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- MeToo(C) Copyright 1990 by Bill Buckels
- Version 1.0
-
- ========================== MEHELP ===============================
-
- "Me Too!" is dedicated to my wife, Valerie, and to our Kids, Erin
- (7) and Billy (5), with thanks for their patience with my
- neverending preoccupation with my creations of which this is just
- another in a long line.
-
- This program was developed to reinforce entry level multilingual
- reading skills.
-
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-
- 1. Opening Menu
-
- Function: SELECT a SECOND LANGUAGE from current choices:
- a. French
- b. German
- c. Spanish
-
- Method : a. USE ARROW KEYS to CHOOSE
- b. PRESS ENTER TO SELECT
- c. PRESS ESCAPE TO QUIT PROGRAM
-
- 2. Activity Selection Menu(s)
-
- Function: Select 1 of 3-Learning Activities from 6-choices
-
- a. Look at Picture, Read Word- English
- b. Look at Picture, Read Word- Second Language
- c. Given Word, Match to Picture-English
- d. Given Word, Match to Picture-Second Language
- e. Given Picture, Match to Word-English
- f. Given Picture, Match to Word-Second Language
-
- Method : a. USE ARROW KEYS OR NUMBER KEYS TO CHOOSE
- b. PRESS ENTER TO SELECT
- c. PRESS ESCAPE TO RETURN TO PREVIOUS MENU
-
- 3. Activities
-
- 3-Learning Activities:
-
- a1. Look at Picture, Read Word- This is a vocabulary review. The
- ENTER KEY replaces the old pictures with new pictures, and the
- arrow keys move the menu box which causes the status line to
- display the Text of the selected picture. ESCAPE returns to the
- previous menu.
-
- b2. Given Word, Match to Picture- This is a learning game. The
- DISPLAY will not change until the picture that matches the word
- is selected (by using the ARROW KEYS and then pressing ENTER.)
- PRESS ESCAPE to return to the previous menu.
-
- When a Correct Selection is made, a random Musical selection is
- played until a key is pressed.
-
- c3. Given Picture, Match to Word- This is the complementary
- learning game to choice b. A Picture is displayed and the arrow
- keys are used to toggle through 9-choices which are displayed
- caption by caption in the status area at the bottom of the
- screen. When the correct selection is made and the ENTER KEY is
- pressed, a Random Musical Reward is given as reinforcement.
-
- Method : a. USE ARROW KEYS TO CHOOSE
- b. PRESS ENTER TO SELECT (except activity 1)
- c. PRESS ESCAPE TO RETURN TO PREVIOUS MENU
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-
- MEHELP is available by pressing F1 at almost any point in the
- program
-
-
- Detail and Program Spec:
-
- The opening screen is controlled with the Arrow Keys and offers
- the choice of Three-Second Languages and a Mother Tongue. As it
- is now configured, "METOO" uses English as the Mother Tongue, but
- this can be over-ridden by changing the external ascii file
- "PICLIST" which is the dictionary of words and picture names.
-
- Even this HELP file, "MEHELP", can be changed simply by using a
- text editor or even replaced with a customized help in any
- required language so long as the replacement file is named
- "MEHELP".
-
- The opening screen and menu screens are external files of garden
- variety CGA Resolution .PCX type and can be editted or
- alternately replaced by either BSAVED images or ZSOFT
- PCPAINTBRUSH files, again allowing for open customization of
- METOO.EXE. In order to work,the replacement files must bear the
- SAME NAME as the original menus. They are LOGO.PCX, METOO.PCX,
- MENU1.PCX, MENU2.PCX,and MENU3.PCX.
-
- Erin and I made the small graphics panels primarily using Eugene
- Ying's PCPG and Later we colorated them in Logitech's PaintShow
- Plus. Final processing to BSAVED GRAPHICS arrays was done using
- my UTILITY FRAG.EXE. My reason for using the RAW DUMP rather than
- run length encoded PCX FORMAT was primarily one of load time
- within the program. The files are tiny anyway so that was not a
- concern. The program will also accept the GRAPHICS arrays of the
- type used by TURBO or MICROSOFT C's getimage() and putimage()
- should these be saved to disc in raw form.
-
- The CGA and HERCULES displays are both supported.
-
- I have plans for accents of all types for the next version of
- "METOO" but this version uses only a standard english font, (with
- apologies to the purists out there.)
-
- The external MUSIC (".SND") files are unpacked binary files
- containing records of 3 byte packets, with a word value
- representing frequency and a byte value representing duration as
- it applies to the sound statement which accepts these 2-
- arguments. The end of music place marker is a word value of
- 0xffff.
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-
- Correspondence Regarding METOO should be directed to:
-
- Teacher's Choice Productions
- 982 Hector Avenue
- Winnipeg, Manitoba
- Canada
- R3M 2G6
-
- Att: Bill Buckels
-
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-
- I hope that you find my work both enjoyable and useful.
-