Software of the Month Club November 1995 CD-ROM Master Program Guide DOS BUSINESS Adder by Tachyon Inc Adder is a basic calculator with a little bit extra for accounting use. Adder provides the basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and percent functions. The extras are dual calculation windows, and a tape which may be saved, recalled, and edited. Perfect for home or small business use. Amortz v2.10 by Mountain View Software Amortz puts loan schedules and more at your fingertips! Amortz is the EASY Financial Loan Calculation System! It supports variable interest rate & payments, balloon payments, and fiscal year. It has 5 payment plans, customizable heading & page formatting, and calculates any one of the loan variables (Principal, Interest Rate, Payment Amount, or # of Payments). Schedules can be printed, viewed or saved to disk. AS-EASY-AS Superb spreadsheet application. Bluebook v1.02 by JGS Bluebook is a fast and versatile personal database for DOS. With Bluebook you have support for flatfile, free-text, 32000 records/ database, unlimited "metabases", & hyperlinks. Entries can even run programs! When used with a compression package, it offers neat COMPRESSION/DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT. It is perfect for contact management, ToDo's, menus etc. A crisp VGA graphical interface and full manual make this program EASY to use! CJPOS v5.21 by Cuyahoga Computing Co. CJPOS is a complete point-of-sale program configurable to any small businesses. This very easy-to-use program will write invoices, estimates, track inventory and salespersons, Perform sales analysis for any period, keep a customer database with purchase history, track accounts receivable, and more. A powerful program. Included is demo data for an automotive installation. Easi-Plan Lite v3.2 by Invest-Tech Limited Easi-Plan Lite provides a comprehensive, integrated 3-yr business & financial planner for new, small/mid-size businesses. Use it for raising finance, business planning, appraisals, quick planning, what-ifs, etc. Many reports and graphs can be produced and there is lots of online help & TXT files. And, if you have a large business and need a little more power, Easi-Plan Pro v3.2 was created just for you. Easi-Plan Pro v3.2 by Invest-Tech Limited See description under Easi-Plan Lite above. Fringe v1.0 by Tri-Tech Inc Frequently, employees don’t realize or know just how much extra they are making in the way of benefits. Now, you can show your employees just how much they really cost by using Fringe. Fringe allows you to note all the benefits an employee makes and to print out a report showing the true salary an employee is making. GRAB+ Envelope address printing utility. Also use as a TSR. Household Register v3.15 by TurboSystemsCo It's the only program you'll care about the day your home or office is robbed or destroyed! Records all the right information about your assets so that your insurance company pays. This unique inventory program enables you to quickly find any item by category, location, or owner. Reports to screen, disk or printer. LABEL MAGIC Create your own custom labels. MyRef by Bramham Software MyRef is a program for writing, filing, and retrieving letters, faxes, and Email. With MyRef you can easily create and use forms. Each letter or form you write is dated, given a reference number and filed. Filed letters can be found, displayed, and printed by reference number, by correspondent's name, by subject, or by a search for key words in the text of the filed letters. In a paperless office MyRef replaces the filing cabinet! NAMES & DATES Full-featured mailing list manager. Notice Board v2.3 by Cornerstone Software Limited Notice Board provides all of the facilities of an office notice board on your LAN, and a (no memory overhead) menu system, rolled into one. As well as the key notices, which appear automatically whenever the package is run, it has a simple-to-use menu structure allowing users to browse through a potentially huge database of further information. In use worldwide, by everyone from government agencies to schools, Notice Board will be a welcome addition to your business software. SmartPhone v1.34 by Pinnacle Software Save plenty of $$$ when phoning long distance by using SmartPhone to plan your calls to use lower phone rates. Cross-reference data about area codes, zip codes, cities, towns, states, provinces, time zones, countries, population, etc. put all the information you need, to be a smart caller, at your beck and call. SmartPhone can pay for itself the first day you use it. DOS CHILDRENS Amazing v1.0 by Arthur Wells Jr. Amazing is an interesting game which teachs logic and problem solving. The general idea is to move from one side of a maze to the other. The catch is that the maze changes as you go through it! A quick eye and fast thinking are the tools you need for this fun experience. Aqua Man v1.0 by Soleau Software Logic and problem solving, again, are the keys. There are two ducts which need connected by lengths of pipe. Your job is to connect them. It isn’t as easy as it sounds! With 20 different puzzles to solve, kids will learn problem solving in a fun and entertaining way. But, be forewarned - adults may get hooked on this as well! Baby Keys by Multi Computing Everyone likes to play on the computer. Even the very young! How many times have you heard can I play on the ‘puter? This little program is for the very young. Each key press results in a tone being played and a figure being drawn in a random color. Balloons v4.3 by Assistware Another program for the very young. Each keystroke draws a randomly placed and colored balloon on the screen. The up arrow key makes the balloon expand until it bursts and the down arrow key makes it shrink until it disappears. Brainiac v1.0 by Software Avenue, Inc. BRAINIAC is the incredible, EXPANDABLE, learning game with great VGA graphics, a MIDI soundtrack, and digitized sound effects. This version comes with the first topic: GEOGRAPY. Other topics are available with the registered version of the program. CHRONOS Chronos is used by history and art students, genealogists, teachers, writers, and others interested in exploring historical relations or cultural events. Crayon Box v4.1 by Philip P Kapusta Keeps the kids entertained for hours! Crayon Box is a sketch/paint/ coloring book, math quizzer, counting & color identification, USA states game, spirals, Concentration memory game, music, and piano. Fun and educational. Dinosaur Predators A fun game for any age. First you select what animal you would like to become and then try to cross your habitat, collecting as many energy tokens as possible by capturing prey while avoiding your predators and outsmarting your competitors. DISGO Trivia fans, rejoice! Test you knowledge of U.S. presidents and