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Software of the Month Club June 1996 CD-ROM Master Program Guide -Dos Business- ATTEND v4.1a by Robert J. Manning Track employee attendance with this schedule database. Record vacations, sick leave, tardies -- even list them as excused or unexcused. List up to 200 employees per working directory. It alerts you when updates are due, computes statistics on employee leave types, stores employee personal information and records notes. Complete with a time clock tracking program. You can even run it on a network. BANK-PLAN v3.30 by Invest-Tech Limited Organize your cash flow with this small business planner. Project income, expenses and bank balances for 12 months. Easy-to-use for forecasting cash and short-term funding needs. Create many reports and graphs. Comprehensive online help and documentation included. BUSINESS INVENTORY ORGANIZER v.2.0 by Tomas Martin Organize and group your business inventory and supplies. Unlimited number of entries, sort feature, fast search option, browse and edit options. Records can be displayed on the screen or printed out. This program also has many useful desktop utilities, like calculator, calendar, note pad, compress and print. EASY BASE v10.5 by Easy Software Create your own program for data management with this programming language file. Generate sophisticated menu-driven applications in record time with disk files called Forms. Forms store data and procedures that manipulate that data, allowing you to present information in a logical menu system. The user-friendly interface makes this program easy-to-use. FPLAN - INSURANCE & ESTATE FINANCIAL PLANNER v5.0 by First Financial Software Analyze your finances with this easy-to-use planner. This simple guide helps you gather important information. Review basic economic factors, including inflation, income projection and life insurance status. Great for personal use. LOAN CHIEF v1.12 by Insight Software Solutions Organize your loans with ease and flexibility. Work with a variety of loan tools, including Loan Amortization Schedules, Loan Charts and Loan Calculators. These tools consider variable payments, interest rates and compounding methods. Professional schedules can be generated with monthly, quarterly, semi-annual or annual detail. Several pre-defined acceleration methods and variable payment types are available. Accelerated schedules can be illustrated side by side with the original schedule. MOTELMAX v2.60 by Ken Mashburn A complete hotel/motel management system! This comprehensive program includes modules for reservation, advance deposit, front desk, accounting, room inventory, point of sale, guest history, audit trail and general ledger. Room charges are assigned automatically according to rate tables you enter. Track travel agent commissions and export data to your favorite word processor, spreadsheet or database program. Print custom reservation and guest letters. It is very easy-to-use and all entries are verified. Other features include one key check-in and check- out, password protection, user access limits and full audit trails for complete verification of all account totals. This version manages up to 50 rooms. ORDER PRO v3.1 by Automated Systems A complete ordering and invoicing program! Track your customers from the orders they place to the balances they owe. Ideal for medium to large businesses that have large and complex inventories and need to closely track purchases, sales and inventory. PC-FLORIST v2.0 by Schreck Software Keep track of product costs in your flower shop with PC-Florist. It calculates costs based on a desired gross profit percentage or dollar amount. Find total revenues and required selling prices. Edit the input cost to see the effect on the final costs and margins. PC-Florist is the right program for your flower shop. PROPERTY MASTER The complete rental-management system. TASK MASTER v2.4c by Robert K. Summers What's going on? Track your projects, assignment, tasks, office work and more with this management program. Complete with a sophisticated pop-up appointment calendar, pop-up calculator and other useful business tools. Produce reports in one of several pre- defined formats, or design your own. TELEMARKETING by Data-Plane, Inc. File your marketing leads. Sort, collate and track past and future appointments and sales. Several forms are available, including lead sheets for sales people who work in the field. This version is geared toward home improvement contractors, but can be used by similar businesses. TRACKEQUIP v1.0 by John A. Tulley Keep track of company equipment with this organizer. Features include an easy-to-use query system, extensive help, labeling, reports and more. Record when equipment is inspected, measured and