Software of the Month Club March 1995 IBM OS/2 ALPHA v2.3 = ALPHAL.ZIP by IBM ALPHA is a small, fast, and easy-to-use text editor. ALPHA handles files with record lengths of 256 characters or less. For programmers, ALPHA provides syntax highlighting. Several programming languages are supported, including FORTRAN, C, and assembler. For none programmers, this provides an interesting learning tool. Load a source code file (alpha.c is included) and you will see the structure of the language. However, programmer or not, ALPHA is a useful little application for everyone. BMP Viewer v1.1 = BMPVEW.ZIP by Keystone Software Corp. A fantastic bitmap viewer for OS/2! You'll love the drag and drop support. Simply drag a bitmap to the viewing window, drop it in, and the bitmap is displayed! The second window gives you path listings drag a directory folder containing your bitmaps to the window, drop it in, and the path is stored. You can even set up a "slide show" to view your bitmaps. You'll never have to guess again about the images hidden behind cryptic file names BMP Viewer reveals all! Hoops/2 = HOOPS.ZIP by GABWare Just in time for the coming college basketball tournaments, Hoops/2 is a software program for managing a college basketball tournament pool. Hoops/2 frees you from the tedious, and error-prone, task of evaluating contestant's entries against the actual results as the tournament progresses. Hoops/2 is easy to use, has a full graphical user interface, and will serve you year after year. RemindMe v1.01 = RME101.ZIP by Eric A. Wolf RemindMe is a calendar and schedulintg application for OS/2 2.x and the new Warp. You can easily schedule appointments, reminders, and to-do items. This is great as a personal information manager for those that want functionality more than bells, whistles, and frills. Plus, RemindMe is smaller and MUCH faster than IBM's calendar application. And, as an added bonus, the C++ source code is included! PalView v1.0 = PALVUE.ZIP by John D. Webb Now you have color control and confidence! PalView displays the colors to which the palette is currently set. It monitors the hardware color palette of your video display device. As different applications change the palette settings, PalView displays the changes as they happen! You can also use this application to display information about individual color entries. PolyCalc = POLY.ZIP by Graduate Software PolyCalc is a full featured programmers/engineers calculator. This little beauty has all the features you could imagine or want. Support for decimal, hexidecimal, and binary math; memory storage; logs; roots; powers; and many, many more. PolyCalc is easy to learn and easy to use. If, in the unlikely event, you have any questions, PolyCalc comes with an extensive help system. PolyCalc will serve all your calculating needs, whatever they may be. Pounce v1.03 = POUNCE.ZIP by SoftPaw Development Pounce is a utility program which allows you to capture images from the OS/2 Presentation Manager screen to files or to the clipboard for importing directly into other programs. You can capture all or part of the screen and have a number of options to select from for manipulating the image upon capture. The hotkey sequence to activate Pounce is completely configurable to help avoid conflicts with key sequences used by other programs. Unzip Shell v1.1 = UNZS.ZIP by Power Programming, Inc. Take control of ZIP files with this excellent utility! It's got everything from ease of use to speed! At the click of a button, you can view the contents of a ZIP file, preview files prior to extracting, and extract files to specified destinations. Handling ZIP files has never been this easy! Compare Files v1.1 = CMPFLS.ZIP by Keystone Software Corp. Select and compare multiple files easily and accurately! The best part is its speed Compare Files is fast. An efficient way of keeping up on your file management chores. PmWraith v1.0 = PMWRTH.ZIP by Quentin Sarafinchan You are in a cavern full of mine cars. Unfortunately, you are not alone. The caverns are inhabited by Wraiths, and the Wraiths are out to get you! The good news? Wraiths can not move the mine cars. All you have to do is lure the wraiths into an area and then surround them by mine cars. They're trapped and your safe. Easy? Well... you'll find out! World Clock v1.1 = WLDCLK.ZIP by Louis LaBrunda This is not just another OS/2 clock. World Clock is a multi-city time display. It provides six different clocks, each individually configurable. You can now display the times for San Diego, New York City, London, Paris, Hong Kong, and Moscow or any six cities you select! Change them at any time, quickly and easily. Educational, informative and useful take the time to check it out!