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Here is a list CDs available. Prices in UK Pounds (fully inclusive prices for UK for Europe add 3.00 and 5.00 for other areas, per order). You can order these from: PDSL, Winscombe House, Beacon Road, Crowborough East Sussex, TN6 1UL Tel 01892 663298 Fax 01892 667473 Access/Visa/Mc/Switch Or see PC ANSWERS SPECIAL OFFERS pages for items marked * For USA Ordering, Walnut Creek CDROM (free US & Canada only)1 800 786-9907 +1 510 674-0783 Fax +1 510 674-0821 (FAX) =============================================================================== 1. Simtel MSDOS CDROM -- 2 discs of MSDOS shareware 21.00 2. Cica Microsoft Windows CDROM -- Current MS Windows shareware 16.00 3. Giga Games CDROM -- 3000 hot games for DOS/Win 21.00 4. Hobbes Archived OS/2 CDROM -- Best current OS/2 applications 19.00 4a Hobbes Ready to run OS/2 -- OS/2 apps ready to run 24.00 5. GIFs Galore CDROM -- 5000 amazing gif images 21.00 6. Space and Astronomy CDROM -- 1000 spaces images + nasa 19.00 7. Project Gutenberg CDROM -- Internet e-text project 24.00 8. Clipart Cornucopia CDROM -- 5050 great BW clipart images 21.00 9. Fractal Frenzy CDROM -- 2000 beautiful Fractal's 24.00 10. Internet Info CDROM -- 650 MB of internet information 24.00 11. Source Code CDROM -- 650 MB mostly unix (& DOS) src 24.00 12.*Libris Britannia 3 -- General, tech sh/ware + book 25.00 13. QRZ! Ham Radio CDROM -- Callsign Database + shareware 19.00 14. Aminet Amiga CDROM -- 630 MB Amiga S/W (MSDOS BBS) 18.00 15. GEMini Atari CDROM -- 600 MB Atari S/W (MSDOS BBS) 22.00 16. Info-Mac 4 CDROM -- 600 MB Best Mac S/W 35.00 17. Ultra Mac Games -- 1001 Coolest Mac games 28.00 18. La coleccio'n CDROM -- MSDOS/Windows/OS/2 Spanish S/W 24.00 19. C Users' Group Library CDROM -- C User Journal C src archives 27.00 20. FreeBSD Operating System CDROM -- Berkeley BSD Unix for PC; src 24.00 21. Linux Operating System CDROM -- Yggdrasil Plug-n-Play Linux 35.00 22. Toolkit for Linux CDROM -- 2 disc Internet sites of Linux 27.00 23. X11R6 CDROM -- Official X11r6; sparc binaries 24.00 24. Nova for NeXT CDROM -- 600 MB S/W for Motorola NeXT 28.00 25. Nebula for NeXTStep Intel CDROM -- 600 MB S/W for Intel NeXT 28.00 26. Ada CDROM -- 610 MB Ada code + tools 24.00 27. Sprite CDROM -- Experimental operating system 25.00 28. Garbo MSDOS/MAC CDROM -- Finland's #1 ftp site DOS/Mac 21.00 29. Tcl/Tk CDROM -- Tcl source code and examples 24.00 30. 4.4-BSD Lite -- Berkeley 4.4 BSD O/S src code 24.00 31. East Asian Text Processing CDROM -- Japanese/Chinese text + info 24.00 32. GNU CDROM -- GNU utilities; sparc binaries 24.00 33. Sys Vr4 -- 600 MB freeware for Sys V O/S 38.00 34. Welcome to Africa -- Picture tour of Africa + game 24.00 35. Beer Home Brewing guide -- Beer Brewing guide - windows 24.00 36. Kirk's Comm Disc -- 625 MB BBS and Comm software 24.00 37.*Libris Britannia 4 Science Library -- Science & Technical S/W + book 32.00 37a*Libris Britannia 4 Best Application -- Business & leisure S/W + book 32.00 38. Visions -- 500 excellent free pictures 24.00 39. Travel Adventure -- 395 exciting travel pictures 24.00 40. Sentimental Wings -- US Military aircraft tour 28.00 41.*Desktop Dream -- 2000 truetype fonts & 5000 PCX 21.00 42.*2000 Greater & Lesser Mysteries -- Occult & Esoteric collection 21.00 43.*Personal Reference Library -- Huge collection of Literature 21.00 44. Walnut Creek CDROM Sampler -- Samples and contents lists 7.00 45. Doom Shareware -- Game & Extras 7.50 46. Doom Tookit -- 6000 files & Extras for Doom 13.00 47. Shuttle Encyclopeadia -- 3000+gifs & texts from NASA 24.00 48. Official POV RAY CD ROM -- Images & Scene source etc POV 24.00 49. CDROM of CDROMS -- Encyclopedia of CD ROMS 19.00 50. CP/M progs & files -- 18000 files for CP/M 24.00 =============================================================================== More detailed descriptions of these follow. 1: Simtel MSDOS CDROM. This is a TWO disc set which contains about 1.2 gigabytes of utilities, programming tools, source code, technical documentation, etc. It includes the entire Simtel MSDOS Archive. There is an index file in each directory, and a master index file in the top directory that describes each file. The current edition was made in September 1994. MSDOS BBS ready. This disc is available by quarterly subscription for $19.95 per issue plus appropriate shipping. The single issue price for this two disc set is $34.95. 2: CICA Microsoft Windows CDROM. This disc contains 640 MB of Microsoft Windows programs. It includes hundreds of utilities, games, fonts, bitmaps, etc. All are written especially for Windows. It is based on the CICA Windows collection from Indiana University. Most of the files on the disc are in zip format. This disc was produced in August 1994. The next issue will be November, 1994. MSDOS BBS ready. This disc is available by quarterly subscription for $19.95 plus appropriate shipping. The single price is $29.95. 