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1ADAY11.ZIP 110985 11-22-93 OneADay 1.1 allows you to execute as many as
| 10 commands from your AUTOEXEC.BAT file only
| once a day or on specified days. (John
| Timothy Gray) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $17)
1ST_BOOT.ZIP 2392 11-11-93 1st Boot 1.0 determines if this is the first
| time you've booted your computer today. This
| lets your Autoexec file run certain programs
| only the first time you boot up. (Eric
| Johnson) (Reg.Fee: $0)
2BOOT.ZIP 18911 01-21-94 Boot 1.0 will tell you what drive was used to
| boot the computer. (John De Palma) (Reg.Fee:
| $0)
2NDSHIFT.ZIP 75929 03-05-94 2nd Shift provides unattended operation of a
| computer. It will execute either at a certain
| time or date. It can also be used to track
| down problems by examining the keys typed by
| a user. (Transversal Design) (Reg.Fee: $49)
2PENT.ZIP 59830 12-13-94 Pentium 2.1 helps you understand what the
| hoopla is all about in regard to the Pentium
| chip floating point error controversy and
| demonstrates that many computer chips make
| same or similar errors in varying degrees. A
| Pentium is not required to run this test.
| Executable and QBASIC modules are included.
| (John De Palma) (Reg.Fee: $0)
486DLC.ZIP 30223 03-10-94 Cyrix/TI 486-DLC Cache 1.1 will invoke
| Cyrix/TI chip's 1K internal cache from the
| boot record. This makes it compatible with
| DOS, OS/2, Windows NT, etc. Also included are
| instructions on how to upgrade a 386DX-40 to
| a 486-DLC-40. (Mark Thompson) (Reg.Fee: $0)
486T_RL.ZIP 45246 07-29-92 486Test 6.1 performs an intensive, diagnostic
| test on motherboards and system components of
| a 80486. All of the system's resources are
| tested including the Bios, CPU, NDP, cache,
| RAM, extended memory and display memory.
| (Richard Levey) (Reg.Fee: $30)
486TEST.ZIP 1559 01-20-92 486test tests the time it takes to write out
| 1000 dwords to main memory from cpu. Assembly
| source code is included. (Michael Abrash)
| (Reg.Fee: $0)
8042DI.ZIP 124414 09-08-94 8042 Diagnostics 1.0 is a set of 8042,
| keyboard, and PS/2 mouse diagnostics
| programs. (Newtech R&D Australia Pty.Ltd.)
| (Reg.Fee: $0)
ATCLKSET.ZIP 1005 08-10-94 ATclkset lets you set the CMOS clock from
| the DOS clock or vice-versa. (Tom Donnelly)
| (Reg.Fee: $0)
BADNM3.ZIP 31766 12-13-94 BadNum3.Wk2 is a Lotus-style spreadsheet
| template detailing the range of numbers that
| trigger the Pentium FDiv bug and cause loss
| of precision down to 5 decimal places.
| Requires a Pentium CPU. (Steve Whalen)
| (Reg.Fee: $0)
BELL.ZIP 434 08-10-94 Bell changes the sound of the beep your PC
| makes when it is displeased with your
| performance. Now it's more of a loving coo.
BELLS.ZIP 11889 10-20-89 Bells is a collection of beeps for use with
| batch files. (Jerry Whiting) (Reg.Fee: $0)
BELLSTD.ZIP 21426 04-14-90 BellsTD 1.5 replaces your computer's BEEP
| with a special sound effect or tune of up to
| nine notes. It is easy to change the beep or
| tune. TSR: 1k. (Tom Donnelly) (Reg.Fee: $0)
BIOSCKS.ZIP 4069 05-29-89 Bioscksm 1.2 is for hackers who need to
| change the BIOS checksum performed during
| POST in order to modify BIOS (eg: the hard
| disk parameter table) without having the
| machine lock up during bootup. Assembler
| source is included. (Charlie Stampf)
| (Reg.Fee: $0)
BM16.ZIP 151617 01-29-94 Battery Master 1.6 is a TSR that monitors
| battery use of a portable computer and
| provides a gauge to estimate remaining power.
| It displays information on the battery time
| remaining, percent battery remaining, time
| elapsed since recharge, and capacity at the
| current usage rate. Battery Master's features
| include five alarms to alert you as battery
| power diminishes, a display of your
| computer's past battery performance, and a
| total battery discharge feature. (James M
| Voelker) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $34)
BOOT_SCK.ZIP 24004 05-29-89 Boot-SCK 2.01 is a manager for CONFIG.SYS and
| AUTOEXEC.BAT files. BOOT allows up to 255
| different system configurations to be defined
| in a single text file which can be easily
| edited with your favorite text editor. Boot
| is a DESQview-aware program. (Stephen C.
| Kick) (Reg.Fee: $10)
BOOTPICK.ZIP 2573 05-29-89 BootPick allows selecting different DOS
| partitions on bootup, if you have a hard disk
| divided into more than one partition, such as
| DOS and UNIX. (Reg.Fee: $?)
BOOTS.ZIP 35008 04-13-94 Boots 2.01 allows you to select between 100
| different boot configurations either during
| boot time or afterwards. Features include an
| internal editor for editing configurations,
| password protected boot-up, warm or cold
| reboot, DOS command line and batch file
| support, the ability to run a disk cache
| program to flush disk buffers before
| rebooting and more. (Morton Utilities)
| (Reg.Fee: $23)
BOOTSYS.ZIP 223563 11-01-94 Boot.Sys 2.10 makes it easy to reconfigure
| your system's CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT. It
| makes it possible to display one or more
| menus at boot-up time and to have different
| parts of CONFIG.SYS and/or AUTOEXEC.BAT
| executed depending on which menu options are
| chosen. The program allows up to nine options
| per menu, a freely definable prompt area at
| the top of the screen, 25 consecutive menus,
| each defining a different aspect of your
| system configuration, and 25 levels of nested
| menus and submenus. There is only one version
| of CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT. There is a
| cold boot feature, a warm boot, or no boot,
| and an option to keep it from installing its
| tiny resident part to get a minimal plain-DOS
| setup. Individual CONFIG.SYS lines can be
| edited on the fly while booting up. There is
| also an option to come up on an external
| monitor on Compaq and some Toshiba laptops.
| BOOT.SYS uses only 160 bytes of resident DOS
| memory, and provides full support for DOS
| 6.0. and DR-DOS. NEW: password protection
| featu (Hans Salvisberg) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $44)
BOOTV1.ZIP 19278 07-13-94 Boot 1.00 is a multiple boot configuration
| manager. The program lets you easily manage
| multiple autoexec.bat and config.sys. It also
| includes provisions for OS2 DualBoot systems.
| (David Cinege) (Reg.Fee: $3)
BUILDBA.ZIP 11261 08-23-87 BuildBat makes it easy to copy the contents
| of a hard disk to a PS/2 computer from a
| regular PC. (Phil Curry) (Reg.Fee: $?)
BURN_IN.ZIP 108881 06-22-93 Burn-In 1.5 allows extensive testing of new
| computers. It is meant to run for at least 72
| hours and during that time cycles through
| repeated tests of your disk drives, CPU,
| monitor, display adapter and RAM memory.
| Features include automatic command-line
| operation, automatic disabling of tests on
| defective disks, a convenient summary file,
| along with error-only logging as the default.
| NOTE: Once you start this program, you can
| only break out of it at certain points and
| those points may be three or four hours in
| coming, so don't start the burn-in unless you
| do not need your computer for a while.
| (George Campbell) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $15)
BURNIT.ZIP 20322 02-04-92 BURNit 5.1 will thoroughly test a computer's
| internal components. It checks memory,
| drives, CPU, video cards, serial ports,
| speaker and more. It will also keep track of
| elapsed time. (Norman Leveille) (Reg.Fee: $25)
C_MENU.ZIP 7200 02-03-94 DOS 6.2 Config.SYS Menu's for Dummies 1.0 is
| a tutorial on how to build multiple
| configuration files using DOS 6+. (Richard H
| Brown) (Reg.Fee: $0)
CAM30.ZIP 190895 02-03-94 Config/Autoexec Manager Gold 3.0a is a menu
| system for creating and keeping track of
| various Config.sys and Autoexec.bat files.
| (Scott J. Miller) (Reg.Fee: $20)
CARDGS.ZIP 75485 01-05-95 Card Guide 1.5 is a database of helpful
| information about various types of I/O cards.
| There is information about IDE multi-I/O
| cards, FDC cards, serial I/O cards, cable and
| connector info, installation tips, and a
| glossary of terms. (Kevin Noble) (Reg.Fee:
| $0-20)
CCIS.ZIP 4256 09-13-93 CCIS 2.0 tests your CPU's speed. (Sebastien
| Demers) (Reg.Fee: $0)
CCLOCK.ZIP 2917 08-13-90 CClock 1.0 reads your system's CMOS clock and
| sets the DOS clock without having to reboot.
| Assembler source code is included. (Dave
| Angel) (Reg.Fee: $0)
CDB_10.ZIP 175949 05-13-94 CD Benchmark (demo) 1.0 is a benchmark
| analyzer for CD-ROM drives. (Computer System
| Design Group) (Reg.Fee: $?)