vice presidents with this factual trivia game. Clues cover everything from historical events to treaties. Find our how fast you can solve questions based on clues. G-QUEST by William D. Rinehart A unique & challenging soko-ban style game full of great graphics, mazes and puzzles to solve. The object is to move your ball through the maze while collecting the gemstones and completing levels. Use switchers to move blocks and push the packages into the disposal units for 5,000 points. Also keep an eye out for the the Colorstones they are worth 10,000 points. Full mouse and sound card support! From the author of G-STONES III. Letter Attack v1.2 by Eldon Martin Letter Attack is an offshoot of Alien Attack. This educational game teaches typing, eye-hand coordination, and help develop reflexs. Words fall from the top of the screen and you must type them before they reach the bottom. The game speed increases as you successfully type each word. Lil’ Picasso v1.21 Philip P Kapusta More fun for the young. Lil’ Picasso is a coloring book for children. Great paint/drawing program for future artists. Push button interface makes it easy for even the youngest child to create a masterpiece. Includes several pre-drawn cute pictures, ready to color. Hundreds of colors/patterns. It even teaches eye/hand coordination skills! Logical Deduction v1.1 by Judah Warshaw The ULTIMATE code breaking game! ALL the features you could want, including: varying puzzle length and size, scrolling guess history for easy reference, scratch pad for solving help, tournament play, not one but TWO high score boards, built in screen saver, and MORE! If you like Master Mind, you will LOVE Logical Deduction! A Game For Your Brain US Constitution A useful program for anyone who wants to learn more about the Constitution and history. U.S. Geography "If You Want To Learn U.S. Geography You Gotta Have This Program!" is the solution to the problems today's students (and adults!) have with geography. The 11 activities of USGEO will soon transform even the most geographically illiterate into a geography wizard. The program effectively utilizes colorful VGA graphics, speech, and music. Hear the state and capital names spoken! World Name Game Educational geography program designed for children. DOS Desktop Publishing DRAFT Choice v2.15 by Trius, Inc. Engineer your own creations with this great CAD package. Brand new interface with on-screen icons. Features multiple attach points, 256 layers, multiple views, zier/complex spline curves and warp/tween. Enhance your images with external line/fill/hatch patterns and parallel and perpendicular modes. Supports PCX and WPG file formats, PSP and Plotter output. This full-featured drawing program also has multi-line macros and multi-level undos.A collection of four compatible fonts for Draft Choice is also included in this volume. DRAFT CHOICE FONTS ADD ON by Ross Alford Enhance your Draft Choice v2.15 drawings with these four new fonts. The four simple architectural fonts are: Simplex, a simple sans serif font; Italic, an italic serif font; Hroman, a simple serif font; and Duplex, an in-line sans serif font. NOTE: Requires Draft Choice by Trius, Inc., included in this volume. GRAFFITI ARTIST v1.2 by Aratus Clarke Free your creative spirit with unique brushes and a rainbow of colors! This wonderful graphic design tool has a wealth of features. Use Image Layering to blend and paint multiple images on one page. Paint Templates offer great ways to bound paint regions using two-color stencil images. The Acid feature is amazing use it to eat through paint to underlying images. Ryan's Fractal Program v1.0 by Ryan Lee Bunch Wow! A new type of fractal program that draws slices of 3D Mandelbrot sets! You'll discover interesting and strange phenomena with its Orbit View feature. This one uses fixed point math to draw the Mandelbrot sets. You have to see it to believe it! 3DKIT by Neal Stone Are you a multimedia author? Do you like creating multimedia applications and programs with GUI interfaces? You're gonna love this 3D graphics kit! This kit contains six PCX graphics backgrounds you can use to create great looking GUI interfaces. Perfect for multimedia authors and creators, especially if you use NeoBook or NeoShow. Wood Clips Sampler 1 by Jerry Stern These 10 beautiful Wood Clips graphics files are ideal for WordPerfect-DOS or Windows. Each image is exquisitely drawn in beautiful black-and-white. This collection includes Enchanting Cupid, Mystical Dragon and Classic Medieval Knight. Enchanting! Provided in WordPerfectÕs WPG format. DOS EDUCATION Address Librarian v1.15 by TurboSystemsCo Here is a place for all students to keep the names, addresses, and phone numbers of teachers and class mates. Easy to use, small, and quick, Address Librarian is a handy tool for students of any age. College Funding Finder Are you or your children college bound? Perhaps a career in teaching is the goal. Or, dentistry. Whatever the choice, college is not a minor expense. Now, College Funding Finder can help you find the grants, scholarships, and loans necessary to fund that college education. Edge Flow v6.0 by Pacestar Software Edge Flow is a lightning FAST and VERY easy to use flowcharting and diagram drawing tool. Just right for computer science, business, and engineering students. Drag and drop make Edge Flow a breeze to use. IQ Challenge by R K West Consulting IQ Challenge is an exciting IQ test/game for one to four players. Test your knowledge of literature, history, science, sports, and geography. A fun way to learn - alone or with a few friends! Little Lists v3.2 by Rosemary K West A small and simple database program just right for the student. Little Lists provides an easy way to keep track of all those notes and sources for term papers, reports, and research papers. As a matter of fact, you can easily keep track of just about anything with Little Lists. Periodic Table v1.0 by Cosmos Technologies For chemistry students, the periodic table is one of the most sacred tools around. Now, you have the periodic table at your beck and call. Quickly get the symbol, atomic number, atomic weight, and more for the element you’re interested in. Just point and click! This little guy will even quiz you! QA Study Aid v5.2 by Quid Pro Quo Software QA Study Aid is a test creation/execution system. Databases up to 20000 questions/answers may be created. Includes compiler and interpreter. Presentation, correct answer display, automatic scoring, data encryption and password protection are all features you will find in QA Study Aid. You can export score file for use in gradebook programs. All question types, except essay, are supported. Relative weighting, letter grade associations, random subset generation at run or compile time. It’s like having a teacher at your side