3: Giga-Games CDROM. Thousands of the finest sharware/PD games for MSDOS and Windows from the Giga-Games archive at ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/games. This disc contains over 3000 files, including arcade games, educational games for all age groups, adventure games, board games, card games and strategy games. You can play many of these games either against the computer or against another human. There are sports games, trivia games and word games. There are lots of utilities and "cheat sheets" for commercial and shareware games. There is an easy to use shell that makes the disc easy to navigate, and each program has a detailed description. MSDOS BBS ready. This disc is set up for most popular BBS's. The price is $39.95. 4: Hobbes Archived OS/2 CDROM. This disc contains the OS/2 archives from ftp-os2.cdrom.com. This disc was named "Product of the Year" by OS/2 Magazine. With over 675 megabytes of files in over 10,000 files, this is the largest collection of shareware and public domain programs for OS/2. This disc includes ultimedia programs, desktop accessories, drivers, 32 bit software, demos, games, compilers, icons, and other programs. This issue even includes the entire 2.1 Service Pack, installable directly from the CDROM! MSDOS BBS ready. This disc is available also by quarterly subscription for $19.95 per issue, plus appropriate shipping. August 1994; The single issue price is $29.95. 4a: HOBBES OS/2 READY TO RUN allows you to use your CDROM drive as a way to save precious hard drive space, and includes Emacs 19.25, EMX08h, gcc 2.5.8, Tex, Ghostscript 2.6.1, the GNU utility suite, multimedia AVI movies, the OS/2 2.1 for Windows Service Pack and much more in uncompressed form. $39.95 5: GIFs Galore CDROM. Six Thousand GIF images in dozens of catagories, including art, aviation, birds, cars, cats, flowers, fractals, military, people, raytrace, sci_fi, swimsuit, technology, trains, vietnam, and about twenty other categories. There is no "adult" material on this disc. Most images are 640x480 and in full color. Viewers are provided for MSDOS, Windows, Amiga, Macintosh, OS/2, SPARC, SGI, X11R5, and several other systems. The price is $39.95. 6: Space and Astronomy CDROM. Thousands of NASA images and data. The images include pictures of the earth, the planets, satellites, rockets, distant galaxies, and nebula. There are also thousands of text files, including information on asteroids, astronauts, NASA news bulletins and press releases since 1962, and the USENET sci.space archives. A collection of astronomy and space related shareware and PD software is also included. MSDOS BBS ready. The price is $39.95. 7: Project Gutenberg CDROM. This disc contains the etexts of Project Gutenberg for 1991, 1992, 1993, and most of 1994. The etexts on the disc include classic literature such as Aesop's Fables, Alice in Wonderland, Moby Dick, and Paradise Lost; historical documents such as the Magna Carta, U.S. Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution, Inagural Addresses and the NAFTA documents; references such as Roget's Thesaurus, almanacs, census data, the CIA World Fact Book, "Surfing the Internet", mathematical constants, and select philosophical papers from the International Philosophical Preprint Exchange; religious documents such as the King James Bible, and the Book of Mormon. MSDOS BBS ready. This disc is available by semi-annual subscription for $24.95 plus appropriate shipping. The single price is $39.95. 8: ClipArt Cornucopia CDROM. The Clip Art CDROM contains 5050 black-and- white clip art images, totaling 408 MB of files. Subjects portrayed range from cartoon animals and Wild West caricatures to space craft and school scenes. These Clip Art images are perfect for any desktop publishing project! You get all the clip art images on this disc in both .PCX (PC Paintbrush) and .WPG (WordPerfect Graphics) formats for maximum portability. We have thoroughly indexed the Clip Art CDROM and include an easy-to-use file browser. It is simple to locate, view and copy the images by filename or subject. MSDOS BBS ready. Order yours today! $39.95 9: Fractal Frenzy CDROM. The Fractal Frenzy CDROM contains the definitive collection of Lee Skinner's fractal art work. These images are a beautiful testament to the power of computer generated art. You'll find thousands of fractal images on this disc. The Fractal Frenzy CDROM contains examples of all the major fractal types: Mandelbrot, Zexpe, Barnsle, fn(z)+fn(pix), etc. You get all the images on the disc in both very high resolution GIF images (1024x768/256 color) and most of the images also in low resolution GIF (640x480/256 color). The low