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Product catalog from SHIVA SYSTEMS INC. Enhancements for your Online Systems ___________ ____ _ _ ____ _ _ ____ ___________ (___________ ( __)| |_| (_ _) \ / ) _ | ___________) (_________ \__ \| _ |_||_ \ `.' / _ | _________) (_______ (_____|_| |_(____) \_/ |_| |_| _______) BBSing on the Bleeding Edge! Shiva Systems, Inc. The Dance of Shiva BBS 6111 Regal Springs Dr. Louisville, KY 40205 Sysop by Internet Email: Chuck@shivasys.com Data: 502.899.7773 Voice: 502.897.1494 -=] CONTENTS [=- ____________________________________________________________________________ | Product Price Audience | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Pique - .BAG file processor $17.00 Pagesat/Planet Connect The Online Purity Test $39.00 TBBS systems The Internet Mailer $29.00 TBBS systems The CIA World Factbook $20.00 TBBS systems The 'Ultimate' Event Calendar $79.00 TBBS Systems MoveSL -.DIR sorter/master lister $25.00 TBBS Systems PCM Online Magazine *Varies -ALL- systems ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Note: More information and a demonstration of all products is available online on the Dance of Shiva BBS. When logging on just choose '^' from the Main Menu, this will take you to PRODUCT SUPPORT. ============================================================================ PIQUE v2.0 (C) 1994 K. W. Risser August 1994 Price: $17.00 Pique is a Usenet .BAG file processor. This is used mainly in conjunction with those BBS systems that are running the Planet Connect or Pagesat satellite systems. Pique will process the downlinks .BAG files and create new .BAG files with -only- those newsgroups you configure it for. It will additionally weed out any and/or all of those nasty and unwanted UNIX header lines so that the size of your message base will be smaller and the messages will be more attractive. ============================================================================ The TBBS online Purity Test v1.0 (C) 1994 K. W. Risser August 1994 Price: $39.00 - Gaming/quiz software for TBBS/TDBS systems - The online Purity Test is basically an online quiz for your users that conducts the (in)famous purity test. The version of the purity test used is the 500 question version and is broken into its original 11 sections so that a user doesn't have to take all of the questions in one session. Once all of the sections are taken a final score is given. Features include: * Utter privacy, scores kept only at the section level * The TOP TEN most naughty and most nice * List by most naughty/nice * Sysop defined Email conference name for Email capabilities * An UltraChat hook that allows someone in chat to pull up you score * Kurt's usual amazing sysop options screen, includes purging by date, name, etc. Has many, many controls built in. The interface is Kurt's standard, professional looking screen, it's very attractive! This will keep your users talking for a while, no doubt about it! ============================================================================ The Internet Mailer (C) 1994 K. W. Risser August 1994 PRICE: $29.00 (Dirt Cheap..as always!) - Utility software for TBBS/TDBS systems - OVERVIEW: This software provides a beautiful interface to both a public and private internet 'address' book. Put this on your Mail and Internet menus and delight the customer! (Your users of course) OPERATION: Upon entering the Internet Mailer your user will be presented with an attractive interface that includes the existing PUBLIC addresses that you or other users have put into the database. The user can then begin to punch in their most used addresses. This has two advantages to it: it in convenient and fast and it does away with possible typing errors that can be introduced in some of these monster addresses. The address books, both public and private, are sorted on NAME by default, but can also be sorted on frequency of writings as well. A two line description can be included and will automatically pop up at the bottom of the screen as the user scrolls through the list with their cursor keys. A record of WHO added records is also included in the database and can be seen from the <E>dit menu when viewing/editing a record. SHAREWARE VERSION LIMIT: The shareware version is limited only by a nag screen. MAINTENANCE MENU: If your TBBS access level is high enough you can access the maintenance menu from the program by pressing the '!' key. Options available here: * Delete a user * Delete all users who haven't used the database in x days * Delete ALL users (start over) * Specify the name of the Internet e-mail msg base * Allow users to edit the PUBLIC book * Allow users to download the PUBLIC book * Import records from the older 'Internet Address Book' * Pack user database & rebuild indices YOU MUST BE THE ONLY (EXCLUSIVE) USER OF THE ADDRESS BOOK at the time that you use this option. It physically removes records which have been marked for deletion using the other maintenance functions (described above). It also rebuilds the indices. * Specify maintenance menu user access level This allows the sysop to set the minimum access level required to utilize the Maintenance Menu. If you do not change this, the default is 200. The value you specify must be between 1 and 255. Summary: A beautiful interface, a BIG time saver, and a convenience that your users will enjoy over and over again. ============================================================================ The CIA World Fact Book - Type 20 database for TBBS Systems PRICE: $20.00 (Dirt Cheap..as always!) - Informational Database for TBBS systems - THE ┌██████ ┌███ ┌███████ │███──┘ │███ │███┐███ │███ │███ │███████ │███ │███ │███┐███ │██████ │███ │███│███ └─────┘ └──┘ └──┘└──┘ World Fact Book - 1994 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Every year the CIA publishes the World Factbook, a reference of country information. Included are topics on a countries economy, infrastructure, communications, and military strengths. Shiva is glad to bring you the latest edition of this terrific resource. Not only can you view the info online but you can turn on your CAPTURE LOG and create a file from any of these records, and then print it, incorporate it into a document, etc. OVERVIEW: The CIA WORLD FACT BOOK is public domain information. The packaging of said information however is a sellable commodity. I wanted this information so bad that I took the time to slice and dice it into a format that works excellently with TBBS systems using the TYPE=20 call to a 'family name database' structure. This database is over 2.5 megs large and is cut into approximately 280 files. It took me roughly 5 hours of drudgery to do this so for 20.00 I think you could save yourself a LOT of pain and frustration. Your users will thank you as well! INSTALLATION: Unzip the entire package into a directory, ie. C:\CIA. Then edit the CIA.DES file to suit your own BBS. In one of your .SDL menus you will want to add the following: Entry: TYPE=20 KEY=C Opt Data=C:\CIA /E That's all there is to ie. Make sure to edit the entry above with the proper path information. You may also make each country individually downloadable to your users by adding modifying the above paramaters. MISCELLANEOUS: There is no 1995 World Fact Book right now, this is the latest edition available. As updates are made you may always download them from THE DANCE OF SHIVA BBS at no additional charge. ============================================================================ The Ultimate Event Calendar (C) 1994 K. W. Risser January 1995 PRICE: 79.00 (A steal!) - Utility software for TBBS/TDBS systems - OVERVIEW: This software allows you, the sysop, to install as many 'calendars' as you would like to have on your system. These calendars can then be assigned 'owners' who, including yourself, will have the ability to add/modify/delete events from them. Calendars can also be designated as 'public' and thereby allow your users to add as many events as they would like. The interface is beautiful and has more bells and whistles then you can shake a stick at. In the usual Kurt Risser style, this program is a gem for -ANY- system. Your users will also be impressed with the power that a TBBS/TDBS system has after an excellent programmer has gotten a hold of it! FEATURE LIST: o Beautiful 'Pick-List' menu that displays on the screen and allows a user to cursor to the appropriate day/month using arrow keys. o The famous Risser 'delayed presentation' of information while a user is quickly tooling around the calendars dates for low system impact with the most professional presentation possible. o Public or private ownership of as many calendars as you would like to create. o Single key entry to a specific calendar or menu access to all available calendars based on users priv. levels o Easy editing features such as copy, move, etc. o Optional downloadable text based report of a calendars events by range or in total. Possible ideas: * A calendar of movies for the local theatre * ....concerts coming to your city * ....bands playing at a large nightclub * ....public / city sponsored festivals * Sell a calendar to a local entertainment establishment * Used as a product release schedule * User meets and coming additions to your BBS The possibilities are endless. ============================================================================ MOVESL - Pseudo-Directory sorter, (c)1995, James Held master file list creation PRICE: $25.00 MOVESL is a pseudo-directory sorter. Sorts are possible on either a files name or date. This is especially important when you want to show your callers the most recently added files first. MOVESL will also create a beautiful output 'report' or 'master file list' as well, making it easy for your callers to stay updated on what files you have online. If you have agonized over the best way to do this, fear no more...MOVESL is fully command line driven and when placed in your nightly maintenance batch file, will keep everything up to date. The registered MOVESL will work on up to 88 .DIR files, the demo version will do 10 .dir files for you. Sample Master File List: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ LISTING FOR AREA: DOS - Utilities <UTILITIES> FILENAME SIZE DATE DESCRIPTION OF FILE ───────- ───- ───- ─────────────────── BLURB_20.ZIP 51737 01-27-95 BLURB Version 2.0: Blurb is a program that chooses a random line from a file and prints it on the screen. SETDATEC.ZIP 17721 01-27-95 SETDATE Version 1.C: Batch file enhancer USE_UNUS.ZIP 10072 01-25-95 USE and UNUSE are utility programs for adding and removing directories " " " " " " " " " " " " Area Total: 2390094 Bytes In This Area 19 Files In This Area 265566 Bytes Average File Size * * * SUMMARY OF ALL FILE AREAS * * * Area Name Files Bytes ------------------------------ ------- ---------- DOS - Utilities 51 9733124 DOS - Games 26 7595049 DOS - Educational 13 5875892 Ham and satellite 41 1782861 Business and finance 20 4282660 WINDOWS - Games 20 7411055 " " " " " " " " " ------------------------------ ------- ---------- System Totals: 927 109139434 Average File Size: 117734 Bytes ============================================================================ PCM Online! (magazine) (C) Falsoft, Inc. PRICE: $ 99.00 per year subscription $ 58.00 for six months SPECIAL: $ 75.00 for a year for the first 100 sysops! - An online magazine with TONS of fabulous content - ▀▀▀▀▀\ ▀▀▀▀\ ▀▀▀\ ▀▀▀\ ▀▀\ ▀▀\ ▀▀\ ▀▀▀▀\ ▀▀▀▀\ A Digital Magazine ▀▀▀▀▀\ ▀▀\ ▀▀ ▀▀▀▀\▀▀\ in Eight Chapters ▀▀\ ▀▀\ ▀▀ ▀▀\ ▀▀\ ▀▀\ ▀▀▀▀\ ▀▀ ▀▀\ ONLINE! INTRODUCTION What the heck PCM is all about. All shall be revealed! ~~~~~~~~~~~~ FIRST THINGS Editorials + Letters from readers + Random musings ~~~~~~~~~~~~ from our distinguished staff <G> FEATURES Neat stuff + Listings (batch/BASIC) to cut, paste ~~~~~~~~ and use! COLUMNS Guru observations on Windows + DOS + Internet + Games ~~~~~~~ + Business apps. (We have the BEST games column!) SOLUTIONS Q&As + Hints & Tips + Software/Hardware solutions. ~~~~~~~~~ Everything you always wanted to know about PCs. REVIEWS Looks at Commercial software + Software roundups + ~~~~~~~ New Product lists + Hot Hardware/Software deals PRESS BOX Short news bites + Press Release transcriptions -- ~~~~~~~~~ SOFTWARE SHOPPER New Reviews + 1000s of program listings. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ What Is PCM Online? (Taken from the INTRODUCTION section of PCM Online) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Subscription information follows... PCM Online is a text-only version of the magazine PCM (the Premier Personal Computer Magazine, established in 1984), which is published by Falsoft, Inc. PCM Online is prepared just for bulletin-board services. It contains all the articles, columns and features that go in the printed version of PCM -- plus more! One fundamental problem with a piece of paper is that it doesn't stretch, but a digital "page" can be stretched to a nearly infinite degree. So, in this online version, we can give you articles, hints, tips and reviews that wouldn't fit in a month's printed edition. We can also dig into our archives to present you with some of our favorite stuff from past issues. One thing that always set PCM apart from its competitors was its listings: BASIC programs our readers could type in and run through the GW- BASIC or QBASIC interpreter. Real programs -- games, utilities, databases and more! For those people who didn't care to key in up to nine pages of BASIC source code, we offered PCM ON DISK, and still do. Of course, you don't need PCM ON DISK if you read PCM Online -- and you certainly don't need to type in the listings to run our programs -- because the listings are right here, ready for you to use. If you're an aspiring BASIC programmer, you'll find our listings great learning tools. And if you've written a program you think we could use, please consider submitting it for publication -- we're always looking for good new programs. Submission guidelines are included later on in this section. Another thing that sets PCM apart is that it's currently two publications in one: bundled within PCM is the shareware magazine/catalog called Software Shopper. In the pages of Software Shopper, you'll find reviews of the latest, greatest shareware programs, plus older titles. We've included Software Shopper in the PCM Online package, so go ahead and browse through it: you'll probably run across games and utilities you can't live without. Most of the shareware we review can probably be found on the BBS you're logged to right now. But if you can't find a title online, you can order it from us. Software Shopper is a vendor member of the ASP (Association of Shareware Professionals). There is a very special advantage we can offer you by publishing Software Shopper online: we can give you Software Shopper's complete database -- that's thousands of shareware program descriptions compared to the few hundred that are squeezed into the printed version every month! Falsoft also publishes an online version of PC Kids, the only hands-on PC magazine just for kids. It's full of computer facts and fun, puzzles and jokes. We even have a mascot, Pips, who shows kids how to do cool things with Windows in his column, Mousetales. If your SysOp doesn't carry PC Kids Online, please pester him/her on our behalf. <G> SUBSCRIBING (taken from the Introduction section of PCM Online) ~~~~~~~~~~~ If you are a SysOp and would like to carry PCM Online or PC Kids Online, all you have to do is contact us. Updates are available the 2nd day of the month. PCM Online is a monthly magazine featuring 30 or more excellent articles as well as 100's of Shareware reviews. It's an indispensable source for BBS users who are looking for good information on how to use the tools they have available more effectively. It's also a boon for your users as they can browse the shareware reviews for software that may interest them. PCM Online is offered in standard text file format as well as the popular READROOM format (much better). NOTE: November and December of 1994 are -FREE- Feel free to post it online now and pick up the December issue from us directly at no cost as well. Orders will not be taken until December. I know the costs of many magazines and 'services' for your BBS is out of reach. I am a sysop myself and our system has just recently made the Boardwatch TOP 100 in the Nation. It's an uphill fight and I remember well the problem of providing good content to users at an affordable price. This is our answer to it. I hope you think that it's a good a deal as I'm making it out to be, because you will not find more for less anywhere. We promise to keep the price low and the QUALITY high. - Chuck Burke ============================================================================ (EOF)