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- x WELCOME TO NOOT - the educational animation package x
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- 4Mation
- 14 Castle Park Road
- Barnstaple
- Devon
- EX32 8PA
- tel 0271 25353
- fax 0271 22974
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- To see the demo animation files on this disc, just load Noot and then
- double-click on a file.
- Each file is a drastically-reduced version of the original in order to
- squeeze as much as possible onto a single disc. The complete Noot package
- comes on SIX discs!
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- You will need no help finding out which animated pictures are available in
- "The Playroom" and "HowItWorks", but the following words are needed for the
- other two files:
- "Dweek": hop, vanish, salute
- "Farm": donkey, dog.
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- Various options are available from both the icon bar menu and the Noot menu.
- The icon bar Choices allows you to choose a font style for the text.
- The Noot menu Remote control allows you to pause an animation and set the
- sound level.
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- THE COMPLETE NOOT PACKAGE CONTAINS:
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- 1. NOOTPAD
- This is an integral part of the complete Noot package which allows you to
- create your own animated Noot files. The source pictures for each animation
- are Draw files created using Acorn’s Draw or our very own Vector package
- which has a number of facilities to aid the creation of suitable drawings.
- The ‘artistically-impaired’ (most of us?) can create animations just as
- easily as those with an abundance of artistic talent by using ready-made
- Draw files such as those from our smArt collection.
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- The completed Draw files are dropped onto the pages of NootPad where a
- number of options are available to control the way in which the picture is
- animated. Music, in the form of readily-available Tracker tunes, can be used
- to accompany the animations.
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- Teachers who have used Noot in workshops at both ends of the world have been
- impressed by the ease with which simple pictures can be brought to life. For
- the more adventurous, quite complex animations can be created.
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- 2. SIX ANIMATED FILES
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- (a) Playroom
- A delightful set of animations. Each of the 10 toys in the playroom can be
- animated if the appropriate word is typed in. A number of alternative words
- are allowed so, for example, the engine will work in response to train,
- loco, locomotive, steam engine, engine, steam train, or steam locomotive.
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- (b) Dweek
- This lovable creature can perform a number of actions if an appropriate
- response is made to the query, “This is Dweek. What can he do? Dweek can _.”
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- (c) Dweep
- This is the equally lovable female counterpart of Dweek (although it has to
- be said that her dribbling is not particularly attractive!).
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- (d) How It Works
- This impressive set of animations illustrates the workings of various
- devices including a door lock, a human heart, a zip fastener and a sewing
- machine. All Noot animations can be paused and then played a frame at a time
- both forwards and backwards.
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- (e) Power
- This file shows the inner workings of various engines, motors and their
- constituent parts.
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- (f) Farm
- There are 14 animals and 7 farm scenes in this file which has a musical
- accompaniment and sound effects. As in all Noot files, the volume can be
- controlled.
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- 3. TUNES
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- There are seven original Tracker tunes written exclusively for 4Mation.
- These can be used in your own animations. Alternatively you can obtain tunes
- for next to nothing from public domain libraries.