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Ideal for those with older DOS/Win 3.1PCs.
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  If you are new to shareware and don't know what to select, why not try our Special Packs? We currently have 22 different packs, covering all ages, tastes and PCs.
Our most popular packs are the DOS educational selections - please email or write for a free printed, colour leaflet. We also have a selection of games packs and several packs for Windows users (3.1 or 95). Further titles for older PC's are illustrated on Page 2.
Screen shots from some of our most popular packs are shown below. System requirements are indicated by the colour "sunshine" icons - please use the key below.
   
Special Packs Leaflet 286, Hard disk, VGA, Mouse.
  386, 4MB RAM, VGA, Mouse.
  386, Win 3.1, VGA, 4MB RAM.

TODDLER'S FUN (4 DISKS) £10, ages 2 - 4.
  Toddlers Fun   John's PC Game is a simple keybasher, just press any key and see what happens! Animated Shapes involves matching shapes and colours. Sounds Like A.. is an unusual combination of music, sound and memory games. In Balloons press keys until they pop and a rainbow appears! Titi is a tiny pattern matching game, Fungame is another simple keybasher.
LEARN THROUGH PLAY (4 DISKS) £10, ages 2½ - 5.
  Learn Through Play   One of our most popular packs, particularly with Pre-Schools and Playgroups. Animated Bugs is a fun board game; using numbers, colours or shapes. In Dotmania join numbers or letters to make a picture that can be coloured. Amy's Fun-2-3 Adventure concentrates on basic number skills, plus a music section. Preschool Pack provides excellent all round coverage.
PRE-SCHOOL BASICS (6 DISKS) £12, ages 3 - 6..
  Pre-school Basics   Kindercarton is one of our all time favourite titles; 20+ activities covering the full educational spectrum. Animated Maths has simple addition and subtraction activities with a "Games Room" if you get them right! Animated Words, Word Gallery, and Dollars & Dinosaurs all cover early spelling skills with a range of levels and options. Finally there are five fun colouring books (some with extra activities); Picasso, Dr Doodle, Magic Crayon, Peter's Warbirds and Crayon Box.
INFANT LEARNING FUN (4 DISKS) £10, ages 4 - 7.
  Infant Learning Fun   A great group of shareware classics. Maths Rescue involves simple addition and subtraction (numbers or word problems) as you traverse 17 colourful, scenic levels. Animal Quest teaches about Ecology and food chains, using forest animals. Sea School is a brilliant early maths title with great graphics. Words Alive teaches simple spelling and letter matching, plus telling the time.
ANIMAL MAGIC (4 DISKS) £10, ages 4-7+.
Top Animal Magic   Super mix of six games and colouring books with an educational slant. Electric Crayon at the Zoo has pictures to colour, and info about the animals. Scubaman and Sharks are exciting underwater adventures. Bert's colouring books (African Animals and Whales & Dolphins) allow children to add their own stories. Return to the Forest is a game featuring Skunny Hardnut, a lovable squirrel.
JUNIOR LEARNING FUN (4 DISKS) £10, ages 5 - 8
  Junior Learning Fun   Long term customers will recognise this group of shareware classics. Word Rescue has been in our library since 1992 and is still one of our best-selling titles; run around and match words to their pictures. Sir Addalot gives exciting Addition and Subtraction practise. Wordtrix is a "Tetris" word game. Colour Wizard is a lot more than just a paint program, great for budding artists.
JUNIOR MATHS (6 DISKS) £12, ages 6-12+.
  Junior Maths   Animated Addition and Subtraction is brilliant for adding up multi-digit columns of numbers and fully covers carrying & borrowing. Treasure Hunt Maths covers addition, multiplication & fractions. Math Counts includes +, -, x, simple fractions, number patterns, perimeter, area, shapes, estimating, decimals, fractions, etc. Mighty Math is an old favourite, for building up speed in mental arithmetic. Fractions Decimals and Percentages is an excellent UK tutor. Plus Math Castle VGA and Merlin's Maths.
PRIMARY BASICS (6 DISKS) £12, ages 5 - 11.
  Primary Basics   Word Games at Camelot is one of our most popular titles ever, with many large exciting areas. Math Sampler covers a range of basics, and Animated Multiplication and Division improves on these skills. Wonderword is a great animated picture crossword game. School Mom VGA includes time, maths, music, algebra, spelling, grammar, and more! Animated Clock completes the pack, covering traditional and digital clocks at lots of levels.
DINOSAUR TOPIC (7 DISKS) £14, ages 4-12+.
  Dinosaur Topic Pack   Great for Dinosaur fanatics or those covering this subject in school topics. Dinobase VGA is a great introduction to database features. In Dinosaur Predators you play the part of a Jurassic dinosaur, hunting for food. Bert's Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Animals are colouring books where you can add your own story. Total Concepts Dinosaurs (2 disks) has info and pictures. Plus Pre-Historic Quiz, Dinosaur Quiz and Whatever Happened to the Dinosaurs?
BRITISH HISTORY (3 DISKS) £7, ages 10+.
  British History   Battle of Hastings and Roman Murder Mystery are excellent interactive presentations aimed at Key Stages 3 & 4, with emphasis on the use of source material. Captain Cook contains absolutely everything you could wish to know about this most famous English sailor.
ARTS AND CRAFTS (3 DISKS) £7, ages 5 - adult.
Arts and Crafts Pack   Greatest Paper Airplanes lets you print custom patterns to fold and fly, plus lots of background info. Aunt Annie's Crafts has a host of craft ideas and templates; plus games. stories and more! XStitch Designer and EasyCross are two excellent titles for Cross Stitchers.
WONDERFUL WORD GAMES (3 DISKS) £7, all ages.
  Wonderful Word Games   A wonderful collection of 15 word games for all ages and tastes. Includes Crossword and Wordsearch Construction Kits, Literati Lite, Cipher, Guessit, Wordhai, Word Search Rampage and many more. Hours of amusement guaranteed.
TRADITIONAL FUN & GAMES (3 DISKS) £7, all ages.
  Traditional Fun Pack   Jigsaws Galore is our absolute favourite Window's jigsaw program, Ancient Yacht is a great dice game. KChess, Ultimate Solitaire, Boxem and Backgammon are all traditional favourites. Plus Slam, Pentomino and The Green. Soundcard recommended.
EDUCATIONAL FUN & GAMES (4 DISKS) £10, 3-7.
  Fun and Games Pack   Four easy to install, multimedia titles for beginners. Includes spelling (Wordtrix for Windows), typing (Animated Beginning Typing), memory and matching (Multimedia Alphabet), colouring, simple maths, a hangman type game and more (Farnsworth Ferret's Fun Pack). Needs a soundcard.
         
For system requirements please refer to the Key at Top of Page. For details of other packs please ask for our standard printed order form - this lists all 22 Special Packs.
 
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