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- Software of the Month Club
- April 1997 CD-ROM Program Guide
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- - DOS Latest & Greatest -
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- AIMS Contact Management 2.1
- Amazing organizer
- Keep track of business contacts and important information. Enter
- a company as a contact and the employees as sub-contacts or
- individuals. Work with additional tools, including word
- processing, to-do lists, mail merging, labeling, scheduling and
- more.
- * Divided into four main areas: Browse, Field Entry, Option
- Box and Menu
- * Search features
- * Browse filters
- (Application by Trevor Dunsford, Adeptus Computer Solutions,
- Inc.)
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- Buckets
- Word association game
- This sorting game has a wide range of difficulty - from child's
- play to diabolical. Each puzzle includes a set of words and two
- or three buckets. Figure which words go with each other and
- place them in a bucket.
- * Hint features
- * Set time limit
- * Keep score
- (Application by Joel Wallman)
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- Coeli Electric Planisphere 3.79
- Seeing stars
- This real-time star chart combines practical ephemerides with a
- planetarium. View the heavens from any place and time with
- advanced star and constellation search. Readouts include rise, set
- and transit times, apparent and absolute magnitudes,
- astronomical twilight, distance, coordinates, phase and more.
- Click on a star to see information about it, including name,
- distance, rising and setting.
- * Case sensitive controls
- * Point and click interface
- * Online help
- (Application by Roger Hughes, Swimming Elk Software;
- Requires mouse and VESA drivers)
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- - Feature Program -
- Crazy Drake 1.01
- Wacky game
- Jump, climb, run, swing and shoot your way through this arcade
- adventure. As Prince Drake, you must retrieve the Sacred Golden
- Egg from Dr. FoulBrain and stop him from taking over
- LoonVille. Each level contains bonus items, evil henchmen,
- challenging obstacles and more.
- * Three huge levels
- * Save and load up to seven games
- * Shows thumbnails of each saved game
- * Supports 16-bit stereo sounds and parallaxing background
- graphics
- (Application by One Reality and Neurotech Software; Requires
- 8MB of RAM and 6MB of hard disk space)
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- Day-Care Manager
- Child's play
- Organize daily management routines for day-care businesses.
- DCM provides weekly scheduling for children, current client
- balances and accounts receivable. Supports classes in larger day-
- care businesses. It even generates sign in and out sheets, and
- weekly schedules for quick reference.
- * Add up to 500 children
- * Supports mouse and keyboard
- (Application by Jeff Schmidt)
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- Grow'Em 4.0
- Green thumb
- Learn everything you need to know about growing your own
- garden. This program teaches you how to propagate plants from
- seeds and cuttings, by layering and more. It covers each
- technique in depth by carefully listing instructions, giving helpful
- tips and showing examples. It also gives detailed information on
- other important topics, like growth media, composting and
- lighting.
- * Includes more than 300 plant species and 1,000 entries
- * Includes VGA and SuperVGA versions
- (Application by Paul Postuma; Requires a VESA-compatible
- video card and a DOS mouse driver)
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- Gview 2.5
- Image manipulation
- View and manipulate image files with this comprehensive
- program. Searches for and displays JPG, GIF, BMP, PCX, TIFF
- and TGA files. Modification options include copying, moving,
- printing, deleting, resizing, renaming and more
- * Slide show option
- * Fade, sound and color functions
- (Application by James Sherwood, Spider Software)
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- Kinder Carton 4.0
- Educational collection
- A great collection of phonic, math and logic activities for young
- kids. Choose from 27 programs, including Letter Matching,
- Letter Sequencing, Alphabet Book, I Spy, Rhyming Words,
- Three-Letter Words, Amazing Words, Word Race and more.
- Math and logic activities include Lasso Count, Ordinal Numbers,
- and Manipulative Add and Subtract.
- * Change difficulty levels
- * Colorful VGA graphics
- * Numbers range from zero to 100.
- (Application by KidStuff Software; Requires a mouse driver and
- 2.5MB hard disk space)
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- OWL Personal Portfolio Manager 6.1
- Investment organizer
- This portfolio management and technical analysis system is
- perfect for investors. Shows price movement analysis. Technical
- indicators include moving averages, on-balance volumes,
- polynomial trend lines, correlation analysis and more. Organize
- different types of investments into individual portfolios and
- generate reports on any combination of portfolios.
- Maintain more than 5,000 securities in more than 500 portfolios.
- * Gain and loss reports
- * Track interest and dividends
- * IRS-approved accounting methods
- * Easy-to-use mouse menu
- * Online help
- * Macro support
- * Secure Erase for classified documents
- (Application by Otto-Williams, Ltd.)
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- Teacher's Quiz Maker 1.2
- This is only a test
- Generate student tests in a snap. Choose from three formats: fill-
- in, multiple choice, and true or false. Tests are available in a
- wide variety of subjects and grade levels. Sample questions are
- intended for grades five through nine. View the questions on
- screen or print them out.
- * Saves up to 30 quizzes
- * Includes ten question databases
- * Password protection
- (Application by William Jimerson; The password is quiz)
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- TERROID
- Galactic adventure
- Armed with twin lasers and a powerful cannon, you must save
- your people from the clutches of the Xrimians in this side-
- scrolling shoot 'em up. Blast your way through enemy
- spaceships, cannon turrets, missile posts and armored tanks. Pick
- up protective shields, bombs, weapon power-ups and energy
- pods dropped by destroyed ships.
- * Three difficulty settings
- * Two levels
- * Supports sound cards and joysticks
- (Application by DIGITAL Nightmares)
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- TwinBloc
- Arcade action
- Can you survive this arcade game? Your character is ill-prepared
- and poorly armored, but you must still fight off everything the
- Razzerians can drop, kick and throw at you. Blast through their
- defenses and traverse the Time Block levels. They'll tantalize
- you with pictures from your home planet, hurl you through space
- and dazzle you with bizarre patterns.
- * For one or two players
- * Five levels for one player
- * Four levels for two players
- * Sound card, mouse and joystick support
- (Application by Webfoot Technologies; Music requires
- expanded memory)
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