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Games "Startup Menu" for kids?
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Went to the Chicago Apple Store this past weekend (awesome place....frikkin huge & a great staff), and my kiddo sits down at one of the eMacs for the kids games.
The title/opening screen that allows them to pick age appropriate games and then pick a certain game was awesome. No fiddling with cd-roms. Easy to switch back and forth between games.
Anyone know anything about this software?
Is there anything like it for the public? (In either OS 9 or X)?
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It would help if you were a little more specific -- what does this launcher look like? Were the machines running OS 9 or OS X? It's probably the simple Finder that you were looking at. Create a new user and you'll find the option.
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I think it was running OS X.
It wasn't "finder". It was more like a customized program that only had the kids titles on it, and let them choose the game they want easily. I assume it then pulled out a disk image of the game to run it.
It's hard to describe. I was hoping either someone that had seen it at an Apple Store or one of the employees from an Apple store could tell me more about it.
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if it's the same one as at the SoHo apple store, it shows a white window with two spinning game box covers that represent age groups, and you click on one and then the box cover pictures of all of the games in that age group spin onto the screen and you can click one to play... or something like that...
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Originally posted by MaxPower2k3:
if it's the same one as at the SoHo apple store, it shows a white window with two spinning game box covers that represent age groups, and you click on one and then the box cover pictures of all of the games in that age group spin onto the screen and you can click one to play... or something like that...
That'd be it.
Do you know anything about the program itself? is there anything like it out in the consumer market?
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Originally posted by cjrivera:
That'd be it.
Do you know anything about the program itself? is there anything like it out in the consumer market?
the games on there are just demos, thats why there is no CD ROM needed. The launcher is a designed demo for that computer...just like when you go to staples and "take a tour" of a computer on the monitor...
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Originally posted by SOLIDAge:
the games on there are just demos, thats why there is no CD ROM needed. The launcher is a designed demo for that computer...just like when you go to staples and "take a tour" of a computer on the monitor...
ahhh... didn't know that. Thanks. I didn't see how many levels he went through.
Is thre anything that is a true "finder" type program that could do a similar job?lThe kids are always scratching up the CD-R copies of their originals or losing them.
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If you wish to protect your CDs, most software will run off a disk image of the CD stored on the hard drive. Create them using the Disk Copy application.
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