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Jay Jay the Jet Plane: Jay Jay Earns His Wings

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Jay Jay is nearly ready to embark on his very own delivery route! But first, the young plane must show he has mastered all the right skills. Hit the skyway for fun, games and lessons about nature, numbers and math. Help Jay Jay pick up packages and pass his tests and learn when the cargo is heavy, you can count on your friends. For children ages 3-7 years. (from the Product Description)

This is a hybrid Mac/PC disc image.

System requirements
System: 
Mac OS 8.5 - 8.6
Mac OS 9
Architecture: 
PPC
x86 (Windows)
Compatibility: 

Mac OS 8.6-9.2.2
35 MB RAM
800 x 600 display
Thousands of colours

Details
Category: 
Early Childhood
Year released: 
2002
Author: 
Brighter Child Interactive
Publisher: 
The Learning Company

Paint, Write & Play!

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Your child's first creativity program should be fun and easy to use! And that's exactly what you'll find in Paint, Write & Play! Right from the start, children are surrounded by wonder, surprise, silly sounds, and amazing animations. Imagination can run loose with paint tools, 48 colors, fun fill patterns, and more. Pick-and-click word lists help early writers add words to stories without typing, and the text-to-speech capability lets children hear their stories read aloud.

System requirements
System: 
System 7.0 - 7.6
Mac OS 8 - 8.1
Mac OS 8.5 - 8.6
Mac OS 9
Architecture: 
68k
PPC
Emulation: 
SheepShaver (PPC)
Basilisk II (68k)
Details
Category: 
Creative
Early Childhood
Year released: 
1996
Author: 
The Learning Company
Publisher: 
The Learning Company

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Reader Rabbit's Reading Development Library 3

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With Reader Rabbit as their guide, children ages five to eight can enjoy the classic stories "The Princess and the Pea" and "The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg" while improving their reading comprehension, vocabulary and thinking skills. (The Free Library)

This is a hybrid Mac/PC disc image

System requirements
System: 
System 7.0 - 7.6
Mac OS 8 - 8.1
Mac OS 8.5 - 8.6
Mac OS 9
Architecture: 
68k
PPC
x86 (Windows)
Compatibility: 

SSW 7.0.1
256 colours

Details
Category: 
Early Childhood
Year released: 
1997
Publisher: 
The Learning Company

Reader Rabbit Learn to Read with Phonics: 1st and 2nd Grade

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Children practice their reading and phonics skills as they partake in this adventure to find the Land Where The Lions Roam Free. Joined by Reader Rabbit and Sam the Lion, kids find a series of activities that teach and reinforce short and long vowels, consonant blends, vowel combinations, compound words and word families. (Children's Software Revue)

The download is a bin/cue image of this mixed mode disc that contains a hybrid Mac/PC data track with additional audio tracks. Burn a physical CD from the bib/cue to play the game.

System requirements
System: 
Mac OS 8.5 - 8.6
Mac OS 9
Mac OS X
Architecture: 
PPC (Carbonized)
x86 (Windows)
Compatibility: 

Mac OS 8.6/Mac OS X
128 MB RAM
100 MB hard drive space
Thousands of colours

Details
Category: 
Early Childhood
Year released: 
2002
Publisher: 
The Learning Company

Little Bear: Toddler Discovery Adventures

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v. 1.0

Based on the beloved children books and popular TV series, Little Bear Toddler welcomes young learners to a nurturing environment full of laughter and learning. Every activity is especially geared toward a toddler's unique developmental needs, ensuring a stimulating and rewarding play experience. From counting to colors to cooperation and beyond a world of thrilling toddler skills! (Product description).

For children aged 18 months to 3 years

This is a hybrid Mac/PC disc image.

