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=====Words & Graphics (Includes Printer apps & utilities)
-----Word Processing Programs
H&P VersaWrite 2.0 [HPVWRITE] (H&P Software, ASP; reg. fee: $12) is a
66-line by 78-column word processor. It includes word wrap, line and block
move/copy, global search and replace, built-in line drawing, graphic page
layout, and on-screen right justification and sorting. It prints
doublewide, bold, double high, double high-double wide, and underlined
lines with an IBM ProPrinter compatible. It also imports name and address
blocks from MultiFile-XL database program.
NE 2.0 [NE20] (GDSoft, reg. fee: $0) is a replacement editor for Edlin and
DOS Edit. It features wordwrap, spell checking, multiple file support,
block commands, justify, search, replace and more.
Power Edit 1.03 [PWREDIT] (CyberNyte Software Productions, reg. fee: $10)
is a multi-window, full-featured text editor.
---Updates: Word Processing Programs
(WP-01) EZ-Dex 1.2 [EZDEX12] (HFK Software, ASP; reg. fee: $20) is a 10K
TSR which automatically types names and addresses into running word
processors, or other text oriented programs, upon user command.
(WP-01) Galaxy Pro-Lite 2.11 [GALPRO21] (Starlite Software Corp., reg. fee:
$50) is a fast, easy-to-use word processor.
(WP-01) NJStar Chinese Wordprocessor 3.0 [NJSTARCW] (Hongbo Data Systems,
reg. fee: $89) is a full featured Chinese word processor. NEW:
add/edit/delete the abbreviation of commonly used words interactively,
information about Chinese character, Chinese character lookup through the
radical chart, on-line Chinese-English dictionary, reads Big5 Chinese file
directly, converts GB to Big5 smartly, SuperVGA support, European language
character input, and prints specified pages for a number of copies.
(WP-01) NJStar Japanese Wordprocessor 3.0 [NJSTARJW] (Hongbo Data Systems,
reg. fee: $79) is a full featured Japanese word processor. NEW: on-line
Kana-Kanji input method, ability to add/edit/delete glossary and
Kana->Kanji conversion interactively, information about Japanese character,
Japanese character lookup through the radical chart, on-line
Japanese-English dictionary, SuperVGA support, European language character
input, and prints specified pages for a number of copies.
---Updates: Programmer's Editors
(WP-02) Freemacs 2.0 [EMACS2] (Richard M. Stallman, reg. fee: $0) is an
editor fashioned after Emacs.
---Updates: Spelling & Thesarus
(WU-01) DO-Spell 3.72c [DOSPELL] (Han Kleijn, reg. fee: $0) is an English
and Dutch spelling checker.
---Updates: Forms Creators
(WU-02) Dr. Form 3.1 [DRFORM] (IrwinWare, ASP; reg. fee: $43) creates
professional quality forms. NEW: landscape printing feature for laser
printers and the ability to do Legal size forms.
(WU-02) EZ-Forms DataBase 4.04b [FDB404B] (EZX Publishing & Distributing,
reg. fee: $156) is a data management and forms processing program.
-----Other Word Processing Utilities
Poetry Star 1.1 [CSPS] (Chatfield Software, Inc., ASP; reg. fee: $25) is a
poetry writing aid which will allow you to enter question, comments, and
observations. The program will then attempt to give a response to what
you've entered. These responses may be useful for generating ideas for
poetry and prose.
Correspondence Master 1.0 [FACECC] (FACE Systems, reg. fee: $30) will help
you keep track of letters, comments, and reports. You can also maintain a
history of correspondence and attach information to each letter. Requires a
hard drive with at least 2MB of disk space.
Justify 1.0 [JUSTIFY] (Tom Almy, reg. fee: $0) will reformat ASCII text
files by changing the line length. It will ignore titles and other header
information and reformat paragraphs to any desired style. C source code is
included.
Daily Log Book 2.1 [LOG21] (Sequential Software Inc., ASP; reg. fee: $18)
is a diary with pull-down menus, column marking, macros, cut and paste
editing, and password protection. It also includes a calendar which will
let you view one or six months and show what days have entries.
---Updates: Other Word Processing Utilities
(WU-05) WordJournal 1.1 [WJ11] (The Software Cobbler, reg. fee: $23) helps
you manage many separate journals. It may be used for personal diaries,
research notebooks and meeting minutes. It features an easy to use word
processor and password protection.