CFG241.ZIP 76709 01-13-95 CFG 2.41 is a system device driver that
| provides multiple utilities for use during
| CONFIG.SYS execution: beep the speaker, clear
| the screen to specified colors, swap serial
| ports, swap parallel ports, display text,
| pause, set EGA to 43 or VGA to 43 or 50
| lines, store text in inter-application
| communication area, conditional pause,
| produce a series of tones, delay execution
| for a specified period of time, and more.
| NEW: corrected display of Pentium processor
| stepping level, model and family. (Mark
| Treadwell) (Reg.Fee: $25)
CHENV.ZIP 6530 05-29-89 CHange ENVironment 1.0 allows for fast
| changing of the \CONFIG.SYS and \AUTOEXEC.BAT
| files for computer users who must maintain
| different configurations for different
| working purposes. (Pedro P. III Polakoff)
| (Reg.Fee: $0)
CHKM11.ZIP 8144 03-31-93 Check Mouse 1.1 checks the status of the
| mouse driver and mouse. It will tell you if a
| mouse driver is installed, driver version,
| mouse type, the IRQ used by the mouse, and
| the number of buttons. (Robert Hayes) (ASP)
| (Reg.Fee: $0)
CLARITY.ZIP 316284 08-17-94 SILIB 1.01 provides information on your
| hardware, DOS, config.sys, environment, and
| autoexec.bat. (Clarity Software) (Reg.Fee:
| $84)
CLK20.ZIP 7508 11-16-94 Clk 2.00 is a command timer. It displays the
| beginning and ending times, plus calculates
| the elapsed time down to the 100ths of a
| second. It can be used via a batch file, or
| you can load it, execute some command(s),
| then press [Ctrl]-[C] when you're finished.
| (Daryll Shatz) (Reg.Fee: $0)
CLKTIM42.ZIP 11607 03-04-94 CLKTimer 4.20 is a 5k TSR for performing
| tasks at designated times. It can display
| current time/date in the upper right hand
| corner of the screen, sound/display an alarm
| in the upper left hand corner of the screen,
| reboot the computer, and force keystrokes
| into the keystroke buffer to start or
| terminate a program. Keystroke tasks can be
| performed at a set time, each hour at a
| specified number of minutes after the hour,
| or after the computer has been idle for a
| specified number of seconds. (Roger Brook)
| (Reg.Fee: $10)
CLOCK_RS.ZIP 111629 11-30-94 Clock (RQS) 3.70 replaces the DOS internal
| clock, providing automatic DST conversion,
| control of your BIOS clock and battery clock,
| adjustment for clock drift and more. NEW:
| added date display option to continuous
| display.. (Ronald Q. Smith) (Reg.Fee: $10)
CLOCKWRK.ZIP 73384 08-24-94 ClockWork 5.22 maintains an accurate system
| clock without a modem and long distance calls
| which some other programs require. It handles
| both real-time clocks and add-ons. One second
| per week is achievable. (Pavel Otavsky)
| (Reg.Fee: $15)
CMOS_SAH.ZIP 10753 01-16-95 CMOS (SAH) 1.0 saves and restores your CMOS
| memory in the event of on-board battery
| failure, power surges, etc. (Scott Alan
| Hoopes) (Reg.Fee: $0)
CMOS14.ZIP 6202 11-11-93 CMOS 1.4 restores CMOS settings which have
| been wiped out by power surges, battery
| failure. The original CMOS configuration is
| saved in a file and restored when needed.
| (Roedy Green) (Reg.Fee: $0)
CMOSREA.ZIP 1025 05-17-87 Cmosget & Cmosput can save and restore your
| computer's CMOS settings. (Reg.Fee: $?)
CNFG4.ZIP 87509 01-16-95 Config 6.0 allows you to create a colorful
| menu of up to 25 different AUTOEXEC.BAT and
| CONFIG.SYS files and the associated path and
| files. NEW: saves backups of existing
| CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files before
| copying new files to root directory, improved
| file viewer.. (Howard Williams) (Reg.Fee: $0)
COM_DH.ZIP 19420 10-20-94 COMTest 1.0 reports on your COM port usage.
| (Don Hinds) (Reg.Fee: $0)
COMDOG.ZIP 33506 01-16-95 COMdog 1.0 displays the COM port number on
| which your modem is connected. It will also
| tests the modem connectivity by sending an
| ATZ string to the port and checking for a
| response. (Keith Parkansky) (Reg.Fee: $0)
COMMCHK.ZIP 49969 06-04-90 CommChk/CommSet 90-2 let you examine and
| change the settings of four serial ports. Use
| these utilities to save time when you are
| installing new serial devices. They detect
| changes made to transmission speed, data
| bits, stop bits and parity by programs
| designed to use a serial port. Janus Ada
| source code is included. (John W. Roberts)
| (Reg.Fee: $10)
COMMENT.ZIP 1841 05-19-85 Comment is a device driver which lets you
| display comments during loading of
| CONFIG.SYS. (Skip Gilbrech) (Reg.Fee: $?)
COMPRT.ZIP 30050 10-05-93 ComPort 2.5 allows users to manipulate and
| display COM and LPT Port Info. (Open Systems
| Resources, Inc.) (Reg.Fee: $15)
CONF_HW.ZIP 82305 03-18-94 Config 5.40 allows you to create a colorful
| menu of up to 25 different AUTOEXEC.BAT and
| CONFIG.SYS files and the associated path and
| files. NEW: a warning if configuration is
| changed but user doesn't reboot. (Howard
| Williams) (Reg.Fee: $0)
CONTROL.ZIP 40774 02-28-94 Control is a memory resident program that
| allows the keyboard to toggle the eight data
| lines on your printer port to control eight
| relays which in turn can control devices such
| as lights, heating, burglar alarms, lawn
| sprinkling systems, etc. Jan Schoonenberg of
| the Netherlands says "For the non-initiated
| user, this may have the flavor of a demo
| program. After you pay the shareware fee, you
| get full diagrams more more software. But the
| somewhat initiated can work with the program
| as is." (Peter E. King) (Reg.Fee: $25)
COUNTGR.ZIP 6275 02-13-92 Count counts the number of times your
| computer is booted and executes a specified
| program when the number of specified boots
| has been reached. This could be used for
| executing virus checkers, back-up procedures,
| etc., on a regular basis. (GRSoft) (Reg.Fee:
| $1)
CPU24.ZIP 58028 09-26-91 CPU 24-Hour Burn-In Test 1.22 is a burn-in
| test program. Most hardware failures show up
| right away. But if you do not use every
| single part of your system in every way
| possible, a weakness or failure may not show
| up until your warranty is over. A burn-in
| program can bring out such problems in a new
| system right away. (William Ip) (Reg.Fee: $10)
CPUGET.ZIP 15970 07-28-94 GetCPU 1.0 returns an ERRORLEVEL indicating
| which Intel CPU is installed in your
| computer, up to 80486. (Barry St.John)
| (Reg.Fee: $0)
CPUTEST.ZIP 14985 01-12-94 CPUTest measures memory moves,
| register-to-register operations and finally
| memory location to register operations. (Tony
| Doimeadios) (Reg.Fee: $0)
CRIT100.ZIP 5400 06-22-89 Crit 1.00 is an intelligent critical error
| handler. Gives more information and options
| on critical errors. (Keith P. Graham)
| (Reg.Fee: $0)
CRON.ZIP 65680 07-29-94 CronJR 2.55 is a batch computer job
| schedular. It is intended for LAN managers or
| others who need to set up different jobs to
| run at specific times at night to print, run
| long calculations, etc. While this is a very
| nice, efficient, integrated package for this
| particular job, it does not do anything that
| could not be done just about as easily with
| some free utilities already on our batch
| files disks, such as CALL-GP, for nesting
| batch files, even with earlier versions of
| DOS, CHECK (and others), for checking the
| date, time of day, day of week, etc. NEW:
| fixed 65-line entry limitation, support for
| network purging command to clean up temporary
| files, enhanced DesqView support. (Software
| Shorts) (Reg.Fee: $45-75)
CRONTAB.ZIP 52408 07-25-93 CronTab 2.21 runs programs based on the date.
