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_______ ____|__ | (R) CASCOLY SOFTWARE --| | |------------------- 4528 36th NE | ____|__ | Association of Seattle WA 98105 | | |_| Shareware |__| o | Professionals -----| | |--------------------- |___|___| MEMBER *************************************************************************** * REGISTERING SHAREWARE * *************************************************************************** Shareware is a means of distributing software. Under the shareware concept, software may be freely copied and passed along to others, or distributed through bulletin board systems or national networks. As a recipient of a shareware program, you may use the software for a short trial period to determine if it meets your needs. If the software is not suitable, then you can discard it. If you decide to use it, you must pay by registering. When you register a Cascoly shareware program, you receive: * A copy of the latest version of the program * A bonus of any other Cascoly program of equal or lesser value * A free introductory account on CompuServe including a private User ID number and password, $15 introductory usage credit, and a complimentary subscription to CompuServe Magazine, - a $30 value! * A minimum of 90 days online support via CompuServe or by telephone. Support by mail is also available, if accompanied by a SASE. * With some programs, you will also receive bonus maps, datasets or puzzles. To register a program, enter the following command: REGISTER and the order form will be copied to your printer. CUSTOM WORK: ------------ Need a special version of one of our programs? A variety of options are available, ranging from customized opening screens with your company's name or logo, through detailed changes to your specifications. Hardware vendors may want special versions for bundling. If interested, write us with a description of your needs and we will furnish a quotation. ------------------- ASP & the Ombudsman ------------------- Cascoly Software is a member of the Association of Shareware Professionals (ASP). ASP wants to make sure that the shareware principle works for you. If you are unable to resolve a shareware-related problem with an ASP member by contacting the member directly, ASP may be able to help. The ASP Ombudsman can help you resolve a dispute or problem with an ASP member, but does not provide technical support for members' products. Please write to the ASP Ombudsman at 545 Grover Road, Muskegon, MI 49442 or send a message via CompuServe Mail to ASP Ombudsman 70007,3536 . SUPER VGA PUZZLE Stunning images from around the world in SuperVGA color! The ultimate puzzle game. Extremely flexible -- choose any numbers of pieces from 4 to 2000! Hall of fame for your best scores. Save puzzles, solution hints, simple mouse interface, and much more! Designed to use all major SVGA boards in 800 x 600 mode, but also will work on VGA or EGA if needed. All puzzles are original photography, especially selected for these puzzles. PALETTE PLEEZER Think CONCENTRATION with colors -- lots & lots of 'em! Stunning images from around the world in SuperVGA color! But somehow, the palette has become jumbled and it's up to you to restore the image to its original beauty. How many times do you need to look at the original? Start with 10 colors and work up to 99. Great memory tester. Hall of fame for your best scores. Save partly completed games, simple mouse interface. Designed to use all major SVGA boards in 800 x 600 mode, but also will work on VGA or EGA. All puzzles are original photography. Some puzzles available include: Head of David Florence Gondola Venice Snake Charmer India Rajasthani women in market India Sunrise, Huangshan mountains China Bathers, Ganges River India Poppy fields, Appian Way Rome Machapuchare, fluted glacier Nepal Lampshades in Market Kathmandu Due to space limitations, some of the puzzles with the distributed shareware versions work only in VGA 320x200 mode or EGA 16 color mode. When you register, you can choose to receive all puzzles in EGA, VGA or SVGA mode. The size of the puzzles ranges from 300 to 500K when zipped, so they are only supplied 1.2Mb 5¼" disks or 3½" disks. When you register Super VGA Puzzle or Palette Pleezer, you can choose 2 puzzles for free. Register both programs and choose 5 puzzles for free. Registered users can order additional puzzles for only $3 each. Unregistered users may examine the other puzzles for $5 each plus shipping and handling