System requirements
System: 
System 7.0 - 7.6
Mac OS 8 - 8.1
Mac OS 8.5 - 8.6
Mac OS 9
Architecture: 
68k
PPC
x86 (Windows)
Compatibility: 

68040/PPC
SSW 7.5
16 MB RAM
5 MB free hard drive space
640 x 480 display
256 colours

Details
Category: 
Early Childhood
Year released: 
2000
Publisher: 
The Learning Company

Schoolhouse Rock!: Thinking Games Deluxe

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The two CDs contain over 60 mind-enriching games and activities. From the mental challenges in Lucky's Arcade to the adventures in the Schoolhouse Rock land of learning, this program is deigned to bring children endless hours of learning and fun. It is designed for children to develop essential critical thinking problem solving and reasoning skills while having a blast playing fun-filled activities (from the Product Description).

These are hybrid Mac/PC disc images.

System requirements
System: 
System 7.0 - 7.6
Mac OS 8 - 8.1
Mac OS 8.5 - 8.6
Mac OS 9
Architecture: 
68k
PPC
x86 (Windows)
Compatibility: 

68040 processor or PowerPC
Mac OS 7.1 - 9.x
8 MB of RAM
16 MB free hard disk space
256 color monitor

Details
Category: 
Educational
Year released: 
1999
Author: 
Creative Wonders
Publisher: 
The Learning Company

Kid Pix Inventions

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Complete semantic maps showing the uses of different inventions in daily life. Create slide shows showing inventions in the past, present, and predictions for the future. Create graphs showing what items classmates would take if they were marooned on a desert island. Advertise chosen inventions using various advertising techniques.

This is a hybrid Mac/PC disc image.

System requirements
System: 
System 7.0 - 7.6
Mac OS 8 - 8.1
Mac OS 8.5 - 8.6
Mac OS 9
Architecture: 
68k
PPC
x86 (Windows)
Details
Category: 
Educational
Year released: 
2000
Publisher: 
The Learning Company

Reader Rabbit's Reading Development Library 2

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In Level 2 of Reading Development Library, you'll get two classic stories - Jack and the Beanstalk and City Mouse, Country Mouse - each one told from the unique points of view of three different characters. Each reading level in the Reading Development Library is graduated in difficulty and builds upon the others. As children advance in reading skill, they progress to the next reading level, where vocabulary from previous levels is repeated to reinforce learning and new words are introduced to expand children's vocabulary.

Game file: 
System requirements
System: 
System 7.0 - 7.6
Mac OS 8 - 8.1
Mac OS 8.5 - 8.6
Mac OS 9
Architecture: 
68k
Emulation: 
SheepShaver (PPC)
Basilisk II (68k)
Mini vMac II (68k)
Compatibility: 

All Macintosh computers with 256-color monitors, System 7.5 and up with 5MB RAM (8MB recommended) or System 7.0.1 with 4MB RAM

Details
Category: 
Educational
Early Childhood
Year released: 
1997
Author: 
The Learning Company

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Reader Rabbit 3

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Disk images of 5 original floppy disks with installer. Not copy protected; no serial required.

System requirements
System: 
System 7.0 - 7.6
Architecture: 
68k
Emulation: 
Basilisk II (68k)
Mini vMac II (68k)
Compatibility: 

requires 4 MB RAM, hard disk with 20 MB free space

Details
Category: 
Educational
Year released: 
1994
Publisher: 
The Learning Company

Reader Rabbit

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This educational mini-game collection set at a "word factory" spawned a million remakes, sequels, remakes of sequels, direct-to-DVD movies, math spin-offs, ebooks, adventure games, soundtrack cassettes, compilations of remakes of sequels, kart racers, and theme park attractions. Well, that's rabbits for you.

Version: 3.0

System requirements
Architecture: 
68k
Emulation: 
Mini vMac (68k)
Mini vMac II (68k)
Details
Category: 
Early Childhood
Year released: 
1987
Author: 
Digital Illusions
Publisher: 
The Learning Company
Designer(s): 
Leslie Grimm

Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia: 1998 Edition

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Application file: 

An updated version of the 1996 edition, the 1998 edition (noted as "Version 6.0") includes articles, web links, photos, an atlas, and a timeline.