resolution versions are completely royalty free. You can view the images on the Fractal Frenzy CDROM with a PC compatible or a Macintosh. The images display their best colors on a PC compatible with a 512K of 1MB SVGA card. On the Macintosh you need high solution video. You'll be enthralled by the images on this disc. Don't miss out, get your copy today. MSDOS BBS ready. $39.95 10: Internet Info CDROM. The Internet Info CDROM contains a sample of the wealth of information that is available on the Internet. You get 12,000 documents about computers and networks: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's), Internet RFCs and IENs, Computer security documents, Internet Network maps, Usenet technical discussion archives, FTP site lists and descriptions of the archives they hold, Extensive bibliographies and technical book reviews, documents and standards from IEEE, ISO, NIST, ANSI and others. If computers, networking and technology interest you, order this CDROM today. MSDOS BBS ready. March 1994. $39.95 11: Source Code CDROM. This disc contains 643 megabytes of source code in 14,000 files. A large collection of source code and programming utilities for MS-DOS and MS Windows is included, as well as the entire Unix-C archive. The disc also includes the Usenet comp.sys archives for 3B1, games, Unix, X, and miscellaneous as well as net.sources. It also contains the most current GNU software source code, including GCC 2.5.8, Emacs 19.22, Ghostscript, Perl 4.036, and gzip. The source code is mostly in C, but also is in Pascal, Lisp, C++, Modula2, Fortran, Assembly, etc. The disc was produced in March, 1994. MSDOS BBS ready. The price is $39.95. 12: Libris Britannia CDROM. This disc was made as a joint project with the Public Domain and Shareware Library of Sussex, England. It contains over 600 MB of up to date and very well indexed software. It is biased toward the technical and scientific PC user and includes extensive sections on electronics, engineering, mathematics, medicine, ham radio, and other specialist areas. PDSL acts as librarian for the UK C User's Group, and the programming section includes the UK CUG volumes. The disc comes with a 124 page manual that contains capsule descriptions of about 100-250 words for each item, with information on version number, registration fee, and hardware required. MSDOS BBS ready. This disc was just updated in January, 1994, and costs $69.95. 13: QRZ! Ham Radio CDROM. This disc contains the July 1994 US CALLSIGN DATABASE (in ASCII). The database also contains 115000 Italian, Canadian and English call signs. You also get MS-DOS, OS/2 AND Windows compatible search and retrieval software, search by callsign, name, city, zip code, several output formats including screen, mailing lists, etc. There are hundreds of popular ham related (shareware) programs and nearly 200 radio and scanner modifications. Also included are USENET news articles from rec.ham-radio and rec.radio.amateur.{misc,packet,policy} since 1989. Also provided are complete dumps of several internet ham radio archives, Canadian and US CLUB callsigns, FCC Rules and Regulations (Part 97), DX lists, DXCC info, BBS lists, UNIX callsign database/server 'C' source code, SIMTEL20 Ham Radio Archive files, and vast amounts of useful reading information for the beginning to the advanced ham enthusiast. MSDOS BBS ready. This disc was made in Summer 1994. The single issue price is $29.95, convenient subscriptions are $19.95 per issue. 14: Aminet Amiga CDROM. This disc contains 3200 programs in 570 megabytes for the Amiga computer from the Aminet, the largest repository of shareware and public domain software for the Amiga computer. Games, utilities, animation and graphics programs, business programs, music software, and telecommunication software fill this disc. For the technical user, the Aminet disc includes programming tools, technical documents, development software, and compilers. It includes programs such as GCC, GNU Emacs, and TeX. This disc was made in February, 1994. This disc functions with CDTV. MSDOS BBS ready. The cost is $29.95. 15: GEMini Atari CDROM. 2872 of programs for the Atari in 616 MB. These files are for the Atari ST, TT and Falcon Computers plus a section for the Porfolio palmtop computer. You also get text files and graphics for the Lynx and Jaguar video game system. All programs are ready to run directly from the CDROM. Each directory contains an index and a list of files to make it easier for a user to locate a file. You can install the GEMini CDROM on an Atari or MSDOS BBS. This CDROM was made in Dec 1993 by Eric Tremblay and Rene Guimont. MSDOS BBS ready. The price is $39.95. 