of $3.50 per order. (Minimum order, $10). *************************************************************************** GREEN, FENCE and TOWERS use the unique Cascoly 3-D perspective graphics system that shows fantastic detail (characters actually move behind walls or through water). You're not limited to 2 directions for scrolling -- you can scroll in EIGHT directions. Also, as you scroll from side to side, the perspective changes. In GREEN you help Planters to prevent the pavers from turning farms into parking lots. Pavers include mall developers, real estate agents, clear-cut loggers and other exploiters. There are several different maps, of varying difficulty. You have the ability to plant hedges, add walls, and to destroy pavement. GREEN is a strategy game, similar in concept to Populous and SimCity. FENCE is a Tetris-like strategy game in which you build fences and mazes to prevent your sheep from escaping. You can change the landscape by planting hedges or stonewalls and by destroying unneeded fences. There are several maps, of varying difficulty. How high can you build? TOWERS is similar to Tetris, since you need to place blocks of varying size. That's where the similarity ends -- you need logic and planning, rather than quick reflexes in TOWERS. You build one level of the tower at a time, trying to fit the blocks in the tightest pattern. Each level becomes the base for the next level. ANTIC -- AntiC is a cross between Othello and Life. The object is to change all the squares in the pattern to the same color using the fewest number of transformations. Anti-Chaos networks are formed from squares connected to each other by directional lines. Each square is one of 3 colors and sends its color to the following squares in the network. If only one color comes into a square, it takes that color. If two colors come in, they cancel and the square assumes the third color. Each time you change a square, all the colors are recalculated and redrawn. Ages 8 and up. Mouse/ EGA WEBS is a deceptively simple solitaire game requiring both strategy and cunning. You claim nodes on a web while trying to limit the nodes claimed to your computer opponent. Automatic display of potential moves, a variety of webs and difficulties give hours of challenge. NEW IN V1.1: Web maker feature included. Registered users are eligible to enter a cash prize contest. Ages 8 and up. Requires mouse/EGA. PEG: No one really knows when PEG solitaire was invented. Some stories trace it to prisoners during the French Revolution, but published descriptions date at least 100 years earlier. Most likely the game is even older. PEG presents variations on the classic peg solitaire with multiple starting positions, and varying endgames. One of the pleasures of playing the game on your computer is that you can quickly set up the board to try different strategies. Ages 8 to 88. Requires mouse/EGA. ATC -- An air traffic controller game that's perfect for a few minutes or hours of fun. Easy to learn, but difficult to master. The game tracks best scores at each of 20 levels of difficulty. Ages 10 and up. (Supports monochrome or color) EGA ECOMASTER -- A diverting ecology game in which you bid for and trade animals based on their abilities to thrive in different environments. No previous biological experience is assumed. Intriguing graphics of all the animals, plus photographic images from around the world. For 1 or more players. For ages 10 and up. Requires EGA and mouse. FICTIONARY <tm> -- The game of fantastic and farfetched definitions. Each round one player chooses a word that no other player knows. You can choose your own word or pick one from the large selection included with the game. Then each other player makes up their own definition for the word. Everyone votes for what they think is the correct definition. Points are scored for guessing the proper one, or misleading other players. Special rules allow play by 2 or even 1 player. Ages 12 and up. QUILT is a diverting graphics program or nonresident screen saver, using half square quilting patterns. You can create specific patterns or set the program on sequential mode for continuously changing patterns. Change widths, patterns, rotate or flip the designs, or colors for "billions and billions" of combinations. Full EGA and VGA support, with configurable color palettes chosen from 64 possible colors. EGA/VGA req. Ages 8 to 88. CAPBUF is a memory resident (TSR) program that lets you capture any text screen and save it for