Category: 
Reference
Author: 
The Learning Company
Year released: 
1998
Publisher: 
The Learning Company
System: 
System 7.0 - 7.6
Mac OS 8 - 8.1
Mac OS 8.5 - 8.6
Mac OS 9
Emulation: 
QEMU (PPC)
SheepShaver (PPC)
Basilisk II (68k)
Architecture: 
68k
PPC

Caillou: Party Fun & Games (aka Birthday Party)

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Caillou's birthday party is about to begin! Boys and girls will make new friends, use their imaginations and play games. They will learn about numbers, letters, sounds, shapes and more. Plus, children can make real birthday invitations, cards, and party hats to celebrate their own special birthdays! Discover and learn: Letter recognition; Counting & Addition; Colors, Shapes, Patterns; Pattern Recognition; Following Instructions; Sound Recognition; Critical Thinking; Creativity; Music & Songs; Rhyming; Computer Skills (Product description)

For children ages 2 - 6.

System requirements
System: 
Mac OS 8.5 - 8.6
Mac OS 9
Architecture: 
PPC
x86 (Windows)
Compatibility: 

Mac OS 8.6
64 MB RAM

Details
Category: 
Early Childhood
Year released: 
2002
Author: 
Brighter Child Interactive
Publisher: 
The Learning Company

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Arthur's 2nd Grade

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Arthur's 2nd Grade, containing 15 different educational and 20 creativity activities, teaches a full year’s worth of second grade (U.S) skills while entertaining your child. The CD contains the Activity Centre application as well as the Arthur's 2nd Grade installer. The download is disc 1 of a 2-CD set. The installer provides applications for disc 1 and for disc2; however, the one for disc 2 will not work since we do not have a copy of disc 2.

This is a hybrid Mac/PC disc image.

System requirements
System: 
Mac OS 8.5 - 8.6
Mac OS 9
Mac OS X
Architecture: 
PPC
x86 (Windows)
Compatibility: 

Mac OS 8.6/OS X
32 MB RAM
40 MB hard drive space
256 colours

Details
Category: 
Early Childhood
Year released: 
2001
Publisher: 
The Learning Company

Arthur's Pet Chase

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Arthur's Pet Chase is a cartoon-style side-scrolling platform game starring characters from a popular children's book series by author Marc Brown, also made into a PBS television series. Arthur is a young aardvark entrepreneur - he has started up a pet-sitting business in his home, and as the game opens, he signs in his 30th customer. All seems to be going well, although his mother and sister DW plant doubts about his ability to care for so many animals.

System requirements
System: 
Mac OS 8.5 - 8.6
Mac OS 9
Mac OS X
Architecture: 
PPC
x86 (Windows)
Compatibility: 

PPC G3
Mac OS 8.6 - Mac OS X 10.2.6 (at least)
32 MB free RAM
100 MB hard drive space
Thousands of colours
800 x 600 display

Details
Category: 
Early Childhood
Year released: 
2003
Publisher: 
The Learning Company

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Arthur's Sand Castle Contest

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Arthur is an 8 year old aardvark created by children's book author and illustrator Marc Brown. In Arthur's Sand Castle Contest, he enters a castle-building contest while visiting the beach with family and friends - the goal in this game is to complete a castle using pre-made blueprints or your own imagination. This requires a certain amount of planning, as you have to collect the ingredients to make bricks: sand and water. (MobyGames)

System requirements
System: 
Mac OS 8.5 - 8.6
Mac OS 9
Mac OS X
Architecture: 
PPC
x86 (Windows)
Compatibility: 

PPC G3
Mac OS 8.6 - Mac OS X 10.2.6 (at least)
32 MB free RAM
100 MB hard drive space
Thousands of colours
800 x 600 display

Details
Category: 
Early Childhood
Year released: 
2003
Publisher: 
The Learning Company

Reader Rabbit Reading Learning System: High Flying Act

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High Flying Act is an interactive storybook and is the first CD of the Reader Rabbit Reading Learning System (for kids ages 4-7). Reader Rabbit, Sam the Lion, and friends, are performing in a circus, but their plank breaks in front of a large audience. The pirates have a plank, but they want to exchange the plank for prizes in the fair.

This is a hybrid Mac/PC disc image.

