SWIVEL stands for "Simple World Interactive Viewing Enhanced Library and is an interactive program to allow viewing of "The World Digitized Copyright (C) John B. Alison. It will "let your fingers do the walking across the world on your computer. While SWIVEL is placed in the public domain and is freely distributable, the data for the The World Digitized is not Read Mr. Alison's documentation (READ.ME) for details on payment. I highly recommend that anyone that uses SWIVEL send Mr. Alison the $20 donation he requests -- this database represents an awful lot of work SWIVEL is, as its name says, simple. It represents only about level III in the suggested program by Mr. Alison. SWIVEL runs on IBM PC-compatible computers WITH AN EGA-COMPATIBLE GRAPHICS ADAPTER. SWIVEL must have an EGA to work; it will probably hang a computer with the standard CGA or Hercules type card
