SOFTWARE OF THE MONTH CLUB IBM MULTI-SIG OCTOBER 1994 Bussness A Project/Event Planner v3.1 by Sapphire Software Inc. Bring your projects in on time with easy, flexible project planner. Whether it's as simple as reserving a conference room or as complex as launching a new product line, this package has you covered. It's loaded with features. Set up your time-scale and view it by hour, day, week, month or year! Define up to 200 plans, resources and calendars in a single database! Define multiple databases, define 500 events per plan, assign different colors for each event, and the list goes on. Take charge and look like a hero at your next project meeting. Requires Windows v3.1 APRCALC v1.2 by Larry Leonard Don't take out that loan without trying APRCALC! This great program calculates loan variables and produces detailed amortization tables. Just input the principle amount, number of months financed, loan percent and payment amount. It's that simple! Give APRCALC any three of these four values and it computes the forth. It even factors in discount points and provides a break-even analysis. How else can you find the best, or most affordable, deal on that new home, car, boat or other important purchase? Requires Windows v3.1 Auto Repair Shop Management by Viet Q. La Do you run a small auto repair shop or need an efficient way to track your car's maintenance? Auto Repair Shop Management can help! It's easy to create customer records, invoices, and parts and labor lists. Once you've entered everything, print out reports for your hard-copy records. For personal use, you can track your repair bills without lugging around that shoe-box full of papers. BIBL v8.60a by Clyde W. Grotophorst Presenting BIBL (rhymes with nibble). Funny name, serious value! This full-featured package is the best way to manage your personal or office library. This one has it all! Multiple databases; text, keyword and boolean searches; ASCII import and export; over 15 reports; and more features too numerous to list! With BIBL, your important information is always accessible. BillTime v3.12 by Saroff Design If you bill for your time, you must keep accurate records! BillTime is a full-featured, multi-user, time tracking system which makes it easy to keep detailed records of time and activity per client or project. BillTime charges by time, flat rate or not at all - your choice! We love it's flexibility! It features an unlimited number of work slips, multiple data areas and reports. Best of all, it handles an unlimited number of clients, activities, projects and users. CRVPLT v6.10a by Simply Software A fantastic sales tool! Plot trend lines and see just how sales are doing and the direction in which they are going. This is a professional X-Y data plotting and curve fitting program. Enter your data manually or import it from a text file. Numerous sample files and extensive documentation make for a gentle learning "curve." Lifetime for Windows PIM v1.00 by Amber Timbre Software The revolution in personal information managers (PIMs) is here! This one is packed with features! This up-to-date program is astonishingly easy to use. Everything is easy to get to, easy to use. Keep your scheduler, to-do lists, phone books with auto-dial and contact information and notes all in one convenient location. Its object-oriented, drag-and-drop interface is one of the best we've seen. The lightning-fast find feature for text strings is superb! Need to get started fast? Check out the animated tutorial. Requires VBRUN300.DLL and Windows v3.1. TimeClock I v2.4S by Faught Data Systems, Inc. The time clock of the 90's is on your computer! This full featured, multi-employee, multi-project system does it all! You'll save hundreds of dollars over other systems, including manual methods. It's easy for employees to use. They simply log "in" and "out" from the keyboard or a bar-code scanner. At the end of each pay period, TimeClock automatically tabulates their hours. Unlike manual methods, it never makes a mistake! If you're on a network, you've got even more options! Employees can type in their ID code right from their workstations. If you track time by project or client, simply enter their name or code with any punch. Capture every billable hour! No other record-keeping is needed! Want more? How about message delivery! Send general announcements over the program's bulletin board, or enter private messages of up to 80 characters to individual employees. They get their messages as soon as they "punch." Anything else? You bet! Status boards show who's in and out; it calculates overtime and premium time; tracks sick leave, vacations and holidays; and can round off to the nearest tenth or quarter of an hour. Time is money, and this is one of the most professional time-keeping systems we've seen. Desktop Publishing CubiNaut v1.10 by silicon alley Color matching can be a hit-and-miss chore, unless you have CubiNaut. Want a color to match your favorite tie? Want just the right moss green? Don't know how to render it? CubiNaut shows colors (up to 2,362,144 different VGA shades) and their RGB coordinates. The shades are displayed in a color cube which can be rotated or "sliced" from the keyboard, revealing all of the hues of single colors. Artists will appreciate how easy it is to find RGB values