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=====Games
Contents:
=====Games
=====Education
=====Home, Financial
=====Home, Other
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=====Games
NOTE: See the \GAMES directory on this month's CD-ROM for a complete
collection of ALL the games in PsL's disk-based library.
Contents:
-----Graphic Adventure Games
-----Small Arcade Games
-----Large Arcade Games
-----Card and Casino Games
-----Board/Strategy Games
-----Logic/Puzzle Games
-----Strategy/War Games
-----Game Management
-----Kid's Stuff
-----Sports
-----Word & Quiz Games
-----Other Games
-----Graphic Adventure Games
Daymare 2 1.0 [DAYMARE2] (Jim Todd, reg. fee: $10) is a role playing game
with the object of defeating the bad guy. You can pick up items along the
way to help in your journey, throw objects and hurl spells at the enemy.
You may face ancient dragons, vampiric wizards and many other assorted
nasties. Requires VGA and a mouse.
Game Builder Lite 3.0 [GBUILDER] (David Snyder, ASP; reg. fee: $53) allows
you to create graphics adventure games with no programming. Your games can
include 256-color graphics, character and background animation, masking,
object inventory and detection, music and sound effects, and more. <PIRATE.PCX>
Reaping the Dungeon 1.0 [REAP] (Ron Heuse, reg. fee: $16) is a game that
lets you go below the surface of the planet Jupiter, through a complex
series of mazes, in search of treasure. Along the way, you can collect
weapons for fighting the various creatures you may encounter. Find the drop
chute to go to the next level.
-----Small Arcade Games
POD 1.10 [POD11] (Rob McDonell, reg. fee: $17) is an arcade game with an
outer space theme. The object of this game is to move your POD around an
increasingly complex set of colorful tracks, picking them up as you go.
Plan your steps wisely to avoid falling off or getting stranded. Requires
EGA or better. <SPACEBW.PCX>
-----Large Arcade Games
Ant Run 1.1 [ANTRUN] (William Soleau, reg. fee: $14) is an arcade strategy
game. The objective is to keep the ant running through the ant hill tunnels
as long as possible before it reaches a dead end. Requires EGA/VGA and a
mouse. <ANTRUN.PCX>
Back To The Forest 1.0 [BACKFOR] (Philippe Mercier, reg. fee: $34) is an
arcade/adventure game about a squirrel named Skunny. With the help of his
girlfriend Rosie, Skunny must rescue his friends from the evil
toads.
Features include 256 color graphics, parallax scrolling, masked foreground
objects, fast scrolling, two characters to choose from, SoundBlaster and
AdLib support, automatic smart save, joystick/Gravis pad support, and more.
Requires 640K, a hard disk and VG <backfor.pcx>
Billy The Kid 1.0 [BILLY10] (Alive Software, reg. fee: $22) is a 3-D
western action arcade game. You must escape from prison and survive the New
Mexico desert, buffaloes, bombs, gunmen, rattlesnakes and other surprises.
Features include joystick and SoundBlaster support, 3D overlapping objects,
and VGA horizontal, vertical, and diagonal scrolling action. Requires VGA,
286-16+ and 530K of memory. <BILLY10.PCX>
Desert Raid 1.0 [DESRAID] (Philippe Mercier, reg. fee: $24) is a
shoot-em-up arcade game with Skunny the squirrel. Skunny takes to the skies
with his bi-plane to destroy the manic SadMan Insane.
Features include 256 color graphics, funny animations, smooth horizontal
scrolling, smart enemies, machine guns, smart bombs, AdLib and SoundBlaster
support, automatic smart save, joystick/Gravis pad support, and a built in
PCX screen grabber. Requires 640K, a hard disk and VG <DESRAID.PCX>
Save Our Pizzas 1.1 [SAVEPIZA] (Philippe Mercier, reg. fee: $34) gives
Skunny the squirrel the job of getting back the recipe of the Pizza that
has been stolen by the evil Chef of Cadiz. Skunny travels back in time to
ancient Rome to retrieve the recipe.