16: Info-Mac 4 CDROM. Over 10000 programs from Stanford University's SUMEX Archive, including desk accessories, games, virus-detection programs and commercial demos. It is also jam-packed with graphics, sounds and Hypercard stacks. For the more technically inclined, there are source code samples and entire program listings as well as technical documentation and discussions. The programs on this CDROM are from Stanford University's Sumex-Aim Info-Mac Archive, one of the most complete and up-to-date collections of Macintosh software. This disc is in HFS Mac format. It was updated in August, 1994. The price is $49.95. 17: Ultra Mac Games. This is the largest collection of Apple Macintsoh games. It's super easy to have fun, because all games are ready to run directly from the CDROM! You don't lose any disk space and you can start playing instantly. The disc features 524 Megs of games, from early classics to the newest shareware. Ultra Mac-Gemaes includes arcade games, card games, text and graphic adventures, puzzles, word games, and war gaems. You will also find the latest commercial demos, hints, cheats, walk throughs, and maps for many popular games. Bonus selections include Virtual Reality and Newton files. To make every game really easy to find, the disc is fully indexed in a ClarisWorks database. You get text indexes in ClarisWorks, plain text format, and a Doc Maker application. You'll have hours of pure Apple fun with the Ultra Mac-Games CDROM. 18: La coleccio'n CDROM. 6,696 MSDOS, MicroSoft Windows and OS/2 files with complete file descriptions in Spanish (only). Este CDROM cuenta ma's de 6.696 archivos clasificados en 55 directorios. La coleccio'n contiene aplicaciones, informacio'n y mucho ma's para MSDOS, MicroSoft Windows y OS/2. Incluye dos secciones especiales llena de material para autoediccio'n y programas para calculadoras HP-48SX. Este CDROM fue preparado para ser instalado in BBS. La coleccio'n fue preparado en agosto 1993. MSDOS BBS ready. $39.95 19: C Users' Group Library CDROM. C source code from the C Users' Group. Most code is for MSDOS, early volumes are CP/M, later UNIX. Includes source code for editors, disassemblers, compilers, interpreters, communications, bbs', games, tutorials, libraries, etc. Also all source code listings from the C Users' Journal. CUG volumes 100-411 are included on the disc. Part of the proceeds of this CDROM go to the C Users' Group. MSDOS BBS ready. Made in August 1994, the price is $49.95. 20: FreeBSD 2.0 Operating System CDROM. This CDROM contains the complete FreeBSD Operating System, release 2.0, a full 4.4 lite BSD compatible 32 bit operating system. We expect this product to be available in mid October, 1994. It will come with XFree86 3.1 (X11R6) and ready-to-run X11 utilities and libraries such as XView, XV, Tcl/Tk, JPEG library, etc. Full Berkeley-style networking. TCP/IP, SLIP, PPP, telnet, ftp, gopher, archie, and industry standard NFS and YP services. USENET News and mail reading software (elm and mh). Complete ANSI/POSIX-1003.1 compliant development environment - including kernel source, GCC C++ v 2.6.0, GDB, lex, yacc, f2c, profilers, Gnu emacs 19.25, perl, etc. You get TeX 3.14, dvips, ghostscript, FlexFax fax software, ksh, tcsh, and bash shells, sc spreadsheet, Ingres database, etc. Audio support for SoundBlaster, ProAudio Spectrum and Gravis UltraPro and compatibles. Everything comes with source code. With FreeBSD you get a tightly integrated build system. You can make the while source tree with one command. ISO-9660 and Rock Ridge CDROM support. This disc is in Rock Ridge format with source on the CDROM in long native filenames. We expect this product to be available in mid October, 1994. The price is $39.95. 21: Yggdrasil Plug-n-Play Linux Operating System CDROM. Tired of MSDOS and Windows? Try Yggdrasil Linux, a genuine UNIX clone with full source code. Linux is based on the 1.1.0 kernel, GCC 2.4.5, Xfree86 2.1 (X11R5) X windows, and hundreds of other programs. Sound support for *every* computer, support for almost *any* cdrom drive, support for almost every video card. Linux uses as little as 2 MB of hard disk space or as much as 680 MB. An easy graphical install program guides your setup. Andrew multimedia mail system, MIME multimedia mail, X windows programming tools, and two emacs versions are just a few of the other ported software on the disc. Yes, if it doesn't work on your system, return it for a full refund. Experience an advanced, professional unix on your PC -- order your Linux CDROM today. This version of linux is recommended for people that have never installed a unix operating system before. This CDROM was made by Adam Richter of Yggdrasil Computing. The price is $39.95. 22: Toolkit for Linux CDROM. This TWO disc CDROM set contains a huge collection of utilities and documentation for Linux. It also contains the complete Slackware 2.0 Linux system, XFree86 2.1, GCC, emacs, etc. This set is a complete collection of everything on sunsite and tsx-11 -- almost everything ported to linux that exists. If you've ever installed a unix system, this is the product for you. This disc set was made in August 1994. The price is $39.95. 