Kid's Software Catalog                          Vol 3 No 1 (January, 1995)

        The Kid's Software Catalog is a listing of products and companies 
that sell software and related products aimed at children from newborns to
aproximately 7 years of age.  It includes shareware and commercial software.
If the product is supported on, or available from a compuserve forum that
information is listed.  If available, each software entry contains a brief
description of the software.  These descriptions come from a variety of
sources: the product packaging, manufacturers advertisements, magazine
reviews, upload descriptions.  The author of this catalog 1) has not
included any editorial comments regarding any of the products listed; 2)
apologizes for any copyright infringements.  If I have listed your soft-
ware or something you wrote when you uploaded a product, and you don't want
it listed e-mail me and I will remove any offending text from the catalog.

        This catalog will be update periodically if: 1) there is any interest
from people (by interest I mean e-mailing me and tellling me what you think);
2) I get any updates from people.  This means if you upload something and you
know about the catalog, please send me a message so I can include the infor-
mation in the next catalog.  I can not scan all forums for new uploads.; 3)
I don't get into any legal trouble for listing commercial products (etc).

        If you find the catalog usefull, but want more information included
let me know and I will try to be accomodating in any future versions.

        You may freely distribute this catalog via any means as long as you
include all files in the original post in an unmodified form, and you do not
charge for the distribution.

(January 6, 1995)

        Two files are included in this distribution: kiddsoft.exp and
kidscomp.exp.  Kidssoft.exp is a listing of children's software. Kidscomp.exp
is a listing of companies that sell children's software, and/or related
products.  Below is a listing of the fields in each file:

Kidssoft.txt :::::
Name                    Name of the program
Company                 Company producing the game.  Any entry with a 
                        company listed should have a listing in the
                        kidscomp.exp file telling you how to contact
                        the company.
Age                     Age range (or grade) recommendation for the
                        software
C/S/F                   Commercial product/Shareware product/Freeware product
DOS/WIN                 Is this a DOS or Windows product.
Media                   Diskette, CD-ROM, or both
Sound Card              Required or Yes (if not required, but supported)
Minimum PC              Minimum processor needed (286, 286, &c)
Minimum memory          Minimum memory needed
CIS FORUM               This is either the forum for support of the product,
                        or the forum where it can be downloaded from
CIS NAME                If downloadable from CIS, what is the file name
GRAPHICS                Minimum graphics required (CGA, EGA, VGA, SVGA, &c)
Version                 Version on compuserve, or latest commercial version
Descript                Description of the product.  R = review, A = adver-
                        tisement, U = upload abstract, V = vendor supplied
                        (usually from readme or the box)

Kidscomp:::::
Company                 See kidssoft.exp listing for cross-reference
Address 1, 2, 3         Company address
Phone                   Company phone number (seperate Technical Support
                        number listed if available).  FAX number listed
                        if available
BBS                     Company bulletin board number
Internet                Address for support or ftp
CIS Forum               Company's compuserve support forum.


        In all cases a blank entry should not be assumed to mean NO.  It just
means that I don't know the answer.  Hopefully as I receive more current in-
formation blank entries will be completed.

        One additional note.  All references are for products that will run
on IBM compatible machines.  I do not own any of the Apple family machines,
so I don't even get junk mail or catalogs for their products.  If there is
an Apple/MAC owner who wants to create a parallel catalog please contact
me.  Or a joint catalog can be created and an IBM/APPLE/BOTH field added.

        I hope you find this catalog useful and that you will try some of
the products mentioned.  On a personal note, I started both of my children
on computers before they were one year old, and I think that I can honestly
say that it has made a difference in their educational abilities.  Neither
of them are mensa candidates, but it is better than *some* television.