of hard to produce shades. The best part is, it's fun to use! Requires a VGA. Firearms by Pete Romfh This firearms collection is a blast! All modern weapons, these 29 images offer everything from handguns to Uzis. Liven up your correspondence, newsletters and brochures with these finely drawn and detailed images. Take your best shot! FontMe! v2.6 by Fischer Grafix & Software How many fonts do you have? Hundreds? Thousands? Are you controlling them or are they controlling you? Take charge with FontMe! Use it for side by side comparisons between fonts. Even print a sample of the two fonts in various sizes and styles for a closer comparison. Still not impressed? What about those dingbat fonts? If you're tired of using the character mapper to find the specific image you want, think how easy it would be if you knew which key results in which figure. Use FontMe! to view and print your fonts on a bitmapped representation of the keyboard - in upper and lower case! Character mapper is still just a mouse click away from within FontMe! To top it all off, you can view and print your WIN.INI font section - a quick and easy way to check to see if that new font is installed. FontMe! is an absolute must for anyone who deals with fonts. Requires VBRUN300.DLL Houses by Pete Romfh Woodsy, shingled and tiled, every house in this collection has a rustic, pastoral feel. From bungalow to A-frame, these 12 images will spruce up any publication. In the Kitchen by Pete Romfh Breads, fruits, vegetables! All fresh and appetizing. This mouth-watering collection of edibles is rendered in fine detail. These images are perfect for menus, recipe books, party invitations, newsletters, envelopes, postcards and stationary. Produce professional looking illustrations by placing a frame around the image. Over 40 luscious images are included. Bon appetit! Isla Bella by B. Haber Isla Bella is an attractive, flowing font with lots of curves and swirls. Its sweeping lines add that extra flourish to headings, captions and text. MULTIMEDIA MAKER v2.1sw by DareWare Inc. Wow, is this ever slick! Scan in a bunch of images, record your voice and you've got an entire multimedia show -- all from DOS. That's right! MULTIMEDIA MAKER is a business and educational tool that has endless application and potential. Create custom presentations, advertising, demos, tutorials, tests, reports, school projects and much more! Now you can easily combine human speech, music and sound effects with high resolution images, all the way up to SVGA level! Create your own custom audio/video shows on any subject, place, product or procedure. MULTIMEDIA MAKER supports Sound Blaster and compatibles. If you don't have Sound Blaster, PC internal speaker support is provided. And because this is a DOS-based program, your presentations will run on any PC -- even if it doesn't have Windows! Extensive documentation makes this an easy package to learn and use. This one's got it all! (VGA and a hard drive are required.) Nahkt Hieroglyphs by Match Software Egyptian hieroglyphs are endlessly fascinating, and this collection is no exception. This group is extra special - each hieroglyph is mapped to the keyboard key closest to it phonetically. This means you can type in your name for a close approximation of a "translation" into Egyptian glyphs. Use Nahkt Hieroglyphs to add the mystery of Egypt to newsletters, cards and brochures. Oakwood ProFont by Jim Pearson This font has a heritage! Oakwood ProFont was inspired by the charming Oakwood Historical District in downtown Raleigh, NC, and emulates the clean, broad-brushed style of the old downtown signage. A sans serif font, it is simple and elegant. It contains over 1100 kerned pairs and has extensive bitmap editing. Excellent for titles and headings. Printer's Ornaments One by Michelle Dixon What a treasury of classic woodcut designs! These designs are clean, crisp and highly attractive. Perfect for enclosing special text! Ideal as paragraph separators! What an excellent addition to any font collection! Taco Salad by B. Haber Spice up your publications with this wide, rough and angular typeface. Add the right flavor to headings, titles and captions with this saucy font. The Victorian Clipart Sampler by Words, Etc. These highly ornamental images bring back the atmosphere of Victorian England. These 11 high-resolution images (300dpi) range from a dog to a magnificently rendered skeleton. Use these beautiful images to liven up any document or publication. Games Desert Storm Command by MVP Software You are there! You'll love this realistic arcade-style game that puts you in the major battles of the Persian Gulf War. Its 20 missions, both Combat and Scud, take you all over the gulf region. You must execute each mission successfully before moving on. Hot Gulf War action, authentic video-capture animation, 256-color graphics, explosive digitized sound, and a sizzling original musical score add up to make this the best Gulf War arcade game of them all! Strap on your helmet and hit the sand! Requires VGA and a mouse. A sound card is optional. Warning: Contains violence. Parental discretion advised. Diamonds v1.0 by C & L Software Diamonds are forever, but first you have to rid the board of all red, blue, green and cyan squares. This hot new game has a variety of levels. On