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From Mainframe to Micro: Converting a Computer-Based Management Game.

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Burkhard, Donald L.; Watson, Hugh J. – Simulation and Games, 1989

Discussion of the impact of microcomputers on gaming focuses on converting a mainframe-based game to a microcomputer. Software, hardware, and documentation are considered, and a case study is presented that describes the conversion of a mainframe-based management game--the Credit Union Management Game--to a microcomputer. (11 references) (LRW)

Descriptors: Case Studies, Computer Games, Computer Printers, Computer Software

"Open" Software Design: A Case Study.

McMahon, Harry; And Others – Educational Technology, 1992

Discusses the use of open software, i.e., software which is essentially empty of content and can be customized by users to fit their own context, and describes the development and evaluation of one such program--Bubble Dialog--by the Language Development and Hypermedia Research Group at the University of Ulster. Various applications of the…

Descriptors: Case Studies, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Elementary Secondary Education