The descriptions below refer to the registered versions of the various products in the Ultimate Software product line. The shareware versions of these products may vary differ slightly. Shareware versions of any of the following can be obtained for $5 directly from Ultimate Software, or from your favorite shareware vendor, BBS, on-line service or user group. Prices for the fully-registered versions are listed below.
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ULTIMATE LANGUAGE TUTOR for WINDOWS
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The Ultimate Language Tutor for Windows is a vocabulary learning system currently available in four languages. This program offers a variety of drills and quizzes that help you learn, master, and test your vocabulary skills. The Flashcard module is particularly useful. It allows you to read in a list of words (or words you missed during a quiz) and have the words and their translations automatically flashed on-screen at a user-set rate.
The Ultimate Language Tutor for Windows also allows the user to add a chosen list of vocabulary in different language libraries. This library builder is particularly useful to students taking a language course and using the Ultimate Language Tutor as a supplement to that course. The student can add a distinct new library that matches the vocabulary for the chapter being studied.
The built-in quiz score tracker is particularly useful for teachers wishing to make this program available to their classes. Quizzes are tracked by student. Each student's profile shows scores and a description of the quizzes taken by the student. The program also manages a top-ten list of the students with highest overall quiz scores.
The Ultimate Language Tutor for Windows is available for the following languages:
o Spanish $20
o French $20
o German $20
o Italian $20
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ULTIMATE LANGUAGE TUTOR for DOS
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The Ultimate Language Tutor for DOS is a vocabulary learning system currently available in Spanish and French. This program offers a variety of drills and quizzes that help you learn, master, and test your vocabulary skills.
The Ultimate Language Tutor for Windows also allows the user to add a chosen list of vocabulary in distinct language libraries. This library builder is particularly useful to students taking a language course and using the Ultimate Language Tutor as a supplement to that course. The student can add a distinct new library that matches the vocabulary for the chapter being studied.
The built-in quiz score tracker is particularly useful for teachers wishing to make this program available to their classes. Quizzes are tracked by student. Each student's profile shows scores and a description of the quizzes taken by the student. Scores can also be graphed on-screen.
The Ultimate Language Tutor for DOS is available for the following languages:
o Spanish $20
o French $20
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ULTIMATE GEOGRAPHY for DOS
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This program sports a beautiful map of the United States. Select a state with your mouse or with the keyboard, and the program displays a variety of census information. You can also choose a census category (like population growth) and the map will highlight all states according to their national ranking.
Besides being a graphical almanac of U.S. information, Ultimate Geography is also a quizzing program which can teach and test state capitals, state locations, etc.
The teacher's version includes a test score tracker which can be used to administer tests and quizzes and record the scores of individual students.
o Standard Edition $15
o Teacher's Edition $30
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NOISY VIDEO POKER for WINDOWS
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Noisy Video Poker for Windows is a very fun and very beautiful simulation of the video poker machines you find in casinos. Included are JACKS or BETTER, JOKERS WILD, and DEUCES WILD versions of the program.
Besides very realistic sounds like coins dropping into a metal tray (just like at the casinos) there are a variety of wacky sounds that play randomly when you don't have a winning hand. These sounds really add to the entertainment value of this program, but what really sets this game apart from others is the graphics and user interface. You can play this game with a minimum of mouse clicks which allows you to play rally fast. And the cards! Unlike a lot of other poker games you may have seen, the cards in this game look completely real.
When you order Noisy Video Poker for Windows, you can get Noisy Video BlackJack for Windows for only $5 extra. That's a savings of $15 since both games are $20 each when purchased separately.
o Noisy Video Poker $20
o Both Poker and BlackJack $25
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NOISY VIDEO BLACKJACK for WINDOWS
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Noisy Video BlackJack for Windows is a simulation of the coin-operated video blackjack machines in casinos. You choose how many coins to wager and whether to stand, hit, double-down, split pairs, buy insurance, etc. In this version the dealer must stand on a hard 17 or higher and hit on a soft 17. Blackjack and Insurance pays 2-1. You can double-down on a 9,10 or 11. You can split pairs.
This is a beautiful simulation with cards that look real. The user interface makes game-play easy, and you can play as fast as you want because a minimum number of mouse clicks are required.