each one, you must get all the diamond squares while eliminating the rest. Get rid of them by touching the key of the same color. Touch them, and they disappear! It's a gem! Jazz Jackrabbit by Epic MegaGames A ground-breaking game with ultra-smooth, incredibly fast VGA graphics! It'll rock you with digital audio surround-sound! The action is white hot! Look out Sonic. Jazz Jackrabbit is coming! He's coming at light speed and carries a big gun! You lead the animated Jazz across the galaxy to save kidnapped Eva Earlong, the exotic bunny princess. You must see it to believe it! Requires a 33-MHz 80386 processor or better and 4 Meg of memory. Supports joystick, Gravis Gamepad, SoundBlaster, SB Pro, SB-16, PAS-16 and Gravis Ultrasound sound cards. Jewels v2.0 by Rickers Computing Mind-bending strategy game with a twist! Great animation and sound keep you coming back for more! Are you clever enough, devious enough, to outmaneuver your opponents and win all the jewels? Keep things interesting by choosing from ten playing boards, and from one to four human or computer opponents. Sound Blaster and Adlib are supported. Mystic Towers v1.1 by Apogee Wow! Apogee's done it again! Mystic Towers gives a whole new perspective to 3-D games. The skewed point of view adds an eerie element to this action packed adventure! You've never seen anything like Mystic Towers! Explore hundreds of rooms and use magic and wits to overcome the traps, dark forces and sinister creatures. Excellent animation adds breathtaking reality and even comic relief! Outrageous sounds keep the adrenaline flowing. This new-style game comes with all the high end features you expect from Apogee, including save/restore and joystick control. A VGA is required. Rummy 500 v2.0 by Carol Bufton Looking for hours of fun? Check out Rummy 500, an exciting variation of Gin Rummy. You play against the computer. Think you're a hot shot? Try your luck against the expert level. Still learning the game? Start at the lower skill levels and watch your game improve! This version has all the bells and whistles, including different card styles, auto-mouse (moves the mouse pointer automatically between deck and hand) and variable opponent skill level. Requires Windows v3.1 and Visual Basic Run-Time v3.0 (VBRUN300.DLL). SkyRoads 3D v1.1 by Creative Dimensions & BlueMoon Software Can you handle the challenge of SkyRoads? Before you are free to fly, you must complete a grueling training of six separate levels, as you learn to cruise and jump your hovercraft. Then you are free to master the perilous mazes in outer space - if you are good enough! SkyRoads 3D is a challenging 256 color 3D game. Astonishing 3D realism. Requires an EGA or VGA, and Sound Blaster and Adlib are supported. Win Block v5.0 by G. L. Liadis Software, Inc. A feast for strategy enthusiasts! If you like a tough challenge, you'll love Win Block! The player with the most pieces wins. Your moves are limited by your ability to capture enemy pieces. If you can't capture, you skip a turn. Capture your opponent's pieces by surrounding them on two sides. Comes with three challenging levels. The final level will have you sweating bullets! Play with the computer, a friend or an enemy. Comes with online hint mode, background music or sound effects. Requires Visual Basic Run-Time v3.0, included, and Windows v3.1. World Empire III for Windows v2.0 by Viable Software Conquer the world! Military buffs will love this outstanding strategy game. Based on the award-winning DOS game, World Empire III puts 139 real world countries at your mercy. Outstanding graphics, expanded interface and MIDI soundtrack put you in the heart of the action. This program has earned its five-star rating! Requires Visual Basic Run-Time v3.0, included, and Windows v3.1. General Interest Astro v2.82 by Christopher J. Noyes Do the stars hold a message for you? Can astrology reveal your personality - your fate? Find out for yourself! This is the most complete astrological program we've seen. It's got it all! Charts, wheels, text and more! It doesn't leave you hanging with unexplained, esoteric numbers. It generates complete wheels! The numbers are there, but best of all there is a clear textual evaluation explaining exactly what those numbers mean. If you're daring enough, have it produce compatibility charts between you and your spouse, your boss or your friends. It's bound to be an eye-opener. Print out the charts and text and save them for reference. This one is heavenly! The Birthday Chronicle v1.2s by Kenneth Kirkpatrick What was happening in the world the day you were born? This program prints out a newsletter based on your birth date! We tried it on one of our technicians, inputting his name and birth date. It printed out a fascinating one-page newsletter, laid out like the front page of a newspaper. It's that easy! The major events for his birth date included "Soviet Union has the Hydrogen Bomb," "Yankees Win 1953 World Series," "The 26th Annual Academy Awards," and "Top Hits of '53. "Weather, politics, sports,human interest stories and more. We're impressed! These are suitable for framing. What a unique way to wish someone a happy birthday! You'll give a gift they'll save and enjoy for years to come. Fascinating! (In case you're interested, one of the Top Hits