tested. Maintain calibration and verification schedules. NOTE: To run properly, let the program update AUTOEXEC.BAT. TRUCK DATA SYSTEM v6.1 by TLC Software Keep track of your fleet with this full-featured maintenance package. Track vehicle descriptions, repairs, fuel use, maintenance schedules, permit-tag expirations, tires and more. Print repair schedules, fuel reports, maintenance due flags, parts inventory and reorder charts. Includes extensive file maintenance selections and built-in backup routine. VERALITE v1.1 by Clay Reid Manage your stock on hand with this inventory manager. Includes a price finder and a comprehensive invoicing system. Easy-to-use with a graphical interface and complete online help. -DOS CHILDRENS- AMY'S FUN-2-3 ADVENTURE! v2.1 by Devasoft A "educational game for two to five year old children. Amy, a cute little puppy, leads your child on an entertaining number learning journey! Follow Amy through four fantastic learning activities. AmyOs Doghouse is a fun introduction to number recognition and counting skills. Marty the Match Machine develops logical comparison skills and reinforces number recognition. Children can create their own songs or play one of the eight popular children's songs on an electronic xylophone with Music Magic. (Titles include "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star," "London Bridge" and "Three Blind Mice.") Striking graphics, outstanding animation, and loads of digitized speech and sound effects! NOTE: Requires Sound Blaster and a VGA. ANIMATED WORDS v4.0 by Flix Productions Correctly spell words to animate these cute puzzles. Match words with corresponding pictures to add a piece to the puzzle. The puzzle becomes animated after five correct answers. Perfect for children in pre-school through first grade. BENJI AND EMILY'S TOYBOX by John Rehm Learn letters and numbers with this fun and educational program! ToyBox offers six activities. In Matching Game, move the letters from one column and match them to the corresponding picture in the other column. Identification is the key in Identify the Letter, Identify the Numbers and Match the Color. Count the number of objects in Counting Game. Have fun connecting the dots in Dot the Dot and watch the images come to life. Great for younger children. BRANDON'S PRESCHOOL GRAPHICS LUNCHBOX by Robichaux and Associates These matching and counting games add up to educational fun for your preschoolers. This revamped version of the classic Lunchbox uses VGA graphics and Sound Blaster/PC Speaker support to bring each lesson alive with voice, music and classic guitar sounds. BRILLIANT BABY BENNY by AVSTAR Stimulate kids' imagination with this cute story. Follow a genius baby and his tale of how he made a difference in the world. Cute pictures animate each event of the incredible story. You can even color the pictures and use them for puzzles. DID YOU EVER SEE AN ANIMAL HIDING IN A WORD? by AVSTAR Find all sorts of animals within the English vocabulary. See an owl bowling, a cat in catsup and more. Turn the pictures into puzzles after you color them. KIDS AT PLAY v2.0 by Avazpour Systems Children interact with a series of different scenes. Click on objects and watch corresponding animations and listen to its sounds. Take your child to the zoo, visit the farm or walk through the city. There are even puzzles to solve. MAGIC MADE EASY v2.0 by Gary Killops Presto! Learn the secrets of magic with this introductory program. It covers a series of basic magic pranks, including card tricks, impromptu magic and mind reading. A magic program wouldn't be complete without a bunny -- click on Ralph the Rabbit when you see him. MY PAL INDROME by AVSTAR Palindromes are numbers, words, or sentences that read the same backwards or forwards. This program shows ten palindromes, including " No bib on," "Loop a pool" and "Net a ten." Includes colorful pictures and animals. Turn the pictures into jigsaw puzzles or color the pictures. RIDDLE BALLOON v1.0 by Robert J. Deustch This educational program uses riddles to help kids learn several topics. A delightful host, named Little Robby, guides your child through a series of fun riddles. They teach spelling, logic and coordination. Correct answers are rewarded with humorous comments and bundles of colorful balloons. SAM THE MAGIC RUBBERBAND by AVSTAR Enjoy the adventures of Sam, the magic rubberband. This lively, little character goes through different places trying to locate his owners. Along the way, he meets all sorts of things, from a spider to toys. Color each picture and use them as puzzles. -DOS Desktop Publishing- ANIMAGICIAN v2.5 by KAVIK Software AniMagician is a full-featured animation development system. Create animations with up to 256-colors! Features include color palette cycling, image