anytime you need one! Study of Algebra by Alfred D’Attore SOA provides the math student with hundreds of questions and answers in algebra and basic math. An excellent way to test yourself, or provide yourself with additional practice in your math studies. TGB PC Gradebook v1.0 by TDF Software TGB is a tool for keeping track of your grades. It is truly easy to use and fast. It has complete online help, mouse support, pull down menus, and easy to use report generation. Keep track of that grade point average with TGB. Dos Games Bolz! v1.0s by COGnition Development Team & Straffan Production Company Limited You'l have a ball with this fast-paced action game. You are a ball attempting to rescue your friends from Billy Bolz who has stolen all the balls in the world! Work your way through different levels of mazes that feature warps, power-ups, traps, secret rooms, fights and everything else! It also features digital audio in surround sound with more than 25 original songs! NOTE: Requires a 486DX, 25Mhz or better processor. Craps Complete Fast-paced game where only the knowledgeable gambler will stand a chance of coming out a winner. Requires EGA and a mouse. Crazy Eights High resolution VGA graphics make this card game come alive. Requires VGA. Despair v1.0c by U-Neek Software You are Super Agent Steffon Omega Bartholomew, The OMEGA man, and your mission is to stop the Yarra from destroying the sun. Race through the corridors and rooms to complete your objective in this 3D action adventure. Acquire a shotgun and watch for the rocket launcher to wipe out the bad guys. Plenty of secret levels and different guards on every level, speaking of levels look for the secret warp areas to transport to different levels. Watch out for the invisible guards! Are you brave enough to take out the Yarra? Can you safely navigat through each level? Sure you can your the OMEGA man! NOTE: If you experience problems with low memory then use the supplied BOOTDISK utility to create a boot disk. Doubles Pinochle Play the card game known as "Double-Pack-Pinochle" on your computer. Requires VGA. EZ-GO by Bruce Wilcox Challenge your mind with this Othello-type board game. Occupy as much board space as possible by strategically placing your chips to flip your opponent' chips. Choose from two board sizes easy 8 by 8 tiles or the challenging 18 by 18 tiles. Offers hours of enjoyment with you against the computer or head to head with a friend. FIRESTORM! v1.3 by John Daigle Sound the alarm the forest is on fire! In this real-time simulation, you are the captain of Central Fire Command, a computerized forest fire fighting command center. It' up to you to put out the fire.Using an infra- red satellite in geo-synchronous orbit, you have a bird' eye view of 180,000 acres of coast somewhere in the Northwest. The land is heavily forested and mountainous, and has rivers, roads and a lake. Even buildings are visible with computer enhancement of satellite images. Using the GPS (geo-positioning system), you have the real-time location of four ground fire crews and two air tankers. Using your command console you can direct the movement of the ground and air units to fight the fire. You also have access to weather information, wind direction and speed. Other information is provided: acres on fire, acres burned, structures lost, day and time.You can have the computer run a random simulation or customize how many fires you fight and their location. This great simulation won' burn you. GemWorld by William O. Cain Recover three sacred gems as you battle three evil bosses. This 256- color VGA overhead-style action/adventure game packs a ton of fun and adventure into a small package. It won’t take up much precious room on your hard drive, though. Choose from three underworld mazes or a huge over-world area. A great adventure every time! GLADIATOR v3.6 by Forgotten Sages Lead a team to victory in this gauntlet-style real-time arcade game. You are the red team. Your team sets out to destroy all other teams in a variety of scenarios. Select a scenario to play with the picker (picker.exe). Each scenario gives you access to a variety of character classes 'archer, thieves, soldiers some with special abilities. Your goal is to destroy your opponents with as few team losses as possible. Endless fun! G-QUEST by William D. Rinehart A unique & challenging soko-ban style game full of great graphics, mazes and puzzles to solve. The object is to move your ball through the maze while collecting the gemstones and completing levels. Use switches to move blocks and push the packages into the disposal units for 5,000 points. Also keep an eye out for the the Colorstones they are worth 10,000 points. Full mouse and sound card support! From the author of G-STONES III (Volume 200). Flying Tigers v2.10 by Homebrew Software Travel back in time to prevent the Techno Terrorist from upsetting the balance of power. In this episode you will be thrown into the middle of 1942, where the techno bosses are starting a technology transfer to the Japanese Empire. As a member of the Flying Tigers you must claw your way through the various land and sea stages, each full of bad guys. Watch our back, your getting hit from the ground and air! A fast paced shoot-em up game with multiple weapons, power ups, enemies and bosses. Keno Simulator Simulates the typical Las Vegas Keno lounges. Requires VGA and a mouse. Labyrinth by Nick Sabalausky Remember those really fun wooden labyrinth games? Well now you can play one (or experience for the first time) this classic game. The object is easy, balance the playing board while rolling the ball through to the end of the maze while avoiding the pitfalls. Labyrinth includes multiple levels and tons of challenging game play. The gamecontrols are a little awkward but after some practice you'll get used to them. MVP Bridge If you like to play Bridge, or you would like to learn, MVP Bridge is for you. Noisy Video Poker and BlackJack Noisy Video Poker and Blackjack is similar to the video Draw Poker and video Blackjack machines found in casinos. Poker Dice This is a new dice game, based on the principal of playing Draw Poker. Poker Galore Video poker game widely played in Las Vegas. Requires EGA/VGA and Sound Blaster supported. PRIZM 01 by Awesome Software, Inc. In PRIZM 01 you must maneuver different shapes formed with triangles in order to fit them together into a solid block that will fill up a well of given size. The player must use his pattern recognition skills to match different shapes in a time-intensive environment where the shapes fall down from the top to the bottom of the screen. Yet PRIZM 01 is even more than just a puzzle game with falling triangular shapes. In the tournament level, it also includes a side-scrolling maze game where the player must find different weapons that