of '53 was "Doggie in the Window.") Fast Inflate v1.7 by Brad Bahr Fast, fast, fast decompression -- without the bends! What do you do if you have a directory stuffed with compressed files that you want to decompress in their own subdirectories? Do you have to create each separate subdirectory before decompressing the files into them? There's a better, faster way! Fast Inflate automatically creates a subdirectory for each compressed file it finds. It then decompresses the file into the newly created subdirectory. It can even use McAfee's SCAN to search the extracted files for virus infection. Use with any compressed files with ZIP, ARJ or LZH extensions. NOTE: You must have PKUNZIP.EXE, ARJ.EXE and LHA.EXE in a directory in your path. If you want to check for virus infection, you must have SCAN.EXE in your path. First Name Almanac v1.03c by Ken Kirkpatrick Do you know the hidden meaning of your name? Are you selecting a name for a child, or perhaps for a character in a story? With First Name Almanac, you have over 14,500 first names at your fingertips. Origin, root and meaning -- this program reveals all the details. Looking for a thoughtful and inexpensive gift? This program gives a quality printout in a calligraphic script suitable for framing. You can also print a list of traits people with this name may possess, six lucky numbers to help win the lottery, and astrological sign. Our technicians had a wild time feeding their names into this program. It's a winner! An HP compatible laser printer or dot-matrix with Laser Emulation Software is required. MEG v3.4 by Jim Tolliver A picture is worth a thousand words! This colorful system-information program depicts your system resources in an easy to grasp format! Large and small pie charts and 3-D bars colorfully show all the important values for your space and memory usage: displays used; free, percent free and total disk space; and memory. And there's more! Display date, time, DOS version, Windows version, and CPU type and speed. All in a simple, easy-to-read format. No matter what kind of drives you use - hard, floppy, network or CD-ROM - MEG has you covered! Need information on other disk drives? Simply click the left mouse button. Finished being dazzled by the colorful display? Click the right mouse button to exit. VGA required. MPause v1.01 by Michael A. Jarvis Give your mouse "pause." If you work with DOS batch files, you've probably been frustrated by trying to click for the "Pause" command. MPause corrects this nuisance - it detects your mouse and continues at your click. TNCOPY by T. Nelson Good news for low-density disk users! Now you can manage large files without the frustration. Use this small, useful utility to copy large files across multiple floppies and then reassemble them at the destination. This is the perfect backup utility for people that have low density drives! ToDo List v2.0 by Rock View A superior version of the "to do" list! What makes it so special? You always know where it is, what you need to do and what you've already done. Need a hard-copy? It's easy - just print one out! All entries can be modified. Exquisitely simple! Kids Animated Money v1.0 by FLIX Productions If your kids can't make heads or tails of coined money, this great game is for them! Learning coin recognition and math skills has never been so much fun. These photographically scanned coins are so realistic your child will have no trouble recognizing them. There are three types of games. In the money recognition game the child matches the coin to its amount, using both heads and tails. The other two games have adjustable levels of difficulty. One game has the child match a group of coins to its amount, the other matches equivalent groups of coins. Make 10 correct matches and your child wins a ticket to a short animated movie. Kids love them! There are 10 different animations in full 256-colors, using techniques like clay- animation, full-motion video, stop-motion and morphing. And music and sound effects galore! Choose from U.S. or Canadian currency. Context sensitive help, keyboard and mouse support provided. Requires VGA and a hard drive. Mouse optional (but fun). Jigsaw Puzzle v1.0 by InTime Corporation If you're looking for a challenging puzzle, you've found it! Jigsaw Puzzle is exciting, artistic and unique. It actually "cuts" the puzzle into realistic pieces - so realistic you feel you are actually arranging a puzzle on your coffee table. All the pieces are visible and are easy to arrange. The best part is that you never lose the pieces! Save the puzzle without disturbing the pieces - it's as simple as a keystroke or mouse-click. Want more excitement? Check out the Expert and Master modes! Jigsaw Puzzle keeps score based on how long it takes you to complete a picture. If you play too slow, successfully placed pieces begin dropping out! Whether you're a first time puzzle user or an advanced puzzle connoisseur, you're in for a real treat! Ladder Man III v1.0 by Soleau Software These are the continuing adventures of Ladder Man! He's in a mind-boggling series of puzzle rooms. Help him collect all the light bulbs and reach the elusive doorway. Use the ladder to reach objects like TNT, boats, balloons and crates while avoiding deadly lasers and dangerous water hazards. You must literally