embossing, oil paint effects, frame flips, pixelation and more! Add impact by embedding VOC sounds to your FLI animations. AURORA 2.00b by nuText Systems One of the finest text editors available. Blazing speed, superb interface, mouse support, very powerful AND easy-to-use. Huge capacity to 1 Gigabyte, 16k line length. FAST Color syntax highlighting! New colorized easy-to-learn macro language with more than 3000 lines of macros, unlimited undo-redo, LIVE wordwrap, regular expressions, folding, integrated file manager. Configurable menus, keyboard, windows, and much more! CLICHE FINDER v2.0 by Rosemary K. West Cliche Finder is exactly that! This program helps improve your writing by helping you identify -- and avoid -- more than 300 cliches. You can even add to the list. This is an ideal tool for anyone preparing documents -- from high school assignments to business reports. DISPLAY by Jih-Shin Ho Now you can view, convert, manipulate, read and write images and movies. You can even create movies and slide-shows. View images in any resolution supported by your video card. Super VGA drivers for many video cards are included. It supports BMP, PCX, TIF, TGA, IMG, Mac Paint and more. It also supports sound files and animation files, including FLI, FLC, DL, AVI, MPG, and QuickTime MOV. FED Forms Editor by MicroFox Company Fill out your forms with this easy-to-use program. Create a standard form with any text editor and use this program to fill it out and print it. If your business deals with many forms, this program will prove its worth. Complete with search features. PCXDUMP v9.3 & PCXLAB v1.3 by Viper Software A great way to save your screen images to a disk file. PCXDUMP is memory resident, which means once it's been executed, the program is always waiting in the background. Tell PCXDUMP to capture current screen image by pressing a key combination of keys. The images are saved to the disk in PCX format. The PCXLAB utility is a format converter. Clip Art BRIGHT IDEAS CLIP ART a Software of the Month Club exclusive A beetle, and elephant and a child on stilts - all this and more! This original clip art collection is from the individuals of our Bright Ideasr staff. These images are guaranteed to please! Nineteen high quality PCX pictures. For more information about how to receive even more original Bright Ideasr clip art, along with fantastic fonts, original backgrounds and useful desktop publishing tricks, call Customer Service at (619) 930-7302. TRIANGLE CLIP ART VOL 1 by Cengiz Akinli Playing children, a rocket, a caduceus and an old-fashioned hat box are just a few of the images in this exciting collection! You get a total of 60 wonderful black-and-white TIFF images with a variety of objects and people. US AND CANADA Clip Art by Albert K. Hon Add these sketches of the 50 states, 10 provinces and two territories of the USA and Canada to your collection. These PCX map sketches are perfect for presentations, reports and geography projects. Fonts BANKRUPT by Gerard E. Bernor Bankrupt is an unusual addition to your type library. The characters resemble the strokes of a calligrapher's pen. (TrueType) BOLTED BOLD by Gerard E. Bernor This strong typeface makes an impression. (TrueType) DOUBLE TROUBLE by Gerard E. Bernor Another bold, sans serif font. Its uniquely curved surfaces add a distinctive look to your publications. (TrueType) -DOS Education- ANNA'S LANGUAGE TUTOR v2.2 by Abavagada Software This user-definable language teaching tool is flexible and adaptable. Use it to create language lessons for teaching any language. Choose from a variety of methods, including readings, drills, translations, games, verb helpers and a phrase builder. This program comes with a sampler language. You can add other language plug-ins (like those included in this volume). NOTE: You may have received this program in a previous volume. We are including it here for our new members. GERMAN and SWEDISH LANGUAGE ADD-ONS by Abavagada Software This is the easy way to learn German and Swedish. These language add-ons work with Anna's Language Tutor v2.2, included in this volume. BIG MATH ATTACK! v2.35 by Philip P. Kapusta Test your math, spelling, typing and metric conversion skills with this fun, arcade-style environment. Whether you are a child or an adult, there's a perfect skill level just for you. Top scores are maintained to track progress. You can even create your own spelling lists. Educational and fun! THE CONSTITUTION NOTEBOOK FOR DOS v3.3 by TCNbp Software The Constitution is possibly the most important democratic document ever written. Do you know why? This document helps you understand the importance of this document. Use the Interactive Search feature to quickly locate areas of interest to you. Review its extensive rights