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- Software of the Month Club
- December 1996 CD-ROM Program Guide
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- - DOS Education -
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- Around The U.S.A. Trivia
- Land of the free
- Travel around the United States with this informative trivia
- program. It covers landmarks, sports, famous people, art, nature,
- cities, towns, sciences and more.
- * 105 questions
- * Up to four players
- * Three difficulty levels
- * Save and load games
- (Application by Software Creations)
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- EF Pro-Vocabulary 2.0
- Say what?
- This program is great for anyone teaching or learning a foreign
- language. You can put together word and phrase lists, lessons
- and quizzes. It helps memorization, and improves spelling and
- pronunciation.
- * Includes French, Czech, Indonesian, Norwegian and Latin
- samples
- * Hear the proper pronunciations from sample files with audio
- clips
- * Includes a demo tutorial with step-by-step instructions
- * Imports and exports tab delimited ASCII files
- (Application by Eric G.V. Fookes)
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- Illustrated UFO Encyclopedia 1.0
- Close encounters
- This electronic book provides a fascinating and informative look
- into the phenomena of UFOs. Explore this controversial topic
- and decide for yourself whether they are real or not.
- * Ten chapters cover alien technology, black holes, the Roswell
- incident and more
- * Includes pictures of the CIA spy plane, the S4 saucer and a
- cut-out view of an alien saucer
- * Search options
- * Print to paper or to a file
- (Document by Mary K. Long)
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- Orchis 1.2
- Get organized
- Orchis stands for Organizational Chart Imaging Software -- a
- powerful tool for creating charts. Use it for showing
- organizations of people, tree-like hierarchies, menu structures,
- decision trees, sentence parsing and more.
- * Uses a graphical user interface with a WYSIWYG chart
- display
- * Includes ten chapters on using the program and creating
- charts
- * Complete with eight sample diagrams
- * Exports to EPS, PDL and PCX
- * Change each element's properties like shadows, line weights,
- fonts, type size and type color
- (Application by Trionum, Inc.)
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- PC Graph 3.0
- Charts and graphs
- Plot graphs with any data. Save, load and enter data into X, Y1
- and Y2 variables. The perfect tool for students, statisticians,
- accountants, geographers, psychologists and mathematicians.
- * Chose from 13 different data graphs, including bar, pie, stack
- and histogram
- * Work with 12 display modes of up to 1280x1024 with 16
- colors
- * Change the line, fill and point styles
- (Application by Servile Software)
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- Probert E-Text Encyclopedia Edition 4.0
- From A to Z
- This encyclopedia covers both general information and lesser
- known facts.
- * ASCII text format
- * More than 1.5MB of information
- * Covers words from Acetabulum to ZWEI
- (Application by Servile Software; Requires a text viewer)
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- Truth About Translations 1.00
- Myths and truths
- This program gives vital information about translations and
- interpretations. It humorously probes complex language issues
- and clarifies many myths. Perfect for language translators and
- students studying different languages.
- * Comes in two formats: an animated slide-show and a printable
- text file
- * Presents famous quotations spanning 2,500 years
- * Includes translation bloopers between man and machine
- (Application by Alexander Gross, Cross-Cultural Research)
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- Word Challenge 1.4
- Game collection
- This set of educational games will improve your vocabulary,
- deduction and spelling skills. It contains 800 words. The five
- games are:
- * Vocabulary
- * Anagrams
- * Hangman
- * Track-word
- * Word Challenge
- (Application by Rick Pedley, Coffee Mug Software)
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- -Feature Program-
- Write Kanji 1.01
- From the far East
- Learn kanji, a Japanese language. Write characters, memorize
- definitions, learn compound characters and more.
- * Five lessons
- * Includes 75 of the most frequently used kanji characters
- * Full graphical interface with built-in character recognition
- (Application by Awareness Productions; Requires a DOS mouse
- driver)
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