construct his escape! WARNING! ADDICTIVE! Learn to Sign for DOS v3.1 by Adsoft Corporation Learn sign language and let your fingers do the talking! Not only does it teach American Sign Language (ASL), this tutorial also comes with a dictionary of 120 common words, like hello, mother, colors and other common words. Need to translate a document into ASL? It's easy! Learn to Sign translates text files (up to 15,000 characters) into ASL. Quizzes on "finger spell" and actual signs included. (ASL also makes a great "secret" language!) EGA/VGA required. Vocabulary Power v2.13 by Wisco Computing Get ahead with this excellent vocabulary builder! The fun and educational activities include word searches, bingo cards, word jumbles - too many to mention! Create special games for parties and study aids. It's incredibly easy to make up matching and multiple choice quizzes, word searches, crypto-lists, vocabulary bingo cards, flash cards and word juggles from your words and clues. It's fun, amusing, entertaining, engrossing, engaging, enthralling . . . well, you get the message. OS/2 Barnes by David Barnes Wall to wall OS/2 wallpaper! And we mean OS/2. All nine of these great bitmapped images are based on the OS/2 logo. What a variety of treatments! Choose from a platinum, shadowed surface with "OS/2" in raised letters. Or "OS/2" on each face of a colored cube. One even mimics Chinese style writing! Add pizzazz to your workspace background! Add Barnes wallpaper! FIHLib Icons, icons, whose got the icons? You do! Over 2,000 fantastic, descriptive icons for Icon Heaven. Selection is easy with over 25 library files. If you don't find it here, it might not exist! File Manager/2 v2.02 by Mark Kimes The hottest OS/2 file manager around! Are your hard drives, directories and files bulky and out of control? Master them with File Manager/2! This one does it all! You can rename, move, copy and delete files; create and remove directories; view files and archives; view and set attributes; too many features to list! This is the only file manager you'll need. Icon Heaven v1.01 by The Frobozz Magic Software Company An excellent program for managing icon libraries! Not only can you create and maintain icon libraries for OS/2 applications, you can store over 90% more in the same space your using now! That's right! Icon Heaven compresses the icons into a library file. This saves considerable space - the compressed icons take up only 7% of the space of decompressed icons. View, select and assign icons without fuss and bother. This one's a gem! Panel Display System v1.05 by Rick W. Hodgson If you write REXX execs, this program will make you're life easier. It's a great tool for developing shortcuts and programs. Create simple, powerful, interactive user interfaces -- without OS/2 Presentation Manager! You define the panels, and PDS calls the REXX application programming interface. Extensive documentation and several samples are included. PM Attrib v1.0 by Larry R. Tubbs Jr This handy little utility is an attribute filter. No more OS/2 command line hassles with PM Attrib around! Simply select the attributes you want set, select the file or files you want to work with, then drag and drop them on PM Attrib's work space. It's as easy as that! This is perfect for turning off the read-only attribute left active after copying files from CD-ROM. PMMPEG v2.1 by SES Computing, Inc. "Let's stay home and go to the movies tonight." Now you can play MPEG digital movies from your OS/2 desktop! Like the DOS Xing player, it can play I-Frame style movies used on the DOS Xing MPEG player. Unlike Xing, you can now play IBP-Frame style movies! Or drag and drop multiple files onto PMMPEG, and create your own slide-shows! You bring the popcorn. ScreenSaver v1.3 by Siegfried Hanisch What does your screen do when you turn away? Now you have 13 choices -- 13 full color, moving saver modules. Our favorite is a kaleidoscopic effect of speckled colors and screen splashes -- hard to describe, hypnotic to watch. Or choose a Hollywood style grand opening, with spotlights sweeping the skies. Or try the one that dices up your screen and then begins shifting the squares -- entrancing! This easy-to-use, 32-bit, screen saver for OS/2 2.x monitors keyboard and mouse activity. After the specified time of inactivity, ScreenSaver kicks in! It's modular -- you can create new screen savers of your own design. The only limit is your imagination! Check out the on-line help topics -- they'll get you started. Sample code is included. Protecting your screen has never been so much fun! SSVSSM by Siegfried Hanisch It's hard to find a way to improve ScreenSaver, but we did it! Here are an additional four saver modules to add color and excitement to your screens. Watch a set of lines chase each other across the screen or a swarm of dots racing about forming infinite random patterns. This is the entertaining way to save your screen from burn-in. VirusScan v2.10 by McAfee, Inc. Only you can prevent computer viruses! We've assembled two of the best, most reliable anti-virus programs as a service to "Club" members. This powerful, advanced system detects, eradicates and prevents data-destroying computer viruses. The Scan program detects known viruses in your computer's memory or on disks. Once a virus is detected, it