| Execution can be periodic such as daily,
| weekly, monthly, or yearly with or without a
| specified offset such as the third day of the
| month. Execution can also be day-specific
| such as every Monday, Wednesday, Friday, or
| on the 15th of each month. (Thomas G. Harold)
| (Reg.Fee: $0)
CSM141.ZIP 434305 03-21-94 Computer System Manager 1.41 keeps a record
| of all aspects of your computer system's
| hardware and software. It will track data for
| your basic system, component specs, assets,
| etc. Requires a hard drive. (Gary Rader)
| (Reg.Fee: $30)
CSTART61.ZIP 34089 10-20-94 CStartUp 6.1 allows you to run specified
| programs as a daily event, on scheduled days,
| or more than once per day. The program
| creates a hidden file from a batch file
| containing your instructions. It will execute
| your commands as scheduled, regardless of how
| many times you boot your computer. (Tom
| Duensing) (Reg.Fee: $0)
CYCLEDTR.ZIP 17619 11-05-93 CycleDtr 1.0 helps you to determine which
| serial connecter (9 pin or 25 pin) is cabled
| to which internal port. It cycles the DTR pin
| high/low allowing you to test the port with a
| LED test light. For use with external modems,
| it will flash the "TR" LED indicator. (Robert
| Smith) (Reg.Fee: $5)
DAILY1.ZIP 21498 10-14-93 Daily 1.0 allows you to run selected programs
| on once per day on boot-up. (Don W. Thurston)
| (Reg.Fee: $0)
DATETEST.ZIP 4894 09-20-94 DateTest 1.0 can be run from the command line
| or added to your AUTOEXEC.BAT file to perform
| certain operations on specified days. For
| example, if the date is the 28th or greater,
| perform backup. (Mark Tutt) (Reg.Fee: $0)
DAYBAT.ZIP 15498 08-14-89 Daybat is a utility that will allow you to
| run a different batch file every day of the
| week from your AUTOEXEC.BAT file (or from
| DOS, if you wish). Pascal source is included.
| (Joseph Sheppard) (Reg.Fee: $5)
DDATE.ZIP 1084 03-02-85 Ddate is for people who do not have a
| battery powered clock in their PC. This makes
| it easy to set the time and date. (Hal
| Sampson) (Reg.Fee: $?)
DHRYSTON.ZIP 115711 03-05-94 Dhrystone III is a protected mode benchmark
| test for 80386 and 80486 based computer
| system. It reports the speed of your computer
| and displays the results from several other
| machines for comparison. (Richard Levey)
| (Reg.Fee: $25)
DIAGCODE.ZIP 3200 08-10-94 DiagCode is a list of diagnostic error codes
| and their meanings. (Reg.Fee: $?)
DIAGNOS.ZIP 10897 04-29-23 Diagnos is a pair of text files that tell
| how to interpret start-up beeps and error
| messages and how to locate a bad memory chip
| on old PCs. (Jerry Schneider) (Reg.Fee: $0)
DMBB.ZIP 81059 04-24-93 DMBB is an extensive system information
| utility. It can get over 250 pieces of
| information about your system, including the
| date, BIOS, DOS, CPU type, TSRs and more. It
| can set ERRORLEVEL to reflect its findings so
| that batch files can be made to act
| accordingly. (Daniel Montaron) (Reg.Fee: $0)
DO_ONCE.ZIP 30601 05-29-89 Do-Once 2.2 keeps a record of and allows the
| running of programs which you want to run
| only once per month or per day or on/after a
| specified day. It stores the information
| necessary to perform this function in a data
| file. Another similar type of program,
| ONBOOT, tries to use flags set in the
| computer's memory, but does not work on all
| machines. Do-Once should work on all
| machines. (Glenn Snow) (Reg.Fee: $0)
DOSMAX.ZIP 114993 06-10-93 DOSMAX 2.1 maximizes the use of low memory
| for DOS versions 3.1 through 6.0. DOS 5 and 6
| users can load DOS into upper memory rather
| than the HMA, freeing up HMA space for
| programs that use the HMA more efficiently,
| such as Windows and DesqView. It can also
| move Buffers, Files, FCBS and the drive list
| high. (Philip B. Gardner) (Reg.Fee: $15)
DRIVER.ZIP 140848 06-24-94 Drivers 1.0 allows you to have as many
| configurations as you want and lets you pick
| the configuration and then reboots your
| computer for you. (CIM Systems Inc.)
| (Reg.Fee: $0)
DSTIME.ZIP 15134 10-01-93 DSTime 1.0 automatically adjusts your
| system's time for Daylight Savings Time
| changes. (Nathan Alan King) (Reg.Fee: $8)
DVICEMA.ZIP 2290 09-07-87 DviceMap 2.10 shows the names, the order,
| addresses, attributes, strategies and
| interrupt locations of device drivers.
| (Stephen L. Jenkins) (Reg.Fee: $?)
EA.ZIP 15837 05-29-89 EA tells you what boot-up error number
| messages mean on older machines (newer
| machines simply tell you if the keyboard is
| not responding, etc.) (Timothy Trimble)
| (Reg.Fee: $?)
EASYDAT.ZIP 10857 02-11-90 EasyDate 4.5 is a quick and easy way to set
| the date and time for users who don't have
| hardware clocks. (Brian Evans) (Reg.Fee: $3)
EAT_MEM.ZIP 770 05-29-89 Eat-Mem helps you locate programs that fail
| because of memory location. This utility eats
| up about 32K of memory every time it is run.
| Keep running EAT-MEM and your program
| alternately until your program quits failing.
| (Ward Christensen) (Reg.Fee: $?)
ECHOB231.ZIP 7525 11-15-94 EchoBlok 2.31 enhances DOS 6's CONFIG.SYS
| menu system. NEW: improved bobtailing of
| long lines. (Richard N. Wisan) (Reg.Fee: $0)
EL.ZIP 6774 10-03-94 EL 1.0 is a 5K TSR that will warn you if
| another program sets the DOS errorlevel.
| (Scott Alan Hoopes) (Reg.Fee: $5)
EM87.ZIP 12976 02-11-90 EM87 1.2 emulates the 8087 math coprocessor
| on 80286 and 80386 based computers. May not
| work with QEMM. (Ron Kimball) (Reg.Fee: $0)
ENVFORM.ZIP 52140 10-21-94 EnvForm 1.0 allows you to perform full screen
| input of DOS environment variables. The
| fields can be set to the values of DOS
| environment variables prior to the calling of
| the program, allowing you to establish
| desired defaults. (Steve Lundeen) (Reg.Fee:
| $10)
ERRORS.ZIP 8077 10-04-89 Error Codes is a list of about 500 error
| codes for the PC. This can be a big help if
| your computer quits working and all it tells
| you is a number. (Reg.Fee: $0)
EVERY.ZIP 2106 11-16-94 Do Once EVERY .... 1.0 is used to control
| daily and/or weekly jobs that must be done
| once only. (Horst Schaeffer) (Reg.Fee: $0)
EXC.ZIP 73517 01-05-95 EXC 3.8 is a simple but powerful script
| processor for automating DOS applications.
| (Gary C. Crider) (Reg.Fee: $24)
EZBOOTER.ZIP 88835 04-05-94 EZBooter 2.0 allows you to create and display
| up to nine different AUTOEXEC.BAT and
| CONFIG.SYS files and select them from a
| graphical user interface. The program has a
| shareware reminder screen which displays for
| 30 seconds on start-up. (Dale C. Fritchen)
| (Reg.Fee: $5)
FHOOK.ZIP 3268 07-21-94 FindHook 1.0 will attempt to identify the
| software that has hooked Int 13h and causes
| the "unrecognized software loaded" message
| from WDCTRL and WDCDRV.386 and will identify
| drivers and TSRs in low and high DOS memory.
| It is useful when attempting to enable 32-bit
| disk access. (Reg.Fee: $0)
FIXBEEP.ZIP 1653 03-16-87 Fixbeep lets you change the frequency of the
| beep in DOS to a less piercing tone of your
| own choosing. (Mike Blaszczak) (Reg.Fee: $?)