commentary pages to gain insight into the Bill of Rights. It's easy to create notes with the notebook interactive indexing and comments features. Context-sensitive help and three on-screen tutorials are included. CREATE A QUIZ v3.02 by Philip P. Kapusta Teachers and students can now generate their own on-screen interactive quizzes! Play with one to nine participants -- great for games! Supports multiple choice and fill-in-the-blank questions. You can even use Create a Quiz to create surveys. This program includes a wealth of options, and is menu driven with an easy-to- use interface. MATHTEST v3.0s by Kenneth Perrine This problem solving game lets you practice addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Choose the skill and difficulty level right for you. Advanced problems include drills in multi-digits, negative numbers, decimals, carrying, borrowing and long division. This program is ideal for beginners and students wanting to improve speed and accuracy. SHOW 'N SPELL v2.1 by Philip P. Kapusta A fun way to improve spelling skills! Random pictures appear for you to identify and spell. Three different skill levels are available and several play options (reveal clues, play against the clock, display word skeleton dashes). Imports customized word lists for spelling reviews. STEFI v1.0a by Balint Toth Save, edit, view and analyze graphs with this comprehensive program. Generate reports including important data on weights, matrices, components, minimum cost path and tree, eccentricity, center, topologic order, strong components and more. STRATEGIES TO REDUCE COLLEGE COSTS v2.2 & COLLEGE AID CALCULATOR v2.2 by Think Ahead, Inc. Thinking about going to college? Then you need to read this document - it explains the college financial aid system. Find out how individual finances can affect financial aid, and ways to improve your chances of receiving financial assistance. You'll learn the differences between public and private college assistance. WATER AND STEAM PROPERTIES v1.21 by Katmar Software An excellent aid for any chemistry student. This is a straightforward replacement for traditional printed Steam Tables. Because it includes a much wider set of properties, it eliminates the necessity of interpolating between data points, and works with all generally accepted units. It contains data for 15 point properties, and 17 temperature and pressure dependent properties. WORD GAMES AT CAMELOT v1.0 by Adventure LearningWare Learn the correct use of adjectives with this outstanding program. As a knight seeking to join King Arthur's Court you must prove your vocabulary knowledge. With nine sets of words lists, five levels of difficulty, colorful graphics and entertaining game play this program appeals to youngsters of all ages. The more difficult levels may even prove challenging to adults. -DOS Games- ADVENTURES WITH CHICKENS v1.0 by RockSolid Software Don't be a chicken. Planet Heck has depleted its source of chickens and it's up to you to steal some from Earth. Guide your spaceship through absurd mazes and snatch up purple chickens. It's a fast, 256-color VGA game with ten interesting levels. Supports up to 12 players, joystick, mouse and sound cards. NOTE: No chickens were harmed when making this game. BLACK KNIGHT SE:F/A-18 FLIGHT SIMULATOR v1.2 by FormGen The most realistic air combat experience -- and you don't even have to enlist! In your F/A-18 flight simulator, battle either MIG- 29s or take on ground attack missions using some of today's most advanced weapons systems. Terrific graphics, thunderous stereo sound and awesome realism. NOTE: Requires 8MB of RAM. CUBIX v1.1 by Astro Computing One of the most challenging and frustrating puzzles ever conceived is the Rubik's cube. Now, you can experience all the challenge and frustration of Rubik's cube right on your computer screen! Manipulate rows and columns with your mouse. All sides are visible at all times. Scramble the cube then try to unscramble it. Sounds easy but you won't think so after the first few hours! FIRESTORM! v1.3 by John Daigle Sound the alarm the forest is on fire! In this real-time simulation, you are the captain of Central Fire Command, a computerized forest fire fighting command center. It' up to you to put out the fire.Using an infrared satellite in geo-synchronous orbit, you have a bird' eye view of 180,000 acres of coast somewhere in the Northwest. The land is heavily forested and mountainous, and has rivers, roads and a lake. Even buildings are visible with computer enhancement of satellite images. Using the GPS (geo-positioning system), you have the real-time location of four ground fire crews and two air tankers. Using your command console you can direct the movement of the ground and air units to fight the fire. You also