"Designed to get your polygons more dimensionally correct, the DirectX drivers are an essential part of many Windows 95 games. If you don't already have them, simply click below to install them, and you'll have pixels dancing around your screen in no time. Quite obviously for Windows 95 users only.,"
010
+cd\
+Call win95msg.bat
#\DirectX\dxfull.exe
"*FX Fighter Turbo,"
"Put on a bed sheet, tie a piece of cloth around your bonce, and prepare to kick someones head in. Yes, FX Fighter, that glorious 3d beat-'em-up, returns to our screens, reincarnated in a blaze of texture mapped glory. Needless to say this version takes full advantage of the DirectX drivers (Which you need to install first), so will only run under Windows 95.,"
010
+cd\
+call win95msg.bat
#\fxfight\setup.exe
"*Madden NFL 97,"
"Get padded up and get ready to flatten your opponents in this American Football game. But be warned, you might end up eating a lot of apple pie and shouting yehaa all the time. DOS.,"
010
+cd\madden
+call install.bat
#\madden\install.bat
"*MicroPede,"
"PC FORMAT goes retro with this re-working of the arcade classic cenitpede. Shoot the millipedes and other creepy crawlies before they get you. DOS.,"
100
+cd\microp
+mpede14.exe
#\microp\mpede14.exe
"*Extreme Slots,"
"And talking of retro how about a bit of virtual gambling with these slot machine games. If you don't have vbrun300.dll in your \windows\system directory, then you will need to copy it across from the root of the CD, to play the slot games. Windows.,"
100
+cd\slots
+win : extreme.exe
#\slots\extreme.exe
"*Paradise Slots,"
"More slot machine mania, this time with a tropical theme. If you don't have vbrun300.dll in your \windows\system directory, then you will need to copy it across from the root of the CD, to play the slot games.,"
100
+cd\slots
+win : paradise.exe
#\slots\paradise.exe
"*Sonic the Hedgehog,"
"The Sega Megadrive smash it, has at last made it across to the PC. The prickly purple animal can now be seen speeding across your screen, in a series of leaps bounds and spinning acrobatics, all in glorious 256 colour SVGA. This demo features four fully playable levels. legal Bit > Copyright Sega enterprises, LTD 1996. Windows 95.,"
010
+cd\
+call win95msg.bat
#\ssp.exe
"*TombRaider,"
"TombRaider is a fully 3D adventure game, with an innovative floating camera. Run the demo from the CD by clicking below, or if you want sound, go to the TombRaider directory on the CD and type install X:, where X is the drive you wish to install to, once installed run setup to configure your soundcard. DOS and Windows 95.,"
100
+cd\tombraid
+call tomb.exe
#\tombraid\tomb.exe
"*Toonstruck,"
"Toonstruck is a bit like a playable demo of the film 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit?' in that it mixes animation with live action, although the plot is different, and it's a game not a film... . It does have Christopher Lloyd in it, though, and he was in 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit?' DOS or Windows 95.,"
010
+cd\toonstru
+call install.exe
#\toonstru\install.exe
"END"
shareware:
"*Account Pro 95,"
"Account Pro 95 is a user-friendly accounts package for the home or business. Windows 95.,"
010
+cd\
+call win95msg.bat
#\sharew\accntpro\95\setup.exe
"*Account Pro,"
"The Windows 3.1 version of the above package, which conflicts with this menu, so you will have to install it yourself. Goto the asharew\accntpro\31 directory on the CD and double click on setup.exe.,"
010
+cd\sharew\accntpro\31
+win : setup.exe
#\sharew\accntpro\31\setup.exe
"*Awave,"
"Awave supports and converts a wide range of audio formats, including files, trackers and synthesisers. Awave displays the sounds in a tree, enabling users of wavetable cards to click on a file and directly audition it. Requires Win32s (on the disk) to run in Windows 3.1.,"
010
+cd\sharew\awave
+win : awave.exe
#\sharew\awave\awave.exe
"*Cache Explorer,"
"Cache Explorer works with Microsoft Internet Explorer (versions 2.0 and 3.0), to view Web pages offline. By using the familiar Explorer format, Web pages can easily be sorted, deleted and extracted from the cache. Windows 95."
100
+cd\
+call win95msg.bat
#\Sharew\cache\iecache\msice.exe
"*Cache Explorer,"
"As MSIE Cache Explorer, but for use with Netscape instead. Requires Netscape 2.0 or above and Windows 95.,"
100
+cd\
+call Win95msg.bat
#\sharew\cache\nscache\nsce.exe
"*CleanSweep,"
"Whenever you install any program on your PC, files get put in directories, where they often lurk unused when the application is removed. Now you can find the little buggers with CleanSweep. Windows 95.,"
010
+cd\
+call win95msg.bat
#\sharew\clsweep\setup.exe
"*Derekware,"
"An easy-to-use fully 32-bit HTML editor, with Internet Explorer 3.0 support and user customizable tags. Windows 95.,"
001
\sharew\dware\dwhtml30.zip \dware
"*ESig,"
"Esig is designed to change signature files in most E-mail software that uses an ASCII file for the signature. Esig will also choose a signature at random from a list you create. Once installed, goto the esig directory and run editor.exe to change your options. Windows."