-----Clip Art and Fonts
ASG-Art13 [ASGART13, ASGART14, ASGART15, ASGART16, ASGART17] (ASG, reg.
fee: $20-80) Art13 is a set of aged look Bible graphic images in PCX
format. Art14 has greytone graphic images of fossils. Art15 has greytone
graphic images of crowns and shields. Art 16 and 17 has color graphic
images of the 1900's Europe cards. <EURO12.PCX> <PB11.PCX> <FOS414.PCX>
<CROWN02.PCX>
Intricate Initials [INITIALS] (BCM Graphics, reg. fee: $15) is a collection
of ornamental alphabets. Three different graphical representations of each
of the letters of the alphabet are included. <INITIAL1.PCX> <INITIAL2.PCX>
<INITIAL3.PCX>
-----Graphics Displays, Pictures
Night Bird 2.0 [BIRD20] (Nicholas Centanni, reg. fee: $12) is a 3D
animation of a white bird flying endlessly over a field of trees and
colorful points of light. The camera swings around periodically to reveal a
new perspective of the scene. Requires a 386 and VGA, or better. <BIRD20.PCX>
HyperGeo 2.1 [HYPGEO21] (WareCraft, ASP; reg. fee: $20) displays
3-dimensional geometric images in a graphical interface. Images can be
manipulated in a variety of ways, such as reduced and enlarged scaling,
turning the object on axis, etc. Images can be viewed as wireframe or
solid, and several projection modes can be utilized.
Sixteen [SIXTEEN] (Paul T. Dawson, reg. fee: $0) draws lines on your screen
using 16 million different colors. Requires 1 MB video card with a
640x480x24 bit mode.
Shareware Slideset Pack 1 [SLIDES1] (Molcol Software, reg. fee: $0)
contains slides for use with Microscope for the PC (MSCOPE.ZIP).
Shareware Slideset Pack 2 [SLIDES2] (Molcol Software, reg. fee: $0)
contains slides for use with Microscope for the PC.
Shareware Slideset Pack 3 [SLIDES3] (Molcol Software, reg. fee: $0)
contains slides for use with Microscope for the PC.
TagVue 1.31 [TAGVUE] (Monumental Computer Applications, Inc., reg. fee:
$20) is a VGA file management program. It features built in VESA mode
graphic routines which display .PCX, .BMP and GIF image files from 320 x
200 16 colors up thru 1024 x 768 256 colors. Once the file is displayed on
the screen, you can zoom in and out of the image and walk around the image
from left to right and top to bottom. The program loads the image in it's
original size and then allows manual zooming in and out and panning around
the image.
View 1.2 [VIEW12] (DareWare Inc., ASP; reg. fee: $10) is a PCX and GIF
graphic image file viewer. You can display these images at any X Y
location. You can view any graphic file on your hard drive.
---Updates: Graphics Displays, Pictures
(GR-01) Complete Morph 2.10 [CMORPH21] (Paul D. Nettle, ASP; reg. fee: $35)
is a complete morphing facility. NEW: PCX support.
(GR-01) Dazzle 5.1 [DAZZLE51] (Worldwide MicroTronics, Inc., ASP; reg. fee:
$15) is an incredible screen blanking/kaleidoscope program. NEW: virus
scanning,
(GR-01) Microscope for the PC 1.0 [MSCOPE] (Molcol Software, reg. fee:
$30-49) emulates a real microscope. It displays animated slidesets of
microscopic subjects as well as normal still slides. The program simulates
magnification, light-levels, polarization, dark-field viewing, staining,
and other techniques to manipulate the images or alter viewing. Requires a
hard disk, VGA, and a 386 or faster.
(GR-01) Take Five 2.0 [TAKE5] (Ssorg Software, ASP; reg. fee: $20) displays
selected PCX graphics while you are away from your desk.