he will be using in PRIZM, and also an opportunity to earn bonus points. It's like two games in one!As an option, you may either choose to play with triangular PRIZM shapes or the more familiar QUATRIS or tetris-like shapes. PRIZM 01 also includes a two player challenge mode, where different players can try to beat the other player in a competitive environment in a battle of the higher IQ's.PRIZM 01 features state-of-the-art 3D rendered nimation’s, awesome VGA graphics, and Sound Blaster support! Smart Solitaire Challenging, one-player game of cards. Requires EGA/VGA and a mouse. Strong Lines v1.0 by Homebrew Software Strong Lines is a strategy game where you race against the clock to reveal hidden pictures while trying to avoid colliding with small points of light. You have to move quick and remember once you start a line you cannot backup. Each level contains a complete percentage which you must reach in order to move into another level. These same complete percentages are also used to determine initial startup difficulty such as 75%, 80%, 85%, and 90%. As levels are advanced additional points of light are added to make this game really challenging. If your familiar with the popular arcade game QIX then your going to really enjoy Strong Lines, it’s much better. SPACE GUNNER v1.0 by Richard Benson Kill everything! As a Space Gunner in a far-off universe, you must destroy all stray objects in your quadrant of the galaxy. Watch out if too many objects get past you, you'l die! The object' speed increases with every wave. You know you'reentered a new wave by the increase of your Rapid Fire! Tommy’s Skippo by Tommy’s Toys This fun family game, 2-4 players, is played with a pack of numeral cars and several Skippo cars. The goal is to get rid of all of your cards before the opponent. It can bet learned in minutes but played many times with increasing pleasure as you learn strategy. This best part is your don’t have to worry about having a VGA card or the correct sound board because this program has all entertainment and very little glitter. TwoBit Poker Implementation of the video Poker machines. Requires EGA/VGA. Ultimate Baccarat Go where no Baccarat player has gone before, into the ultimate zone. A tutor is provided to take you through the game step-by-step. Requires EGA/VGA. Ultimate Blackjack Enter into a fully animated casino card game and gambling school. Requires EGA/VGA. DOS General Interest INTERSTATE TRAVELER v3.0 by Jacobson Software Enterprises Need a vacation? Plan it with this handy organizer. Produce itineraries, expense estimates and maps for road trips across the contiguous United States. Planning a trip involves specifying the desired route in a point-to-point manner. Select an origin city, then each intermediate city or highway junction along the way, until the final destination is reached. ItÕs easy to add new cities and highways. Once you specify the route, it prepares an itinerary and estimate of expenses. The program also includes individual maps of 35 selected cities. These maps show major highways, lakes, rivers and points of interest. Information about population and local climate is also provided. Produce a complete travel package by printing out the itineraries and maps. Enjoy your trip! Jailbird v2.11 by RMH Computer Services Make your own 'vanity' license plates. See them on your screen or print them. Select from any of the 50 U.S. states, each containing the current state slogan. Configure your own colors for the on-screen display, and print them out (color printer required). MOVIE TRIVIA by Dan Linton, Jr. Lights Camera Action! Anything can happen in the movies or in this game of movie trivia. Become a part of the movies, the actors, actresses, glitter and gold, sorrow and romance, old and new as you learn what goes on behind the scenes in Movie Trivia! Categories include: thrillers and mysteries, westerns, science fiction, biography, comedies, Academy awards, musicals, historical, Disney, producers, war, directors, romance, action/ adventure and more. PC-FILE General purpose database manager which combines maximum power with ease of use. WAMPUM Performs virtually all of the functions supported by dBase III with a simple menu system. Requires a hard disk. DOS Utility BATKit Build fully menued, interactive batch files with this utility set! Display plain or fancy prompts, retrieve responses up to 255 characters in length, save the current directory, capture text screens, and much more. Better Commands You'll love the enhanced commands for DOS COPY, DELETE, RENAME, DIRECTORY, MAKE DIRECTORY, REMOVE DIRECTORY and many others. Best of all, it has CALC, a command line calculator; CAL, which displays a monthly calendar; and DESCRIBE, which allows you to add, delete, or modify file and directory descriptions displayed with the BDIR command. This is certain to become one of your standard tools it's that good! Complete Program Deleter A complete uninstaller for DOS or Windows programs. Totally remove all files and directories added to a disk by installation utilities. DIFF This excellent utility makes it easy to display and compare two text files, directories, even ZIP archive files side-by-side. Spotting differences and anomalies is easy, and this program is fast! DISKCOPY FAST The powerful one-pass diskette duplicator. FileFinder Finds files and directories, it even searches archives! And it's fast, extremely fast! You're not limited to name searches you can search by creation date or size. You can, of course, use wild cards in your searches. Don't know the file name? Perform fuzzy searches by telling FileFinder to find any file that comes close to the name you specify! HD-TEST Performs a full read/write test without destroying data on your hard disk. MCAFEE ANTI-VIRUS Detect, destroy, and protect against viruses. Mac-ETTE Mac-ette is a PC utility which can read, write, format and duplicate Macintosh HFS format 1.4 Meg diskettes on a PC equipped with a 3.5 inch high density diskette drive. NEWKEY Super keyboard enhancer combines the features of Prokey, Superkey, Smartkey, PRD+, cruise control, and screen blanking. POINT & SHOOT BACKUP/RESTORE No hard disk should be without this program! QuikMenu A highly customizable, easy to use graphical interface for DOS. SPEEDKIT Includes three useful tools to improve overall system performance. SYSCHK Provides you with a complete system information list. ZIP Chunker Pro Fast! ARC, ARJ, LHZ, ZIP Splitter for DOS and OS/2. ZCP splits and sizes all types of files, including archived files. OS/2 & Warp! BlackJack for OS/2 by Dave Minogue Take a hit with this electronic version of the popular card game. Play this game for hours of realistic fun without losing a dime. Great color. Blackjack or bust that will it be? NOTE: Copy the BLAKJACK folder to your hard drive, then