have access to weather information, wind direction and speed. Other information is provided: acres on fire, acres burned, structures lost, day and time.You can have the computer run a random simulation or customize how many fires you fight and their location. This great simulation won' burn you. FUZION v2.6 by ZeezRealm Puzzled? You will be after playing this game. This puzzle is based on the exact science of polyominoes. Any piece can fit next to another -- but the picture may not match. Rotate the puzzle tiles any direction -- you can even flip them. There are thousands of ways to solve these puzzles. Can you find one? GARGOYLE MEDIEVAL PACK v1.4 by Synaptic Entertainment Help a colony of elves reclaim their town from the evil Gargoyle Empire. There are three fascinating levels to this intense game. First, elves attack the Gargoyle's castle. Next, they must escape from the castle, unharmed. Finally, the elves must defend their village from another Gargoyle attack. If you fail, the game starts all over. Grab the coins and rubies, but watch out for falling rocks and fireballs. GLOOK v1.0 by Laser Point Blast your way through this Defender-style arcade game. Shoot alien ships and save humans on the planet's surface. Clear all the waves of alien ships before going to the next level. Complete with pounding sound effects, colorful graphics and fast side-scrolling action. GROUNDFIRE v1.1 by Ben Page You're grounded in this challenging shooting game. Your ground forces fire missiles while dodging bombs and gunfire from attacking armies. Different enemies attack in each level, including helicopters and jet fighters. This fast-paced game requires quick reflexes and accurate shooting. N-CARD by Horne Software Pair up with this Concentration-style card game. Match 15 pairs from a standard deck of 52 cards. Score higher when you finish fast with the fewest attempts. PAINTERS by James Saito In this simple strategic game you paint the field with as much of your color as possible. You compete against three opponents, human or computer. There are five rounds to complete in the singles games. You must decide on the best tactics, sabotage your opponent's efforts or go all out for yourself. This is a great game with colorful graphics. PUZZLE WIZARD v2.2 by Geoff Napier Create your own puzzles with this entertaining program! Puzzle Wizard turns ordinary PCX or GIF files (which you can create in your favorite paint program) into puzzles. It then creates an executable file so you can distribute these puzzles to friends, family or colleagues, or you can solve them yourself. NOTE:Requires a GIF or PCX image, not included. SHOOTING GALLERY v3.3 by Nels Anderson Build dexterity and hand/eye coordination while enjoying this colorful VGA action game! Seven rounds of shooting action with arcade, range, skeet, target and Wild West shooting. Runs in 256 color mode. Includes Sound Blaster support, multiple players, select rounds, practice modes and other options. NOTE: Requires a VGA or MCGA system and a mouse. STRONG LINES v1.0 by Homebrew Software Strong Lines is a strategy game where you race against the clock to reveal hidden pictures while trying to avoid colliding with small points of light. You have to move quick and remember once you start a line you cannot backup. Each level contains a complete percentage which you must reach in order to move into another level. These same complete percentages are also used to determine initial startup difficulty such as 75%, 80%, 85%, and 90%. As levels are advanced additional points of light are added to make this game really challenging. If your familiar with the popular arcade game QIX then your going to really enjoy Strong Lines, it's much better. TOMMY'S STRING OF PEARLS by Tommy's Toys Collect pearls in this intriguing board game. Collect the longest string of pearls by moving squares around a game board. Play solo or challenge up to five other friends. Complete with Demo mode, different speed settings and save functions. WORLD QUEST v2.0b by Chris Egerter Attack! Try to stay alive in this fast-action, shoot 'em up, arcade game. Rescue hostages and attack alien defense bases in this Defender-style world. Includes realistic graphics, digitized sound effects and smooth 256-color parallax scrolling. XENOBALL v1.0 by HomeBrew Software The excitement never stops! In this excellent action puzzle game you must guide the ball around a broken track. Can you repair the track before the ball arrives? Do you know which type of track you should use? If you don't, the ball falls off the track and you lose. With colorful graphics and cool sound effects this game will keep puzzlers coming back for more. -DOS General Interest- AVOIDING SEXUAL HARASSMENT by Guided Learning Systems Help employees understand