can be removed and your system returned to normal operation. VShield is a memory-resident program which continuously monitors and protects your system from viruses. In combination, these programs work together to protect your most precious asset -- your data. If you wait until you need it, it could be too late! You Guess It v1.01 An exciting and addictive guessing game reminiscent of the classic "MasterMind" game. The program selects four random numbers, and you have ten tries to guess correctly. As you enter your guesses, You Guess It tells you how many numbers you have correct and how many are in the correct order. Guaranteed to provide hours of fun and frustration! Requires the Panel Display System which is included. sir GENERAL INTEREST GRAPHICS / DESKTOP PUBLISHING CHART'S UNLIMITED- Integrates graphics and text processing into one powerful system. Create flow, organizational, and Gantt charts, along with floor plans and electrical diagrams. _______________________________________ C Morph- The Complete Morph is a very user-friendly morphing facility. Requires: 386DX+/4MB+ _______________________________________ ENVISION PUBLISHER- The only true shareware desktop publishing application. Includes WYSIWYG interface, fonts, clip art/text importing, good printer support, and much more. _______________________________________ GRAPHIC WORKSHOP- Manipulate PCX, GEM/IMG, TIFF, EPS, WPG, MSP IFF/LBMCE, BMP, and PIC files. _______________________________________ Image Gallery - Creates a visual database for your clip art. Also performs graphic conversions. _______________________________________ NeoBook Pro- This is a very affordable multimedia authoring software. _______________________________________ NEOPAINT- The ultimate image editor! Supports many drawing functions and includes many special effects. _______________________________________ NeoShow Pro- A great image presentation package for DOS. _______________________________________ PC-DRAFT-CAD- Provides features found only in more expensive CAD systems, including automatic dimensions, unlimited layers, multiple fonts, object libraries, and dot-matrix printer support. _______________________________________ PRINT PARTNER- Create your own multi-page horizontal banners, full-page signs, and one-month calendars on dot matrix printers. Requires CGA and a printer. _______________________________________ RELATIONAL DATABASE MANAGERS PC-FILE- General purpose database manager which combines maximum power with ease of use. _______________________________________ WAMPUM- Performs virtually all of the functions supported by dBase III with a simple menu system. (Requires a hard disk.) _______________________________________ SPREADSHEETS AS-EASY-AS- Superb spreadsheet applicaton. _______________________________________ GAMES CASINO GAMES BJ Tables- Emulates a realistic game of casino Blackjack. _______________________________________ Craps Complete- Fast-paced game where only the knowledgeable gambler will stand a chance of coming out a winner. Requires EGA and a mouse. _______________________________________ Crazy Eights- High resolution VGA graphics make this card game come alive. Requires VGA. _______________________________________ Doubles Pinochle- Play the card game known as ÒDouble-Pack-PinochleÓ on your computer. Requires VGA. _______________________________________ Four Seasons- Standard one-deck solitaire also known as ÒCorner CardÓ and Ò Vanishing Cross:. Program requires Windows v3.1 and Visual Basic Run-Time v2.0. _______________________________________ Keno Simulator- Simulates the typical Las Vegas Keno lounges. Requires VGA and a mouse. _______________________________________ Poker Dice- This is a new dice game, based on the principal of playing Draw Poker. _______________________________________ Poker Galore- Video poker game widely played in Las Vegas. Requires EGA/VGA and Sound Blaster supported. _______________________________________ Poke it Poker- Video poker game with great Windows graphics and two styles of play, JokerÕs Wild and regular Draw Poker. Requires Windows. _______________________________________ Slot- Slot machine that pays 98.9%. Allows up to five coins to be played at once. _______________________________________ Smart Solitaire- Challenging, one-player game of cards. Requires EGA/VGA and a mouse. _______________________________________ TwoBit Poker- Implementation of the video Poker machines. Requires EGA/VGA. _______________________________________ Ulimate Baccarat- Go where no Baccarat player has gone before, into the Ulimate Zone. A tutor is provided to take you through the game step by step. Requires EGA/VGA. _______________________________________ Ulitimate BlackJack- Enter into a fully animated casino card game and gambling school. Requires EGA/VGA. _______________________________________ WORD EGA/VGA Wheel- Spin the big wheel for prizes! Includes both the EGA and VGA versions. _______________________________________ LarryÕs HangMan- Includes three different levels of play and the option to add your own words to the existing word list. Requires VGA. _______________________________________ Quato- The object of Quato is to push around letter tiles on a 5 x 5 game grid to spell as many words as you can within three minutes. Requires