GratedTopping Posted December 26, 2015 Share Posted December 26, 2015 #1 - I recall having some "KidWare" games as a...kid. Does anybody have "Glow Worm", "Buried Treasure", "Egg Hunt" or anything from them? Maybe someone made a collection disk-file that's somewhere I didn't know of? #2 - I have no idea what it was, but I remember ordering software that I thought was going to be on a tape but was all sent in an envelope --- programs on strips of paper to be typed in; they were very simple programs and not what I hoped Does anybody recall anything like that and what they were ordered from? I obviously chose certain titles from some manual or magazine. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ksarul Posted December 26, 2015 Share Posted December 26, 2015 Weren't a number of the Tips from the Tigercub in the form of helpful little programs done just like that? I seem to remember buying a few like that back then too--but ISTR that it was known in advance that they would be in that format. . . Several of us have a few of the Kidware tapes. There were something like 100 of them, but I haven't seen much more than 25-30 of the different titles show up for sale over the last 10 years or so. I think I may have 10-12 of them, and I believe Ciro has quite a few of them as well. . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GratedTopping Posted December 26, 2015 Author Share Posted December 26, 2015 - from what I recall typing in from lil' papers, they were meant to be fun games and I wasn't happy; some where just as 'tall' as a regular envelope; I doubt they were Tigercub as I know I got dozens of disks from them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kl99 Posted December 26, 2015 Share Posted December 26, 2015 try starting to use Web99 to find such programs. Under Full Text simply enter "*kidware*" and you will get 11 results. Or try "*Glow*worm*" to get one result. Or try "*Buried*treasure*" to get ... Same works with "*Egg*hunt*" to get ... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GratedTopping Posted December 28, 2015 Author Share Posted December 28, 2015 I only recently learned of the software (when I was looking for Donaldson software). Thanks for the help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KidwareSoftware Posted March 11, 2016 Share Posted March 11, 2016 Hi River Patroller, We are very happy and amazed that collectors still keep our old Kidware TI-99 Tapes in their collections. KIDware is still around and the original developer from way back in the TI-99 era is still coding for us still today. He is officially retired but we love Lou and occasionally talk him out of retirement to help us update some of our titles. Many of your favorite Kidware TI-99 Learning Games actually made it all the way into the Microsoft Windows era. http://www.kidwaresoftware.com/childrens.htm Remembering back to the good old TI-99 days, The KIDware Team KIDware 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Lee Stewart Posted March 11, 2016 Share Posted March 11, 2016 Hi River Patroller, We are very happy and amazed that collectors still keep our old Kidware TI-99 Tapes in their collections. KIDware is still around and the original developer from way back in the TI-99 era is still coding for us still today. He is officially retired but we love Lou and occasionally talk him out of retirement to help us update some of our titles. Many of your favorite Kidware TI-99 Learning Games actually made it all the way into the Microsoft Windows era. http://www.kidwaresoftware.com/childrens.htm Remembering back to the good old TI-99 days, The KIDware Team KIDware Welcome aboard! ...lee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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