Hi Everyone, I've had many requests for a list of all of the computer products that I Can See Books has to offer. Such titles include Talking Typing Teacher, Battle Ship, World Time, Home Page Generator, and many more. I thought it might be easier to simply post our current software catalog. I hope you find this information interesting, and if you have any further questions, please feel free to drop me a line. Craig. 1999 I CAN SEE BOOKS SOFTWARE CATALOG I Can See Books 88 Captain Morgans Blvd. Nanaimo, B.C. V9R 6R1 Canada Phone: [250] 753-3096 Electronic mail address:: dr100@ncf.ca World Wide Web address: http://www.ncf.ca/~dr100 SPEECH-FRIENDLY COMPUTER PROGRAMS The following is a list of DOS-based speech-friendly computer games and utilities which we have designed to work especially well with any speech synthesizer. These programs do not require any specialized, modern equipment to run satisfactorily. All programs are mailed on a 3.5 inch high density floppy disk, unless otherwise specified. We offer a discount to anyone purchasing many computer programs. For every four programs you purchase, you will receive an additional program of your choice free of charge. Please note that Talking Typing Teacher cannot be selected as a free program. Talking Typing Teacher. I Can See Books now offers a wonderful new program, a talking typing teacher with built-in speech! This amazing program has over 20 different options, ranging from simple drills to harder spelling words, as well as a couple of fun games to play when you are tired of learning to type. Best of all, TTT has its own built-in speech, the friendly man's voice of Eager Eddie. Wherever you are in TTT, be it in a menu or a drill, Eager Eddie will tell you what to type and what your options are. $49.95. COMPUTER GAMES FOR ALL AGES The following is a list of the computer games we have to offer which can be enjoyed by children and adults alike. Best of all, the rules of each original game have been carefully retained in the electronic version of the program. Battle Ship. This strategy game requires much thought and concentration. Each player is presented with a grid containing one-hundred squares, on which five boats are strategically placed. Your goal is to defeat the other player's fleet before your opponent sinks yours! You can even play against the computer, with 3 different skill levels! Complete with over fifty real-life sounds, you will find it virtually impossible to leave this game alone! $25. Dominos. You can now play the famous game of dominos on the computer! In order to win, you must be the player with the most points when the game finishes.. In order to do this, you must play as many dominos as possible that add up to five, ten, or fifteen. Then, when someone runs out of dominos, the computer evaluates your points and decides who wins! $20. Monopoly. The world-renowned game involving buying and selling properties, renting houses and hotels, paying income tax, and choosing chance and community chest cards is now incorporated into a speech-friendly computer game! Please note that this version of Monopoly allows only two players. $25. Uno. This delightful card game is fun and easy to play for all ages. Your goal is to have played all of your cards before your opponent gets a chance to win. Draw two, wild and wild draw four cards ensure that there is never a dull moment while playing this game. And the computer knows all the rules! $20. Word Maker. This interesting game starts out by presenting two players with 3 letters each. The program keeps picking letters until a word is made. Then the program starts over, randomly picking a new set of letters. The first one to make ten words wins! $20. FUN, EDUCATIONAL CHILDREN'S GAMES All of the computer games presented in this section are fun to play and extremely educational. Each game has a specific educational purpose which incorporates learning and fun into an amazing blend of hilarity and suspense that makes the child want to keep playing without his or her even realizing what valuable things he or she is learning. Games such as the Balloon Game teach keyboard and computer readiness skills. Such word games as The Phonics Game, Spell It and Learning the Alphabet help the child learn his or her alphabet in a fun and exciting fashion. And, finally, Teacher's Assistant, Story Maker and Computer Quiz help to teach the child valuable skills and information concerning English and history. Balloon Game. This is an exciting game of chance. The goal is to blow up a huge balloon without popping it. This user-friendly, interactive game, complete with many realistic, hilarious audio clips, introduces such common mishaps as having someone step on the balloon, week rubber and not enough money to buy the package of balloons. $25. Computer Quiz. This educational game has quizzes on anything from the sinking of the Titanic to famous cities all over the world. Complete with numbered questions and letter-chosen answers, this game is a fun, educational program to enjoy! $15. Count the Sounds. This terrific preschool game has thirty different sounds. It plays each sound a certain number of times, and then waits for the child to press the number corresponding with the number of times the sound played. All sounds have been chosen with care, and are guaranteed to both interest and catch the child's attention! $25. Guess my Number. This program is an interesting mind game for children and adults alike. The goal is to guess the number picked by the computer in as few guesses as possible. Two very popular features of this program are that it allows either one or two players, and that you can tell the computer between which numbers to pick the number you are trying to guess! $15. Guess the Sound. This program is a truly fantastic one, giving players the opportunity to guess at and identify over two dozen sounds. For younger children, there are menus and choices for selecting the correct answer, and older players are asked to type it in. With sounds ranging from birds to a car horn that are easily recognisable, players of all ages are sure to love this game! (Please note that a sound card must be used with this program.) $20. Learning the Alphabet. This program is great for kindergartners. It asks the child to press the letter of the alphabet that comes directly after the letter displayed. For example, the program asks, "What letter comes after A?" When the child types B, the computer plays a tune and moves on. $20. Phonics Game. This is a great game for children in kindergarten and the primary grades. The child can type in the beginning, middle or ending letter of the three-letter word presented. You can even change the data file containing the one-hundred words the program presents and the number of words the child is asked during one session! $20. Spell It. This game is excellent for children learning to spell. It has twenty-six common, easy-to-spell words, 1 for each letter