. To Run: Copy all files to your hard drive. Type ALPHABET. Help: Hit the F1 function key Quit: Hit the Escape (Esc) key. Ages: Pre-school through first grade. Benefits of registration: 1 - A copy of "The Animated Alphabet" is sent to you personalized with your child's name. 2 - Another alphabet program called ABCSONG, with new animations is sent to you. This program helps teach keyboard location skills. ABCSONG is only available to those who register "The Animated Alphabet". PRICE: $8.00 _________________________________________________________________ "Animated Shapes" teaches shape and color identification using a colorful menu system designed for children. Each shape that is correctly identified combines with other shapes to create a picture. Upon completion, the picture becomes an entertaining mini-movie. To Run: Copy all files to your hard drive. Type SHAPES. Help: Type H Quit: Type Q Ages: Pre-school through the first grade. Benefits of registration: 1 - A copy of "Animated Shapes" is sent to you personalized with your child's name. 2 - Fifteen new animations for "Animated Shapes" are sent to you, for a total of 25 animations. These are only available to those who register "Animated Shapes". A special note: The shareware version of "Animated Shapes" has 10 animations. The reason more are not included is because many people might end up paying more for the shareware version from catalogs, on-line services or long distance BBS's than they would pay for the full registered version from FLIX Productions. PRICE: $8.00 _________________________________________________________________ "The Animated Mother Goose" is a collection of three animated movies of the classic children's rhymes made with hundreds of drawings. "Two Little Kittens", "To Market, To Market" and "The Man in the Moon" are included along with a "mouse" menu with a built-in mouse. To Run: Copy all files to your hard drive. Type GOOSE. Help and Quit: Are found on the menu screen. Ages: Pre-school and older. The younger ones can have the stories read to them as they unfold on the screen, and older children can practice their reading skills. Benefits of registration: "The Animated Mother Goose" can only be obtained through registration with FLIX Productions. There is not a shareware version available. PRICE: $3.00 __________________________________________________________________ "Animated Math" teaches counting, addition and subtraction with animated rewards every step of the way. Not just a drill, but a tutorial that gives graphic help as needed. The game room can be visited after completing ten questions. Includes MOUSE SUPPORT! To Run: Copy all files to your hard drive. Type MATH. Help: Type H Quit: Type Q Ages: Pre-school through the first grade. Benefits of registration: 1 - A copy of "Animated Math" is sent to you personalized with your child's name. 2 - MANY new animations for "Animated Math" are sent to you, (4 more dinosaurs, 3 more color games, 15 more singers for piano, 40 more mini-animations) as well as a new mouse game. These are only available to those who register "Animated Math". A special note: The shareware version of "Animated Math" has as much as I can compress onto a 360K diskette in order to keep the cost of obtaining the shareware version low. PRICE: $10.00 _________________________________________________________________ "The Animated Memory Game" uses animated pictures to test memory skills. By matching hidden pictures in pairs you win the game and get animated rewards. Many options are provided: selecting from 14 different tile patterns, changing the background color, and even a mini-movie theater. Various difficulty levels provide a challenge for all ages - adults can enjoy it too. Includes MOUSE SUPPORT! To Run: Copy all files to your hard drive. Type AMEM. Help: Instructions from main menu Quit: Main menu & game screen Ages: All ages Benefits of registration: An additional 30 animations are sent to you by the author. PRICE: $6.00 _________________________________________________________________ "Animated Words" is a spelling program for children from pre-school through first grade. The child is helped to match a word with it's picture. When the word is correctly matched, pieces are added to a puzzle; after five correct words the puzzle becomes animated. 