later processing or printing. It is quite useful for programs that do not otherwise provide means of printing their results. Use it for intermediate results of games, or collecting copies of messages while on a bulletin board. (mono or graphics) UDECIDE helps you make decisions such as which software or hardware to purchase; ratings surveys; which project to pursue; ranking; or selecting colleges, movies, stocks, or wines. You enter a list of elements by which you will evaluate the contenders, optionally giving each a weight. Then you enter the possible options, and assign a value to each element. You can then sort to obtain an ordered list of the best options. Or you can perform what-if analyses by changing elements or weights. (mono or graphics) CHRONOS How old was Paul Revere when he rode into history? How many years separated Michelangelo and Cortez? With CHRONOS, you sort and select by individual people and events, or nations and occupations, to develop new insights and trace patterns across different eras and cultures. You can modify or expand any of the datasets. CHRONOS is used by history and art students, teachers, genealogists, writers and others interested in exploring historical relations or cultural events. CHRONOS includes a special gamemaker function and which randomly creates and presents questions of various kinds from datasets (for 1 or more players) CHRONOS comes with several datasets, which you can modify. Or you can design your own. Registered users will receive the current program along with additional datasets, such as the BIBLE series, WW2(Pacific) and 20th century. (mono or graphics) BIBLE-TIMELINE A special version of CHRONOS, this program covers the period -2000 BC through the first centuries of the Christian Church. The emphasis is on tracking the books of the Bible, but additional historical and cultural information is included for comparison. The shareware version contains BIBLE-1 datasets: GENESIS, KINGS, and ROME. Registered users receive the BIBLE-2 covering BABYLON, GREECE and EXODUS, and other CHRONOS datasets, too. Cascoly Basics ============== A complete introduction to Basic, starting with the simplest elements and working up to advanced concepts. BASIC TRAINING is shareware. It's a complete introduction to the elements of Basic. The table of contents includes: Simple Controls Looping, Color & Sound Arrays & DATA GOSUBs and Functions Files Simple Graphics This interactive tutorial comes complete with numerous examples that you can run and modify. When you've mastered this information, you're ready for: ADVANCED BASIC Topics include: Animation techniques Shape Shifting techniques Error Handling Chaining Windows Peek / poke Bload / bsave Plus, details on differences between interpreters and compilers. And complete source for all examples. Advanced Basic is ONLY available to registered users. Still not satisfied? Then you're ready to tackle some real programming. Get the Cascoly Basic Games Package, and you can see how commercial programs are put together. The games package includes complete, commented, source and extra graphics files for 2 Cascoly Shareware favorites: Air Traffic Controller and EcoMaster. ASP-HUB.DOC REV 1.0 01/14/93 (by Richard Holler) In an effort to make it easier for you to obtain your favorite software, the latest updates of many ASP authored programs can be found on the BBSs listed below. These BBSs are members of the ASP Hub Network (AHN). Zone 1 - East Coast USA North-East Coast Mid-East Coast [Site #1] [Site #2] The Consultant BBS The Break RBBS <East> Jay Caplan Bruce Jackson P.O. Box 8571 4660 Whitaker PL New York NY 10116-4655 Dale City, VA 22193-3011 Data1) 718-837-3236 Data1) 703-680-9269 Data2) Data2) 703-551-0000 Zone 2 - North Mid-USA Zone 3 - Southern Mid-USA [Site #3] [Site #4] The Twilight Zone The DataExchange BBS John Hrusovszky Don Morris 1119 E. Main St 119 Herring St. Auburndale, WI 54412 Leesville, LA 71446 Data1) 715-652-2758 Data1) 318-239-2122 Data2) Data2) Zone 4 - West Coast USA [Site #5] [Site #6] Attention to Details BBS Space BBS Clint Bradford Owen Hawkins 5085 Trail Canyon Dr PO Box X Mira Loma CA 91752 Menlo Park, CA 94026 Data1) 909-681-6221 Data1) 415-323-4398 (ASP Files) Data2) Data2) 415-323-4193 (Other Files) Zone 5 - Canada [Site #7] Knightec BBS Phil Knight 35 Robb Blvd #6 Orangeville, ONT L9W 3L1 Data1) 519-940-0007 Data2) These BBSs are bound by special agreement with the ASP. In the case of a dispute contact the ASP Omsbudsman.