EGA/VGA. _______________________________________ WINDOWS FONTS Font Monster- Multi-purpose font utlity. Ulitimate goal is to be an all in one monster of a utility for font fanatics. Requires Visual Basic Run-Time v3.0. _______________________________________ PrinterÕs Apprentice- Create your own professional-looking stylebooks for any font. _______________________________________ TrueType Font Collection- Collection of type for Windows v3.1 or higher. _______________________________________ GRAPHICS AND PUBLISHING Cad/Draw - Powerful CAD and drawing application. Features numerous drawing tools, associated dimensioning, library management, user defined hatching and more. _______________________________________ Cad Vantage- Cad Vantage allows you to create drawings of real world objects in two dimensions, using their actual measurements. Requires Windows v3.1. _______________________________________ CHARTIST- Create, edit, and print flow charts, organization charts, or others with similar components. _______________________________________ Graphic WorkShop- The popular DOS graphic manipulator, now available for Windows. _______________________________________ Image Commander - Image management and manipulation. Features: Organizing images into albums, arrange drag and drop or sort option. Supports 21 different file formats and more. _______________________________________ Image Conversion- Image Conversion Utility is a true Windows Drag & Drop application. Formats supported are: TIFF, BMP, PCX, GIF, and more. _______________________________________ Paint Shop Pro- Paint Shop Pro will display, scan, alter, print and convert images. PSP supports 23 of the most common bitmap formats. _______________________________________ Thumbs Up- Graphic image, clip-art browsing and catalog program whcih provides extensive viewing, thumbnailing, printing and file organization. _______________________________________ TopDraw - Powerful yet easy to use object-oriented drawing program. For: desktop publishing, illustrations, diagrams, logos, brochure, newsletters, and more. Requires Windows v3.1. _______________________________________ ICONS IconMaster- The premier icon creator/editor. _______________________________________ The Icon Librarian- The Icon Librarian makes manipulation of icons easy: you can categorize, delete, and choose icons from up to 100. _______________________________________ Zicons 2 A variety of different icons. _______________________________________ KIDS GRAPHICS Dr. MoteÕ s Colorbook - Easy-to-use coloring program for children. Requires EGA/VGA and a mouse. _______________________________________ Kid Paint- Fun paint program just for kids! Requires EGA/VGA. _______________________________________ MAGIC CRAYON- Collection of three colorful and fun games for children 3 to 12 years old. Requires EGA/VGA and a mouse. _______________________________________ TESTING / TEACHER Animated Memory - Animated Memory uses 30 animated sequences to test memory skills. Requires EGA/VGA. _______________________________________ Brandon's Big Lunchbox- Includes keyboard practice, problem solving, reading drills, alphabetic matching, and memory games. _______________________________________ I.Q. CHALLENGE- Tests your knowledge. _______________________________________ Kids Trivia- Are your children whiz kids? Well they will be after a round of this game! Geared just for the children ages 10 & up this game will keep them busy for hours learning while they are having fun. Requires EGA/VGA. _______________________________________ QuizMaker - QuizMaker a multi-media educational tool. With QuizMaker you can make or take quizzes and tests in multiple formats. Requires a hard disk and a color monitor. _______________________________________ TEACHER- Includes practice sessions for spelling, antonyms, synonyms, math, history, geography, and more. _______________________________________ Verbal Vanquish- The Scholastic Aptitude Test tutorial. _______________________________________ Windows Drag and File v1.60 by Canyon Software This program does it all! Windows file management problems are a thing of the past! This is a very powerful and easy to use Windows File Manager replacement. Drag and File offers all the features of File Manager plus a host of extras that streamline and simplify the work of managing files. At your fingertips you have drag-and-drop file move, copy and delete. Multiple windows can be used to work with several different drives at once, zip files in selected directories across drives, view most graphics files and text files, and perform batch operations on all files. Drag and File even offers a directory finder and a duplicate file finder. And there's more! How about single click execution of the most frequent tasks from a toolbar, full hot key control for keyboard execution, extensive on-line help, and an uninstall feature? You've just got to see this one! FormPower v1.00b by EZX Corporation The ultimate forms processor! Design, produce and fill-out forms with true WYSIWYG (what-you-see-is-what-you-get) ease. It comes with a wealth of pre-designed forms - forms for invoicing, sales, pricing, every type of form a small business could need. If that's not enough, you can also customize or even create your own forms! Features include multiple