run BJ.EXE. BLOWFISH v1.51 by Matthew Spencer Security and privacy have always been major problems in this high tech world. Enter Blowfish. This file encryption/decryption program can render your files useless to others by using a new algorithm developed by Bruce Schneier. This encryption algorithm, as originally documented in Dr. Dobb's Journal in April '94 and revised in the September '95, is optimized for 32-bit processors making it extremely fast and secure. Some of its capabilities include an easy interface with a help feature, password access, and "block chaining" security that scrambles files containing repetitious characters without showing a pattern. When security is at question, Blowfish is definitely the program to keep everyone else guessing forever. CD in a Box OS/2 CD Player v1.5 by Lyndsay A. Roger Become your own DJ with this customizable CD organizer. This object-oriented CD Player shows different musical tracks as icons in a folder. You use direct editing to enter track and title names, with its mini Control Panel. Add tracks to a disk and create your own custom CDs. NOTE: Copy the CDBOX folder to your hard drive, then run CDINABOX.EXE. EDITCALC V0.1 by Frank Carlsson EditCalc is one of the easiest and very powerful math calculation program available. It supports standard operations and trigonometric functions which include cos, sin, tan, arccos, arcsin, and arctan. Extended support for other functions such as square and square roots, logarithms, and factorial and error functions are incorporated. It can even handle multiple variables and polynomials. Numerical values can be entered as degrees or radians. EditCalc is the answer to all your problems especially if they are mathematical. INFO MILES by Bryce S. Craven Manage your communications easily and effectively with this comprehensive management program. Track your communication usage among multiple programs, including Internet, BBS, services, FAX, e-mail and more. Determine connection, file transfer and cost information from virtually any communication software that maintains a usage log. Configurable options allow you to present usage reports in several ways. Compatible with many communication programs including the Internet Access Kit supplied with Warp. NOTE: Copy the I MILE folder to your hard drive, then run INSTALL.EXE. ITTY-BITTY BLACK BOOK/2 v1.27 by James E. Johnson Jr. Keeping track of your contacts is a cinch with the Itty-Bitty Black Book. This personal information manager stores names, addresses, phone numbers, and other pertinent information about each individual. It is capable of grouping your contacts into 5 different categories such as business, friends, relatives, etc. Linking pictures as well as sounds to each person and printing personal phone books are just scratches on the surface with this program. You will never forget a contact again with the Itty-Bitty Black Book. LISTOS2 A long time DOS favorite, it's now available to our OS/2 members! More than just another file viewing application, LISTOS2 can move, copy, rename and delete files. Making your OS/2 desktop look GREAT! by Terry Lin Spruce up your desktop. This document gives you advice and resource pointers on how to customize your desktop. A great collection of information. NOTE: Copy the OS/2LOOK folder to your hard drive, then load OS2LOOKS.TXT. Maximus Now you can have your own full featured bulletin board system! Features message bases, bulletins, upload/download and chat mode. OS/2-Commander At last - a Norton Commander clone for OS/2! Quick access to disks, directories and files has never been easier. PERSONAL INVENTORY GATHERER/2 v1.2 by James E. Johnson Jr. Meticulous about what you own, then Personal Inventory Gatherer is made for you. This personal home inventory program keeps track of all your possessions by its name, serial number, purchase price, date and place of purchase, manufacturer, etc. P.I.G. also incorporates a comment field for elaborate descriptions and can even attach a picture of the object! Group each item into categories such as electronics or "Dad's Stuffs" to make your life easier. Everything that you ever needed to keep track of your possessions is in this database program, which is especially useful when a catastrophe comes along. SOKOBAN v0.5 by Xyloda Limited Sokoban is a puzzle game that requires logical thinking and careful planning. You must maneuver Sokoban ("warehouse man" in Japanese) through each complicated level by pushing all the boxes into the storage areas. There is a catch; only one box can be pushed at a time. Highest scores are granted for the least possible moves in each level. There are 90 levels of increasing difficulty, enough to keep your brains churning. WebWriter/2 v1.01 by John Blumel Write your own Web page with this handy program. This is an OS/2 HTML (HyperText Markup Language) editor. Because of its multi-threaded design, you can edit multiple documents simultaneously. Full support of HTML v2.0 includes a ISO- Latin-1 character set. Mark-up documents by selecting elements from menus or the Tag Manager dialog box, which allows user-defined tags. Drag Õn drop integration with Workplace Shell. NOTE: Copy the contents in the WEBWRITE folder to your hard drive. Then run INSTALL.EXE. Workplace Shell TrashCan v2.1 by Kai Sommerfeld Take out the trash! TrashCan is a Workplace Shell utility that replaces the shredder object delivered with OS/2 v2.0 and higher. It gives you a Macintosh-like trash can on your desktop. You get some useful options for dealing with the trash you produce, including an important recover option. NOTE: Copy the TRASH folder to your hard drive, then run INSTUTIL.EXE. World Clock This is not just another OS/2 clock. World Clock is a multi- city time display. ZIP CONTROL v2.2.5 by RPF Software Zip Control is a 32-bit, multi-threaded, compression/decompression program for your OS/2. Features include point and click, drag and drop access to Zip and UnZip, search and list zip files from multiple disk drives, a check-out option which temporarily extracts files to allow program test runs, and encrypted file support. Zip Control is also compatible with PKWare's PKZip/PKUnZip and supports IBM, McAffee, and other virus scanners. Windows Business A PROJECT/EVENT PLANNER v3.1 by Sapphire Software Inc. Use for quick overall project planning, activity scheduling, resource scheduling. Can assign income/costs to events/resources to estimate project income/cost. Can shift all events forward/backward in time. Handles multiple calendars. Allows free-form drawing of events on scale of hr/day/week/month/yr. On-line help and sample plans are provided. BUSINESSCARDS FOR WINDOWS v3.1 by Michael Dvorkin BusinessCards for Windows is a free form database program, useful for keeping track of any type of textual information. You