System requirements
System: 
Mac OS 9
Mac OS X
Architecture: 
PPC
x86 (Windows)
Compatibility: 

PPC G3
Mac OS 9.2.2/Mac OS X 10.2.8
128 MB RAM
Thousands of colours
800 x 600 display

Details
Category: 
Early Childhood
Year released: 
2005
Publisher: 
The Learning Company

Reader Rabbit's Reading 1

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Explore the Word Factory, where learning to read is fun! In this award-winning classic, children join Reader Rabbit and Mat the Mouse on an adventure through the magical Word Factory that builds preschool through first-grade reading and phonics skills. By playing with four delightful Word Machines, beginning readers develop a solid foundation for successful reading. At every step along the way, Reader Rabbit and friends provide hints, demonstrations, and words of encouragement as children learn to recognize and sound out words, build vocabulary, and improve memory and concentration.

Game file: 
System requirements
System: 
System 7.0 - 7.6
Mac OS 8 - 8.1
Mac OS 8.5 - 8.6
Mac OS 9
Architecture: 
68k
PPC
x86 (Windows)
Emulation: 
SheepShaver (PPC)
Basilisk II (68k)
Mini vMac II (68k)
QEMU (PPC)
Compatibility: 

The downloadable file is a zipped hybrid PC/Mac disc image. Playable on both Windows and 68k/PPC Macintosh computers.

A 256-color display is required.

Details
Category: 
Educational
Early Childhood
Year released: 
1997
Author: 
The Learning Company

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Reader Rabbit's Reading 2

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Reader Rabbit's Reading 2 is a third, reworked release of the original Reader Rabbit 2 (1991) and Reader Rabbit 2: Deluxe! (1996). It is an educational game, for children aged five to eight or in the first or second grade of the US school system, that teaches reading skills. The basic concept and content is identical to the original 1991 game, with most of the improvements in the graphic department which are entirely redone. Wordville where the game is set is running out of words.

Game file: 
System requirements
System: 
System 7.0 - 7.6
Mac OS 8 - 8.1
Mac OS 8.5 - 8.6
Mac OS 9
Architecture: 
68k
PPC
x86 (Windows)
Emulation: 
SheepShaver (PPC)
Basilisk II (68k)
Mini vMac II (68k)
QEMU (PPC)
Compatibility: 

The downloadable file in this page is a hybrid PC/Mac disc image. It is playable on both Windows and 68k/PPC Macintosh computers. A display capable of 256-colors is required.

Details
Category: 
Educational
Early Childhood
Year released: 
1997
Author: 
The Learning Company

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Success Builder: Geometry

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Success Builder: Geometry is one of the six CDs contained in the Success Builder: Math Library series, and focuses on core high school Geometry.

(v. 1.0)

This is a hybrid Mac/PC disc image.

System requirements
System: 
System 7.0 - 7.6
Mac OS 8 - 8.1
Mac OS 8.5 - 8.6
Mac OS 9
Architecture: 
68k
PPC
x86 (Windows)
Compatibility: 

68040 processor at least
SSW 7.1
16 MB RAM recommended
256 colour display

Details
Category: 
Educational
Year released: 
1998
Author: 
The Learning Company
Publisher: 
The Learning Company

Reader Rabbit Thinking Adventures: Ages 4-6

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It's almost Sam the Lion's birthday and Reader Rabbit is planning a surprise party to celebrate. There is much to be done, so everyone's help is needed. Users travel around town, joining Reader and his friends as they work to complete the party preparations. Each activity included in Reader Rabbit Thinking Adventures focuses on an early learning critical thinking skill. These skills include: completing patterns, sequencing, categorising, recognising similarities and differences and comparing and contrasting attributes, creating arrays, hypothesising, matching and ordering. (SuperKids)

System requirements
System: 
System 7.0 - 7.6
Mac OS 8 - 8.1
Mac OS 8.5 - 8.6
Mac OS 9
Architecture: 
68k
x86 (Windows)
Compatibility: 

SSW 7.1
16 MB RAM
22 MB hard drive space
256 colours

Details
Category: 
Early Childhood
Year released: 
1999
Publisher: 
The Learning Company

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