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Poppy Programs
Vera recalls: "Amazing was an interesting little program that randomly generated mazes. It had the feature that users could cross the walls between the lanes in the maze, or carefully follow the lanes. Though visually handsome, it only sold a few copies."
Poppy Programs
Vera recalls: "Hidden Letters was our most important program. It either randomly, or according to an algorithm chosen by the teacher, blanked out certain words in a text, which players then had to guess. It had various levels of difficulty. The one thing which we wanted, but could never manage with the memory in a Spectrum, was to get it to accept viable synonyms for words.#A revolutionary feature of Hidden Letters was an overlay which we manufactured for the Spectrum keyboard. I was concerned that young children learned lower case letters before capitals, and therefore were having difficulty with the Spectrum keyboard. The overlay was based on a piece of plastic, called a keyboard overlay, which could be bought, and which had cut outs for the keys, which fit over the keys and nicely stayed in place. I then had the lower-case keyboard silk screened on a piece of fairly flexible plastic, which I attached to the keyboard overlay with probably double-sided tape. This overlay then rode above the keys when the overlay was pushed down into place, and made life easier for little ones."
Poppy Programs
Vera recalls: "Learning to Read was one of those Spectrum titles that was advertised but never finished. I just couldn't get the suite of programs together that I wanted for it."
Poppy Programs
Vera recalls: "Telling the Time and Money were both originally written by Geoffrey, and were our first efforts in software production. Steve Holland was a teen ager who helped bring one or both to publication level. Telling the Time was not a "good value" program because kids learned too fast from it: after a day or two the average child had figured it out and moved on. Money was not so effective. They were sold either separately or together."