23: X11R6 CDROM contains the X11R6 windowing system from MIT. This disc is the OFFICIAL X Consortium CDROM for X11R6. The version of this disc is patch level 3. There are also over 200 Megabytes of contrib software of this disc, with such useful utilities as xv. This disc was compiled for Sun OS 4.1.3 and Solaris 2.0. All binaries are runnable directly from the CDROM so there is no need to commit dik space to X11R6. You can also compile the sources directly from the CDROM. This disc is in Rock Ridge format, so full unix pathnames are visible on systems that support the RR extensions. This CDROM was made in July 1994. The price is $39.95. 24: The Nova CDROM Second Edition. This new totally revised edition of the Nova will give you more applications, more source code, more fun and information. On this disc you will find utilities, games, fonts, sounds, music, PostScript and tiff graphics. Included on the Nova is the largest collection of public domain and shareware applications of it's kind. There is more applications then ever before and you will see why the Nova is one of the most popular CDROM for the NeXT platform. Each directory on the disc contains an index listing filename, version, author and a short description of each file. A central index is also included which you use with Digital Librarian to quickly locate any file. The Nova for NeXT hardware is in ISO-9660 format with Rock Ridge extensions. A must for every NeXT owner. Remember this is a lot more then an update it's a totally new revised edition. Made in January 1994, the disc costs $59.95. 25: Nebula for NeXTStep Intel CDROM. The second edition of the largest collection of applications presently available for NeXTStep Intel in categories such as utilities, games, general productivity. Also included are graphics files in Tiff, PostScript, Gif, and Login Panels format, as well as a large collection of fonts and sounds. Programmers will be happy to note that almost all the applications on the disc comes with complete source code making the Nebula a valuable reference for NeXTSTEP programmers. A central index is included which can be used with Digital Librarian to quickly locate the file you're looking for. NeXTSTEP 3.1 or above for Intel processors is required to use this disc. This disc was made in July, 1994 and costs $59.95. 26: Ada CDROM. 620+ MB of documentation, information, and source code. This disc contains the entire Public Ada Library (PAL). With more than 5000 files, this disc is an indispensible resource for any Ada programmer. Imagine the convienience of refering to the disc for all the Ada language reference manuals, a complete set of Ada language issue comments, the GNAT compiler, PC and Mac Ada/ED compilers, benchmarks, validation suites, courseware, Ada programming tools, and prodigious amounts of source code. This disc is available in either ISO-9660 with Rock Ridge Extensions, or Macintosh HFS. MSDOS BBS ready. Made in July 1994, the disc costs $39.95. 27: Sprite CDROM. This disc contains the source code and documentation for the Sprite Network Operating System. Sprite was a research operating system developed at the University of California, Berkeley. All the reseach papers from the Sprite project are also included on the disc. This software on this disc is primarily intended for research purposes, and is not really intended to be used as a production system. Boot images are provided for Sun SparcStations and DECStations. The cost is $29.95. 28: Garbo MSDOS/MAC CDROM. This disc contains the Garbo archive from Vaasa University in Finland. It contains almost 400 MB of software. About 250 MB is for MSDOS, and about 150 MB is for Macintoshes. The price is $29.95. MSDOS BBS ready -- *including* the macintosh files. This disc was updated in July 1994. 29: Tcl/Tk CDROM. This disc contains the Tcl (Tool Command Language, pronounced "tickle") and Tk toolkit software from Sprite.Berkeley.edu and Harbor.ecn.purdue.edu. It also contains the archives for the comp.lang.tcl Usenet newsgroup. This CDROM is in ISO-9660 format with Rock Ridge extensions. It will work on almost any Unix system, and is also readable under Dos/Windows. The disc was made in April 1994 and the price is $39.95. 30: 4.4BSD-Lite. Source code ONLY. If you love to read good code and tinker with your system, this is the disc for you. This software contains software developed by the University of California, Berkeley, and its contributors. This CDROM includes source code and manual pages for the C library, about 95% of the utilities distributed in 4.4BSD, and all but a few files from the kernel. The system is almost entirely ANSI C and IEEE POSIX 1003.1 and 1003.2 standards compliant. We have both a domestic (includes encryption) and an international version. The price for either is $39.95. 