Features include 256 color graphics, parallex scrolling, masked foreground
objects, SoundBlaster and AdLib support, interactive springs and catapults,
timer bombs, bribes for getting through doors, secret sections full of
goodies, automatic smart save, joystick/Gravis pad support, and a built in
PCX screen grabber. Requires 640K, a hard disk and VG <SAVEPIZA.PCX>
Starship Commander's Tactical Battle Simulator [TBS10] (William D. Hause,
reg. fee: $25) puts you in command of one or more starships in a battle
situation. Features include sound effects, music, animations, graphical
interface, real time scenarios, several ship types, mouse support and more.
Requires EGA/VGA and a hard drive. <TBS10.PCX>
ZONE 66 1.0 [ZONE66] (Tim Sweeney, reg. fee: $34) is a 32-bit arcade game
from Epic MegaGames with 256-color and 360-degree scrolling. You are the
pilot of the future in your fighter jet as you fly over enemy bases, taking
out missile sights and engaging in air-to-air combat.
Zone 66 Includes sharp, impressive graphics and digital sound. Requires
2MBf RAM, VGA graphics, an unStacked drive and no TSR
---Updates: Large Arcade Games
(GA-3a) Nova Strike 3.0 [NOVA] (Michael Kline, reg. fee: $15) is a space
flight simulation combat game.
(GA-3a) VGA Sharks 1.5 [VSHARK15] (Alive Software, reg. fee: $22) is a
professional quality arcade game in which you, as a scuba diver collecting
marine samples, must evade and fight off sharks while you go about your
work. NEW: Adlib/SoundBlaster support.
-----Card and Casino Games
---Updates: Card and Casino Games
(GA-04) 3D-Cribbage 1.4 [CRIBBAGE] (Mark R. Juneau, reg. fee: $25) is the
classic card game of cribbage.
-----Board/Strategy Games
Color Cross 1.01 [COLORX] (Gene Brown, ASP; reg. fee: $12) is a two-player
strategy game whose objective is to freeze all of your opponent's pieces.
Requires VGA and a mouse. <COLORX.PCX>
K-Chess 1.20 [KCHESS12] (Rob McDonell, reg. fee: $17) is a Chess game that
shows its own calculations as you play. It includes a hint mode that
calculates the best line of attack for several moves ahead. Play against
someone else or challange the computer to a match. K-Chess can be
controlled by keyboard or mouse. <CHESS.PCX>
RiskIt [RISKIT] (Val Mehling, reg. fee: $0) is a game of chance for 1 to 4
players. One or more of the players may be the computer. With each turn you
may have the chance to pile up the points but you may lose them all if you
Riskit once too often.
---Updates: Board/Strategy Games
(GA-05) Balloon Challenge 1.1 [BALLON11] (William Soleau, reg. fee: $14)
pits you against the computer as you each try to launch 25 balloons.
(GA-05) Robix 1.1 [ROBIX11] (William Soleau, reg. fee: $12) The objective
is get your colored blocks to the bottom of the game board by pushing rows
of blocks either to the left or right.
(GA-05) Ten-Thousand 2.0 [TEN_THOU] (Status Que Software, reg. fee: $10) is
a dice game for 2 to 6 players. NEW: mouse support.
(GA-05) Wall $treet Raider 4.1 [WSR41] (Michael D. Jenkins, ASP; reg. fee:
$25) is a simulation game of corporate finance.
-----Logic/Puzzle Games
Block-Man 1.0 [BLOCKMAN] (William Soleau, reg. fee: $16) is a mind-boggling
puzzle game. The objective is to reach the doorway in each room. Block-man
must lift and place blocks which are located in each room to find the
Princess. Requires EGA/VGA. <BLOCKMAN.PCX>
DOSMine 1.0 [DOSMINE] (David Vancina, reg. fee: $10) is a DOS game similar
to Windows' Mine Sweeper. <MINES.PCX>
FaceTrex 1.0 [FACETREX] (William Soleau, reg. fee: $14) is a strategy logic
game where the objective is to use your animated man to push faces located
on a 12x8 grid board onto their negative image located elsewhere on the
board.
