The software blends art and music by allowing playing musical notes to paint pictures. 16 supplied images are designed to teach preschoolers musical notes and develop pitch recognition. Notes are played and sung in English, Spanish, and French. The focus of Horace Hopper's Musical Painting CD-ROM Adventures is to teach basic pitch differentiation, musical notation, playing melodies, elementary music composition, and the remarkable relationship between music and color in art. It contains original music, sound effects and animation which children aged from six months to six years will learn from and enjoy.
Children can cycle through the numbers sequentially or randomly.
In the Games room children can play a balloon game, snap or help a mouse through a maze. They can complete a jigsaw, do number drawings, place shapes in slots, let bees out of a hive or catch bugs . The shareware download of MyABCD has only one limitation. It times out after five minutes, reverting to the registration screen. It then can be re-started, but each time it is run the playing time is reduced by 10 seconds.