001
\sharew\ezsig\es21.zip \esig
"*E-mail Ferret,"
"Never go out without your ferret, at least never go onto the Internet without you ferret. last month we brought you the stupendously useful Web Ferret, now we give you E-mail ferret. While we can't guarante that it will find the E-mail address you are looking, it works extremely well, searching several different data bases. Windows 95.,"
010
+cd\
+call win95msg.bat
#\sharew\ferret\email.exe
"*News Ferret,"
"And we pull another ferret out of the hat. This ferret is for searching all those newsgroups we keep hearing so much about, but if it turns up nude pictures of John Major we can't be held responsible. Windows 95.,"
010
+cd\
+call win95msg.bat
#\sharew\ferret\news.exe
"*FTP 2000,"
"FTP 2000 is a graphical, Explorer like downloading tool. Features drag-and-drop, and a 'keep-alive-pulse' to prevent timeouts. Windows 95.,"
010
+cd\
+call win95msg.bat
#\sharew\ftp2000\ftp2inst.exe
"*Gif.Gif.Gif,"
"Gif.gif.gif is utility for creating animated Gifs in windows. This is a 32 bit application, so requires Win32s to be installed in windows 3.1.,"
010
+cd\sharew\ggg
+win : setup.exe
#\sharew\ggg\setup.exe
"*Internet Phone,"
"Internet Phone enables you to have a two-way phone call across the Internet, from within a Web browser, for the price of a local call. Obviously, though, the person you want to speak to has to have a similar package installed. Windows.,"
010
+cd\sharew\iphone
+win : iphone21.exe
#\sharew\iphone\iphone21.exe
"*Wincode."
"A vast majority of files that are posted to the Internet are encoded as Mime information, and if you don't have a decoder you're a bit stuck. So along comes Wincode to solve all your encoding/decoding problems, dealing with the most common ASCII to Binary conversion formats. Windows.,"
010
+cd\sharew\wincode
+win : install.exe
#\sharew\wincode\install.exe
"END"
handson:
"*PaintShop Pro v4,"
"The very latest version of this stunning image manipulation package. PaintShop Pro is simply the best package of its type and even in this shareware version boasts more features tham you can swing a cat at. Windows 95.,"
010
+cd\
+call win95msg.bat
#\psp\setup.exe
"*Fractal Imager,"
"Squish large image files down to a fraction of their size with Fractal Imager. Particularly useful for files on the Web, or where storage space is at a premium, Fractal Imager compresses pretty much any graphics image to a file which is very small indeed. Try playing with the zoom option, we think you'll be amazed. Requires Win32s under Windows 3.1.,"
010
+cd\fractal
+win : setup.exe
#\fractal\setup.exe
"*Fractal Viewer,"
"Utility for viewing fractal compressed files. Windows.,"
010
+cd\fracview\install
+win : setup.exe
#\fracview\install\setup.exe
"END"
submit:
"*Not This Month (Again),"
"We're very sorry, but once again this month, we just don't have the space for your submissions. Readers Submissions will return next month. Possibly.,"
100
+cd\
+call nomsg.bat
#\nomsg.bat
"END"
notgames:
"*Entertainment On Line,"
"Get on line and download buckets of games with this excellent package. Included on the CD is an interactive demo to give you a tour of E-On. See the magazine for full instructions. Windows.,"
010
+cd\e-on
+call autorun.exe
#\e-on\autorun.exe
"*Jammer,"
"Jammer is a sequencer written by musicians for musicians, apparently. So get stuck in and turn your-self into the next 808 State, you couldn't do any worse than Colin Mitchell's efforts, that's for sure. Windows.,"
010
+cd\jammer
+win : setup.exe
#\jammer\setup.exe
"*Quicktime 32-Bit,"
"Some applications on the CD may require Quicktime to be installed. If so click below to set it up. Windows 95.,"
010
+cd\
+call win95msg.bat
#\Qtime95\qt32inst.exe
"*Quicktime 16-Bit,"
"Quicktime for Windows 3.1.,"
010
+cd\qtw203
+win : Qtinstal.exe
#\qtw203\qtinstal.exe
"*Solar System Explorer,"
"Boldly go where noone has gone before, without the risk of eating vacuum. Solar System Explore enables you to explore the, er, solar system funnily enough, all from the comfort of your home. So put on your pointy ears and get exploring. This one for Windows 95.,"
010
+cd\
call win95msg.bat
#\ssexplor\sse32_d.exe
"*Solar System Explorer,"
"If you don't use Windows 95 and have read all the rubbish I wrote above, you can click below and try the Windows 3.1 version.,"
010
+cd\ssexplor
+win : sse16_d.exe
#\ssexplor\sse16_d.exe
"*The Games Factory,"
"The Games Factory is a sort of Meccano set for creating your own games. It enables you to create arcade, platform, puzzle and adventure games with a few mouse clicks. The only downside being, you can't save your creations in this demo. Windows.,"
010
+cd\tgfdemo
+win : setup.exe
#\tgfdemo\setup.exe
"*Prosound,"
"This Sequencing package enables you to work with up to 256 tracks, provides real-time tempo and time signature control as well as multiple undo. In this demo version, although you can create a composition of any length, only the first 30 seconds will be played. Windows.,"
010
+cd\prosound
+win : setup.exe
#\prosound\setup.exe
"*Weird Demo,"
"Weird is a sort of interactive gallery of the strange and unexplained. In this demo you can investigate some of the features of the full package, including navigating a robot explorer around a rendered maze and investigating reincarnation. In this version for Windows 95, you need to install the DirectX drivers (in the games section) first, though.,"
010
+cd\
+call win95msg.bat
#\weirddem\weird95.exe
"*Weird Demo,"
"This version is for use in Windows 3.1 and doesn't require DirectX to be installed.,"
010
+cd\weirddem
+win : weird31.exe
#\weirddem\weird31.exe
"*Win32s,"
"Win32s is needed to tun some 32-bit applications under windows 3.1, so if you need it click below. Windows 3.1.,"
010
+cd\win32\disk1
+win : setup.exe
#\win32\disk1\setup.exe
"*Windows Draw,"
"This is the FULL version of Windows Draw 3.0 from Micrografx. Create illustrations and drawings, till you can draw no more. You know, we are just too kind to you. Windows.,"