sexual harassment with this one hour training program. Learn to recognize words and behavior commonly regarded as sexual harassment. The built-in mastery exam may be used to certify employees when they have successfully completed the course. BUILD-IT v4.0 by D. J. Elliott Build your own computer! This comprehensive overview of computers gives you the information you need to build your own 486 for approximately $800. You'll also learn about PCs and their individual components. NOTE: Build-it is provided in both text and Microsoft Word formats. DIGITYPE Incredible! A completely new class of typing program that lets you have fun and refines your typing skills. The best part is, it all happens while you play animated VGA games! HOUSEHOLD REGISTER v3.15 by TurboSystemsCo It's the only program you'll care about the day your home or office is robbed or destroyed! Records all the right information about your assets so that your insurance company pays. This unique inventory program enables you to quickly find any item by category, location, or owner. Reports to screen, disk or printer. MYBOOKS v4.3 by Rad Software Keep track of your publications with this handy organizer. This is a library inventory program for any size book collection up to 10,000 volumes! Powerful features include user-defined searches, flexible printing options and the ability to print any identification labels you need. Never lose track of books again. MYMAGS v3.1 by RAD Software Keep track of your magazines, journals, and articles with this handy publication organizer. Maintain up to 10,000 entries, define your own powerful search patterns and choose from the flexible printing options. SIMUDOS Does the stark, blinking cursor on the DOS command line give you an uneasy feeling? SimuDOS is a friendly, tireless teacher. You get a tutorial and a simulated DOS environment where you can practice the ins and outs of DOS. DOS Utility BOBBY by Jimmy & Jon Yergaw Manage your DOS interface easier with this comprehensive, DOS prompt replacer! This excellent software provides an intuitive 3D graphical interface. It incorporates an extensive online help system, plain English error messages, file managing, a built-in player for WAV files and a PCX, GIF image viewer. Configure Bobby to provide single-click access to your favorite programs. EASY WORD v10 by Easy Software This wonderful word processor will fulfill all of your word processing needs. Its comprehensive features include spell checking, line checking, table creation and macros. Print odd and even pages separately for double-sided printing. The Secure Erase feature protects important and sensitive documents. If you already use Easy Word, you'll appreciate this upgrade; if you haven't tried it yet, then take a close look at Easy Word. INTOUCH v5.4 RAD Software InTouch will keep you "in touch" with people. InTouch has a host of powerful features. InTouch maintains 100 Address Lists, with 10,000 names per list, and provides a 1,000-line comment card for each listing. InTouch prints mailing labels, address envelopes, and it even has dialing/modem support. InTouch is a simple and easy way to maintain your contacts. LIST by Vernon D. Buerg Tired of using the TYPE command to display your text and document files? LIST gives you much more than simple text viewing capabilities. List will view, search and print documents, copy and paste selected text to a new file, and even has archive and hex viewing modes. List has filters, EGA/VGA display toggle and much more! NEOPAINT v3.2 by NeoSoft Corporation Create dazzling images with this powerful, full-featured DOS art studio. NeoPaint is easy-to-use. It's simple for children to use, but comprehensive enough for professional artists. Illustration features include highlighter, water color, oil, charcoal and crayon specialty brushes in multiple sizes. Multiple on-screen editing is also possible. Supports PCX, BMP, TIFF and GIF file formats. SYSCHK v2.41 Advanced Personal Systems SYSCHK provides comprehensive information about the devices installed in your system. SYSCHK will search for: Computer model and manufacturer, if known, micro processor type, including the Intel Pentium(tm) and Cyrix chips. SYSCHK detects early Pentium chips with the floating point bug, gives a complete IRQ list that shows usage and availablity, math coprocessor type, and Microsoft Windows setup information. It detects a slave 8259 interrupt controller, checks for the presence of a real time clock. Reports ISA, PCI, Micro Channel, or EISA bus System BIOS, including source, date and size. -OS/2 Warp!