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• I Can Animate (PC/Mac)

  Kudlian Software

  
  
   

• MCSA/MCSE Self Paced Training Kit: Managing & Maintaining a MS Windows Server 2003 Environment 2nd Edition: Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment

  MICROSOFT PRESS

  
  MCSA/MCSE SELF PACED
  
   

• Mysteryville 2 (PC)

  Avanquest Software

  
  
   

• Excel 2003 Step by Step Book/CD Package (Step by Step (Microsoft))

  MICROSOFT PRESS

  
  EXCEL STEP BY STEP V2003 UK
  
   

• Access 2003 Step by Step Book/CD Package (Step by Step (Microsoft))

  MICROSOFT PRESS

  
  ACCESS STEP BY STEP
  
   

• Typing Tutor for Kids Version 4 (2010) (PC CD)

  Greenstreet Online Ltd

  
  
   

• Thomas & Friends: The Great Festival Adventure (PC)

  Focus Multimedia Ltd

  
  
   

• PowerPoint 2003 Step by Step Book/CD Package (Step by Step (Microsoft))

  MICROSOFT PRESS

  
  POWERPOINT STEP BY STEP
  
   

• Excel 2003 Inside Out Book/CD Package (Inside Out (Microsoft))

  MICROSOFT PRESS

  
  EXCEL INSIDE OUT V2003 UK
  
   

• FrontPage 2003 Step by Step Book/CD Package (Step by Step (Microsoft))

  MICROSOFT PRESS

  
  FRONTPAGE 2003 SBS . UK
  
   

• Fifi And The Flowertots Activity Pack

  Avanquest Software

  
  
   

• JoJo's Fashion Show (PC)

  Avanquest Software

  
  
   

• 3D Dinosaur Hunter (2 Disc Set)

  Avanquest Software

  
  Sure to satisfy the curiosity of any would-be fossil hunter, 3D Dinosaur Hunter is excellent for learning, exploring and walking with those fascinating creatures of history. Using a dinosaur museum as a metaphor, the explorer (you!) works through the fascinating process of digging up a fossilised skeleton, preparing the bones for transport, learning about the species and uncovering how the creature died. But this museum goes far deeper than that--there are 50 different species to learn about, each with their own story and habits.

  The second of the set's two CD-ROMs includes six dinosaur habitats built in a 3-D environment. Controlling the mouse moves you through the environment like a ghost, watching the dinosaurs in a given habitat as they move about. Everything here is both well rendered and animated, and while this part is fun, it's almost too good--it will leave you hungry for more when you reach a wall (i.e. the limit of the environment). An especially nice touch: embedded throughout the program are video clips of scientists at work, actually uncovering and preparing dinosaur bones in the desert. It's a terrific glimpse into the process, a look at all the hard work that comes long before the final stage of exhibition in a museum.

  Designed only for Windows, 3D Dinosaur Hunter takes full advantage of any contemporary computer with a decent monitor, video card and good speakers (especially if you have a three-piece speaker set that includes a subwoofer). The soundtrack is filled with ambient noise and at times we could not only hear the prehistoric noises, but feel the tremors of approaching carnivores. --Mike Caputo

  
   

• Big Cook Little Cook : Feast of Fun (PC)

  Avanquest Software

  
  
   

• LEGO Island (PC CD-ROM)

  Focus Multimedia Ltd

  
  
   

• Thomas & Friends Fun Pack V1 (PC)

  Focus Multimedia Ltd

  
  
   

• REVIVAL: LEGO Creator

  Focus Multimedia Ltd

  
  At first acquaintance, the basic "gaming environment" wherein LEGO Creator's players build their virtual bikes, choppers, cranes and so on, and direct their dinky, cutesy, usually pre-built minifigures, seems a little bit odd and unsettling--even bleak. Bleak enough to confirm the prejudices of parents and others who would consider computerised LEGO a travesty of the hands-on, real-world ethos of the original construction game.

  However, after a while, the cleverness of this CD ROM comes to the fore. In the virtual LEGO Creator world you don't just build things and then take them apart; you can make them fly at the touch of a button, give them apposite or ludicrous sounds, change their colour with a single mouse-click, even blow them up (flamboyantly) using the special DESTRUCTA bricks.

  You're then able to pilot your figures and vehicles through the very world you have created, guided by an integral LEGO Creator Wizard--who is a bit like a permanently untiring, mega-brainy parent. All in all then, a rather fine and intelligent toy, albeit not one for the very young, or very active, or very easily dismayed. -- Sean Thomas

  
   

• Pingu Double the Fun Pack: Pingu and Friends / Pingu A Barrel of Fun (PC)

  Avanquest Software

  
  
   

• Office System 2003 Edition Step By Step Book/CD Package (Step by Step (Microsoft))

  MICROSOFT PRESS

  
  OFFICE STEP BY STEP V2003 UK
  
   

• Postman Pat - Greendale Fun (PC)

  Avanquest Software