[TheInevitable]

I can leave my 3 year old daughter alone with my eMac and she will log in and play for hours. Her favorite games are Finding Nemo and Disney Magic Artist Deluxe and Disney Magic Artist Cartoon Maker. Each of those 3 programs require the CD to be in the drive. I don't like her opening and closing the drive, because she hasn't quite learned the concept of gentle. How do I make it so that she can just play without having to switch disks? I've tried making a disk image of Nemo, but that didn't work. Anyone here have a solution?

[Arkham_c]

Originally posted by TheInevitable:
I can leave my 3 year old daughter alone with my eMac and she will log in and play for hours. Her favorite games are Finding Nemo and Disney Magic Artist Deluxe and Disney Magic Artist Cartoon Maker. Each of those 3 programs require the CD to be in the drive. I don't like her opening and closing the drive, because she hasn't quite learned the concept of gentle. How do I make it so that she can just play without having to switch disks? I've tried making a disk image of Nemo, but that didn't work. Anyone here have a solution?

Create disk images in Toast, and mount them using Toast.

[Rev-O]

Problem I have is that my 3 year old daughter's favorite game is Piglet's Big Adventure... oh, and Nemo... and Ollo, and Jumpstart toddlers and jumpstart preschool, and Tinkerbell, and blues clues, etc, etc, etc. The disk image thing works great, but it's a royal pain in the arse (as is constant disc swapping) when one is subject to the rather whimsical nature of a 3 year old.

How about the stupid software companies stop making children's games trhatrequire the cd? It is a feeble attempt at preventing piracy (on $20 freaking games) that only pisses of parents.

And how about a Dora game that isn't intolerably buggy in classic mode, and actually runs in OS X?

Rant over... move along, nothing to see here...

[blizzard]

Maybe trying to prevent it at an early age?

Kidding...

[ValkRaider]

Originally posted by Rev-O:
Problem I have is that my 3 year old daughter's favorite game is Piglet's Big Adventure... oh, and Nemo... and Ollo, and Jumpstart toddlers and jumpstart preschool, and Tinkerbell, and blues clues, etc, etc, etc. The disk image thing works great, but it's a royal pain in the arse (as is constant disc swapping) when one is subject to the rather whimsical nature of a 3 year old.

How about the stupid software companies stop making children's games trhatrequire the cd? It is a feeble attempt at preventing piracy (on $20 freaking games) that only pisses of parents.

And how about a Dora game that isn't intolerably buggy in classic mode, and actually runs in OS X?

Rant over... move along, nothing to see here...

I agree 100000%

I have made disk images of all my daughters games, and mount them as startup items.

Oh yeah, all the NickJr games SUCK as far as reliability.

And why can *some* games change the resolution OK but *others* cannot?

And don't get me started on the "support" from the makers when you have a problem.

HELLO PEOPLE. I HAVE MONEY TO SPEND. I WANT TO BUY YOUR PRODUCTS.

Make some good kids games that run nicely under OSX and you will make some money. (How hard would it be to just make games using Flash?)

[Rev-O]

So far the developers of quality kids games are... uh... Hulabee Entertainment. 'Bout it. They did Piglet's Big Adventure (Very limited gameplay, but my daughter loves it) and Ollo And the Sunny Valley Fair (longer game, a bit more involved, but no 'name' recognition for my daughters. She likes it real well anyways.)

Kid games + mac =

[Kristoff]

And while we're ranting about the sorry state of kids games, I'll add this:

Why don't the kids game producers just write them in Java. It would solve a lot of problems, lower their overhead, and increase their audience. And I have yet to see anything in a kids game that can't be done on the Java2 platform.

And what's up with Curious G. Downtown that it requires an admin account to play?