When you order Noisy Video BlackJack for Windows, you can get Noisy Video Poker for Windows for just $5 more. That's a $15 savings off the regular price of $20 for each game.
o Noisy Video BlackJack $20
o Both BlackJack and Poker $25
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HOT BUTTON for WINDOWS
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HOT Button for Windows is one of the most useful programs you will ever use. The idea behind HOT Button was to create a collection of frequently needed utilities and programs and organize them in a way that would make it easy for you to get to them quickly. Once you begin using HOT Button, you will want to open it up and move it to a corner of your Windows screen each time you go into Windows.
When opened, HOT Button takes up very little screen space (just a little bigger than an icon). Leaving HOT Button opened in this way also takes up a minimum of your Windows resources. When you realize how useful HOT Button is, you will always want to have it handy.
The small HOT Button opening window has four tiny buttons. The first button is a file viewer. Click on it to view graphic files (icons, bitmaps, .GIF, .PCX, .WMF, .TIF), spreadsheet files (Lotus 1-2-3, Excel, Quattro), Database files (dBASE, FoxPro, Access, Paradox, Works), word processor documents (Word, Word Perfect, AMI Pro, WinWord, Works, QA Write), text files, binary files, and even a listing of the files contained in a compressed file (.ZIP, .LZH).
You can view files individually or as part of a self-running slideshow. You can view a whole directory of icons at one time. You can view "thumbnails" of a whole directory of bitmap images and
then enlarge a bitmap to full size with a single mouse click. The file viewer alone would make HOT Button a very useful utility for any Windows user, but there's a whole lot more!
Click the second button to bring up the HOT Button Disk Utilities. This is a collection of frequently needed file and disk utilities. Use the HOT Button Disk Utilities to copy, rename, delete, edit, search for, and view information about files on your hard and floppy drives. There is also a pop-up diskette format utility
which will format either high or low-density diskettes in your floppy drives.
Click on the third button to bring up the HOT Button WAV and MIDI Sound File Player. If you have a sound card, you will find the WAV player very useful. You can load and play a single sound file or automatically play all the .WAV or .MID files in an entire directory. The WAV player also has a repeat function, so you can automatically play a sound (or a whole directory of sound files) over and over.
Click on the fourth button to bring up the HOT Button Audio CD Player. This is a programmable CD system. The CD player can automatically detect an inserted CD that you have previously programmed. You can save the names of tracks and a play list of up to 50 songs. Your play list may include any or all of the tracks on the CD in any sequence you choose.
One other useful feature of HOT Button is the built-in digital clock. When you open HOT Button, the tiny opening window includes a digital clock which updates itself every minute. If you move the
mouse pointer over the HOT Button window, the display toggles between the time and date. Even if you minimize the HOT Button window (which you probably don't need to do since it is so small) it continues to update and display the current time.
o HOT Button $25
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ZIP CODE BOOK for WINDOWS
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Zip Code Book is a zip code (and city, state, area code) lookup program for Windows. Enter a zip code to find the corresponding city, state and area code. You can also find a zip code by entering a city name and two-digit state abbreviation. Zip Code Book supports copy and paste to and from other Windows applications (like word processors, spreadsheet programs and databases). Contains a database of over 70,000 zip codes and city/place names.
When you purchase Zip Code Book, you receive a database of the latest quarterly update. For an extra $15 ($40 total), you will also receive the next three quarterly updates when available. Updates are currently issued in May, August, November and February. The database used by the Zip Code Book is highly compressed. Registered users will also receive a .DBF version of the database which can be used by any database program which can read (or import) standard .DBF files.
o Zip Code Book $25
o Zip Code Book plus the next three quarterly updates $40
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The ULTIMATE SOLITAIRE COLLECTION for WINDOWS
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A collection of nine of the most popular solitaire card games including Klondike, Canfield, Golf, Poker, Monte Carlo, Beleaguered Castle, Four Seasons, Pyramid and King's Audience Solitaire.
There are over 200 different solitaire variations. We have included many solitaire games that you may find more enjoyable than the klondike solitaire game which comes with Windows. The Ultimate Solitaire Collection features beautiful card designs that look like REAL cards.