FPONOF.ZIP 4527 12-28-94 FPOff/FPOn turns the Pentium's coprocessor
| on or off. ASM source included. It also
| display's the Pentiums family, model and step
| codes. (Alfred J. Heyman) (Reg.Fee: $0)
GASGAUG.ZIP 21302 03-24-91 GasGauge 5.7 loads into memory in your laptop
| computer and keeps track of how minutes of
| computer use remain before recharging is
| needed. (Charles Eglinton) (Reg.Fee: $15)
GEN_HS.ZIP 32722 08-23-91 Gen 1.5 generates test characters to a file
| or device. It generates files of any size
| from zero to twenty million bytes for
| building specific-sized files for printer,
| storage, or timing tests. (Herron Software)
| (Reg.Fee: $12)
GFRU.ZIP 41057 09-08-93 Generalized File Replication Utilities
| identifies changes made to data on one
| computer, copies the changes and applies them
| to the same files on a secondary computer
| system. (S. Gopalakrishnan) (Reg.Fee: $35)
GOHOME.ZIP 254059 10-21-94 GoHome 1.1 allows you to schedule programs to
| run at any time unattended. It is a complete
| scripting language with interactive script
| editor. NEW: adds a couple of new script
| enhancements. (John Schnurrenberger) (ASP)
| (Reg.Fee: $93)
HAVE.ZIP 32403 03-08-94 Have 1.33 will display a quick list of system
| information, such as DOS version, drives,
| active drivers, screen information, graphics
| card, ports, and more. (Mark Knutson)
| (Reg.Fee: $0)
HIMEM_UT.ZIP 99625 03-05-94 High Memory Utilities contains several
| utilities, primarily for use in working with
| high memory. HILoad lets you use what should
| be unused areas of memory. EDisk is a RAM
| disk which uses the 128K in the D and E
| blocks which will retain its contents after a
| warm-boot. MapMep shows what is in memory.
| VideoTSR shows what TSRs have been loaded
| into Video memory area. Several other
| utilities are included. (Larry Shannon)
| (Reg.Fee: $0)
HITAKEY.ZIP 2598 04-24-90 HitAKey is a dummy device driver which stops
| and lets you look at the screen, then hit a
| key to continue booting. It has no other
| effect on your system. Although the author
| has a rather ominous warning about its use on
| systems other than his, we tested it on
| different types of machines with no problems.
| (Raymond P. Tackett) (Reg.Fee: $0)
HIVIDEO.ZIP 15462 07-09-93 HiVIDEO 2.03 expands DOS memory in text video
| modes by 96K by using graphics memory of the
| VGA/EGA display adapter. Cannot be used if
| you are going to run graphics. Requires DOS
| 3.0+, EGA/VGA and 640K memory. (Chris Sitte)
| (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $15)
HMA.ZIP 5950 12-09-93 HMA 1.0 reports on the amount of HMA space
| left over when DOS is loaded with DOS=HIGH.
| This space can be used by TSR's and device
| drivers. C source code included. (Tony
| Ingenoso) (Reg.Fee: $0)
HOLDIT.ZIP 5811 02-12-93 HoldIt! lets you insert pauses in
| CONFIG.SYS. It displays the name of the next
| device driver to be loaded. This lets you
| determine which driver is at fault if your
| system is locking up on start-up. (William
| Cravener) (Reg.Fee: $0)
HOTOP.ZIP 149827 02-24-94 Hot Operator! 1.04e runs production job
| schedules at the touch of a key, or at
| specific times or days of the week. (Joey
| Robichaux) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $53)
IFDAY.ZIP 5795 11-02-93 IFDay 1.0 allows the user to run certain
| commands on pre-specified days. (Bryan
| Valencia) (Reg.Fee: $0)
INTERVAL.ZIP 59829 08-23-94 Interval 1.97 runs a DOS command or program
| once during a user defined period of time. It
| maintains logs on activity and can set
| errorlevel to indicate completion status.
| (Samual Kaplin) (Reg.Fee: $10)
IOVIEW.ZIP 7158 06-25-90 IOView lets you view memory mapped I/O ports
| in action. (Thomas Bradford) (Reg.Fee: $0)
IP132.ZIP 21090 01-20-95 IP 1.32 identifies serial port base
| addresses, IRQ assignments, register status
| and a variety of other serial port info. (AM
| Research Co.) (Reg.Fee: $0)
LETTERJB.ZIP 10935 10-26-94 Letters 1.5 will tell you which drive letters
| are assigned by DOS. (Jeff Bankston)
| (Reg.Fee: $10)
LOADIT.ZIP 23309 01-12-95 LoadIt! is a front end menu for AutoCAD. It
| includes utilities to make it easy to perform
| the following functions: create new drawings,
| create new drawings by prototype, edit
| existing drawings, pick drawings from a ZIP
| file, insert Blocks, erase drawings, erase
| BAK files, DXFin multiple drawings, DXFout
| multiple drawings (ASCII & Binary), printer
| plot drawings, plot drawings, and view
| drawings. Create, Edit, Erase, Execute, List,
| Load, View (etc...) Lisp files, Script files,
| Font-Shape files, Menu files, Slides, and
| standard dos files. LoadIt! is all menu
| driven. It also has Mouse support and on-line
| help. The author can no longer be reached at
| the address listed in the documentation.
| (Stephen V. Genusa) (Reg.Fee: $43)
LOGV20.ZIP 46042 12-15-93 $20 Logic Analyzer 1.0 provides the testing
| software and instruction on how to build a
| probe assembly for testing the printer ports
| of your computer. (Robert G. Brown) (Reg.Fee:
| $10)
LOOKMEM.ZIP 1075 08-10-94 LookMem scrolls through memory and displays
| it on screen. (Reg.Fee: $?)
LPTREAD.ZIP 21005 01-14-92 LPTRead lets you use the LPT port for data
| acquisition. It is a TSR which reads the port
| and executes predefined keystrokes. LPTRead
| could be use in laboratories, for alarm
| systems, for automation, etc. (Rob Cosgrove)
| (Reg.Fee: $20)
LPTWRIT.ZIP 13976 08-26-91 LPTWrite lets you control external devices
| through the printer port. (Rob Cosgrove)
| (Reg.Fee: $20)
MATHUNIT.ZIP 845 08-10-94 MathUnit lets you turn your math coprocessor
| on and off. It also tests for the presence of
| a math coprocessor and tells you if it is
| enabled or disabled. (Tom Dallacqua)
| (Reg.Fee: $0)
MAXDOS.ZIP 4625 06-22-89 MaxDOS extends the DOS memory map above the
| video buffers. (Keith P. Graham) (Reg.Fee: $0)
MBOOTUP.ZIP 60684 01-16-95 Magic BootUp runs programs during boot-up
| that you're supposed to run every day. Things
| like CHKDSK, memory testers, virus scans,
| backups, defrags, and others. (It's Magic! PC
| Potions) (Reg.Fee: $10)
MDMWZ304.ZIP 36056 01-17-95 FaxModem Wizard 3.04 will tell you what, if
| anything, is on each of your four COM-Ports
| and which IRQ is connected to each. It will
| give you a written report about your modem.
| This is a handy way to fine tune your modem
| and resolve COM-IRQ problems. (Jon Krahmer)
| (Reg.Fee: $0)
MEGAFLP.ZIP 20660 08-12-91 MegaFlop 1.0 measures the cpu speed of
| 80286/386/486 MS-DOS computers. An Intel
| compatible math coprocessor is optional. A
| comparative cpu speed chart is provided. We
| found this to be a good way to compare system
| speed on multiple machines. (Barrie Walker)
| (Reg.Fee: $0)
MEM_DW.ZIP 7522 02-23-90 Mem 2.0 displays the size of memory, DOS
| environment space, extended and expanded
| memory. (Dave Williams) (Reg.Fee: $0)
MEM_MGT.ZIP 137027 03-06-94 Memory Management Kit 2.02 provides memory
| management features DOS left out. You can
| load TSRs and device drivers into high DOS
| memory on 8088s and 286s (not just 386/486s)
| and convert extended memory to expanded
| memory on a 286. It will allow you to create
| 64K+ more high DOS memory on a 386/486 and up
| to 32 megabytes of expanded memory from disk
| space and create up to 736K of low DOS memory
| and more. 40 different chipsets are
| supported. (Biologic Corp.) (Reg.Fee: $50)
MEMHELP.ZIP 2127 12-02-94 Memory Tips 1.0 is a set of helpful tips for
| freeing up conventional and upper memory.
| (Dean E. Percival) (Reg.Fee: $0)
MEMWALK.ZIP 14977 08-10-94 Memwalk lets you walk through areas of
| memory, displaying the contents on the
| screen. (Reg.Fee: $?)