The face grids will slide in the direction pushed until they hit either
another face grid or the side of the board, or special arrow grids which
redirect the face grid. 25 puzzles are included. Requires EGA/ <FACETREX.PCX>
RGB 1.0 [RGBZIP] (Antonio Cordoba, reg. fee: $10) is a geometric puzzle
game like Rubik's cube. All 16 cells must be turned to red by clicking on
adjacent cells. There are more 100 patterns to solve. Requires VGA.
Super 3D TicTacToe 3.0 [SUPERT] (Custom Computers Inc., reg. fee: $3) is an
animated 3D Tic Tac Toe game. Playing pieces shake, rattle and roll. Sound
support is included. Requires EGA/VGA. <SUPERT.PCX>
---Updates: Logic/Puzzle Games
(GA-06) Maze 3.0 [MAZE30] (Wolfgang Stiller, reg. fee: $12) is a maze
generating program that you try to solve from inside the maze.
(GA-06) PC-Jigsaw 3.0 [PCJIG30] (Alive Software, reg. fee: $20) is a
challenging jigsaw puzzle.
(GA-06) Super Croc 3 [SUPRCROC] (Dave Culbertson, reg. fee: $2) is a
challenging puzzle game. NEW: Sound Blaster support.
(GA-06) VGA Jigsaw 2.10 [VGAJIG21] (Alive Software, reg. fee: $20) is an
on-screen jigsaw puzzle game with brilliant, 256-color VGA graphics. NEW:
SVGA and Adlib/SBlaster support.
-----Strategy/War Games
---Updates: War Games
(GA-07) Isle Wars 3.0 [ISLEWAR3] (William Soleau, reg. fee: $17) you must
conquer nine islands with your armies, in this adaptation of the classic
game Risk. (Formerly Blind Wars.)
-----Gambling
Number Macine 5.9sw [NM59SW] (D.S. Gamble, ASP; reg. fee: $25) uses
statistical methods to help you pick lottery numbers. It also includes a
data base for cataloging wins and loses, a random number generator, and more.
---Updates: Gambling
(GA-08) Pro Football Edge 1993/94 2.0 [PFEDGE] (Gordon W. Grieb, reg. fee:
$40) is an NFL handicapping program.
-----Game Management
Joki 2.1 [JOKI21] (BIGGUN International, reg. fee: $0) allows you to play
some keyboard-only games with your joystick by performing joystick-keyboard
emulation on the BIOS level.
---Updates: Game Management
(GA-09) Bowling Assistant 5.36 [BA536] (Richard G. Marchessault, reg. fee:
$0) is a versatile, easy to operate bowling league record keeping program
that can eliminate the hours spent each week manually updating your league
records.
(GA-09) StatTrak 5.1 [SB51] (Jeff Elwood, reg. fee: $30) will allow you to
record game results. (Formerly Soff Balls.)
-----Kid's Stuff
---Updates: Kid's Stuff
(GA-10) Crayon Box 3.1 [CRAYON31] (Kapusta, Philip P., reg. fee: $12) is a
coloring and sketch book, plus a math, counting and color quiz.
(GA-10) Magic Crayon 2.10 [MCRAYON2] (Alive Software, reg. fee: $20)
contains three coloring games for children 3 to 12.
-----Sports
---Updates: Sports
(GA-11) Field General 6.11 [FGEN61] (Rodney B. Markert, ASP; reg. fee: $29)
is a football game in which you play the computer or another player.
-----Word & Quiz Games
Wordle 1.0 [WORDLE] (William Soleau, reg. fee: $14) is a challenging word
game. The objective is to spell as many words as possible from a grid of 25
random letters. There are many ways to play, either with variable time
limits or by number of words spelled. Wordle has a dictionary of over
80,000 words. Requires EGA/VGA. <WORDLE.PCX>
---Updates: Word & Quiz Games
(GA-12) Daily Crossword 1.0 [XWORD] (G. John Stevens, reg. fee: $30-40)
allows you to construct and solve crossword puzzles.
-----Other Games
Stupid Joke Screen 1.0 [START1] (MicroSolved, reg. fee: $10 ) displays Dumb
Blond jokes.
