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.IF DSK1.C3
.CE 5
*IMPACT/99*
^^^^^^by JACK SUGHRUE
^^^^^^Box 459
^^^^^^East Douglas, MA 01516
THE SOFTWARE BIGGIES
GENIAL COMPUTERWARE (Box 183,
Grafton, MA 01519) is emerging as a
TI software developer to challenge
long-time leader in this field,
ASGARD SOFTWARE (Box 10306,
Rockville, MD 20850). Both
companies' free catalogs make a
99er's mouth water.
Genial's 15 programs (by authors
Peter Hoddie, Paul Charlton, Warren
Agee, Mike Dodd, John Johnson, and
Wayne Stith) are primarily utility:
MACFLIX ($15) lets you view, print,
and save graphics created on the
Macintosh; PICTURE TRANSFER ($30)
permits viewing different graphic
files, creating slide shows,
combining multiple images, and
converting among formats (GIF, RLE,
MYART, GRAPHX, TI-ARTIST) for the
Geneve; TRIAD ($20) combines the
features of a termincal emulator,
40-column text editor, and disk
manager in one program; HYPERCOPY
($20) is called by Genial "the final
word in disk copiers" and can copy an
SSSD in less than 35 seconds, provide
a skewing technique for faster disk
reads, format, provide multiple
copying facilities, and more;
GRAPHICS EXPANDER ($10) not only
converts between TI-ARTIST and CSGD
formats but can stretch, shrink,
mirror, and rotate graphics all in
fast assembly; GRAMPACKER ($10)
customizes GRAM emulating devices in
significant and very useful ways;
XBASHER ($10) is faster and better
than Jack Sughrue's SMALLIFYING
program contained within his PLUS!
disk and can compress up to 1/3 of an
XB program; XB:BUG ($15) debugs,
modifies, searches, displays as it
provides a fine XB tool for the
programmer; REMIND ME! ($15)
functions as a fun and fast schedule
planner with all kinds of built-ins;
BROWSE ($10) aids in the management
of text files by permitting viewing,
printing, combining, and browsing;
PC TRANSFER's ($25) fast and
efficient way of moving data between
your TI (and/or Geneve) and an MS-DOS
machine make this an extremely
valuable tool for those 99ers who
work with IBM; GENIAL FONT PACKS ($10
each) provide a collection of 19
different fonts for use with
TI-ARTIST along with some additional
graphics programs; and FIRSTBASE
($49.95) a full-featured database
program expected to be the only real
competition to the powerful TI-BASE
($24.95 - Inscebot, P.O.^Box 291610,
Pt.^Orange, FL 32029), will have a
variety of exceptionally fine
database features for the TI or
Geneve.
Asgard's catalog of 57 software
packages contains a larger variety of
materials for the TI/Geneve user:
games, graphics, utilities,
production tools. In addition to
Hoddie, Agee, and Charlton, the
author/artists who create Asgard
software include Ken Gilliland, Donn
Granros, Harry Wilhelm, Tom Wynne,
Chris Bobbitt, Ed Johnson, Robert
Coffey, Tom Bentley, John Behnke, Jim
Reiss, Mickey Schmitt, Paul
Scheidemantle, Howard Uman, Tom
Wible, Travis Watford, and Charles
Earl.
Games: BALLOON WARS ($4,95) an
arcade strategy game with 20 screens
of dangerous manned balloon flying;
COLUMN ATTACK! ($9.95) an 11-level
fast arcade game demands perfect
laser control to defeat the insane
Flugelins; DOOM GAMES I && II ($7.95
each) include a pile of bizarre epics
for the TUNNELS OF DOOM addicts; THE
GAME PACK ($5.95) provides two
distinct arcade games on one disk
[Haunted Mine II and Missile Wars];
HIGH GRAVITY ($9.95) is an addictive
space simulation game that must be
played to be appreciated [and my
personal favorite]; VOLCANO FORTRESS
($7.95) is a collection of five
additional TOD great games; LEGENDS
($22.95) is considered by
MICROpendium, Computer Shopper and
many newsletters to be the best
grahics adventure game EVER for the
TI; LEGENDS II: THE SEQUEL ($17.95)
features so many new, exciting things
it is already considered by many to
be even better than its predecessor;
OLD DARK CAVES: THE LOWER CAVERNS
($17.95) by the same author not only
continues with the extraordinary
graphics of the LEGENDS series but
contains a 50-level dungeon; OLIVER'S
TWIST ($9.95) will satisfy the
cravings of Adventure Module owners
with this very unusual adventure.