can use BusinessCards to organize and manage any vital information, such as names, addresses, and phone numbers. Moreover, you may use BusinessCards to store random data, such as Internet WWW pages, video or CD titles, short articles, descriptions of collection items, etc. Cards+More Label and Card Maker v2.10 by Informatik Inc. Cards+More Label and Cards Maker. Easy-to-use system for labels, cards, etc. 10 graphics formats, many text attributes, including 180-degree rotation, Code39 bar codes, POSTNET, import, merge, drag & drop, snap-to-grid, auto-numbering, high quality printing, file management, etc. NOTE: This program requires VBRUN300.DLL (included on your Utilities Collection) DAYMASTER FOR WINDOWS v2.00 by Unicorn Software Limited Program gives you historical events, births and anniversaries for the day, a quote, and any reminders you have at boot up or any time. Reminders can be annual,monthly, weekly, daily, range of dates, or single date. Even lets you add your own special days in history! Designer Envelopes Manage your mail with this excellent program! Create envelopes and letterhead using its clean drag and drop interface. Add lines, pictures, text and rectangles. You can even use all of your Windows fonts and bitmaps! EXCHANGE v2.3 by Shawn Kresal If you travel around the world for business or pleasure, then this application is for you. With Exchange your able to obtain the currency exchange rate for 10 countries ( French Francs, Japanese Yen, British Pounds) plus you can define 3 custom currency types. NOTE: This program requires VBRUN300.DLL (included on your Utilities Collection) FAXMAIL FOR WINDOWS v4.22 by Jon Krahmer FaxMail for Windows will add a button to all your Windows Programs, giving you access to all the Fax /Modems and Fax/Machines in the world, making them become your printers. FaxMail attaching itself to and becomes a part of the actual Microsoft Windows environment, whereby it appends itself to all system menus thereby adding its features to all Windows Applications. FaxMail has hundreds of useful features such as Dynamic View/Edit Cover Page, FaxBook Import, Windows Dynamic All Class Fax/Modem Driver, and Technical Support. You can import up to 1000 name and phone numbers into each FaxBook (Phone Book) at a time from any xBase data base program, and you can have as many FaxBooks as you want. FaxMail includes four different installations which supports Microsoft Windows 95, Windows 3.1, Windows for Workgroups 3.11 and Windows NT. Supports most Fax/Modems, Group 3 CLASS 1, CLASS 2 and CLASS 2.0. MultiLabel Create professional-looking labels. NETWORK EMAIL Set up your own Windows-based network mail system. Requires Visual Basic Run-Time. POWERFLEET FOR WINDOWS v1.10 by Mark W. Geisinger PowerFleet offers the fleet manager a tool to manage information crucial for sucessful fleet management. Preventative maintenance, employees management., reporting and analysis are key features. Track equipment, repairs, PM, tires, and fuel purchases. StockQuest Stock Value Analyser v2.10 by Informatik Inc. StockQuest Stock Value Analyser. Multidimensional fundamental "what if" stock valuation, using earnings, growth rate, term and yield target. Reveals details of underlying calculation. Easy to use. An essential tool for validating stock trading and investment decisions. NOTE: This program requires VBRUN300.DLL (included on your Utilities Collection) TIME KEEPER v2.6 by Custom Computer Solutions Time Keeper is business software for attendance record keeping. Entering attendance or payroll records regularly will give you instant access to employees' regular time, overtime, vacation, personal, sick, holidays, or whatever benefit time your company uses. Employees can be tracked working on different projects and in different offices. Professional reports are included with the Time Keeper. These reports are well designed to give access to all the information that has been stored in the database. These include benefit time reports, schedule reports, overtime reports, and attendance reports. TO THE BANK! v1.1 by Full Sail Software To The Bank! is an essential tool for making out those tedious deposit slips for making bank deposits. To The Bank! is sort of like your trusty adding machine only better but To The Bank! produces something even better, a historic detailed record of every deposit. It first allows you to enter all of the checks for your deposit. It then totals them up for you and records the list of checks. Next , you can enter all of your currency keeping a record of each denomination of bills and you can do this in two ways. First you can enter that you have for example, $440 in Twenties or you can enter that you have 22 Twenties and To The Bank! will total it for you. After you have entered your currency, To The Bank! will present you with the exact information you need to fill out that little slip. And it will even print a list of the checks and currency that you can file away or cut into a strip to wrap around your checks and currency. NOTE: This program requires VBRUN300.DLL (included on your Utilities Collection) WINVELOPE Winvelope simplifies the printing of envelopes. Windows Children ADDITION #1 by K.P.C. Software Corporation ADDITION #1 helps you to improve your mathematics skills in ADDITION, with more than 5 million problems presented in colorful graphics. The great number of possibilities gives you a different problem each time. You can choose from 4 levels of difficulty, and from 1 to 50 problems per session. MATH AND SCIENCE v1.0 by InfoHighway 101 Math and Science features three main components. Quizzle: is a picture puzzle in which you answer science questions the correct answer display part of a picture puzzle the picture is displayed when you correctly answer 25 questions. Double-time: is a excercise in logical math skills designed to help you visualize math problems in your head without having to write your equation down. Conversion: is a utility that helps you comprehend how computers handle numbers by providing decimal to Hexadecimal equivalent. MULTIPLICATION#1 by K.P.C. Software Corporation MULTIPLICATION#1 helps your child improve their skills in MULTIPLICATION, with more than 5 million problems presented in colorful graphics. The great number of possibilities gives you a different problem each time. You can choose from 4 levels of difficulty, and level 5 with the capability to print the math problems to a printer. An input box to select from 1 to 50 problems per session. MY PROGRAM - COUNTING by M&R Multimedia, Inc. My Program - Counting was designed to help your child learn to count. Using the "Natrual Approach" to learning they will learn their numbers by seeing and hearing. Once your young ones have the grasp of their numbers change the mode from easy to hard and let them test