31: East Asian Text Processing CDROM. This disc contains the latest tools needed to process Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese text. These utilities allow you to view, edit, and output Asian languages. For convenient reference, you also get vocabulary, idiom, and word lists, scientific research reports, and historical documents. From the Internet, USENET newsgroup articles let you explore today's East Asian computing world. The programs included on this disc run under Unix, MSDOS, and MS Windows. MSDOS BBS ready. This disc was made in September, 1994, and its price is $39.95. 32: GNU CDROM contains the complete GNU software library, as well as binaries for both SunOS 4.1.3 and Solaris 2.3. This software is ready to be compiled on a great number of platforms, and includes such packages as Emacs 19.25 and gcc 2.6.0. This disc is an essential for all UNIX users. This disc is in Rock Ridge format, so full unix pathnames are visible on systems that support the RR extensions. This CDROM was made in August 1994. The price is $39.95. 33: Sys V r4 is the third edition of the Lemis CDROM of *applications* for Unix System V.4.2. This CDROM contains 610 MB of free software in source and binary form. You'll get utility and development software, graphics demonstrations and X-based games. We packaged all binaries in the standard pkgadd format. As a result, you don't need any special knowledge to install the binaries. The installation includes all applicable man pages. You can mount the CDROM and use all the files directly from the CDROM. $59.95. 34: WELCOME TO AFRICA invites you to discover the Africa. With the help of over 450 original pictures, it introduces you to all aspects of life in the continent: from history to economics, cities to agriculture, beautiful wildlife and vanishing lifestyles to colorful markets and innovative crafts. Africa has a rich and ancient culture, majestic wildlife, breathtaking sceneries, and an inventive and dynamic people. This CDROM was developed to teach an undergraduate course on economic development in Africa at Stanford. Along with pictures, "Welcome to Africa" includes a sophisticated role game. You will become Yamoussou Ouedraogo. Yamoussou is an African who, like many others, lives on a farm in one of the thousands of villages scattered on the continent. He has a family to take care of. Every year he must make difficult, life threatening decisions about what to plant, what to buy, who to help, and more. The world of Yamoussou is a harsh but generous one. Success is judged by your ability to help your children and friends. "Welcome to Africa" runs under Windows 3.1 on a PC compatible computer, 386 or above. It is easy to use and install. It's fun. It's beautiful. Where else can you learn so much about Africa? $39.95. 35: Beer Homebrewing Guide CDROM is a complete reference and tutorial on brewing beer at home. Whether your favorite is a golden lager, an oatmeal stout or a Hefe Weitzen, this CD will show you how it's done. Inside you'll find a narrated, full color picture tutorial. Step-by-step instructions guide you selecting the right equipment, ingredients, and recipes to produce a brew that your friends won't believe you made yourself. You get a huge collection of beer recipes in an indexed, hypertext format to give you instant point and click reference to your favorite style in seconds. The Internet beer discussion news-groups hold the personal experiences of hundreds of amateur brewers. We've made this information easy to access in a fully indexed WINDOWS (tm) compatible hypertext format. The Beer Homebrewing Guide is fully Microsoft Windows 3.1 compatible and requires a VGA or better graphics display. 36: Kirk's Comm Disc contains 630 MB in 5107 files. You get programs for MSDOS, MS Windows and OS/2. If you have modem or run a BBS, this disc contains everything you need to get started or keep rolling! There are programs and utilities for 32 popular BBS programs including PCBoard, Wildcat, and Remote Access. You'll find 650 file of door games and programs that can be run from inside your BBS. You'll also find utilities to build rip graphics, the latest in BBS technology. You'll also find hundreds of programs for calling BBS and information providers. MSDOS BBS ready. June 1994 -- $39.95. 