HomeBoy is a program that allows children to write short stories in order to have them read back, and play games. It uses Microsoft's "Text-To-Speech" engine and with the help of 4 animated characters, the stories are brought to life with speech and over 120 actions and over 200 animations on your PC, all with an intuitive and easy-to-use interface. The game include Tic-Tac-Toe (5 levels of AI) and Riddles (over 150 riddles to solve on 5 levels). Reads text from clipboard, and with the registered version, you can save and load your stories anytime you wish.
Homeboy 1.3 was released by Greystone Digital FX on Sunday 29 June 2003. Its known requirements are : Pentium 200, 32 MB RAM.
Homeboy will run on Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 2000 and Windows XP.