(GR-01) TICO 1.03 [TICO103] (Mike Williams, reg. fee: $25) (replaces
PCX2EXE) is a collection of utilities for working with PCX files. You can
view images in PCX format up to 24 bit color, utilize other PCX file
conversion programs, save standard VGA mode images in EXE format, and cut
and paste 200K images to the Windows clipboard. The program also features
image transformation facilities including scale, crop, symmetry, flip
vertical and horizontal. Image processing options include sharpen, blur,
edge detection/enhancement, noise removal, median filter, and user-defined
filters. Special effects include smudge, mosaic, and emboss. Color options
include brightness adjustment, contrast, negative, color balance adjustment
(RGB or CMY color models), solarize, posterisation/line art, load/save
palette, alter color depth 1/4/8/24 bits, and image dithering. You can
imort images in BMP, DIB, MSP, DCX , GIF, IMG, MAC, PCX, PIC, RAS, TGA, TIF
and WPG formats, and export in BMP, IMG, PCX, RAS, TGA, TIF, and XBM
formats. Requires 520K RAM, and 1MB of free disk space. (Note: you must use
the -d option when unzipping this program to recreate the proper directory
structure.)
-----General Drawing Programs
EMSketcher 1.0 [EMSKETCH] (John Alway, ASP; reg. fee: $12) is an ASCII
character drawing program.
PAKPCX [PAKPCX] (Mike Williams, reg. fee: $5) optimizes 256-color PCX files
by reordering the colors in the palette and rewriting the file.
---Updates: General Drawing Programs
(GR-02) PrintGL 1.42 [PRINTGL] (Ravitz Software Inc., reg. fee: $50) will
print an HP pen plotter file on a printer.
-----Business Graphics, Org. Charts
EdgeFlow 5.0 [EDGEFLOW] (John Daleiden, reg. fee: $50) is a very good
flowcharting and diagram drawing tool for DOS. It can automatically format
groups of figures, allow you to choose from menu of shapes and symbols, and
provide instant editing of charts. When text exceeds the size of a figure,
the figure grows automatically. When you move a figure, connections to
other figures and labels move along, adjusting as necessary. Use it to
create flowcharts, data-flow diagrams, block diagrams, and custom diagrams.
<CHART.PCX>
-----Graphic Presentations
Cinema 2.0 [CINEMA] (DareWare Inc., ASP; reg. fee: $24) displays PCX, GIF,
FLI and GL files, and plays VOC, WAV, CMF and MIDI files through your sound
board or PC speaker.
PhotoSoft 3.1 [PHOTOS] (Kenting Technology Limited, reg. fee: $43-93) is a
color photo presentation package which will let you overlay color text,
crop images, fade in and out, move, and utilize a variety of other display
features. You can create slide show presentations of up to 88 color photos
that can be stored on a 1.4M disk. It supports color images in standard
TIFF, Targa or PCX format. Requires VGA.
Show Maker 2.0 [SHOW30] (DareWare Inc., ASP; reg. fee: $43) allows you to
create interactive presentations and tutorials with speech, music, special
effects and graphic images. Support is provided for PCX, GIF, TIF, TARGA,
VOC, CMF WAV and MID files. Requires a hard drive and VGA. A Sound Blaster
or compatible audio card is recommended.
Trade::Show 1.0 [TRADESHO] (RCCO Research, reg. fee: $25) allows you to
create slideshow programs with PCX images for demos or presentations. It
takes a sequence of user-prepared PCX files in 640x480x16 VGA format and
displays that sequence to customers, clients, or other end-users in a
choice of three methods: at the end-user's own pace with a key click to
advance images, with a self-running continuous demo, or as a variant on the
first that waits a few seconds for a key click, and if not found, advances
automatically. Requires VGA, 512K memory, and 530K of free disk space.
---Updates: Graphic Presentations
(GR-04) Demo Workshop 1.1i [DWRK11I] (P2 Enterprises, ASP; reg. fee: $65)
creates demo and tutorial programs. NEW: support for EGA/VGA extended
colors in recordings.
(GR-04) Image Pro & Talking Slide Show 1.1 [IMAGE20] (Creative Multimedia
Software, Inc., ASP; reg. fee: $29) is a fast image processor for viewing
GIF, PCX, PIC, TIFF and TARGA graphic files. Talking Slide Show combines a
digitized human's voice, music and special effects with high resolution
images to create presentations, tutorials, demos and more.
(GR-04) MultiMedia Maker 2.1 [MMM21] (DareWare Inc., ASP; reg. fee: $83)
allows you to create custom presentations, advertising, etc. which can
contain human speech, music, sound effects and high resolution images.
(GR-04) Multimedia 1 2.0 [MULTI20] (Dareware, Inc., ASP; reg. fee: $63)
allows you to mix human speech, special effects, and music with high
resolution graphics to create customized presentations, tutorials,
advertisements and much more.
