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A bit of fun and learning with a hitch.....

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: January 04, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The kids seem to love this learning software.

My child keeps saying DW is silly or naughty for not eating properly, so I suggest the message does reach the mark.

Yes there is a bit of squirting pesky gophers with water from a hose (note neither the hose or any other object is used to strike or injure the pests) so don't panic violence is not the theme and with proper parental guidance this software is certainly not a negative role model.

You could certainly do worse.

Re it doesn't work on a modern OS, well the 32 bit DW_32.exe certainly wouldn't run for me on XP (generates a Media Player crash), however if you run the DW_16.exe it runs fine....

I'm sure TLC/BroderBund could fix this so have logged a fault call. Usually successful.

Play with your child whilst they use this software and watch and enjoy as they learn and play.

Correction - doesn't run on XP still...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 07, 2003
Author: Amazon User

It turns out I was wrong.... the 32 bit version definitely doesn't work on XP and the 16 bit version starts but faults in several places on XP even with the compatibility settings to run like 9x .... if you want to use this software seems 95/98/ME & NT4 seem to be the limit for now. Sorry !

Pity it doesn't run on any modern OS

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: January 16, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Just don't make the same mistake I did - only 2 of these Arthur games actually support NT/2000/XP. So unless you have the archaic 95/98 OS, fuhgedaboutit. Pity, because our son loves to play these at our local library.

Finally made it work in Windows Vista

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 15, 2008
Author: Amazon User

After a couple of years of the kids not being able to run this program, I finally made it work on 32-bit Vista. My problems were two-fold:

1: This CD will not run properly unless it's in the D: drive! Yes, it won't run from the E: drive or whatever, so if you have a second hard drive partition that's taking up D:, you'll have to rearrange your drive letters in Disk Management and set the drive letter to D.

2: The 32-bit version of the program won't run under Vista, but the 16-bit version will.

Forget about installing the program, just insert the disk, browse the directory structure, and create a shortcut on your desktop to D:\program\DW_16.exe

Once you have the shortcut on your desktop, right-click on the shortcut and click "Properties", then the "Compatibility" tab. Check the box to run in Compatibility mode, and select "Windows 98/Me". Check the "Run this program in 256 colors" box and Apply your changes. Close the Properties box, and you should be good to go -- just be sure the disk is in the drive and click the desktop shortcut to launch the program.

if you have windows xp - don't waste your money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 19, 2003
Author: Amazon User

my daughter is interested in the game, but as we have windows xp, she cannot play the game. i have contacted the learning company and have tried to install it using the windows program compatibility wizard and the 16-bit version. nothing works. the learning company's reply is that it will not work on windows xp - end of story. and i'm out of luck!

Piece of Junk!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: April 07, 2005
Author: Amazon User

My son was dying to play this game. I can't install it on ANY of my operating systems and I have them all! I keep getting an error. What's worse is it installed it's Brodcast dssagent on my computers and it won't let me delete the file or folder. Every time I log off, I get an error that the program isn't responding.

Saying that it is Windows compatible is very misleading. What a waste of time. Don't get this CD!

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