MHUTIL.ZIP 178261 03-17-94 Micro House Utilities 1.0 is a set of
| utilities for hard drives and networks. It
| includes a utility to identify the
| manufacturer number of your network cards, a
| utility to display hard drive information,
| such as manufacturer, model and serial
| numbers, capacity, and number of heads,
| cylinders, and sectors, a utility to copy
| system boot files, and utilities to save
| vital system information and restore it from
| the backup file. (Micro House International)
| (Reg.Fee: $0)
MHZ.ZIP 2201 09-08-94 MHZ 1.0 displays your system clock speed and
| optionally writes the information to a text
| file. (Shawn Anderson) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $5)
MINLOAD.ZIP 3325 06-16-94 MinLoad 1.00 estimates the minimum amount of
| free memory required to load programs. This
| may be useful in fitting programs into small
| chunks of memory made available above video
| RAM. (Christopher J. Dunford) (Reg.Fee: $0)
MM43_AP.ZIP 11389 08-24-94 Memory Map (AP) 4.3s displays a listing of
| programs resident in lower and upper memory,
| including sub-segment blocks. (Andrew Powell)
| (Reg.Fee: $20)
MOREDOS.ZIP 1773 06-22-89 MoreDOS checks for DOS above 640k and
| adjusts the DOS memory map without rebooting.
| (Keith P. Graham) (Reg.Fee: $0)
MTBOOT.ZIP 25557 12-03-94 Multi Boot 1.0 allows you to create up to
| four different boot configurations. (Richard
| Ratayczak) (Reg.Fee: $15)
MWATCHTI.ZIP 7706 12-14-93 MemWatch 0.1 is a 1k TSR which reports on how
| your system memory is being used, including
| the use of EMS, XMS, Int 15, DPMI, and VCPI.
| It will reset after each invocation. Assembly
| source code is included. (Tony Ingenoso)
| (Reg.Fee: $0)
NBSCOM.ZIP 40799 04-04-89 Nbscom 1.4 will allow you to accurately set
| the DOS date/time in your PC using the
| National Bureau of Standards Telephone Time
| Service. You simply run NBSCOM, and it dials
| up the NBS, reads the time, sets your DOS
| clock, and tells you how far your DOS clock
| needs to be advanced or set back. C source is
| included. (Franklin Antonio) (Reg.Fee: $0)
NICAD.ZIP 57317 09-05-91 NiCad 1.0 is a 16k TSR which monitors laptop
| battery use and displays a bar graph of the
| battery charge. Features include deep
| discharge of batteries, up to seven
| low-battery alarms, optional on-screen clock
| and charge indicator, and battery charge
| history. (KJL Software) (Reg.Fee: $29)
OFCNHOME.ZIP 58714 01-19-94 Office'n'Home 1.0 makes it easier to
| synchronize information between two or more
| computers, such as a computer at work and one
| at home. (Michael Meron) (Reg.Fee: $10)
ONBOOT.ZIP 6885 10-09-89 OnBoot 1.10 allows you to have your
| AUTOEXEC.BAT file run selected programs only
| during a warm boot (Ctl-Alt-Del), a cold boot
| (power on), or the first boot of the day.
| (Christopher J. Dunford) (Reg.Fee: $0)
ONCE_DW.ZIP 14153 01-16-95 Once 1.0 allows you to perform
| timed-execution of applications from within
| the AUTOEXEC.BAT file. Programs can be run by
| day of week, every other day, every specified
| number of day, once per month, per week, etc.
| (David Weber) (Reg.Fee: $0)
ONCEDAY.ZIP 19993 08-18-89 OnceADay 1.2 is a small batch file utility
| that will allow you to run a file or a group
| of files only once a day. This is primarily
| for use in AUTOEXEC.BAT files. It allows you
| to reboot your machine during the day without
| having to execute programs which you only
| need to run on the first start-up of the day.
| (Unique Software) (Reg.Fee: $15)
OPLID.ZIP 31345 07-19-94 OplId 1.0 will identify the type of OPL chip
| in your system, if any. (Francois D. Menard)
| (Reg.Fee: $0)
P5BUG.ZIP 24480 12-13-94 Pentium Floating Point Division Test 1.0 is a
| test to determine if your Pentium processor
| contains the floating point division bug
| reported to have been included in some chips.
| The test can also be used on other processors
| to determine if they have similar floating
| point division flaws. (Kevin Paul Heider)
| (Reg.Fee: $0)
PARA145.ZIP 86029 11-01-94 Parallel.Exe 1.45 displays the configuration
| of the parallel ports (LPT ports) in your
| system. NEW: mode reporting for ECP ports
| (Jay Lowe) (Reg.Fee: $0)
PBDOS100.ZIP 170021 01-13-95 Power Balance For DOS 1.00a will synchronize
| your data on two PCs. If you keep the same
| files on two PCs, such as a Laptop and
| Desktop, and you update one, you will need to
| change the other. This program does this for
| you, saving time and making sure both PCs are
| up to date. (Neil Gorin) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $15)
PCBENCH.ZIP 41556 07-15-91 PCBench is a PC benchmarking program with 34
| tests. It checks the speed of the cpu, math
| coprocessor, RAM, ROM, video RAM, expanded
| RAM, hard drive, video BIOS, DOS output and
| ANSI driver. The results can be stored into a
| database for retrieving later for comparative
| analysis of machines. (Aki Korhonen)
| (Reg.Fee: $15)
PCM140.ZIP 35273 12-09-94 Post Code Master 1.40 is a menu driven
| database of Power On Self Test (POST) Codes
| generated by most major BIOS's. (These are
| the beeps and codes you get on boot-up if
| there is a problem with your system.) The
| two-digit code is displayed with an
| explanation of the code. Also included are
| Beep codes and their meanings. (MicroSystems
| Development, Inc.) (Reg.Fee: $62)
PCSTATS.ZIP 48098 06-13-92 PCStats 3.1 displays your system
| configuration info, including CPU type, DOS
| version, keyboard, system memory, BIOS dates,
| disk drives, video, default drive space,
| floppy types, number of parallel ports and
| serial ports, mouse driver, and much more.
| (Richard M. Rutkowski) (Reg.Fee: $0)
PCTIME.ZIP 93440 11-29-93 PC Time Standard 2.01 sets your system clock
| by calling the NIST. (Mark Bowler) (Reg.Fee:
| $25)
PDB001.ZIP 39650 05-24-94 Portable Disk Benchmark 0.01 tests disk and
| cache performance across different platforms.
| The test is divided into two parts,
| sequential write to create the file random
| read/random write with the same data, and
| sequential read of the entire file random
| read/random write of changed data. Modules
| for DOS, OS/2 16-bit, and OS/2 32-bit, and
| the C source code, are included. (Albert J.
| Shan) (Reg.Fee: $0)
PE_PROC.ZIP 112753 03-05-94 Painless Event Processor allows unattended
| operation of your computer. Key strokes can
| be captured by an accompanying pop-up utility
| and played back at a preset time to execute
| commands or programs. You can specify a delay
| from 1 second to 255 minutes, perform a
| reboot of your system, execute up to eight
| events at once, and much more. Only 10K of
| memory is required once the program is
| invoked. Mouse support is included. (Kendall
| Pierce) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $45)
PENT_BUG.ZIP 48158 12-05-94 Pentium Bug Utility 1.0 detects whether your
| Pentium CPU has the FDIV bug. (Reg.Fee: $0)
PHOENIX.ZIP 844 08-10-94 Phoenix is a bulletin board program that was
| previously known as Collie and Colossus. DSZ,
| Zmodem, Ymodem, Ymodem-G are now supported. A
| programmable menu system is included. (The
| GeneSys Project, Inc.) (Reg.Fee: $60)
PINMAP.ZIP 1228 03-13-90 PinMap is a VGA 15-pin connection map for
| 9-pin monitors. Specific information for Sony
| and NEC monitors are given, but should cover
| most 9 pin monitor connectors. (Raymond P.
| Tackett) (Reg.Fee: $0)
PORTEST.ZIP 43040 02-11-91 Port Test is a complete I/O port testing and
| control program. It will identify ports and
| their technical information, modify system
| tables, test the ports to identify and
| correct problems. It will let you add
| additional ports and swap ports. It will also
| display wiring information for serial ports.
| (Microsystems Development) (Reg.Fee: $59)
PORTFND.ZIP 37478 06-22-92 Port Finder 2.71 will let you activate COM3
| and COM4; it will also let you swap COM
| ports, as well as parallel ports. (mcTRONic
| Systems) (Reg.Fee: $14)
PRF4PC.ZIP 25949 09-07-94 Preferences 4 Pack 1.0 allows you to modify
| your Geoworks Ensemble 2.0+ environment. You
| can modify color of background, frame, and
| shadow, DOS program associations, command
| line arguments for DOS programs, and the
| association of icons to filenames. (Amtal)
| (Reg.Fee: $5)
PROMPTR.ZIP 37123 06-22-89 Promptr 1.3 controls the loading of programs
| in AUTOEXEC.BAT. It will prompt you for each
| specified program (including TSR's) so that
| you can decide on boot-up which programs to
| run. (RJ Software Ltd.) (Reg.Fee: $10-$15)
PTM229.ZIP 254277 11-22-94 DOS Phantom 2.9o is a task automation
| utility. It records and plays back key stroke
| series of any length, and can be edited after
| recording. Recordings can be played back at
| high speed or with delays. Playback can be
| scheduled for a specified time or invoked
| with a hot key. Recordings can be edited to
| include pop-up text windows, pop-up menus,
| pauses for user input, and branching based on
| menu selection, program exit status, and
| appearance of a text string on the screen.
