- INSTALL 3D MAZE MAN D FEND RELOADED ZIP
- INSTALL 3D MAZE MAN D FEND RELOADED WINDOWS
Became more vigilant with EXE packers. To make the disk work on machines with 8MB RAM, I need to set “Solid Block Size” to around 1MB (about 1.1MB) when I compress. That being said, 1.68MB disks don’t work in external USB floppy drives, which makes my life a little harder on my laptop, but this is not the norm for school computer labs. 1.72MB floppies have problems, so I didn’t push it. INSTALL 3D MAZE MAN D FEND RELOADED WINDOWS
This is the same format used by Microsoft for their Windows 95 floppy disk installation package, so it’s already been vetted as reliable.
Switched to a 1680KB (1.63MB) floppy format to make more room. This is a derivative work based on a few different editors, but at the least the Left/Right-Align features were my own. The point of this disk is not to “teach computers,” but I nonetheless felt like it’s not complete without a word processor that kids can explore. There are a lot of “clock-teaching” games out there. Tiny game, beefs up the number of “pre-reading” activities without adding a lot of space. It’s multiple choice (there’s no text parser) so the grammar is correct and it can be played even if you don’t understand all the words. A really nice variety pack, with early counting, vocab with an emphasis on shapes and colors, etc. Some decent alphabet games and a couple logic/maze games too. Another vocab program, but this one supports a mouse! Great Apogee side-scroller that teaches vocab. A good tool for learning to control and click the mouse. Not sure why the older version is so much easier to find… One new game, a simpler interface, and smaller file size. I added sign language pictures that can be colored. This is a draw/paint program that uses the mouse. 
I wanted to be sure to add something else to at least bring a little sign language back onto the disk, so… It also taught ASL alphabet, which is cool, so I felt a little bad. It was the single biggest program and the best thing about it was that it was mouse-driven.
Dropped Billy the Bear Learns to Sign from the disk. INSTALL.BAT can be run from the A drive to copy files to the C drive. This will make it easy for schools to expand their labs without needing to understand IMG files or any of that nonsense. REALLY COOL! From the menu, you can now make more copies of the disk. I’m using KidsMenu as compiled from the newest (2001) Micro-C source. The disk’s menu now is now icon-based, with lots of colors. Programs compiled by Paul: Īnother program not available elsewhere: 
For older games, switched from SLOWDOWN to the smaller MOSLO. Switched from himem.exe to the smaller fdxms.sys. Using smaller FreeDOS and kernel.sys files. Used UPX in general to shrink EXE and COM files. Lowered overhead on the disk to make room for more valuable stuff:. INSTALL 3D MAZE MAN D FEND RELOADED ZIP
Much faster boot time: now copies ZIP to ramdrive before extracting. Replaced Medley menu with EnviMenu, which has mouse support. Replaced Treasure Hunt Math with Googol Games 2.0.
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