---Updates: Other Games
(GA-13) Animal Quest 2.01 [AQUEST20] (Alive Software, reg. fee: $22) is an
unusual game that lets you experience Nature from a very different
perspective. NEW: SVGA support, and sound card reconfiguration.
(GA-13) Crazy Shuffle 1.5 [CSHUF15] (Alive Software, reg. fee: $20) tests a
players memory and concentration skills as you try to match pictures with
pictures or words with pictures.
(GA-13) FLotto 4.0 [FLOTTO] (PC Light, Inc., ASP; reg. fee: $22) is a lotto
program for any Pick 3, 4, 5, 6, or 7 lottery game.
(GA-13) Oakflat Nuclear PPS 3.1sw [OF31SW] (GAMTECH/Gamble Technologies,
reg. fee: $18) simulates a pressurized water nuclear fission power plant.
(GA-13) VGA Concentration 2.10 [VGACON21] (Alive Software, reg. fee: $20)
is a concentration-type game with excellent 256-color graphics.
=====Education
-----Computer Education
-----Government/Geography
-----Literature
-----Math
-----Reading/Spelling/Vocabulary
-----Pre-School
-----Science
-----Test Making
-----Other Education
---Updates: Computer Education
(ED-01) PC Primer 3.1s [PRIMER31] (Peter Diotte, reg. fee: $25) is a
self-paced tutorial for learning about a microcomputer and DOS.
-----Government/Geography
EGAQuiz 4.25 [EGAQUIZ] (Brian Towey, reg. fee: $0) is a political quiz. It
generates a political map showing your position on personal and economic
issues. These issues include conscription, media, privacy, prohibition,
borders, subsidies, protectionism, labor, income tax, and defense. Relevent
quotes are also provided.
Europe 1.1 [EUROPE] (Torpedo Software, reg. fee: $0) is an educational quiz
game about European geography. Score points answering questions from four
groups: countries, capitals, exports, and major geographical features.
Requires VGA, mouse. <EUROBW.PCX>
-----Literature
Soulmerg I 1.1 [SOULMERG] (M. E. P., reg. fee: $0) includes unique stories
featuring sound effects. A story is activated when you select a star or
Soulmerg circle from the star system menu. Each soulmerg circle travels
through a corridor to a different life experience. Requires 640K, hard
disk, and a Sound Blaster compatible board. <SOULMERG.PCX>
-----Math
Math Games 3.0 [MATHGAME] (Alan C. Elliott, reg. fee: $21) is a math
teacher disguised as an Olympic game. The game pits your country against an
opponent. Each time you type the correct answer to a math problem, your
team wins a point. If you make a mistake, your opponent gains a point. The
winner receives a medal at the flag raising ceremony. <MATHBW.PCX>
Total Math 1.1 [TOTALMTH] (Jack C Webb, reg. fee: $10) is a combination of
on-screen math drills and a worksheet generator. Problems can be generated
in addition, subtraction, multiplication, division or a mixture. Requires
EGA/VGA. <TOTALMTH.PCX>
X, The Game Of Unknown Love 1.1 [XXX] (Niche Software, ASP; reg. fee: $10)
is a graphic math game that supplements traditional curricula for algebra,
geometry, and trigonometry. Students must solve for X to get a date. You
can choose from story problems such as Carphone and When Snails Collide.
<XXX.PCX>
---Updates: Math
(ED-06) Big Math Attack 2.0 [BIGMATH2] (Philip P. Kapusta, reg. fee: $10)
tests math, spelling, typing and metric conversions skills in an arcade
environment.
(ED-06) Children's Tutors 1.4 [G7T14] (Synergistic Consultants,
Incorporated, reg. fee: $10) are two math tutorials for children ages
preschool through 3rd grade.
(ED-06) KwikStat 3.3r7 [KSTAT33A, KSTAT33B, KSTAT33C] (Alan C. Elliott,
ASP; reg. fee: $74) lets you create a database and enter and edit data.
NEW: mouse support, spreadsheet type data entry, and more analysis options.
(ED-06) Super-Math 1.1 [SMATH] (Eric Jarrett, reg. fee: $13) is a math
tutorial with several different types of problems.
