Re: MeToo Children's Program

["Bill Buckels" <bbuckels@mts.net>]

I have (again) updated the MeToo! program. New versions are now up for 
download at:

http://www.clipshop.ca/DiskImages/metoo.zip

Click on the following links to read the updated user documentation in pdf 
format complete with screenshots:

English http://www.clipshop.ca/DiskImages/MeToo.pdf

French http://www.clipshop.ca/DiskImages/MoiAussi.pdf

I found and fixed some annoying bugs and you should replace previous 
versions with this one. The bug fixes all had to do with the newly-added 
mouse routines. If anyone has the time to test this on a real Apple //e and 
give me some feedback that would be great! All screens should be working 
just fine now with either mouse or keyboard.

The other change that I have made is to add a musical animation sequence to 
the opening screens. This is reflected in the updated documentation and is 
the result of a perfectly delightful accident that occurred while 
rummaging-around in my old stuff. I located the Apple prototype for this 
program from February 1993 including the source code. I thought this was 
lost forever.

After reviewing the old version and running it to determine if anything 
could be improved in my latest rewrite, I decided that the opening screen's 
animation sequence would be fun to add. The MS-DOS version has the same 
animation, and I simply have never taken time with my latest Apple rewrites 
to add this because I considered it too much work to rewrite.

There were one or two other enhancements that I could have made to the new 
Apple version, such as adding a cartoon mouse cursor, but doing so would 
likely have slowed down the program and made the screens flicker so I 
rejected making this particular change. I doubt if I can improve MeToo! much 
beyond the latest version for download.

I am well into a Children's Math program for the Apple II based on my MS-DOS 
program "BINGO The Number Dog" and the MeToo! program gives me a very good 
format for the new BINGO program so you can expect to hear more about BINGO 
and less about MeToo! in the days ahead.

Have Fun!

Bill Buckels