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SOFTWARE CATALOGUE Learning and Leisure TOPOLOGIKA was formed in February 1987 to publish quality recreational and educational software. Whether you're a teacher, parent, both or neither - we're sure you'll find something of interest. We take ACCESS orders over the 'phone (24 hours), or just drop us a line. Cheqaes Topologika should be made payable to FREE POST* TOPOLOGIKA. Official and Trade P.O. Box 39 orders are welcome, with discounts Stilton for bulk or regular purchases. Goods PETERBOROUGH are normally dispatched return of Cambridgeshire PE? 3BR Tel : 0733 244682 post, and are guaranteed for life. All * no stamp required prices include VAT (where applicable) BBC, BBC+, Master, Master Compact, AMSTRAO CPC & and postage and packing. PCW, AMSTRAO PC (and compatibles), Spectrum +3, etc. POLYOMINOES GIANT KILLER PROJECT PACK by Peter Kil/worth by Bob Fox Although GIANT KILLER is based on the tale of Jack and the Beanstalk, it's definitely not a game for the rising-fives. Children love investigating polyominoes (squares connected by their edges). and this double-disc pack provides all you need to get them In this best-selling mathematics adventure you start - as Jack or started. Jackie with the inescapable task of going to market to buy a pig. Discovering this to be impossible, you are left with no other option but 'Pentominoes' invites you to fit all 12 pentominoes into a variety of 60- to go exploring. Only by finding the Giant, the treasures - and by square grids. 'Tessellator' lets you explore the tiling properties of solving all the puzzles (calculator work, spatial investigations, co polyominoes. 'Hexmaker' challenges you to find all possible ordinates, topology, tessellations, mapwork, etc) - can you win the hexominoes - and does the checking! 'Printer' needs an Epson (or maximum score of 250 points. compatible) printer to print out childrens' work. 'Carousel' displays designs one-by-one as a 'slide show' - perfect for that parents' Programmed by the author of such well- evening display! known classic adventure games as .---------- ·countdown to Doom ', 'Castle of Riddles', Great value for money: juniors are using etc. GIANT KILLER is squarely aimed at the POLYOMINOES to investigate spatial l ,...-----==~ I 9-14 age range, although many older relationships or just to make patterns, while children - and adults - are finding the game top juniors/middle school pupils enjoy the charming, and the puzzles a really more demanding tasks. The hardest worthwhile challenge. problems are taxing for GCSE students -and Program Guid most adults! Player's Guide BBC/Master £18.40 Program Guide Disc Master Compact £20.70 Workbook Spectrum +3, Amstrad CPC (disc) £14.95 Grid sheets Amstrad PCW £1 4.95 TWO discs Amstrad PCs (and compatible) £14.95 L:::===~;;_ _ __::!.I CURVES PROJECT PACK PUNCTUATE! Software by Norman Kirkby by TR.S. Wilson Properly resourced, curve stitching is one of the more popular Like handwriting, punctuation is a skill that everybody needs. It's also classroom activities. The CURVES PROJECT PACK lets you one of the hardest to perfect. investigate curves of all kinds without needing to go anywhere near nails. thread. pencil or paper! PUNCTUATE! enables parent or teacher to tailor computer-based activities around this important skill. You can TYPE IN and EDIT Plotting accurate curves, the 8 programmes leave you to think about how stories, SAVE them to disc; SPECIFY which marks you want the they have been created and how they might be changed, allowing you to computer to delete. Once the text 1s on the screen, the learner has to print them out to Epson - and compatible- printers. This NEW multi-media put the punctuation marks back. Playing time can be varied from pack promotes cross-curricular activities in the Junior/Middle school, untimed (ideal for children with Special Educational Needs) to and allows GCSE students to explore complex curves and loci with 'whirlwind'. Points are scored, and PERFORMANCE is analysed and stored on disc. Several starter stories ease. are included. AVAI LA BLE Produced in co-operation with the EAST JUNE/ JULY 1988 PUNCTUATE I ANGL/AN RESOURCES ORGAN/SA TION Designed and coded by T. Roger S. Wilson, (E.A.R.0 .) and mathematics specialists in collaboration with Brian Kerslake, author of the best-selling 'Puncman' programs, this program could LEAPFROGS, CURVES includes an 80 page be one way of Resource Book, 50 page Activities Book, PUNCTUATE' can be adapted to suit people audio tape with stories and 'imaginings', of any age, from 7 up. improving your two discs - and more! punctuation Program Guide BBC/Master £14.95 .------------.BBC/Master/Compact Disc Master Compact £16.00 0;µ. _G.