50 words and 10 animated puzzles provide variety. The program is enhanced with the use of nearly 100 digitized sound samples of a human voice. SoundBlaster, AdLib (and compatibles), Covox Speech Thing, and the PC Speaker (using commercial quality Real Sound) are supported. Both keyboard and mouse support are provided! To Run: Copy all files to your hard drive. Type AWORDS Help: Instructions from main screen Quit: Main screen Ages: Pre-school through the first grade. Benefits of registration: An additional 100 word/pictures with 20 new animations for use with "Animated Words". PRICE: $12.00 _________________________________________________________________ "Animated Multiplication and Division" is a program aimed primarily at children from first through third grades. Based on the multiplication table from 1 to 10, it teaches "mental math" in a painless way. Progressive help is given as needed when the student is having difficulty with a particular problem (not just a Wrong! response from the computer). As rewards for successful completion of a sequence of ten problems a game room with several build-and-color-your-own animated games are given. The student can create and select a color scheme for their own dinosaur, car, face or fashion model. Both keyboard and mouse support are provided! Sound board support is not provided. To Run: Copy all files to your hard drive. Type AMULT Help: Instructions from main screen Quit: Main screen Ages: First through third grade (primarily). Benefits of registration: Over twice as many more animations for the game room! PRICE: $10.00 _________________________________________________________________ "Animated Clock" is a program for children from pre-school through third grade that teaches them to tell time in a variety of ways. This life skill program helps them convert digital time to analog time and vice- versa. Difficulty levels can be selected to provide practice in increments of hours, half-hours, 15 minutes, 5 minutes and one minute. Animated rewards "pop out" of the cuckoo clock's doors for each correct answer, and 10 correct answers are rewarded with a full-screen silly animation. Graphic help is given as needed to help the student learn the skills. Keyboard and mouse support are provided! To Run: Copy all files to your hard drive. Type ACLOCK Help: Instructions from main screen Quit: Main screen Ages: Pre-school through third grade. Benefits of registration: Over twice as many more animations! PRICE: $8.00 _________________________________________________________________ "Animated Money" is a program for teaching coin recognition and math skills. U.S. and Canadian versions of the coins can be chosen. The coins used in the program are photographically scanned in, so they appear very realistic (and recognizable). There are three types of games. First, a money recognition game where the child matches the coin to it's amount, both the front and back of the coins are used. The other two games have levels of difficulty that can be adjusted to the child's needs. One game has the child match a group of coins to it's amount (2 dimes and a nickel matched to 25 cents), the other game matches equivalent groups of coins (2 dimes and a nickel matched to 1 dime, 2 nickels and 5 pennies, for instance). Context sensitive help is available for the boxes with coins in them which shows the cumulative values of each group of coins (but does not add them all up - that is left to the child). When 10 matches are made, the child receives a ticket to a short animated movie. There are 10 different animated movies using techniques like clay- animation, full-motion video, stop-motion, and morphing. Sound effects and music are used throughout the program. Keyboard and mouse support are provided. This program requires VGA and supports a variety of sound devices including SoundBlaster and compatibles, Disney Sound Source, Covox Speech Thing, and the PC speaker (about 20 sound devices are supported). To Run: Copy all files to your hard drive. Type SETUP the first time the program is run, then MONEY Help: Instructions from main screen Quit: Main screen Ages: Pre-school through third grade. Benefits of registration: 15 more animations, more sound, and user personalization! PRICE: $15.00 _________________________________________________________________ "Animated VGA Memory Game" This program also features Super VGA support! A concentration-style game that uses animated 256 color tiles. All kinds of animation are used including: clay animation, stop-motion, morphing, tweening, 3D, cell, and full-motion video. In VGA (320x200) mode, 10 or 20 tiles can be used for a game, in Super VGA (640x480) mode up to 64 tiles can be used! A wealth of options are provided including 2 player mode (with score-keeping), changing tile backs, and a mini-movie theater. Silly cartoon sound effects are given for a wrong attempt and a harp is played for correct matches. Keyboard and mouse support are provided. This program requires VGA (Super VGA version needs at least 512K VGA card) and supports a variety of sound devices including SoundBlaster and compatibles, Disney Sound Source, Covox Speech Thing, and the PC speaker (about 20 sound devices are supported). To Run: Copy all files to your hard drive. Type SETUP the first time the program is run, then AMEMV Help: Instructions from main screen Quit: Main screen Ages: All ages. Benefits of registration: More animations, more sound, 90 tile SVGA option, and user personalization! PRICE: $10.00 _________________________________________________________________ "Animated Bugs" "Animated Bugs" is a board game for young children