There are many new items on Volume VIII with a total of over 9,000 files and 640 megabytes of compressed Macintosh‚Ñ¢ software.
Decompressed this data exceeds 1.4 Gigabytes! This CD-ROM is the most current collection available with items added as late as February 23, 1993. (We always ship the latest versions of all our products. If a new version is released by the Arizona Macintosh Users Group, we’ll ship you that version.) Volume VIII has expanded compatability to seven (7) BBS systems. First Class, Hermes, Mansion, MUBBS, Nova Link, Second Sight, and Telefinder. All of these BBS systems are excellent and we are trying to support as many sysops as possible. This disk is also a great tool for personal use!
Twenty-four software topics
Volume VIII contains over 91 AppleLink items, 297 Adobe Screen font files, 196 MUG items, 415 Art files, 462 Business tools, 251 DA’s, 248 Educational tools, 566 Fonts, 465 Games, 1004 HyperCard tools, MacTechnical Notes, 267 MUG Newsletter Reviews, 141 MIDI files, 313 Music files, 331 Programmer tools, 95 QuickTime tools, 696 Telecom files, 328 System 7 tools, Decompression applications, 1116 utilities for the Macintosh, 199 Word processing tools and support articles plus much, much more!
Great topics
Volume VIII contains more System 7 tools than ever and has special sections for Educators, Networks, First Class, Telefinder, Hermes, MUBBS, PowerBook, Frontier, After Dark, Wallpaper, Desktop Textures, Icons, System 7 tools, QuickTime, On-Line King James Bible, Works of Shakespeare, World Factbook, Thesaurus, and MacDictionary with 22,768 definitions.. Chances are if it’s not on BBS in a BOX its not available. With over 24 different catagories of Macintosh software BBS in a BOX is the most complete collection available!
Adobe Screen Fonts
Adobe Systems Inc. has allowed us to license their screen fonts on Volume VIII for redistribution. This is the most current Adobe Screen Font collection on CD-ROM. You as a “BBS IN A BOX” registered user have the right to allow your users to download these screen fonts. In the Adobe section you will find a great HyperCard stack with all the screen fonts displayed on each card in upper, lower case and numeric formats for easy reference.
Drag and Drop Description Reader!
Our off line description reader "Show Info" allows System 7 users to drag and drop files on to this tool to display descriptions of any of the files in the files folder before decompressing them. This is a nice feature for finding information on a single file without having to decompress it or look through a directory. All compressed files on Volume VIII are in Compact Pro format for consistency and ease of use.
Another tool on the disk is Stuffit Expander. You can drag and drop files on to it under System 7 for easy decompression. Placing this file on the desktop along with show info gives you the ability to quickly get info on a file and decompress it if needed. All compressed files are in Compactor Pro format.
QuickTime 1.5 and System 7 sounds!
All of the Quicktime Movies on the disk were converted to Apple Compact Video format when it would make them smaller and better. You will need to use QuickTime 1.5 for these files. Great new moovies have been added on several topics with many of them being originals from AMUG. We have also left many of the QuickTime files decompressed for CD-ROM playback where the space savings were minimal. Thats not all! Now all of the sound files on the CD-ROM have been converted to System 7 format.
“First Class, Telefinder & Hermes”
Volume VIII features new folders in the Telecom section for First Class, Telefinder and Hermes tools. Sysops can now go to these areas to find BBS tools on these programs. We hope to add many more files in these areas in the future so send us your favorites!
“PD Pig Out!”
Volume VIII features “PD Pig Out!” which is bundled with HyperCard 2.1 (licensed from Apple Computer) by MacWizards. This stack contains descriptions on approximately 8,100 public domain and shareware files available for the Macintosh™ on Volume VIII of “BBS IN A BOX”. This stack retails for $19.95 and may be purchased from MacWizards. However, “BBS in a BOX” owners will have this product included on Volume VIII for their use.
BBS Descriptions - Database Searches
Volume VIII supports On Location search engines. In addition , text file listings and other database tools are provided in various formats. “BBS IN A BOX” is the ONLY CD-ROM that provides BBS descriptions on over 640 megs of compressed Macintosh BBS software. Using Show Info you can easily display the discriptions as well.
How to order:
“BBS IN A BOX” retails for $119.00 but you can get it for only $79.95 + $5 s/h from Insanely Great Software.
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