of the alphabet. After the word has been spelled correctly, a different word of congratulations is offered and an ever-varying tune is played on the computer to encourage the child. $20. Story Maker. This fun multimedia game is designed to allow the child to make up crazy and hilarious one-sentence stories. The child selects one of six different fraises from one of each of the five sentence parts. Then, the child will enjoy listening to the upbeat, enthusiastic man's voice reading the sentence he or she has picked out on the computer. The program can even randomly pick a sentence for the child to listen to! Story Maker is excellent in helping the child to understand the various parts of the sentence and how to make sentences with proper and regular nouns, verbs, subjects and predicates. $20. Teacher's Assistant. This program is wonderful for children who enjoy learning on the computer, or for parents who wish to help their children reinforce skills that are being taught in school. There are three main menus, dealing with math, language, and spelling. Some of the highlights you will find in Teacher's Assistant are guessing the answers to riddles, identifying antonyms and synonyms, and counting tones. Upon exiting each option, the child is given his or her score of how many questions were answered correctly and incorrectly. $20. UTILITIES The utilities listed in this section have been designed and written to work exceptionally well with any speech synthesizer. In addition, they include just as many, if not more, features and options than any commercial utilities on the market designed for the storage and retrieval of addresses, simplification of math and science formulas, and so forth. These programs have been written with speed and ease in mind, and we feel sure that all of these programs will make many tedious tasks that you used to have to do by hand a whole lot easier. Address Keeper. This is an extremely innovative, full-featured electronic address book, packed with features you've probably never even seen before. New features include dial phone number, copy an address and search for an address by typing in ANY line of the desired entry. $25. DOS Made Easy. This fantastic menu-driven program has all the commands that you use in MS-DOS built into a powerful and simple package, taking all the complicated switches and commands and building them into a series of simplified menus. You can even quickly and efficiently create a menu of your own for programs that you use every day! $25. Electronic Clock. This useful program chimes every fifteen minutes. Electronic Clock is handy for keeping track of time and turns your computer into a virtual clock anytime you choose. The chimes are similar to the famous BIG BEN clock, and make great background noise. $20. Electronic Tunes. This fun program allows you to compose tunes on the computer. It works just like a piano or an organ, only it has more features, such as pitch set and length of notes. $20. Home Page Generator. This fantastic new program is a must-have for anyone that is considering creating or updating a web page. In the past, this task was often difficult to do, because one either had to master HTML code or use a creator that wasn't speech friendly. Not now! Home Page Generator is fully menu- driven, with full support for forms, E-mail and reference links, inserting files, and much, much more! $25. Math Formulas. Are you sick and tired of trying to remember hundreds of long and complicated mathematical and science formulas? Have you ever wished that you could just type in one or two important numbers and your computer could slave over finding your answer in a fraction of the time you'd spend finding it, without your even having to know the many clumsy steps that must be followed? Worry no more! Math Formulas is an extremely powerful program especially designed to compute all ranges of formulas--from the simplest Celsius-Fahrenheit temperature conversions to the more complicated square root and exponent calculators. $25. Phone Utilities. This useful program converts phone numbers with letters to straight numbers for dialling. The program can even play the phone number, as it would sound on the touch-tone telephone keypad. $15. Remember Dates. This fast, easy-to-use program keeps track of all dates you want your computer to tell you about at start-up, or when you type the program's name. It is as simple as typing in your dates and events and waiting for the computer to tell you about them. You can even have the program tell you how old someone is today! $20. Reminder. This quick and efficient program keeps track of all the things you want to do on your computer but never seem to have time to do when you think of them. Whenever you restart your computer, however, the program reminds you of the things that should be done. There are even options to show when the reminder was added and a feature called SOUND ALERT, as well as choices to add and delete certain reminders. And there is no limit on how many reminders you can set! $15. Text Reader. This is the most powerful and speech-friendly text reader that has ever been released! This exciting new program will read any text file, displaying it on the screen one page at a time. Its most exciting features are the speed at which it functions and the wealth of options it boasts. Not only is there a status line showing what file you are viewing and what percent you have read, but you can even set a bookmark to quickly find your place again. Setting a bookmark in an ASCII-text file is something that you have never been able to do in a text reader before! $20. World Time. Have you ever wondered what time it is in Athens, Greece? Are you planning a trip to London, England, but don't know what time you should plan to arrive? Or, are you just thinking about calling someone on the West Coast and don't want to get them out of bed at 4 in the morning? With just a few keystrokes, World Time will instantly tell you what time it is anywhere in the world. This program even takes into account Daylight Savings time, in both your location and in the city you are inquiring about! $25. 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Your visa number, expiry date, and name of the cardholder; or a cheque, postal money order, or purchase order for the total amount of your order. This concludes the 1999 I Can See Books software catalogue. Once again, I thank you for taking the time to browse through our catalogue, and hope you find the products and services we offer helpful. If you have any questions or inquiries regarding any section of this catalogue, or if you wish to order a copy of our Braille/cassette book catalog, please do not hesitate to contact us. THE END. -- This mailing list is sponsored by the National Federation of the Blind, NFB. For more information about the NfB, please call (410) 659-9314, point your internet browser to http://www.nfb.org or Telnet to nfbnet.org.