open forms, cut/paste, protected fields/objects, and much, much more. Unlike page document composition, the logical object-oriented drawing tools are state of the art and optimized for forms design and manipulation. Its interactive screen is exceptionally clear, intuitive and easy to use. Font size, typeface and printer options (including FAX transmission) are limited only by what is available under Microsoft Windows for your system. For truly flexible forms production, you can even print the filled-in data and the form at the same time! Great for basic desktop publishing too! Requires Windows v3.1. FoxFire 13 Solitaire for Windows v1.00 by Randy Rasa and Todd Svec Solitaire players, you are not alone! This entirely new game is easy to play, difficult to win and addictive to the point of distraction. Solitaire buffs will feel right at home. It has all the traditional qualities combined into a new and exciting mix! If you're not a solitaire buff ... well, you soon will be! Challenging to learn, challenging to play, FoxFire 13 makes you work for your wins. Are you good enough? Requires Visual Basic Run-Time v2.0 (VBRUN200.DLL), included. Media BlastOFF! v1.0 by Tek Development All of the sights! All of the sounds! Turn your computer into a multimedia file player! Just drag and drop to preview your clip art, animations and sounds - all with one program! Supports a wealth of formats - FLI, FLC, AVI, AAS, DIB, RLE, PCX, GIF, BMP, WAV and MID. And there's more! It supports all MCI audio boards for playback. Ready for a little relaxation? Simply drop your favorite audio CD in the drive, start up the built-in CD player, and sit back and enjoy! These sights and sounds will overwhelm your senses. Requires VBRUN300.DLL, included, and Windows v3.1. Memory Watcher v2.1 by Martin Roskelly Do you know that low memory can actually damage your system? Let Free System Resources (FSR) act as your watch dog, alerting you before low memory can cause any harm. Memory Watcher's three bars display the availability of system resources in Windows. In addition to FSR, there are also User Resource and Graphic Device Interface displays. Find out what resources specific programs require, and more! Memory Watcher comes with information options to create, view, print and more! Find out what your system is up to with Memory Watcher! Requires Visual Basic Run-Time v3.0 (VBRUN300.DLL), included, and Windows v3.1. PCWings Icons by PCWings The aircraft of the 1920's were something special. The Wright brothers heavier-than-air craft came out of World War I changed for ever. This icon collection represents a variety of different airplanes and jets, from the B-47 to the F-104, from Curtiss R3c-2 to Schneider cup float planes like Supermarine S.6B. Check it out for even more images! PlantMate by IrishStar Enterprises Let Windows give you a green thumb! This computerized "plant book" contains eighteen different plants from african violet and aloe vera to spider and ti plants. Each plant has a brief description, a picture, special care instructions and optimum lighting conditions. Just add water and watch your plants grow! Requires Visual Basic Run-Time v2.0, included. Progslot v2.3 by Patrick Shepard All the action! All the sounds! This one-armed bandit is loaded and ready to go! A three-reel progressive slot machine, Progslot closely mimics the payoff odds and operation of a typical Vegas slot machine. The jackpot starts at 1000 and is incremented by 1 for every 20 bet. You can bet up to three coins, adjust the reel-speed option to increase or slow down the machine, and display a payoff chart. Hit the jackpot and hear the sound of cascading coins! WAV files supply real slot machine sounds. Requires Windows v3.1. Shuffleboard 3D v1.0 by Walter A. Kuhn Your shuffleboard skills are challenged by three computerized opponents, each of whom has a unique playing style. The court is shown in a three-dimensional perspective view. Aim and propel your discs to the scoring target at the opposite end of the court using a mouse instead of a cue. Requires a mouse, Windows v3.1, a good eye and a steady hand! Time Chaser v3.4 by InfoWare Solutions Inc. One of the best PIM/Contact Manager for Windows we've seen! This one's got it all! The main screen is an open desk diary which displays your to-do list and your appointments side by side. It's fully loaded - you get both white and yellow pages phone books, and a unique "quick" phone book using familiar lettered tabs. Instant access to everything - all appointments, to-do's, phone books, word processor, calendar, month-at-a-glance, special logs, a unique timer for time billing, a pop-up calculator, extensive search capabilities - too much to mention. You've got to see it! Absolutely wonderful! Requires Visual Basic Run-Time v3.0 (VBRUN300.DLL), included. Windows Shopper v2.00 by Thomas P. Wright What breaks the back of your family's budget? Most people answer groceries and household expenses. Windows Shopper can help! Handier than a database, it's a great way to track comparative prices. Cut down on unscheduled and inefficient shopping trips! The Store Shopping Lists, automatically separates your items by store - even by aisle! Shopping trips become a snap! We love this one! Requires Visual Basic Run-Time v3.0 (VBRUN300.DLL), included.