| DOS Phantom may be used as a software testing
| tool with screen and print capture, for
| creating self-executing demos, or for
| automating complex data processing tasks for
| novice users. (Anton R. Fleig) (ASP)
| (Reg.Fee: $40)
Q387_363.ZIP 120965 05-12-94 Q387 3.63 is a math accelerator and math
| coprocessor emulator. It will increase
| computer performance with most math intensive
| applications and allow you to run programs
| which require a math coprocessor without any
| additional hardware. (QuickWare) (Reg.Fee:
| $25)
Q87_371.ZIP 114035 12-28-94 Q87 3.71 is a math processor emulator. It can
| speed up math-intensive applications and
| allow you to run programs which require a
| math chip without the need for additional
| hardware. (QuickWare) (Reg.Fee: $30)
QICTEST.ZIP 32448 06-03-94 QIC Driver Test 1.01 is a QIC drive
| controller card test. It locates, initializes
| and tests operation of the following cards:
| Archive, Colorado, Conner, Iomega, Maynard,
| Mountain and Summit. (Novatech Design)
| (Reg.Fee: $0)
RAMTEST.ZIP 53935 03-02-94 RamTest is used for identifying an existing
| fault but could be used as part of a periodic
| maintenance program. This program has been
| developed as an exhaustive test of the memory
| in a PC, XT, AT or any of their clones. It is
| much more comprehensive than self-test on
| boot-up. In addition to system or base
| memory, RamTest will also test Expanded
| Memory on all machines and Extended Memory on
| AT type machines. (Brown Bag Software)
| (Reg.Fee: $55)
RDBLOK.ZIP 36673 05-05-91 Roadblok! is an interactive device driver
| trace/analyze utility with tutorial. It
| enables you to get a close look at your
| system's device drivers, helping you to
| better understand their function and their
| place in the DOS memory space. (EbSoft)
| (Reg.Fee: $5)
REBOOT.ZIP 133 08-10-94 Reboot documents the organization and
| software which permits a user to reboot a PC
| using a different CONFIG.SYS file and,
| optionally, a different AUTOEXEC.BAT file.
| (Jon R. Millen) (Reg.Fee: $?)
REBOOT1.ZIP 44137 04-07-89 Reboot1 2.2 allows you to change your
| CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files on the fly.
| (Codeworks) (Reg.Fee: $0)
RECON_GM.ZIP 12523 05-29-89 Reconfig is designed to let you easily
| change your system configuration. This is
| done by having predefined different sets of
| CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files with
| different filename extensions distinguishing
| them. RECONFIG lets you select the set that
| you want to invoke, copies them from the
| files with the distinguishing filename
| extensions to CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT
| filenames and reboots the machine to actually
| invoke them. (Glen F. Marshall) (Reg.Fee: $?)
RECONFIG.ZIP 107575 03-02-94 Reconfig lets you maintain up to 100 sets of
| different AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files
| so that you can quickly and easily change
| your system configuration. It includes a
| built-in editor and drop-down menus. Requires
| a hard disk. (Optimal Solutions of NH)
| (Reg.Fee: $35)
RESET1.ZIP 2902 05-29-89 Reset 1.2 allows you to maintain several
| different environments on your PC via several
| AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files. (Bruce
| Travers) (Reg.Fee: $0)
REVEAL.ZIP 40526 05-06-91 Reveal 2.0 displays a list of memory control
| blocks in use with information about each
| displayed in a window as you scroll through
| the list. You can select an area to view a
| greater level of detail. This is both a
| useful and educational utility for the
| technically inclined. (EbSoft) (Reg.Fee: $?)
ROMBEEP.ZIP 3957 08-10-94 RomBeep is a description of what various
| system beeps and error messages mean on
| boot-up. (Reg.Fee: $?)
RTCLOCK.ZIP 2178 03-12-89 Rtclock 1.30 will read the real time clock
| and set the DOS clock from it, or read the
| DOS clock and set the real time clock from
| it, or it will allow the user to set BOTH the
| real time clock and the DOS clock from the
| keyboard. It is intended for use on an AT
| class 80286 or 80386 machine. If you own the
| Heathkit "World's Most Accurate Clock" with a
| serial interface, RTCLOCK will allow you to
| set both your real time clock and your DOS
| clock from WWV, the short-wave time data
| service provided by the U.S. government.
| (Michael Conley) (Reg.Fee: $0)
RTIME15.ZIP 26386 11-10-94 RiteTime 1.5 will set your system clock by
| calling via modem for the exact time of day
| and date. It can operate manually or
| unattended. Requires a Hayes compatible
| modem. (Al Sharpe) (Reg.Fee: $0)
RUNANY.ZIP 24289 01-15-92 Run Anytime! 2.0 monitors up to 15
| combinations of days, dates, and times in the
| background (15k) each time it is run to play
| back keystrokes whenever you wish just as if
| you typed them yourself. You could use it to
| automatically download files in the middle of
| the night when rates are low or to load and
| recalculate large spreadsheets and have
| database reports generated automatically at
| night, on weekends, or anytime. Run Anytime!
| can be run multiple times from different
| directories to monitor a larger combination
| of times, days, and dates. (Crawford
| Software, Inc.) (Reg.Fee: $25)
S3BENCH.ZIP 28699 09-16-93 S3 Floating Point BenchMark 1.0 will
| benchmark systems based on their ability to
| process complex floating point math. (George
| Spafford) (Reg.Fee: $10)
SCHEDTSK.ZIP 85915 12-30-93 Task Scheduler - SIS 2.5 allows you to
| schedule DOS programs to run at a specified
| time, daily, weekly, or at other intervals.
| (Don Branson) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $36)
SCSITXT.ZIP 36330 10-21-94 What is SCSI 0.95 is an in-depth tutorial on
| the SCSI parallel bus system. NEW: new and
| updated information. (Gerhard Islinger)
| (Reg.Fee: $0)
SHOEMM.ZIP 8600 05-29-89 Shoemm is a utility designed to display the
| status and allocation of the
| Lotus/Intel/Microsoft Expanded Memory
| Specification. (Jan Smoller) (Reg.Fee: $?)
SHOW_ME.ZIP 24225 05-28-90 Show-Me 2.85 shows how your PC is set up:
| memory (conventional, extended, and
| expanded), video (cards and monitor), mouse,
| and disks. For each disk, it reports whether
| it's local or LAN connected, its size and
| free space. C and MASM source code included.
| Not very fancy, but provides good info and it
| is fast. Output scrolls off the screen, so
| you will need either to use a scroll-back
| utility or redirect output to a printer or
| file. Doesn't recognize a 486, but C source
| is included. (Crown Software Corporation)
| (Reg.Fee: $0)
SHOWSET.ZIP 14745 12-02-91 ShowSet 1.74 reports the integrated chip sets
| used in a system. (Micro Firmware Inc.)
| (Reg.Fee: $0)
SIBC11.ZIP 48615 06-01-94 SysInfo 1.1 provides over 80 C functions for
| accessing system information. Features
| include 486 and Pentium math co-processor
| detection, XGA video detection, a functions
| to return the system bus type, CPU speed, CPU
| mode, COM port address, LPT port address, and
| type of UART installed. (Paul Lapsansky)
| (Reg.Fee: $39)
SIEVE.ZIP 7065 11-03-93 Sieve 1.0 tests the actual processor speed of
| your computer as compared to the IBM PC/XT.
| (Marc Perkel) (Reg.Fee: $0)
SILENCE.ZIP 2371 08-10-94 Silence disables the speaker.
SILENCR.ZIP 36829 09-08-89 Silencr 2.1 silences programs that insist on
| making a lot of loud, unwanted sounds. Unlike
| some utilities that work on a hardware level
| to silence the speaker, Silencer lets you
| silence one particular program without
| disabling the speaker for other programs. It
| actually creates a new program file (leaving
| the original unchanged) in which any calls to
| the speaker (OUT 61,AL) are NOP'ed out. Basic
| source code is included. (NOTE: This has no
| effect on programs which use sound cards to
| generate sounds, just the PC speaker.) (David
| L. Fallen) (Reg.Fee: $0)
SIMIIE.ZIP 116042 05-20-94 SimSystem IIe 1.0 makes a PC compatible
| computer system look, sound, and act just
| like an Apple IIe computer. It supports all
| standard Apple graphics modes, so your
| favorite Apple games will work perfectly.
| Even the sound is reproduced exactly.
| (American Research Inc.) (Reg.Fee: $56)
SIR.ZIP 43561 03-30-94 Sir! is a very sharp looking and easy to use
| "Rolodex-type" name, address and phone number
| keeper. You can see the names on about the
| next 10 cards; you can scroll through the
| cards with the cursor keys; and you can dial
| numbers through a modem and print lists or
| envelopes. (Dennis P. Todd) (Reg.Fee: $5)
SK470S.ZIP 321427 11-03-94 HyperDisk SpeedKit 4.70 is a set of system
| speed-up utilities: a disk cache program, a
| video speed-up utility, and a keyboard
| enhancer that enlarges the type-ahead buffer
| and lets you set the typeamatic rate. NEW:
| support for new IDE booster product, update
| for defaults when flushing disk cache,
| addition of HyperRAM product, deletion of
| support for EMS/conventional memory modules,
| optimized code for 386/486/Pentium
| processors, and addition of Windows control
| panel. (HyperWare) (Reg.Fee: $10-50)
SLOD_BN.ZIP 8411 01-16-95 SlowDos (BN) 1.0 will slow your computer
| clock speed so that you can run older
| programs on faster machines. (Brent Noorda)
| (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $0)
SLOW.ZIP 291 07-22-85 Slow will slow down a fast CPU so that
| programs like games can be run at the
| intended speed. SLOW-NO reverses the affect.
| (Reg.Fee: $?)
