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^C~1|F BIG BLUE DISK -- Number 54 ^N


^C~4|F FIRST THINGS FIRST ^N

 |9DISKOVERY
 |Cby Jay Wilbur
 Notes from the disk of the editor.

 |9ABOUT BIG BLUE DISK
 An introduction to the feature categories.

 |9TABLE OF CONTENTS
 [You are here.]  A brief look at this month's features.


^C~4|F FUN 'N GAMES ^N

 |9DARK DESIGNS II
 |Cby John Carmack
 Your hardy group of adventurers retrieved the legendary Grelminar's Staff.
 Now you must close the gate controlled by the evil war lord through which
 foul beings pour from some nether plane.  Can you close the gate and save
 the land from destruction?  Fantasy role-playing at its best!


^C~4|F HELPWARE ^N

 |9BIG BLUE FILE FINDER
 |Cby James Derr
 This excellent hard disk utility makes searching for files a snap.  You can
 even search inside compressed files without unpacking them.  Awesome dude.


^C~4|F BRAINWARE ^N

 |9WORD LADDERS
 |Cby John F. Allen and Bill Wind
 Climb on up to a great word game challenge.  With this game you can turn HATE
 into LOVE in three simple steps:  HATE --> HAVE --> CAVE --> COVE --> LOVE!

 |9HANDY CAPS
 |Cby John Besnard
 Forget those boring flash cards and those dry lists from your geograpy book.
 Learn U.S. capitals the fun way with HANDY CAPS.  Try to identify the correct
 capital city as a state is randomly chosen from a graphic map of America.


^C~4|F PICTURE THIS ^N

 |9PRINT SHOP IMAGES
 |Cby David Sherman and Walter Yesia
 In support of our troops in the Persian Gulf we are proud to add to our
 collection of military print shop images.  This month David Sherman provides
 the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Marine Corps insignia.  Also, Walter Yesia comes
 through with updated merit badge images for the Boy Scouts of America.


^C~4|F DISKUSSION ^N

 |9BLUE NOTES
 This is the section where you talk to each other and to us.


^C~4|F LAST THINGS LAST ^N

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