37: LIBRIS BRITANNIA 4 SCIENCE LIBRARY CDROM. The Scientific and Technical Library CDROM offers one of the largest selections of scientific and specialist software on the market. This CDROM is intended for the technical and scientific user who can't afford to wade through thousands of games, reminder systems and the like looking for what he wants. It brings together virtually all available tchnical and scientific programs for DOS and Windows plus vast amounts of source code and utlities. This CDROM comes with a printed book which carefully describes each file. This CDROM includes astronomy, electronics, engineering, amoung other technical disciplines. PDSL, England's longest established shareware libary, compiled this disc. August 94, $39.95 37a: LIBRIS BRITANNIA 4 BEST APPLICATIONS VOLUME is the second disk in the Libris Britannia 4 set. It contains all the PDSL library disks not in scientific or technical categories. The main categories covered are: Agriculture & Gardening, Astrology Esoteric, Business, Combined packages, Copy protection, Data, Database systems, Desk top publishing, Education, Food, Games, Genealogy, Geography, Graphics, Hobbies, Home finance, Household, Menuing, Music, Printing, Religion, Special needs, Spreadsheets, Stock market, Utilities, and Wordprocessing (note that sub categories under each are also included). It covers disk numbers up to 4143 and H584. In addition to the categorised headings this CD also includes some 80 Mb of the latest releases from ASP(Association of Shareware Professionals) authors. There is a total of more than 580Mb in some 2000 zip files on this CD. Like other PDSL CDs it comes with a printed book which lists and describes the programs and provides a table of contents and index to make finding programs easy. $49.95 38: Visions CDROM is 500 great photographs from the Preferred STock photo archives. All images are royalty free and come in 640x480 and 600x800 resolutions. The images are catagorized into subjects such as art, churches, holidays,animals, seasons. This disc works on DOS/Windows or Mac. $39.95. 39: Travel Adventure CDROM is 395 exciting photos from the United States, Ireland, Austria, Germany, and the Caribbean Islands. Included are stunning beaches, coves, surf, mountains, cities. All images are royalty free and come in a variety of sizes and resolutions. You also get a 16 page full color booklet of all 395 photos. This disc works on DOS/Windows or Mac. $39.95. 40: Sentimental Wings CDROM looks at the aircraft that helped set the pace of the future -- from the beginnings of the Cold war through the fall of the Soviet Union. This exciting MS Windows compatable disc contains a text and image viewer. You get dramatic full color 24 bit images, performace data, and hefty amouonts of historical fact surrounding their development and production. You get all images in a variety of formats. This disc works on DOS/Windows or Mac. 41: DESK TOP DREAM TRUETYPE FONTS & CLIPART This is a must for the DTP or Windows user. It contains more than 2000 true type fonts including many elaborate and decorative set as well as special purpose sets such as astology symbols. It also contains more than 5000 HIGH QUALITY clipart images in PCX format. Both the fonts and the clipart is ready to use direct off the disk with no unpacking needed. We have also included a good collection of graphics and font utilities for DOS and Windows. To make it evenmore usefull and easy to use this CD comes with a printed book which gives sample print outs for each font so you don't have to waste time installing fonts just to see what they are like. $39.95 42: 2000 GREATER & LESSER MYSTERIES This PDSL disk contains the largest selection of "Fringe" material ever assembled on one CD. It all the Astrology/Esoteric programs from our catalogue :Astrology, Palm reading, Iching, Tarot, Personality testing, Biorhythms, Numerology, Alternative Medicine, Diet, Herbology, ESP testing and many more. Some of these programs have been pre-installed and run direct from the CD. There are also more than 2000 documents totalling 40 to 50 million words on:- UFOS - sightings, abductions, aliens, mind control, implants, government conspiracies, alien technology, chemical and other health hazards, aids, the JFK conspiracy and many more. We foresee this disk being of interest to police and law enforcement agencies because of the insights it will give on <169>fringe<170> groups. So we have also include a large section on police and law enforcement such as interview procedures, patrol scheduling, legal notes, search procedures, firearms training, electronic surveillance, terrorism, hostages, identification and many more. Alternative science is also well covered eg.free energy machines, antigravity, perpetual motion, cold fusion etc. PLUS a huge section on occultism - the works of Alistair Crowley, ritual magic, Meditation, conventional and obscure religions, Alchemy, Wicca and much more. WARNING some of the material included may be found disturbing by persons of nervous dispositions, eg. sections on aliens & abductions and parental guidance is recommended