Hang2000-v1.5 Shareware Game revolutionizes Hangman Merrimack, New Hampshire, July 15, 1999: Ken Winograd and Space-Time Associates announced today the release of version 1.5 of a fun Macintosh shareware game called Hang2000. Hang2000 is a new take on the classic hangman word guessing game we all played when we were kids. It features colorful, non-violent graphics, digitized sounds, synthesized speech, dozens of built-in word categories, thousands of words, unlimited lists of your own words, and much more. Hang2000 is "secretly educational". It's played for fun, but you can't help learning. Included in Hang2000 is a new "knowledge area". This area will include information associated with the guessed word or phrase. If the word chosen is from the States or Countries category, for example, the knowledge area will show the capital of the State or Country. If the category is Authors or Composers, the knowledge area will show facts about, or famous works of, the author or composer. You can also make your own lists (unlimited in number) and include your own associated information. Hang2000 also offers full support for what's often known as "accented characters". Hang2000 supports the entry and display of words in many languages, including Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, Flemish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish and Swedish. Hang2000 makes learning vocabulary more fun than ever before. Version 1.5 of Hang2000 adds new preference settings allowing improved user game customization. Hang2000 requires a Macintosh that supports 256 colors or more. Hang2000 is available now. For more information, or to download or securely register the program, please visit the Hang2000 web page at: http://www.winograd.com Sent in by: Ken Winograd Home, school, Kids, family, games, cooking, learning, education, K-12 - (7/18/99) Back to the Topic Index