-----Reading/Spelling/Vocabulary
Fonetic Speling 1.0 [FONETIC1, FONETIC2] (Edward Rondthaler, reg. fee: $25)
translates text files from normal spelling to phonetic spelling. The
program contains a list of 44,000 English words, each with a phonetic
equivalent. Requires a hard drive.
Paragraph Punch 1.1 [PARPUNCH] (Merit Audio Visual, reg. fee: $25) is a
writing program to help students write complete paragraphs. It is for
reading levels 5 and up. It teaches five different ways to develop a
paragraph: through reasons, details, sequence, example, and cause and
effects. Students are rewarded with graphic displays and paragraphs can be
transferred to Word Perfect or other popular word processing programs.
<PARPUNCH.PCX>
-----Pre-School
AMY! 2.2 [AMY22] (John McCaffrey, reg. fee: $5) is for children who are
curious about typing on the computer. It prints large letters, numbers and
symbols on the screen in different colors. If your child types the "magic
word", the screen lights up with colors and the computer plays a tune.
---Updates: Pre-School
(ED-08) EGA Mouse Paint 5.0 [EGAMP50] (Fischer Grafix & Software, reg. fee:
$20) is a painting program for children. <MPAINT.PCX>
-----Science
All About Pumps [PUMPS] (Russell Hoffman, reg. fee: $35) is an animated
tutorial on how pumps work. It explains over 20 different kinds of pumps,
history of pumps, theory of operation, hydraulic principles and more.
Requires SVGA, VESA 1.2, 1 MB video, 4 MB expanded RAM, and 10 MB of hard
drive space.
-----Test Making
Test Generator [TESTGEN] (Thomas B. Wiggers, reg. fee: $60) stores multiple
choice test questions from which pen and paper or computer administered
examinations may be prepared. Up to 200 questions may be randomly or
specifically selected, and a key is printed with each examination.
---Updates: Test Making
(ED-11) PC-CAI 2.10r2 [PCCAI21A, PCCAI21B, PCCAI21C] (Alan C. Elliott, ASP;
reg. fee: $74) is a computer language specifically designed to allow you to
create computer driven tutorials, tests, demos. NEW: more soundblaster and
PCX support
-----Other Education
Type Games 3.0 [TYPEGAME] (Alan C. Elliott, reg. fee: $21) is a typing
tutor disguised as an Olympic game. The game pits your country against an
opponent. A word appears on the screen that you must type correctly. If you
are correct, you score a your team gets scores a point. If you make a
mistake, your opponent gains a point. The winner receives a medal at the
flag raising ceremony. <TYPEBW.PCX>
---Updates: Other Education
(ED-12) Melissa's Music Flashcards 3.1 [MMF31] (Fischer Grafix & Software,
ASP; reg. fee: $21) provides a colorful, interactive environment for
children to learn the notes and keys of the music staff.
(ED-12) StoryMaker 2.1 [STORYV21] (Elson Embry, reg. fee: $23) lets you
create talking story books with animation, music and sound effects. NEW:
imports PCX files into the graphics editor's clipboard.
=====Home, Financial
-----Home Accounting & Budgeting
-----Loan Amort., Inc. Tax, & Other
-----Investment
-----Home Accounting & Budgeting
Amazing Ledger B.3 [AMLEDGER] (Dennis Drew, reg. fee: $95) is an accounting
program for home and small businesses. It will print balance sheets, income
statements, trial balances, and transaction listing.
Domus 1.0 [DOMUS1] (Paul Hache, reg. fee: $25) is a personal finance and
accounting program that performs budgeting operations as well as keeping
track of checking, savings and credit card accounts.
Epay 2.21 [EPAY] (J. Gillespie, reg. fee: $15) generates reports of
electronic payment activity for uses of Quicken's CheckFree system. It
scans Quicken export files and creates a series of reports.
Eezy-Budget II 1.0 [EZBII] (W. Massingale, reg. fee: $15) is a personal
budgeting and expense tracking Program that will track up to one hundred
accounts and income categories. It can also handle up to nine banks and
nine credit card accounts with reconciliation.
Networth Calculator [WORTH] (Aquinist Associates, reg. fee: $3) calculates
your net worth.