-----Printing Utilities & Applications
PrinterBuddy 2.04 [PB204] (Lenard Dean, ASP; reg. fee: $0) is a setup
utility for all printers. Printer configurations are selected from a menu
list or from the command line. It is completely customizable. The TSR
version allows you to define the hot key and specify how it will load into
memory.
Print2 2.3 [PRINT23] (William Mantz II, reg. fee: $15) will print two pages
of ASCII text on one sheet of paper using a dot matrix or Laserjet printer.
PutDate 1.0 [PUTDATE] (?, reg. fee: $0) will print the date in the upper
left hand corner of the page currently in the printer prior to going into
Lotus 1-2-3. It's useful for keeping track of worksheet updates. Assembler
source code is included.
---Updates: Printing Utilities & Applications
(P1-01) AutoFont 6.5 [AUFONT] (REXXCOM Systems, reg. fee: $34) converts
input to a large font created with ASCII characters which can be printed or
saved to disk.
(P1-01) Barcode-Blobs 1.1 [BCB] (GRAFTech Development Corporation, ASP;
reg. fee: $56) produces black and white PCX bar code graphics for use with
any programs which can import PCX graphic files.
(P1-01) MiLabel 2.6 [MILABEL] (John M. Haro, reg. fee: $15) reads a disk's
directory and prints it on a label of almost any size that will fit on a
disk - seven sizes in all. NEW: capability to dump the files read in to a
file for later usage with an external database, mouse support for all pull
down menus, printer driver support for Toshiba 321SL and Epson LQ-850,
Laser Jet III and HP-500 printing support to print on Avery labels 5160,
5196, & 5197.
(P1-01) PSDriver 0.4 [PSDRIVE] (Johannes Geenen, reg. fee: $0) is an
ASCII-to-Postscript device driver. It allows printing of ASCII files
directly to a local or network printer. NEW: reduced font size to allow
printing of 80 characters on one line, modified device driver interface,
support of different page sizes and orientations.
---Updates: Text File Formatting/Printing
(P1-02) PASCII 1.6 [PASCII16] (Nemosoft Technologies, ASP; reg. fee: $0)
prepares an ASCII file for printing. It supports headers and footers,
pagination, time and date, and margins.
---Updates: For Epson and Compatibles
(P2-01) KwikLabl 4.0/A [KWKLBL40] (John F. Cram, reg. fee: $10-15) prints
small return address labels for the upper left corner of the envelope. NEW:
prints Print Shop or PrintMaster graphics on regular labels.
-----For HP LaserJet and Compatibles
LJL 1.7 [LJL_KK] (Kurt Kellner, reg. fee: $15) will print two pages of
normal text on one page of 8.5 x 11 paper on HP LaserJet compatibles.
Single lines of text of up to 4096 bytes will automatically be wrapped to
avoid being truncated. Modules for DOS and OS/2 included.
SetDev 1.0 [SETDEV] (Kurt Kellner, reg. fee: $10) sends landscape and
compress codes to a LaserJet printer. You can define as many devices and as
many commands as you would like.
---Updates: For HP LaserJet and Compatibles
(P2-02) LJ4 Utility 1.3 [LJ4U13] (TASsoft, reg. fee: $10-13) allows you to
change the settings of the LaserJet 4 family of printers.
(P2-02) XPrt 5.4 [XPRT] (North Texas Computer Solutions, reg. fee: $15) is
an excellent file printing and control utility for HP LaserJet compatible
printers.
-----For Other Specific Printers
LPrint 2.1 [LPRINT] (Paragon Innovations, Inc., ASP; reg. fee: $30)
utilizes the advanced graphics capabilities of PostScript printers when
printing plain text files. It will allow selection of any font or print
size, portrait or landscape page orientation, enclose printed text in a
border with a title block, and more.
LPrint 2.1 [LPRINT21] (Paragon Innovations, Inc., ASP; reg. fee: $30)
formats and prints text files for Postscript printers. Features include
control over font, print size, portrait and landscape selection; embedded
form feeds, and the ability to add engineering style border, logos,
document number, titles, page, word, and char count.
---Updates: For Other Specific Printers
(P2-03) DeskJet Survival Kit 2.10 [INKJET] (Philip Kapusta, reg. fee: $15)
gives thorough instructions on how to refill your HP Deskjet ink cartridges.