for children. A truly fascinating disk. £21.00 (Not available from Walnut Creek) 43: PERSONAL REFERENCE LIBRARY compiled by PDSL to the same high standard as Libris Britannia and contains what is probably the largest and most comprehensive collection of public domain texts, information files and books available anywhere. It also contains the CCITT BLUE BOOK of communications standards and specifications Now you can own your own reference library of the worlds classic literature. For ease of use the material is divided into categories such as Adventure, Ancient literature, Biography, Children's books, Classic Literature, Dictionaries, Drama, Education, Food, Philosophy, Politics, Religion and so on, a total of more than 4000 files in 87 categories. Authors include Edgar Rice Burroughs, Jack London, Conan Doyle, Brothers Grimm, Charles Dickens, Henry James, Oscar Wilde, Virgil, Shakespeare, Trollop, Twain, Aristotle, Chaucer and hundreds more. Many religious texts are included such as the Bible, The Koran, The Works of Buddha, Torah, Tanach, Mormon, Jain, Baha and many more. There is something for everyone on this disk, if you want to read the classics, find out how to keep cats, how to make a perpetual motion machine, read about the Government cover up of UFOs or just want some good vegetable dish recipes you will find it here. £21.00 (Not available from Walnut Creek) 44: THE WALNUT CREEK CD-ROM SAMPLER contains something from every one of their products, together with index files and descriptions for each of their discs. Tons of programs ranging across the product line, including a demo of the Welcome to Africa disc, boot images from the UNIX for PC discs so you can see if your hardware will boot Linux or FreeBSD, and a variety of games from their games discs. $9.95 45: DOOM SHAREWARE CD-ROM The hottest game of 1994! ID software's Doom is a fast-moving virtual reality game in which you are plunged into a brutal 3D world. To escape alive, you must outfight legions of grisly fiends and solve Doom's lethal puzzles. You play a space marine equipped with a variety of weapons and technological artifacts, but in the end it comes down to who's tougher; you or them? $9.95 46: TOOLKIT FOR DOOM CD-ROM with 6000 files, 3500 news articles from the alt.games.doom newsgroup, and more than 500 ready to run add-on levels, this disc will sure provide you with hours of enjoyment. Included are extra maze levels, tools for map editing, Doom utility programs and documentation on Doom and its special data files. The disc is set up so you can run the WADs directly off the CD using our handy shell and your copy of the registered copy of Doom (Note does not include registered versionof Doom). $19.95 47: SHUTTLE ENCYCLOPAEDIA contains 3015 colour GIF images and 3779 text files about every shuttle mission, which are mostly NASA documents. Each Shuttle mission is represented, in addition to categories like the 747 Shuttle Ferry. Night images on the launch pad, pictures of the instrumentation etc. $39.95 48: OFFICIAL POV-RAY CD-ROM is a compilation of images, scene source, program source, utilities and tips on POV-Ray and 3D graphics from the internet and Compuserve. Contains the source for version 2.2 of POV as well as binaries for DOS, Macintosh, OS/2, Amiga, Linux and several other platforms. Contains a specially produced Microsoft Windows based interactive tutorial designed for beginners. $39.95 49: CD-ROM OF CD-ROMS is an encyclopaedia of CD-ROMs, software, hardware and the CD-ROM industry. Cover 5300 different discs in an easy-to-use multimedia relational database that runs under Windows 3.1. Includes sound, motion, SVGA colour pictures of titles and screen shots, extensive information on titles, publishers, prices and addresses. Includes 600 reviews from more than 300 reviewers to help you gain an in-depth knowledge of just what each title is about. $29.95 50: THE CP/M CD-ROM contains 18,000 files with executable programs, source code, documentation and other material for the CP/M operating system. Includes the entire Simtel20 pub\cpm archives, the contents of some major CP/M bulletin boards and the personal collections of several leaders in the CP/M community. Also contains CP/M emulators and other tools for working with CP/M files under DOS, OS/2 and UNIX. $39.95 The CICA MS Windows, Simtel MSDOS, Hobbes OS/2, QRZ Ham Radio, Toolkit for Linux, FreeBSD, Ada discs, Project Gutenberg are available by subscription. We update CICA MS Windows, Simtel MSDOS, and Hobbes OS/2 ABOUT quarterly. We update the QRZ Ham Radio, Toolkit for Linux, FreeBSD, Project Gutenberg and Ada discs these discs ABOUT every six months. When we have a new version we ship them to our subscribers. We bill your credit card when we ship. 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