Recommended Software from Other Sources

These programs run on IBMs and clones, i.e. they are for MS-Dos or Windows.

Mother of All Battles

This requires Windows. It is a game, combining virtues from chess and battleships.

The freeware version allows two players.. either human/human or human/computer. The registered version (was remarkably cheap.. $18 or UK Pounds 10... now charging a more reasonable (for him!) price... UK pounds 20, I think.. still cheap for what you get!) allows six players, any combination.

The same author also wrote Rats (fun, but a 'zap-zap') and Slay, a great 'Risk'-like game. In Slay... be careful of the trees. (Burnham Wood, and all that). They will defeat you as fast as the enemy. More recently, Sean has released another masterpiece: Firefight. You are in charge of WW II infantry assaults... sort of 'SimCity meets Private Ryan'. Great help files and free demos for all of these programs. Slay is one of the few programs I keep coming back to again and again.

.....Click here to go to Sean O'Connor's site. (STILL VALID 7/08, since at least 4/04... tell you something? I thnk it says good things.)

Logo programming language... and more!!

Programming has become a 'poor relation' in home/ school computing... which is a great pity. There is a lot of fun to be had from it! This Logo has good introductory tutorials in the 'Help' files. Try it!! You might like it!!

Don't be fooled by the fact that this software is FREE!! It is excellent, and truely is free.

I have been notified that the version I use is ancient. (I didn't find problems with it!) There is a 'new, improved', (still free!) version avaialble from the page the next link should take you to...

Get your Free Logo here. (STILL VALID 7/08, since at least 4/04... tell you something? I thnk it says good things.)

Also at the site above, but untested by me, is another free program. This one is huge... but appears to offer a very powerful (and I use that word sparingly!!) digital logic simulator. I.e. (though this only scratches the surface) you can set up a virtual circuit with some AND gates, OR gates, switches on the inputs, LEDs on the outputs. Then you 'switch' the 'switches' and the program shows you what the LEDs would do. A Windows program.

Not tested by me... but.........

I received the following as an email.... I haven't investigated, but I suspect that anyone industrious enough to bother emailing me has probably produced something worth a look. Let me know what you think?

Since you list educational software, would you be able to include a link
or two to my programs on your site? I've written two Shareware learning programs for children. Both can be used as teaching
aids in schools. They are both for MS Windows.

This is a pointer to Larry's Learning Math Machine.
ftp://ftp.coast.net/SimTel/win3/educate/llmathm.zip

Larry's Learning Math Machine is a math practicing program. You are aboard a space ship and you enter in problems on the ship's computer. The computer asks
you for the answer. It then tells you if you are right or wrong. It allows for
user customizable questions. Lots of sound effects and animation. You can
practice addtion, subtraction, multiplication and division.


This is a pointer to Larry's Learning Letters and Numbers.
ftp://ftp.coast.net/SimTel/win3/educate/llletnum.zip

Larry's Learning Letters and Numbers for Windows. With graphics and sounds you'll
learn the letters of the alphabet & the numbers 0 through 10. Plus you'll be able to play
with lots of sounds, such as the piano. Real human voice speaks everything. User friendly
interface. Animated animals and objects. Also you can have fun by just pressing all the
letters and numbers to play different musical sounds and speech.

All my software is listed at:
http://softsite.com/authors/auth100/auth137.htm
but Larry's Learning Letters and Numbers will be listed there in a day or so.

Caveat Emptor!!! I have recieved one email in respect of Larry's place complaining that (in the emailler's view) the stuff you can download is too hamstrung, that it is more a teaser for things you have to pay for and less a demo or shareware product than (the emailler felt) it should be. I haven't tried Larry's stuff myself, as I said. The correct balance between the interests of the customer and of the shareware author is not easily obtained, is it? The comment from the user of this site was appreciated, as would be others on any content of the site. It was especially welcome as it complimented the Logo in addition to describing the situation encountered at Larry's site.

Here is how you can contact this page's author, Tom Boyd.

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