their comprehension skills. NOTE: This program requires VBRUN300.DLL (Included in your Utilities Collection) STUDENT CALCULATOR v2.1 by Robb Miller Student Calculator is a calculator designed for todays elementary and jr. highschool student. It features include the ability to do both integer and real calculations including decimal rounding. The calculator also has the ability to 'zoom-in'which makes it the most complete teaching calculator for the elementary classroom. WHAT KIND OF MAMMAL AM I? v1.1 by InfoHighway 101 What Kind of Mammal am I is an animal identification program in which you pick the correct animal by matching the object to the picture. The program provides 25 multiple choice questions. WINDOWS DESKTOP PUBLISHING CAD/DRAW 4 LEVEL 1 v4.01 by TommySoftware Technical illustration, drafting, graphics. Powerful, fast and easy to use. Full set of drawing and construction tools, hatchings, dimensioning, symbol management, bitmap objects, TrueType and PostScript fonts, WMF (Windows Meta File)/ EMF(Enhanced Meta File) import and export, DXF filters, extensive help system and MORE! NOTE:Requires Microsoft Windows 95 or Windows NT 3.51 or higher Docuthek v1.00 by Informatik Inc. Comprehensive document imaging system for business and personal use. Industry-standard format and compression. TIFF, DCX, GIF, JPEG and other formats. Multiple pages. Popular relational database engine. Very easy, intuitive, yet powerful SQL-based query method. Scan documents with fax or scanner. NOTE: This program requires VBRUN300.DLL (Included in your Utilities Collection) MICROLATHE v1.5.3 by Daniel S. Baker µLathe (MicroLathe) is an easy to use modeling tool that allows you to create three dimensional objects using the metaphor of the carpenter's lathe. Once you've created the 3 dimensional object copy and paste it into your publication and give it zing of 3D. WEBEDIT v1.2 by Kenn Nesbitt A Windows-based HTML editor for rapid creation and easy maintenance of hypertext documents for the World Wide Web. WebEdit 1.2 supports every feature of HTML 1, 2 and 3, plus special extensions such as those recognized by NetScape. WINCOPY v1.0 by Informatik Inc. WinCopy Screen Capture is a easy to use Windows utility. With just a click of a button your creating new images in the following formats: BMP, GIF, TIFF and JPEG files. NOTE: This program requires VBRUN300.DLL (Included in your Utilities Collection) CLIPART COLLECTION JapanClips by Matsuri Graphics Here we have six images in EPS format. These images reflect a Japaneese flavor that is both attractive and refreshing. From the crest to the cherry blossoms, these are beautiful works of art. SEWING GRAPHICS COLLECTION Vol. 1 by Sewing Graphics Sewing Graphics is a collection of 7 full color drawings including: scissors, pincushion, measuring tape, thimble, needles, button and spool of thread. These graphics will add "character" to any newsletter or stationary. Sports by unknown author Fifteen high-resolution, PCX format graphics, in black and white, and all with a sports subject. Bowling, diving, fishing, skydiving, and much more! These images will make a valuable addition to your library. Victorian Clipart by R A Forde These pictures are original Victorian (1890s) black and white etchings scanned in from magazines of the period, and supplied in the popular PCX format. They capture the atmosphere of the Victorian period nicely. A wonderful way to add a Victorian flavor to your work. FONTS Babyblocks Font by Ryan Neaveill This font looks like a childs blocks with the alphabet on them. One set of characters is black on white and the other is white on black. Great for headings and titles! Windows Education Build That Nuclide ver. 1.0 by Richard T. Carman This program allows students to practice the structure of atomic nuclei. Students must determine the number of protons and neutrons. Registered version includes atoms & ions & electrons.Great for JrHS, HS, & College Chem classes. CHARTIST v1.7 by Novagraph A comprehensive flow and orginazational charting package for Windows. Features full color and font support, multisymbol and border styles and auto routing of lines in multi styles. Also supports hyper text jumps, import of graphics into symbols and export of data to other applications. Dear Diary v3.0 by Q&D Software Development Diary/journal program for Windows with password protection and printing capability. Supports int'l date formats. Has text search feature which allows you to quickly bring up all entries pertaining to a particular person, event,etc. ENTISOFT UNITS v1.1 by Entisoft Measurement Conversion Calculator for Windows. Recognizes any combination of the built-in SI, metric, English, ancient, and other measures by their names, abbreviations, and common synonyms. It uses a natural language interface and it displays the physical measurement described by each expression. Molecular Madness v1.1 by Richard T. Carman Makes learning the appearance and polarity of molecules fun. Students have to catch molecules in the right flask. Covers ten common molecular substances.Great for JrHS, HS, & College Chem classes. QuickGraph v1.03 by WorldTree Software QuickGraph is a Windows application geared towards math students in college and upper level high school classes from algebra to calculus. It allow the user to graph mathematical equations quickly and easily.The interface is modeled after the popular hand held graphing calculators required by many college math courses. The problem with hand held calculators is that they are slow and do not graph in color. QuickGraph solves this problem by giving the user a very fast and easy to use graphical interface that operates in Windows. A special "QuickGraph" mode draws graphs two times faster. Now students can finish their homework in record time. STUDENT ORGANIZER for Windows v4.0 by PrimaSoft, Inc. STUDENT ORGANIZER includes three separate applications: the Course Book (allows you to keep track of your assignments, tests, exams,marks, notes, and much more.), Reference Book (As a student you will read a lot of books, articles. You will want to remember their titles, thoughts, sentences, important pages. You may enter all above information in the Reference Book. Later after several weeks, months, years you will want to refer to them and use them in implementing your ideas, or doing assignments. They will be onlyone click away.), Terminology Book.