Graphics programs from Asgard
that are $7.95 each include two sets
of ARTIST BORDERS, five of ARTIST
FONTS, and nine of ARTIST INSTANCES.
The variety of these TI-ARTIST
collections is incredible. There is
also ARTIST ENLARGER ($9.95) which
can enlarge, squeeze, stretch, or
reduce singly on in multiple passes
any pictures or fonts; FONTWRITER II
($22.95) provides a
companion/environmnent for TI-ARTIST
that will let you successfully use
graphics with any version of
TI-WRITER; GRAPHX COMPANION SERIES
($24.95) contains all four packages
of this popular series of hundreds of
pictures, clipart, borders, fills,
and more; DISK OF DINOSAURS ($12.95)
is a delightful and unique graphic
package of dinosaurs and animation;
GRAPHX SLIDESHOW ($9.95) allows
viewing of GRAPHX or RLE pix in
extraordinary ways; MY-ART COLORING
BOOK ($9.95) for the Geneve is a
companion to the MY-ART program.
Although Asgard has always been
famous for such productivity tools as
RECIPE WRITER (and the ELECTRONIC
GOURMET companions), SCHEDULE
MANAGER, STAMP MANAGER, and the
freewheeling C-database TOTAL FILER,
the company has released a new pile
of unique additions. TYPEWRITER
(Disk $19.95, Module $24.95, Module
with built in printer port $39.95) is
just what it says it is - a
full-featured electronic typewriter
that is incredibly easy to use;
CALENDAR MAKER 99 ($19.95) and
CALENDAR MAKER UTILITIES ($12.95)
will satisfy even the most jaded
calendar user with user-friendly
graphic/text picture-perfect
calendars from any month or any year
from 1600 to 2400; CASETTE LABELER
($9.95) simply and quickly prints
detailed cassette box inserts for
your computer or audio cassettes;
FORM MAKER 99 ($24.95) not only
creates very complicated business
forms but almost any kind of ANYTHING
that can be designed for home,
school, business, PTO, the kids, or
anything else; and PRESS ($59.95)
already described at the best word
processor for the TI is compared
favorably to the massive processors
for the IBM and others.
Asgard's Utilities include
BATCH-IT! ($19.95) which permits all
kinds of sophisticated programming
techniques with a minimal amount of
effort; EZ-KEYS PLUS ($14.95)
considered the ultimate XB
programmer's environment has just as
many uses for non-programmers; BEYOND
VIDEO CHESS ($9.95) lets you - AT
LAST! - save and load chess games to
disk, print screen or listing of
moves, control the pieces with a
joystick, use the board for two
players, and more; MUSIC SYNTHESIZER
($9.95) lets a novice create music by
dropping the notes onto a screen
page; PR-EDITOR ($19.95), a
multi-featured, superb text editor,
is an programmer's ultimate tool, no
matter what language you write in;
RAM*BOOT ($9.95) automatically boots
setups for Myarc's 128 and 512K
cards; TOD EDITOR ($19.95) is the
only utility for creating or changing
TOD games; QUICK-RUN (($9.95) may be
destined for the most-used XB utility
for the TI once people begin to use
it as it the fastest way to operate
XB programs in existence.
It is well worth every TI owner's
time and quarters to send off for
these tempting, descriptive catalogs
from Asgard and Genial.
[If you reprint these articles,
please place the author on your
newsletter mailing list. Thank you.
J.S.]
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