Reader Rabbit

Year	1987
Publisher	The Learning Company
Developers	Pete Rowe and Aaron Weiss
RAM Requirement	256k RAM
Control	Keyboard or Joystick
System 6 Compatible	No
Hard Drive Installable	No
Release Status	Abandonware
For Ages	5 - 7
Visitor rating	3.8 / 5 (3 ratings on the original site)

Pre-installed on the boot images: Reading, Writing and Mathematics · 8-bit Eduware

About

Reader Rabbit was designed to help kids with word and letter recognition. There are four different modules to the program: Sorter, Labeler, Word Train and Matchup. These games were all available on the 8-bit Apple II version, but the IIGS version also included speech for every word presented.

Although a IIGS specific program, the graphics utilise the double hi-res mode, which an Apple IIe or IIc was capable of, but they are well drawn, colourful and easily recognisable by kids.

Version 2.0 (the original version) of the program cannot be run from System 6 nor can it be installed to a hard drive. Version 2.3 CAN be run from System 6 and in theory installed to a hard drive (although I haven't had any luck with the install program to do that). Emulation struggles to get the program running at all as well! Interestingly the newer version should also run on the IIe and IIc/c+, albeit without the digitised speech.

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