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- Software of the Month Club
- April 1997 CD-ROM Program Guide
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- - DOS Children's -
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- BABYKEYS 2.3
- Child's play
- This program lets young kids play on the computer without
- affecting your system. When they press keys, sounds and music
- play, and graphics appear on the screen.
- * Thirty-three musical notes
- * Seven sounds
- * Eight melodies
- * Six graphical routines
- (Application by Multi Computing)
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- Buckets
- Word association game
- This sorting game has a wide range of difficulty -- from child's
- play to diabolical. Each puzzle includes a set of words and two
- or three buckets. Figure which words go with each other and
- place them in a bucket.
- * Hint features
- * Set time limit
- * Keep score
- (Application by Joel Wallman)
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- F. GODMOM 5.0
- Enchanting mazes
- Help your Fairy Godmother free others in this puzzle game. With
- her magic wand of transformation, she must solve the puzzles on
- each level. Avoid killer crabs and dangerous dimensional
- implosions.
- * Fifty levels
- * Toggle sound on and off
- * Help menu
- (Application by John Blackwell, Soggybread Software)
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- - Feature Program -
- Kinder Carton 4.0
- Educational collection
- A great collection of phonic, math and logic activities for young
- kids. Choose from 27 programs, including Letter Matching,
- Letter Sequencing, Alphabet Book, I Spy, Rhyming Words,
- Three-Letter Words, Amazing Words, Word Race and more.
- Math and logic activities include Lasso Count, Ordinal Numbers,
- and Manipulative Add and Subtract.
- * Change difficulty levels
- * Colorful VGA graphics
- * Numbers range from zero to 100.
- (Application by KidStuff Software; Requires a mouse driver and
- 2.5MB of hard disk space)
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- MATH WIZARD Math Tutor 1.0
- 123s
- Learn addition, subtraction, multiplication and division with this
- math tutor. You get two chances to answer each question. It
- keeps a score of how many questions you answer correctly.
- Helps build a solid foundation in numbers.
- * For home and school
- * Three help features -- teachers, parents and children
- * Toggle sound on and off
- (Application by Enterplex Software)
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- THE MATH ZAPPER 1.5
- Beginning math
- This is a great program for practicing math. Multiplication
- covers multiples of 2 to 20 and division, addition and subtraction
- numbers range from 2 to 400. Go back to the menu or quit at any
- time.
- * Choose Random for a test on all four sets
- * Help feature
- (Application by Jim Zimmerman)
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- Sounds Like A... 4.0
- Listen closely
- Four fantastic games! Match sounds to pictures in the first
- activity, music to pictures in the second. In the third, match
- pictures to sounds. The fourth game is a collection of sound
- manipulation tools.
- * Choose from 18 songs, including children's, Bible and
- Christmas songs
- * Hear 18 sounds, like a horse, dog, alarm clock, rooster and
- more.
- (Application by KidStuff Software; Requires a sound card and a
- DOS mouse driver)
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- Strategist Checkers
- Hop, skip and a jump
- Match your wits against the computer in this classic checkers
- game. Remove all of the computer's pieces from the board before
- it removes yours.
- * Restart option
- * Score points
- * Track pieces
- (Application by Arthur Crump, AGCrump; Requires a DOS
- mouse driver)
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- Talking Number Machine 4.0
- Bionic numbers
- Recognize, speak and write numbers with this educational
- program. Choose from four activities by clicking on the Number
- Machine's handle, smokestack, yellow panel or number pad.
- Activities including reading and solving word problems and
- learning to count.
- * Help features
- * To exit, click on the stop sign
- (Application by, KidStuff Software; Requires a DOS mouse
- driver)
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- Talking Time Tutor 4.0
- What time is it?
- Learn to tell time with this animated clock. Set the analog clock
- to match a digital watch, spoken and written times, and more.
- Each analog clock has its own animation routine. A bear on the
- screen tells time-related jokes!
- * High-quality digitized speech
- * Change colors
- * Three skill levels
- (Application by, KidStuff Software; Requires a DOS mouse
- driver)
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- - DOS Utility Collection -
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- BlitzCopy
- Disk duplicator
- Copy any DOS supported media with this extremely fast disk
- duplication utility. Handles 360K, 720K,1.2MB, 1.44MB and
- 2.88MB disks. Allows manual modification of serial numbers
- and disk labels, useful for backing up programs that check for
- proper serial numbers.
- * Supports disks created with Central Point Backup Software
- * Copies from multiple sources or to multiple targets
- * Format functions include safe, quick, full and label change
- * Supports unusual disk formats such as High-Density
- Format (DMF)
- (Application by BlitzWare)
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- Bobby
- Easy DOS prompt
- Manage your DOS interface easily with this comprehensive
- DOS prompt replacer. This excellent software provides an
- intuitive 3D graphical interface in high resolution. It
- incorporates all file managing functions, like copy, move,
- rename and delete.
- * View PCX/GIF pictures in VGA and SuperVGA resolutions
- * WAV/VOC sound player
- * Customizable buttons
- * User-definable hotkeys
- * Screen blanking utility prevents monitor burn-in
- (Application by Jimmy and Jon Yergaw)
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- List
- No more TYPE commands
- Tired of using the TYPE command to display your text and
- document files? List gives you much more than simple text
- viewing capabilities. Use it to view, search and print your
- documents.
- * Copy and paste selected text to a new file
- * Archive and hex viewing modes
- * Powerful built-in filters
- * Supports menu and command-line operations
- (Application by Vernon D. Buerg)
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- Syschk
- System analysis
- This utility provides comprehensive information about devices
- installed in your system.
- * Checks for computer model and manufacturer, if known
- * Checks for microprocessor types, including Intel Pentium
- and Cyrix chips - it even detects early Pentium chips with the
- floating point bug
- * Gives a complete IRQ list, including usage and availability
- * Shows complete information about the hard disks, including
- size, tracks, heads, sectors, CMOS type, drive partitions, and
- SCSI and IDE details
- * Creates printouts or files of all the system's information
- (Application by Advanced Personal Systems)
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