Macintosh Garden - Bright Star Technology

Alphabet Blocks

Daxeria — Thu, 09 Oct 2014 07:41:06 +0000

Preschoolers can learn about letters and the sounds they make with Bananas the monkey and Jack the jack-in-the-box.

The characters' speech is animated with Bright Star's lip-syncing technology (see HyperAnimator).

(v2.0.1)

HyperAnimator

JonathanNemo — Thu, 14 Aug 2014 21:53:02 +0000

Application file:

HyperAnimator_1.5.2.sit

Text-to-speech HyperCard stack with the ability to control an animated face, inspired by Apple's "Knowledge Navigator" video.

This stack allows you to define a few phonemes for each face, and the software extends that to provide lip movements for any sequence of characters in the ASCII character set. Further extensions and control over precision in lip syncing can be managed through a scripting language called RAVEL, defined in the documentation.

Very comprehensive documentation, release notes, and product catalogs are included in the manual archive, as Acrobat 2 compatible PDF files.

Category:

HyperCard

Author:

Bright Star Technology

Year released:

1989

Publisher:

Bright Star Technology

System:

System 6.x

Emulation:

Mini vMac (68k)

Architecture:

68k

App's manual:

HyperAnimator_Docs.sit

Spelling Jungle

mrdav — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 03:34:39 +0000

Spelling Jungle, also known as Yobi's Basic Spelling Tricks, is an educational adventure game designed to help strengthen reading, spelling, and logic skills in children ages 7–10.

This is a Hybrid Mac/PC CD saved as a .iso image and compressed with Stuffit 5.5.

The Time Warp of Dr. Brain

MaxMouse713 — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:43:32 +0000

The Lost Mind of Dr. Brain

macgirl84 — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 21:04:14 +0000

Dr. Brain has accidentally merged his brain with his lab rat Rathbone (because a cheese-eating bee ate the cheese required for Dr. Brain's experiment, "The Brain Drain!"). Your task is to solve puzzles to rebuild Dr. Brain's brain.

Highlights include:
• unscrambling wonky sheet music for a harpsichord.
• a maze reminiscent of the Munchers games where you collect brains.
• wrangling thoughts through the Synaptic Cleft.

Spelling Blizzard

IIGS_User — Wed, 06 May 2009 16:10:33 +0000