~ ~ 'CUR VES' wi ll be lealured •n £29.95 a Central Tetev1s1on School Zf ;:: )- ~ senes starling m September Amstrad and PC (and compatible) version available June £14.95 - SAVING THE WHALE Tape/slide set WHALES AND DOLPHINS from the World Wildlife Fund PROJECT PACK The fight to halt whaling has been one of the major conservation issues of recent times - a campaign whi ch has seen successes and disappointments. 'Saving the Whale' recounts the story of human Looking for educational resources on WHALES and DOLPHINS? greed, cruelty and exploitation, set against the fascination of these We've put together a complete project pack! Each item is available ocean giants. 40 frames. Narration by Sir Peter Scott (26 separately so that you can 'mix and match' with resources you've mins) £13.95 already got. Alternatively you can buy the COMPLETE PACK for only £65.00 inc. VAT and p & p - a saving of over £25.00! NORTH ATLANTIC WHALES Poster GENTLE GIANTS OF THE SEA 200-page Teacher's Resource Book from the British Museum from the Whale Museum This attractive colour poster features detailed illustrations of well known cetaceans. Useful as resource and display material, and for Everything you need for complete class topic or home study pack on a developing appreciation of scale drawings. 86cm x 62cm . .. £4.00 whales : copyright-free text; pictures to colour-in; detailed background information; lesson plans; suggestions for PROJECT SHEETS Worksheets for ages 8 to 13 cross-curricular activities, etc. Aimed at the by Lee Turvey, Friends of the Earth, Liverpool 8 to 13+ age range, but easily adapted for wHALfGA~ other ages. £12.95 Lots to read, questions to answer and things to do, featuring artist drawn illustrations that catch the eye and make it fun to use. Themes OCEANS OF SONG Audio Tape include: mammals, whales, oceans, senses, respiration, from The Whale Museum communication, intelligence, etc. 28 x A4 . £4 .00 Side 1: Ocean recordings of whales in the early evening and at night. Remarkable, MYTHS AND LEGENDS Story Book memorable sounds! Side 2: Humpback by David Forster, Friends of the Earth, Liverpool songs against modern orchestral settings. Retells stories that have been handed down through the ages: 'The Music to fire the imagination - a treat for Dolphin of lassos', 'Tokama the Whale', 'Nina', and lots more. David conservationists young and old. £7 .95 Forster's relaxed and easy-to-read style suits ages 8 to adult. £4.00 WHALE GAMES 3 computer programs by Tom Tuite 'Ears That See' lets ctiildren e>rr>erien ce thP prnhlPm n f '<: <>Pinn' wi h sonar. Practise sessions conclude with a game in which mathematical shapes must be identified before the Great White Shark gets them! In INTERACTIVE FICTION 'Save the Whale ' you are a whale, and must reach your breeding First published by Acornsoft, these classic games from Britain's best ground before the whalers get you. 'Migration Quiz' sees up to 10 adventure writers are now available for many other machines. If you teams steering migrating whales across a map of the world. missed them the first time round, you can't afford to miss them now! Suits ages 8 to 13+. BBC/Master £14 .95 Kingdom of J:lamil Master Compact £16.00 by Jonathan Partington WHALE FACTS a Computer Encyclopaedia Night, blackest night. Bones weary after days and nights in the by Graham Raggett saddle, you seek shelter in a strange, derelict chapel, and dream of the place you seek: Hamil. A Kingdom of green pastures and Hundreds of facts about whales and dolphins arranged in a self· sparkling fountains, of sorcery and romance, of strange but loyal contained 'database' format. Children can - by means of single beings: a land that once was yours. Have you the nerve - and the keystrokes - rapidly find their way through the disc to the information sheer intelligence - to try to win it back? Game size: Moderate, with they want - and 'dump' it to Epson, and similar, printers. many unusual puzzles Rating: Standard. Suits ages 8 to 13+. BBC/Master £14 .95 Master Compact £16.00 Countdown to Doom WHALE ADVENTURE Computer Adventure Game by Peter Kil/worth New Extended Version by Tom Tuite Orbiting the treasure-rich planet of Doomawangara, deserts, jungles, Queequeg is the heir to the throne of Kovokoko. When the King dies it glaciers, swamps and crashed spaceships of previous adverturers is the tradition for the crown to be thrown into the sea; the heir has to just visible through the swirling clouds, your ship iaces a sudden and prove his title by diving in and retrieving it. Queequeg's crown is savage attack, amd crash-lands on Doom. Can you cannibalise carried off by a huge white whale - Moby Dick - who takes it to Davy enough spares to repair it before Doom's highly-corrosive atmosphere Jones' Locker. Oueequeg cannot succeed until he has tracked down rots it - and you? Game size: Medium, with an SF flavour Rating: the whale and returned with the crown.