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Honestly, I was not a huge fan of 90s Microsoft, and I certainly never used this thing, but I really miss this kind of fun and whimsy and the bicycle-for-the-mind (even if you're only going to ride in circles in front of your house) quality of 80s-90s personal computing and desktop applications.
Their circa ~1995 3D Movie Maker was pretty cool, though.
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With my kids the popular creative tools are: Super Mario Maker (Switch), Game Builder Garage (Switch), Minecraft (everything). Book Creator, Procreate, GarageBand, Pages, Keynote and iMovie (iOS) My kids end up using a mix of "kid friendly" software (especially when it relates to game making or coding) and regular software. The regular software they use typically relates to schoolwork and is usually on iPad: Procreat…
> It seems like the kid-friendly software still exists, but has shifted from word processing and painting to coding and game making Thankfully! I remember managing a classroom computer lab around 2010. The challenge was to get often buggy educational software from the mid-1990's to run under Windows XP, since the mid-1990's was when most of the software with any educational merit was developed. There were a handful o…
KidsPix was the greatest :)
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> It seems like the kid-friendly software still exists, but has shifted from word processing and painting to coding and game making Thankfully! I remember managing a classroom computer lab around 2010. The challenge was to get often buggy educational software from the mid-1990's to run under Windows XP, since the mid-1990's was when most of the software with any educational merit was developed. There were a handful o…
> The children may have loved KidPix, but it was nearly impossible to teach with since they were fixated with the animated effects. KidsPix was the greatest :)
My nostalgia resulted in me buying a copy from eBay when I was an adult!
I always loved the McZee character.
I also had Creative Writer 2 when I was child, but that wasn't as good (it lost a lot of the "fun").
The original Creative Writer is available to stream on the Internet Archive: