Home Computing Weekly


Story Book
By Softbacks
Oric 48K/Atmos

 
Published in Home Computing Weekly #60

The inlay card describes this as a challenging game that develops reading skills.

When the program is run, it displays various options. If the child chooses option 1 - recreate story - at this point, a story will be displayed except that all the letters are replaced by underscore characters. The child must guess the words to the story. If he/she gets totally stuck, the word can be revealed by pressing "?". When the whole story has been guessed and the help facility has not been over-used, a tune will be played in three-part harmony! The program has facilities to create stories and save for later use. Obviously, the parent can type in a proverb or a story and save it on cassette.

Technically, this program is well written, fool-proofed and has many useful options. If a story is long, the only clue is the punctuation and the game becomes rather like a wild guessing game. But it is fun to play and a child could learn a proverb or two.

It's better than a lot of the supposedly educational software available for the Oric today.

S.S.

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