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Jumpstart 4th Grade Haunted Island

Teaches a bunch of subjects and helps develop problem-solving skills; its soundtrack has zero right to be so bitchin’ but it is

Was asking about this today because I couldnt remember the name or franchise and Lemmy came thru, reuniting me with yet another thing I could remember sound of but not the content or name, long thought lost to the sands of time

Looking for stuff like Reader Rabbit, KidPyx, etc

      • cloudless@piefed.socialEnglish
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        3 days ago

        It’s amazing how DESQview had pre-emptive multitasking which Microsoft couldn’t do until Windows NT.

        Same here I had it running a BBS, FidoNet I think.

  • sprite0@sh.itjust.works
    6·
    3 days ago

    Telemate, by Tsung Hu, was one of the best pieces of DOS software I ever got to use. It featured internal multitasking via its own file reader and composer. With every other terminal program out there if you wanted to create a new file or use a scratch pad you had to exit the program first and load something else.

    With telemate you could download a text, open it in the internal reader, then start copying bits over to the internal composer and then cut and paste the whole thing back into the terminal. This was godlike power at the time.

    It had a slew if other really useful comm program features, the file downloading system was super tight and had every protocol, the local file browser was really nice. ansi and other graphics support was superb.

    I eventually put it into autoexec.bat so my 286 would boot right into telemate. I was terminally online when online barely existed 😅

    I learned to program thanks to this app. I used it to dial up and access shell accounts so i could IRC and MUD. I made friends I still talk to today through it. For years it was my daily companion.

    If i could celebrate one single DOS app it would be the humble yet amazing Telemate by Tsung Hu (who went by Winfred Hu at the time)

    you can grab it here: https://archive.org/details/telemate

    The only reason i ever stopped using it was I graduated on to Slackware!

    • RebekahWSD@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      Is Treasure Mountain in this series??? Is it a series??? I played that. Loved that shit.

      I also played Mavis Beacon, Reader Rabbit, Oregon Trail 2, and Amazon Trail.

  • Broadfern@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    4 days ago

    Pajama Sam: You are What you Eat From Your Head to Your Feet was a favorite of mine as a child:

    Also had to look it up but Elmo’s Preschool was a big feature of my under-5 PC gaming:

    2nd grade or so was a lot of Disney Princess: Magical Dressup with some cute mini games and a LOT of uncanny valley jank lol:

    And alongside that was the PC version of Battle for Bikini Bottom, with mini games instead of the platformer the console had, but I’m struggling to find any decent gameplay screen grabs.

    Of course that’s all just PC gaming.

    Anybody remember the Cartoon Network island flash games? It was like a resort and I could have sworn there were multiple installments.

  • TriflingToad@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    6·
    4 days ago

    Gen z here. Animal jam was goated
    I remember when they removed shelves from the in game stores so there was just a black market of shelves for no reason

    Kingdom Hearts Re-coded is the best game ever and you can’t change my mind. I got my dad’s cartridge and DSi and it was the BEST.


    Ive actually just now gotten around to playing the actual kingdom hearts 1 and OMG I don’t know how they managed to make the controls WORSE than a DSi game with like 10 buttons, it’s so bad you can’t see anything while in combat.
    In the DS one you could at least snap the camera to look at the back of your head

    edit: also coolmathgames.com