-----Loan Amort., Inc. Tax, & Other
1099 1.0 [1099] (Eric Jarrett, reg. fee: $8) prints out 1099-MISC
tax-forms. You input data into fields similar to those on the form. The
program writes the data to a file and can print the forms with a dot-matrix
printer. It can also print a 1096 form. Requires 512K RAM and a color monitor.
Amortz 1.50 [AMORTZ] (Jim Bowyer, ASP; reg. fee: $10) calculates loan
payment amounts, interest rates, number of payments or current principal
amounts. It also generates payback schedules displaying the principal and
interest portion of each payment by due date.
Loan Chief 1.0 [CHF100] (Insight Software Solutions, ASP; reg. fee: $18-28)
is a set of loan tools for calculating loan amortization schedules and
charts. Professional schedules can be generated with monthly, quarterly,
semi-annual or annual detail. Options are available to illustrate the
savings incurred with an early payoff of a loan to show tax savings with
mortgages.
Electronic Tax Filing 93 - 1099 1.3 [ETF1099] (Electronic Filing Group,
reg. fee: $5) is an electronic filing system for the 1099 series of tax
forms. These forms include 1098, 1099-DIV, 1099-G, 1099-INT, 1099-MISC,
1099-PATR, 1099-R, 5498, 1099-A, 1099-B, 1099-OID, 1099-S, and W-2G.
Requires 1 MB of free disk space.
Electronic Tax Filing 93 - 1040 1.2 [ETF93A, ETF93B] (Electronic Filing
Group, reg. fee: $5) is an electronic filing system for the individual
taxpayer for the 1040 series of tax forms. (This is not a tax return
calculation program. The info must be copied from your tax returns.)
Requires 450K RAM, 3.5 MB of free disk space and a postscript compatible
printer.
Financial Calculator - LW 1.1 [FC_LW] (Leland E. Wines, reg. fee: $15)
allows you to calculate the present and future value, percentage rate, and
number of payments in a series of cash flows. It can also calculate
compound interest payments, and internal rate of return.
Info-C 1.0 [INFO_C10] (Gary L. Bockmon, reg. fee: $47-67) helps users file
various information return forms for income tax purposes. Info-C includes
forms for 1099, 5498, W-2G and many others. It also includes a pop-up
calculator with cut and paste features.
Uniform Residential Appraisal Report 5.0 [URAR50] (Calvin E. Flint III,
reg. fee: $1-50) helps potential home buyers complete the Uniform
Residential Appraisal Report required by FHA, VA, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac,
and FmHA.
---Updates: Loan Amort., Inc. Tax, & Other
(AH-02) Debt Analyzer 1.23 [DBT123] (Insight Software Solutions, ASP; reg.
fee: $23) helps to reduce debt through loan payment matrix or loan
consolidation.
(AH-02) Mortgage Analyzer 1.13 [MRT113] (Insight Software Solutions, ASP;
reg. fee: $28) lets you do amortization schedules.
(AH-02) QuickTax 1.04 [QTAX04] (Donald R. Bates, ASP; reg. fee: $23)
maintains up-to-date information on your total expected tax liability for
the year.
-----Investment
Annuity Ace Lite 1.0 [ACE100] (Insight Software Solutions, ASP; reg. fee:
$18-28) is an annuities manager that includes a variety of financial tools
for calculating deferred, immediate and split Annuities. Special options
are available to illustrate the time value of compounding, the impact of
taxes on savings, the effect of loads,inflation and obtaining higher
interest rates, and the ability to illustrate what is required to
accumulate a target sum of money by a target age.
Chart 1 1.0 [CHART1] (Scott Andrews, reg. fee: $10) is a stock and mutual
fund charting program. Use it to chart daily or weekly stock prices, mutual
funds and more. It will also chart data from log files from CIS's PRICES
service.
---Updates: Investment
(AH-03) Interest Analyzer 2.33 [INT233] (Insight Software Solutions, reg.
fee: $28) calculates interest earnings, loan payments, and amortization and
depreciation schedules.
(AH-03) PFroi 3.9 [PFROI39] (Techserve Inc., reg. fee: $33-43) performs
portfolio management plus ROI calculations.