that is full of color (256 of them), sound (effects and voices), and of course, animation (there is over 1.5 meg of graphics and sound). The child can choose from five different garden backgrounds. The game play involves two bugs - "Red Bug" and Blue Bug" - that move along a path to the end of the board. The players can be two people, or the child can play against the PC (the computer can even play against itself, which can be fun to watch). Along the way the bugs can encounter squares with A's in them - which give a mini-animation with sound, or a ? symbol which can cause the player to move forward or backward several spaces. The number of ?'s is adjustable to set the level of "trickiness". Movement is determined by a spinner that can be either numbers, colors, or shapes. At the end of the game, one of five different animated movie - rewards are shown. Children can get upset if they don't win, so I made the game such that the bug that is behind at the end says "Wait for me!" and flies to catch up. This program requires VGA and supports a variety of sound devices including SoundBlaster and compatibles, Disney Sound Source, Covox Speech Thing, and the PC speaker (about 20 sound devices are supported). To Run: Copy all files to your hard drive. Type SETUP the first time the program is run, then BUGS Help: F1 in the main screen Quit: ESC Ages: 3-8 Benefits of registration: 15 more background pictures, twice as much animation and sound, and user personalization! PRICE: $12.00 ___________________________________________________________________ TO ORDER: Please copy the file ORDER.DOC to your printer, or bring it into your favorite word processor. To print ORDER.DOC type: COPY ORDER.DOC PRN or PRINT ORDER.DOC ___________________________________________________________________ ALL PRICES INCLUDE POSTAGE AND HANDLING IN THE U.S. Note: Previously $8.00 items were priced at $7.95 and "The Animated Mother Goose" was $3.05. You may use either price. The change in price is solely for the sake of simplicity. ___________________________________________________________________ Connect America BBS provides a support conference for FLIX software and you may download additional FLIX programs. Access to these areas is FREE. Let them know you heard about Connect America from FLIX Productions. Set your modem for 8 data bits, 1 stop bit and no parity and call: (512) 258-0571 Connect America has modem support for speeds up to 14.4kbps. ___________________________________________________________________ You can register FLIX software directly from me, or from the following overseas vendors: Testware U.K. Ltd. 46 The Avenue Harrogate North Yorkshire HG1 4QD United Kingdom PC Help 24 Finn Place Glenfield Auckland 01310 New Zealand Alphon Edugames 221 Ridley Road Bridgeman Downs QLD. 4035 Australia ___________________________________________________________________ From the author: My name is Tom Guthery IV and I am an animator with over twenty years experience in the field of classical animation. I have produced many award winning animated films as well as commercial projects. I would like to give credit to those who helped me: Testing and Evaluation: Tommy Guthery V - age 8, who comes up with lots of great ideas for animations and games. John Guthery - age 6, who just started school, and is having a great time. Kelly Guthery - age 3, who says "Come back soon!" in "Animated Bugs" Educational Consultant: Nancy Guthery - an educator with many years experience, who currently teaches the first grade. My mother. Further Evaluation, Encouragement and Assistance: Debbie Guthery - my wife, who has produced our testing and evaluation team. And also formatted 1000's of disks and stuffed 1000's of envelopes. Tom Guthery III - my father, who was instrumental in getting me started in all this. Cedric Meza - who actually enjoys programming (I prefer to animate), and so has done a lot of the programming chores I am loathe to do and allowed me to improve the animation. I thank the many people who have registered my previous works - their support has encouraged me to continue producing high quality animated educational children's software FULLTIME! I especially want to thank God for His many, many, many, blessings! Not the least of which is being able to stay home with my family! __________________________________________________________________ If you encounter problems, please read the file called PROBLEMS.DOC, there may be a solution there __________________________________________________________________ All programs written with GRASP from Paul Mace Graphic Software Sound for "Animated Words" licensed from RealSound Inc. __________________________________________________________________ I still live at the same place, but the post office wants to call it 601 Ranch Road instead of Rt.1, Box 601. Either will work... __________________________________________________________________ Tom Guthery IV, 601 Ranch Road, DelValle TX 78617 (9/8/94)