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Article 7604 (30 more) in alt.cd-rom:
From: aa699@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Tony Thomas)
Subject: SIMTEL20 CD-ROM Review (Dec '92) - Tony Thomas
Date: 2 Feb 1993 13:09:28 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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SIMTEL20 CD ROM Review (December 1992 Edition)
Reviewed by Tony Thomas
The SIMTEL20 disc from Walnut Creek CD-ROM continues to be my favorite
shareware/public domain disc due to the incredible selection of material
it contains from numerous sources. Unlike many CD-ROMs of this genre,
there are not tons of barely useable applications that appeal to a
narrowly-defined audience (another diet manager anyone?). There are
plenty of solid, well-written programs and utilities on this disc that
should appeal to almost any computer user. There are also applications
for specialized needs that you won't find anywhere else. Plus, it costs
less than half of many other popular discs!
The newest disc contains hundreds of megabytes of useful programs and
data. Among the highlights are the new version of Ghostscript (version
2.52)--a freeware Postscript interpreter/emulator that allows you to
print and display Postscript files on a variety of non-Postscript
devices. There are also a number of books and documents from The
Gutenburg Project and other sources including Moby Dick, Far from the
Maddening Crowd, Paradise Lost, Roget's Thesaurus, The Scarlet Letter,
The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, the 1990 and 1991 CIA World
Factbooks, and data from the 1990 census.
I do have a few gripes, however. There are 85 stray null files in the
MS-DOS directory that make me wonder if the mastering of this disc went
amok. The Windows and Games directories have disappeared to make room
for rest of the growing SIMTEL20 archive. I'm not a big games fan but I
did like having another source for Windows apps. A new games disc will
be available and the existing CICA Windows disc should compensate for
these deletions (Perhaps the Windows directory from SIMTEL can be moved
there). Also, the new VIEW.EXE program is OK but it is not nearly as
fast and elegant as the Shareware version of LIST for navigating the
disc.
These minor gripes aside, I still give SIMTEL20:
Five Stars *****
Walnut Creek CD-ROM
1547 Palos Verdes #260
Walnut Creek, CA 94596-2228
1-800-786-9907
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aa699@Cleveland.Freenet.EDU/GEnie=A.THOMAS16/Compuserve:71541,3456
TONY THOMAS - SIGop - Audio Arts SIG - Cleveland FreeNet
"True riches is not what you have - It's the kind of person you are"