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From: ryerson@nextnet (Rob Ryerson)
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Subject: 3 D Dinosaur Adventure
Date: 19 Apr 1994 19:58:30 GMT
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I've been running Knowledge Adventure's 3D Dinosaur Adventure with my 3
year old for a few weeks. He loves it. We had K.A. Dinosaur Adventure, and 
although this appears to be a superset, it does have many more movies. So
far that's the only part of the Adventure we've played. I start the game, and
get into the movies, and he takes over. He can name many of the dinosaurs, 
 and if you ask him to play the Dimetrodon (sp?) or others, he can correctly
choose them. I did the install with the 7Mb option, and am running on a 486 DX2
66, with a Chinon 2x CDRom. It runs fine. One minor problem I haven't fixed
is that when running under Windows the sound doesn't run. I haven't connected
with technical support yet, but it may be a driver problem with my PAS 16
sound card. When running from DOS, there aren't any problems at all. 
Let me correct the Windows comment, the music doesn't play, all other sounds
are fine.                                                                        We've run Arthur's Teacher Trouble, and he likes that game as well. Since he's 
not ready to really start reading, I like his interest in either game. I'm
sure he's absorbing some computer literacy via this contact, and definetly
learning about dinosaurs. 
 Although I like ATT, I do get some graphics problems pretty consistently, 
after some animation sequences the primary screen doesn't paint correctly. I
checked the software out from our library at work, so don't feel justified in
calling tech support. We plan on buying the game, and will chase that problem then.
 So for all you dinosaur fanciers, I approve of 3D Dinosaur Adventure. 

P.S. When my son and I first ran the program, wearing our 3d glasses, I found
both of us reaching out to touch the nose and teeth of the opening beast...

Rob Ryerson
 
and if you ask him to play the Dimetridon(sp?) or others he can.