SLOWDOS.ZIP 10472 05-18-94 SlowDos slows down the computer's cpu for
| running older programs. Includes source code.
| (Bill Seiler) (Reg.Fee: $0)
SLOWDWN.ZIP 10076 09-04-89 SlowDwn slows down fast cpu's so that you
| can run programs written for slower machines.
| The author wrote this to aid C programmers in
| testing their programs, but it can be used by
| anyone needing to slow down their machine.
| You can specify the amount of slowdown on the
| DOS command line. TSR: 78k. (John Ruzicka)
| (Reg.Fee: $0)
SLOWMO.ZIP 37664 04-28-94 SlowMo 2.0 gives you slow motion in another
| program at the touch of a button. (Andrew
| King) (Reg.Fee: $8)
SLOWPC.ZIP 13015 02-25-91 SlowPC 1.0 slows down a fast PC, primarily
| for playing older games. (Dr. Masaaki Sawada)
| (Reg.Fee: $0)
SLOWTO11.ZIP 6266 06-17-94 SlowTo 1.1 is a TSR that provides a
| convenient way to slow down your computer.
| This is primarily useful for playing older
| computer games on newer machines. (Kevin
| Solway) (Reg.Fee: $10)
SLWDOWN.ZIP 11452 01-30-92 SlowDown 1.10 is a TSR that slows down your
| computer. It features 256 different slowdown
| levels. This is very useful if you are trying
| to run games (or other programs) that were
| written on older computers and are too fast
| on newer machines. (C&S Productions)
| (Reg.Fee: $0)
SNOOP330.ZIP 163304 08-09-94 Snooper 3.30 reports your computer's
| configuration and operating characteristics.
| Features: detection of 700 more MicroChannel
| cards, fax modem, disk caches, Sound
| Blaster/Adlib/Roland MPU-401, DOS Protected
| Mode Interface, Virtual Control Program
| Interface (VCPI), ANSI device drivers,
| several VGA chipsets, virtual 86 mode, CD-ROM
| drives, video memory installed on VESA cards,
| several brands of ROM BIOS and more. (John P.
| Vias) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $39)
SOSEVD.ZIP 16177 11-16-93 EveryDay 2.20 automates tasks at boot time,
| It allows you to specify what operations are
| performed on a daily, weekly, and monthly
| basis. (Solid Oak Software) (Reg.Fee: $0)
SPC.ZIP 29917 07-28-94 SPC 6.1 will do a complete multi-drive
| analysis. It displays information about
| video, BIOS, keyboard, communications
| including UART and modem response, Norton
| based CPU speed index, net/multitask, full
| RAM precision, and more. It also uses DOS
| Services to identify SUBSTed drives. It has a
| very compact, one-screen display. (Bob Eyer)
| (Reg.Fee: $20)
SPEED.ZIP 2717 06-22-89 Speed compares a system's cpu speed to a
| standard PC. (Reg.Fee: $?)
SPEEDCPU.ZIP 81350 12-23-94 Speed... 1.01 claims to double your system
| speed. In testing at PsL, we found only very
| slight speed-up. Your mileage may vary. There
| are speed testing programs in PsL which will
| let you measure the results you get. The
| speed checking built into this program showed
| large speed increases not shown by other
| utilities. (J&G Computes) (Reg.Fee: $0)
SPTEST.ZIP 8273 06-29-94 SPTest 1.5 is a serial port diagnostic
| program. It is designed to test any of the
| four standard serial ports. It detects
| internal or external modems, presence of a
| mouse driver controlling the port to test,
| and more. It generates DOS errorlevel codes
| upon exiting that you can use to control a
| batch file and/or related operations. (Jeff
| Bankston) (Reg.Fee: $20)
SSE_V2.ZIP 12235 06-22-89 SSE-V2 is a cpu speed test utility.
| (Reg.Fee: $?)
STARTSYS.ZIP 37313 05-19-94 StartSys 1.2 is a boot utility that works
| without resident drivers. (Oliver Wagner)
| (Reg.Fee: $16)
STOPIT.ZIP 2930 08-10-94 StopIt stops the speaker when some program
| has left it beeping ceaselessly. (Rowena
| Moritz) (Reg.Fee: $0)
SUPRBOOT.ZIP 5035 06-07-94 SuprBoot 1.0 allows you to boot the computer
| from drive A, B, or C by holding down a
| series of specified keys during initial
| booting. You will then be prompted for a
| drive letter to continue booting from. (Eric
| C. Olsen) (Reg.Fee: $0)
SWAPSYS.ZIP 18782 07-15-94 SwapSys 1.03 is a simple system to help
| change or switch your autoexec.bat file
| and/or your config.sys file. It then gives
| you the option of rebooting your computer.
| (Gary L. Robinson) (Reg.Fee: $5)
SYNC.ZIP 9047 06-08-94 Sync 1.0 synchronizes files in different
| directories or between a floppy and hard
| drive. It can be useful if you often transfer
| work between two computers, such as a
| portable and a desktop, or between home and
| office computers. (Reg.Fee: $0)
SYSCHK24.ZIP 102957 08-09-94 SysChk 2.40 is one of the nicest system
| configuration reporting programs that we have
| seen. It starts with a system summary in the
| view window with a menu window to the side.
| Menu options change the view window to show
| detailed information about your CPUs, BIOS,
| I/O, hard disks, floppy disks, video, memory,
| TSR map, and system throughput speed. It will
| optionally print out the system information.
| (Paul Griffith) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $29)
SYSINF.ZIP 22374 10-28-93 Sys Info 2.50 displays several screens of
| information about your computer. It will
| print to screen, printer or file. (Tobin
| Fricke) (Reg.Fee: $5)
SYSMON30.ZIP 50178 08-09-94 System Monitor 3.0 monitors and reports
| problems early, maintains performance and
| resolves hardware/software and MS Windows
| conflicts. (Doren Rosenthal) (ASP) (Reg.Fee:
| $49)
TAGADAY.ZIP 19153 11-30-93 Tagaday 1.12 selects a line at random from a
| text file and displays it. (Robert N. Payes)
| (Reg.Fee: $0)
TASKER.ZIP 36035 01-14-94 Tasker 1.95a will execute any program and
| parameters, or command line input at any
| prescheduled time. It uses any specified
| taskfile, and features LAN compatibility,
| logging feature, screen redirection during
| task execution and more. (SkinnyMan
| Applications) (Reg.Fee: $15)
TEST.ZIP 5857 06-22-89 Test is for testing the speed of your system
| using Lotus 1-2-3 and this worksheet, which
| gives you a real-world speed test. (Al
| Thomas) (Reg.Fee: $?)
TESTEXT.ZIP 7657 10-25-91 TestExt 3.4 will test Extended (not Expanded)
| memory. It requires a 286 or better CPU. (J.