(AH-03) Stock Portfolio Record Manager 3.9 [SPRM39] (Robert Gellman, reg.
fee: $25) stores, manipulates, and prints records needed to manage a
portfolio of stocks. NEW: a calculation of yield based on the cost of the
portfolio in addition to the yield based on the current value of the portfolio.
(AH-03) Variable Investment Analyst 5.8I [VARINV] (William H. Baldwin, ASP;
reg. fee: $15) keeps track of returns on non-fixed investments.
=====Home, Other
-----Diet, Nutrition & Health
-----Home Management
-----Science, Weather & Maps
-----Vehicle Management
-----Other Home & Miscellaneous
-----Diet, Nutrition & Health
AIDS2 1.0 [AIDS2] (John Stevenson, reg. fee: $13) is a mathematical model
and hypertext tutorial about the mechanics of the AIDS/HIV epidemic. It
contains comparative data from Census reports and the Centers for Disease
Control.
-----Home Management
---Updates: Home Management
(MS-07) Household Tracker 1.6 [HT16] (Fischer Grafix & Software, ASP; reg.
fee: $22) keeps track of household inventory.
(MS-07) Personal Inventory 2.12 [PERIN212] (Contact Plus Corporation, reg.
fee: $20) is a personal inventory system designed to keep track of items in
the home for insurance purposes.
-----Science, Weather & Maps
GreatArc [GREATARC] (George M. Hohl, reg. fee: $10) draws the Great Circle
path between any two of 150 world cities. It can draw distance circles,
compile files of multi-leg trips, and make lists showing the heading and
distance from a selected city to all others. Requires VGA. <GREATARC.PCX>
---Updates: Science, Weather & Maps
(MS-08) GeoClock 5.1 [GEOCLOCK] (Joseph R. Ahlgren, reg. fee: $30) is a map
of the earth which shows the sun's position day or night based on the
actual time of day. NEW: displays the moon's sub point and phase in
graphics, and optionally the phase, subpoint latitude and longitude, and
azimuth and elevation, can be displayed in text. World maps can be centered
on a user specified longitude. Color coded elevation maps are supported.
-----Vehicle Management
Carfor 2.41 [CARFOR] (Stanley R. Weiss, reg. fee: $7) contains formulas to
help analyze a race car's needs and to improve performance.
---Updates: Vehicle Management
(MS-09) VMSYS+ 2.7 [VMSYS27] (Contact Plus Corporation, reg. fee: $56) will
help you keep track of gas mileage and miles driven on a rolling 13 month
history. NEW: slide show tutorial.
(MS-09) What Vehicle History? 2.3b [WVH23B] (Angel Babudro, reg. fee: $69)
is vehicle service history tracking and reporting system.
-----Other Home & Miscellaneous
FCC Frequency Retrieval System 1.15 [FCCFRS] (Gene McAvoy, reg. fee:
$30-39) is a frequency management system for HAM radio operators.
Jokes & Quotes 1.4 [JQ14] (Michael L. Wester, ASP; reg. fee: $15-45) is a
daily message display system that can also be run from a network. It
contains nearly 4000 jokes, quotes, stories, and maxims that can be
selected from 25 categories. Network features include global messages to
all users, special messages to selected users, administrator controled
categories, and more. <JOKES.PCX>
ScorStat 1.00A [SCORSTAT] (John E. Leslie III, reg. fee: $45) provides
rifle target shooters with advanced statistical analysis of their targets.
The program calculates several statistics and graphs, then prints them.
Requires 386, VGA, mouse, and 1 mb of expanded memory. <SCORSTAT.PCX>
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(MS-10) Knitware Sweater Design 1.30 [KSD] (Janet Tombu, reg. fee: $40-45)
helps hand and machine knitters custom design sweaters and prints the
pattern instructions to knit from. NEW: schematic drawing of the design on
screen, customize size data, direct printed pattern to screen or ASCII
file; print designer name of the pattern.
(MS-10) You're Hired 1.3a [YH13A] (DataWell, ASP; reg. fee: $30) is a job
interview simulator that provides realistic training and experience to
prepare you for job interviews.