(For each field, course your can create your own dictionary of words, rules, terms, idioms, technical phrases. ect...) All 3 programs offers unlimited number of entries, automatically sorted. Searching by any field, printing and much more. A similar format to a regular book makes all 3 programs very easy to use, and intuitive too use. The Grades Program by Mike Silvernail The Grades Program offers the grading & reportingtools needed by todays classroom teacher. This application allow you to create class rosters, Grade homework assignments and extra credit. The Grade Program generates progress reports as a class or student. Windows Games 3D Morejongg! v3.0 Windows 95 by MoraffWare The finest implementation ever made of the ancient Chinese tile game! This great game has the following features; outstanding 3d graphics with Field of Flowers background (or add your own) and multiple tile sets like Waterfall, Smooth Walnut, Thailand, Animals and more; MegaGame mode that will surely melt your brain, full game play statistics so you can measure how fast and average game wins ratio; game hints and undo's, especially useful in MegaGame mode. Tired of the redundant Mahjongg clones then try Morejongg! and look at what enhancements MoraffWare has done to this popular classic. NOTE: Requires Windows 95. Don't have Windows 95? No problem, we have also included the 16-bit version of MoraffWare's Morejongg!. Boxcars Casino For Windows v1.0c by Jeff T. Rodeo and Russ Beall Place your bets and roll them bones! Boxcars Casino features craps, poker, slots, and much more! you can even play Keno while you play other games. You'll love the fantastic color graphics and realistic game play. NOTE: As in real life, you must go to the bank and get some money before you gamble. BOXES v5.1 by DynoTech Software. Fun, challenging, and addictive puzzle game for windows (Optimized for Windows 95). Eliminate colored crates by maneuvering and dropping boxes on them. But, watch out for falling stones. Smarts are more important than speed. It's not as easy as it looks! Includes five levels of bind bending fun and also features joystick support. Addictive new twist on the classic Tetris that will keep you coming back for more with it's awesome graphics, sound effects, music and game play. Caro v1.1 by Thu Nguyen Everybody has to agree that Tic-Tac-Toe is boring game I mean CAT every time. Although Caro is similar to Tic-Tac-Toe it is in a league of it's own with it's challenging game play. The player (you) is presented with a grid of 280 boxes. The object is to outwit the computer by getting five in a row before it does. All normal Tic-Tac-Toe rules are in effect which means diagonal moves are OK. Watch out, the computer can get really tricky and you want to keep your eye on the whole playing field at all times. Comet Busters! v1.1 by HAMCO Software You're in for a real treat with this high speed arcade shoot'em up. Can you safely maneuver your Comet Buster around the asteroids and other obstacles without getting smashed? Go easy on the thrust or you ship will be engraved into a shooting comet. Includes three levels of difficulty, up to four players can play normal or tournament mode, joystick support, and not to mention the ray traced spirte graphics and high speed arcade sound effects. Easily one of the best arcade games available for Windows. Four Seasons Standard one-deck solitaire also known as "Corner Card" and "Vanishing Cross". Program requires Windows v3. and Visual Basic Run-Time v2.0. LandMind by Roger Robertson Military Briefing: There are land mines scattered across the terrain of a hostile nation. Your job clear the field for our invading armies. Hummm... Scratch that! SWAT Briefing: Terrorist sent by a foreign dictator have placed land mines over the parking lot of a McDoggies Fast Food Franchise Store and you have to ......Nahhhhh! There's this map that you see and the computer has hidden several exploding squares all over it and your part of the game is to find the exploding squares by finding the surrounding squares that don't explode. Noisy Video Poker and BlackJack Noisy Video Poker and Blackjack is similar to the video Draw Poker and video Blackjack machines found in casinos. Poke it Poker Video poker game with great Windows graphics and two styles of play, Joker's Wild and regular Draw Poker. Slot Slot machine that pays 98.9%. Allows up to five coins to be played at once. Triple Deck Solitaire v1.0 by Cary R. Lockwood Three decks of cards are shuffled and dealt face up in the center playing area. This area is called the Table and contains 13 piles of cards. These piles correspond to the 13 cards in one suit beginning with the Ace. Whenever an Ace or King is dealt, a single card is dealt face down into the Draw pile. If a card dealt on the Table matches the pile number it was dealt to (a 3 is dealt to the third pile), two cards are dealt face down to the Draw Pile. The number on the Draw pile indicates how many cards are in the pile. Your objective is to play all 156 cards to the Stack piles. The Stack piles are on the left side of the screen. The one furthest left begin with Kings and build downward by suit. The Stack piles on the furthest right begin with Aces and build upward by suit. The Stack piles in the middle can begin with either an Ace or a King. Game options include the ability to assign your own sounds to event within the game, gaming history statistics, two levels of difficulty and player selectable card backs. Virus v1.10 by DynoTech From the author of BOXES, Virus a fun, challenging, and addictive puzzle-arcade game for windows. This knuckle banging, joint challenging game is NOT for the faint of heart. YOU are the Virus ("the Bad Guy"). Run recklessly about the surface of a hard drive and collect bytes. Avoid the anti-virus disk and other nasties. Like BOXES, Virus includes the same quality graphics, sound effects, music, and game play. Who says a Virus has to be a bad thing? WinCrazy 3D v1.0 by Scott Croffs Addictively fun Windows arcade game where the ultimate goal is to get far, and collect points (cystals). Game play is easy just move the mouse in the direction you want your ball to go and it takes off. To change directions just move the mouse the other way. Be careful because inertia and other real life physics are calculated. To fire just click your left mouse button but what watch out, your limited in ammo. To advance a level you must perform all the mission objectives for that level and exit the portal at the bottom of the playing field. Hint: The author has provided two cheats, but there is no way we are going to give them to you in this text. Although you can retrieve them from the README.WRI file. Windows Utilities DRAG AND FILE v1.0 by Canyon Software Drag And File is a very powerful file manager for Windows 95 and NT 3.51.Besides the standard copy, move and delete functions, Drag And File allows you to perform these operations on multiple Drag And File Windows in one operation. You can select directories in up to 12 Drag And File windows and just list the files in the selected directories. You can also list the files for an entire drive or combination of drives. NOTE:Requires Microsoft Windows 95 or Windows NT 3.51 or higher