| M. Cyr) (Reg.Fee: $0)
TIME.ZIP 28735 01-11-89 Time contains numerous programs that relate
| to various aspects of time, date and timing,
| such as adjusting the DOS and BIOS clocks,
| displaying the time, a timer, hourly chimes
| and more. (Gunner Richwell) (Reg.Fee: $5-$15)
TIME_IX.ZIP 28489 05-29-89 Time-IX is for people who do not have clocks
| in their computers and have to manually set
| the time and date on bootup. This program
| makes it much easier to do so. (Basil
| Evrenidis) (Reg.Fee: $3)
TIMERUN.ZIP 39940 07-14-89 Time Runner 1.0 will execute specified BAT,
| COM or EXE files at up to five different
| specified dates and times. It is not a TSR,
| so you cannot set it and then go back to
| using the computer. Nor will it pass
| keystrokes to a program, so you have to be
| running programs that support their own
| scripts, such as most communications
| programs, or that work from the command line,
| such as most backup programs. (Allsoft
| Computer Products) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $25)
TIMES2.ZIP 14207 11-30-91 Times2 contains the following time related
| programs: SETTIME 1.4 calls the United States
| Naval Observatory modem, downloads one of the
| USNO's time strings and then sets your system
| time and date. DTM (DateTime) is a useful
| utility if you don't have a clock/calendar
| yet or if your battery back clock is not
| working. It lets you easily set the time and
| date. (Unique Software) (Reg.Fee: $0)
TIMESET.ZIP 171573 06-14-93 TimeSet 7.21 resets your computer clock by
| calling cesium beam atomic clocks of either
| the U.S. Naval Observatory or the National
| Institute of Standards and Technology. A
| modem is required. A noise detection
| procedure is provided to prevent spurious
| noise detection with certain modems. It can
| access atomic clock-based telephone time
| services in Sweden, Austria, Italy and the
| USNO and NIST in the U.S.A. Other features
| include an auto dial utility, automatic
| reconfiguration when the time season changes
| between daylight savings time and standard
| time, the ability to save data on your
| computer clock to a disk file each time you
| call a time service, and custom serial port
| configuration making it usable with serial
| ports up to COM8 and nonstandard IRQs and
| port addresses. (Peter Petrakis) (Reg.Fee:
| $40)
TMONTH.ZIP 13296 11-27-90 TMonth allows you to execute a command or
| set of commands from your AUTOEXEC.BAT file
| once a month. This is useful when you clean
| up files or in dialing a time setting modem
| on a monthly basis. (George Kerber) (Reg.Fee:
| $5)
TPSHW.ZIP 39854 10-15-93 Time-Pro 1.0 allows unattended operation of
| almost any type of DOS program by scheduling
| routines to be performed at a pre-specified
| date and time. (Promedia Concepts) (Reg.Fee:
| $18)
TRAKMEM.ZIP 11150 09-06-92 TrackMem 1.0 tells you how much memory other
| applications use. It always tracks
| conventional memory usage, and detects the
| presence of EMS or XMS memory in your system
| and sets itself up to track usage of
| whichever types are present. It can also
| provide a continuous display of memory usage
| on a secondary monitor. (James W. Birdsall)
| (Reg.Fee: $5)
TRAN.ZIP 31984 08-24-94 Tran is a text-to-speech program. It can
| read text files or take input from the
| keyboard, translate normal English spelling
| to phonemes, and sound out each phoneme
| through the speaker. There are several
| options that allow you to adjust the timing
| and pitch to your machine, save the phoneme
| translations to a file, and more. Frankly, we
| could not understand a word it said, but it
| might do better on other machines and the
| ability to save the phonemes could be useful
| for other applications. (Stephen Neely)
| (Reg.Fee: $$0)
TURBOTB.ZIP 402 08-10-94 Turbo is a CPU speed changing utility for
| clones that don't allow CPU speed to be
| changed through the keyboard. (Terry Bohning)
| (Reg.Fee: $?)
UMBDRVR.ZIP 41560 03-14-92 UMB_DRVR 5.22 is a DOS 5.0 device driver that
| will use the shadow memory capability of the
| memory controller portion of various chip
| sets to force all ROM's not specifically
| excluded to be shadowed, and expand DOS base
| memory beyond 640KB if possible, and provide
| UMB's (Upper Memory Blocks) to DOS for
| loading programs and device drivers into high
| memory while not using any resident memory.
| (Christopher Blum) (Reg.Fee: $25)
UPCSH2.ZIP 34526 04-25-94 UpCopy 2.0 copies new files from one location
| to another in both directions. It asks
| questions, shows file information and can
| show file comparisons before doing this.
| (Joel Kurasch) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $30-45)
VALERT2.ZIP 18094 04-28-94 Valert 2.0 monitors the critical DOS Vector
| table and alerts the operator if changes
| occur. (Gary M. Raymond) (Reg.Fee: $5)
VARISLOW.ZIP 483 08-10-94 Varislow allows you to downwardly vary the
| speed of your AT in order to run programs
| that expect to be run at a slower speed -
| most often, games. (Reg.Fee: $?)
VECTS.ZIP 6801 08-10-94 Vects displays the interrupt vectors.
VGAIDT.ZIP 35570 01-20-95 VideoID 2.0 displays your video driver type
| with amount of memory and tests the maximum
| resolution for which the driver is capable.
| (Bob Berry) (Reg.Fee: $0)
VGASPD.ZIP 14570 06-23-92 VGASpeed computes the relative speed of your
| VGA setup. It also tells you CPU type and
| speed and VGA bus type. (Peter Oliphant)
| (Reg.Fee: $5)
VIDEOTST.ZIP 15518 03-04-94 VideoTst displays dots, horizontal and
| vertical lines and color bars to aid in
| testing and aligning your monitor. (Larry
| Kraemer) (Reg.Fee: $40)
VIDSPEED.ZIP 21748 02-28-92 VidSpeed 3.2 tests the speed of a video
| system. It also has a lengthy table of speeds
| from running the program on various kinds of
| systems. (John Bridges) (Reg.Fee: $?)
VMS240.ZIP 37316 05-14-94 VMS40 EMS 1.1b is a set of two EMS memory
| emulation utilities. VMS40 emulates EMS
| memory on your hard drive, and LMS40 uses
| extended memory to emulate EMS memory.
| (David Noakes) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $25)
VSPEED.ZIP 9476 02-11-90 VSpeed tests and reports your screen
| scrolling speed and gives your scrolling time
| and string write time. This is handy for
| comparing different video systems. (Dave
| Williams) (Reg.Fee: $0)
WAITILL.ZIP 23045 09-17-93 WaiTill lets your computer perform tasks at
| a specified date and time. (Phillip Scott)
| (Reg.Fee: $0)
WAKEUP2.ZIP 1205 08-10-94 WakeUp2 is primarily intended to let you
| leave your computer and have it start
| executing a program at a specific time.
| Actually, when WAKEUP kicks in, it will type
| up to 500 characters of whatever you
| specified on the command line. The command
| line looks like this: WAKEUP2 HHMMSS COMMAND.
| Eg: WAKEUP 174500 BACKUP C: A: would cause
| the computer to do a backup at 5:45 pm if you
| left the system in DOS. If you are in a word
| processor, you will see BACKUP C: A: appear
| on the screen in your text file. (res:1k)
| (Keith P. Graham) (Reg.Fee: $?)
WHAT_CL.ZIP 48807 03-22-92 What 2.0 displays your system's
| configuration. It shows memory used, port
| addresses, device drivers, video type,
| keyboard status, drives types and more.
| (Chris Lowe) (Reg.Fee: $0-$5)
WHATFAX.ZIP 11056 01-08-93 WhatFax 1.1 is a command line utility to
| determine the type of FAX modem is connected
| to the sytem. It will recognize CAS, Class x,
| and SendFax modems. (Logan Industries, Inc.)
| (Reg.Fee: $0)
WHATVID.ZIP 24878 03-26-90 What Video 2.1 tells you the kind of video
| adapter installed on a system and what
| graphics modes are available on it. (Panther
| Associates) (Reg.Fee: $5)
WHICHVGA.ZIP 1902 01-20-95 Which VGA Do You Have? 1.0 will display your
| EGA/VGA video driver type and amount of video
| memory. (Reg.Fee: $0)
WORKING.ZIP 19218 05-02-90 Working 1.0 is a 2k TSR that will tell you if
| your software is still running or has locked
| up your machine. (Dr. Masaaki Sawada)
| (Reg.Fee: $5-$10)
WRAPPER.ZIP 18574 09-01-92 Wrapper 1.0 lets you load programs (including
| TSRs) in CONFIG.SYS, even though they are not
| device drivers themselves. For example, a
| programmer could load a debugger in
| CONFIG.SYS and trace/debug the initialization
| of device drivers they have written. Or you
| could load a TSR disk cache before Stacker in
| CONFIG.SYS in order to get better
| performance. (Philip B. Gardner) (Reg.Fee:
| $25)
XBOOT.ZIP 94955 05-12-94 XBoot 0.9b allows you to swap between
| different DOS configurations. It has an
| integrated editor and a compare function.
| (Sebastian Zander) (Reg.Fee: $10)
XCRON.ZIP 20788 06-08-94 DOSCron and BATCron 1.0 are designed to
| emulate the UNIX CRON scheduler program.
| Batchron will run as a batch file and will
| allow your computer to perform a task at the
| specified time and day of the week. DOSCron
| is the command line version of this program.
| (Ric Seymour) (Reg.Fee: $0)
XFAN.ZIP 6713 08-10-94 XFan tells you how to quieten a PC's noisy
| fan once and for all. (Cliff Brown) (Reg.Fee:
| $0)
XGAPMD.ZIP 88753 09-12-94 XGA 2 for DOS and Windows 1.02 is a device
| driver for use with DOS 6.0+ or Windows 3.1.
| It saves and manages power in displays which
| have power management capability, such as the
| IBM PS/2 Energy Saving Color Monitor.
| (Reg.Fee: $0)