- ADU/2 v4.0 by VTS-Datensysteme GmbH & Co. Organize your data easily with this professional file manager. Basic characteristics include full HPFS support, disk space overview and quick search features. Complete with HEX editor, mouse driver and LAN support. HTMLGen v1.10 by American Coders, Ltd. Simplify script writing with this HTML language generator. Add HTML tags without having to type them. Includes tags for headings, titles, GIF images and more. Complete with text editors links, web browser links and an IPF converter. PM DIRECTORY ENFORCER v2.3 by Coolware Compare lists of files with this multi-threaded comparison application. Determine the differences between two directories in file sizes, dates, types and more. Delete, copy and move files within this program. Very useful when you're trying to keep the latest version. PM TIC TAC TOE v1.0 by Matthijs van Doom Play the classic version of tic-tac-toe with a few twists. Choose from a range of board sizes, from 2x2 to 8x8 squares. Switch between Xs and Os and choose which goes first. Play against the computer or challenge a friend. Perfect for a quick break from stressful work. RCOPY v1.12 by Dean R. Ammons Expand your Copy command features with this great extension for OS/2 v2.x and up. When copying to disk, it detects when a disk is full and prompts for a new disk. You can even format disks as you go. It displays progress messages, issues warning alerts when target directories already exist and checks configurations before creating new directories. TETRIS-PENTIS v2.06 by Emil Fickel Solve the puzzles in this Tetris-style game with cool additions. Line up the falling blocks at the bottom of the playing field to clear the levels. The more lines you clear at a time, the higher you score. Change to Pentis and play with a new set of blocks. Blocks can either be solid colors or bitmap objects. PIANO v1.6 by Jeff Glatt Music to your ears! Turn your computer into a MIDI controller. Play notes on external MIDI instruments through the keyboard and mouse. Control MIDI data information, including volume, chorus level, pitch wheel, channel pressure and more on any sound module. NOTE: Requires a MIDI interface card and MIDI instruments. INTERCOM v2.01 by Jonathan Tew Reach out and touch someone with this telephone interface. Set up your own answering machine and electronic phone book. Features include caller ID, call blocking, dialing and more. Change your maximum rings, compression rates and sample rates. Complete with seamless support for dynamic IP users. XIT v2.2 by CodeSmith Software Enhance your WorkPlace Shell with this user-friendly utility. Choose from more than 30 functions. Create one-button commands from many desktop operations. Close windows, bring up the Task List, create roll-up buttons and more. Assign separate operations for the left and right mouse buttons. Modify the bitmaps for the special buttons. A fantastic utility! FM/2 v2.42 by Barebones Software Take advantage of this comprehensive collection of directory maintenance utilities. Compress and archive directories with popular archive programs, like ZIP and UNZIP. Utilities include an archive viewer, process killer, undeleter and more. Complete with many file management functions. Perfect when saving hard disk space or backing up files. OS/2 Warp! Utilities Clock by Rick Papo This program provides an analog or digital clock for your OS/2 desktop. It also monitors the system load, either as a percentage of CPU usage, or as a count of active tasks. The clock's border changes color from green to yellow to red as the system load increases. You can set these threshold values. Source code is provided. Run the installation file ENGLISH.CMD. PMJPEG by Norman Yee PMJPEG is a shareware image viewer with image processing and conversion capabilities for OS/2 2.x. PMJPEG is a port of WinJPEG to OS/2 2.x. It is a native 32-bit PM application. With it, you can display JPEG, TIFF, GIF, Targa, PCX, Windows BMP, OS/2 BMP or PPM images. You can export images to JPEG, TIFF, GIF, Targa, PCX, Windows BMP, OS/2 BMP or PPM formats, or compress files in GIF, TIFF, Targa or PPM files to JPEG File Interchange Format. This image viewer can generate OS/2 desktop- background bitmaps that use the system colors. Its display functions include the ability to display images in monochrome, 16 color, 256 color, high-color, or true-color display modes, display an image in full screen mode, color to gray-scale conversion or image negative conversion. When printing, you can opt to print an image with scaling, chose the best proportional fit on the page, or fit for full page. Red/green/blue and hue/saturation/brightness can be adjusted, and it allows for contrast enhancement and gamma correction. Images can be cropped, rotated, flipped (horizontally and vertically), resized, copied to or from the clipboard. With its slide show features you can display selected files in forward, reverse, or random order with a cycle option, perform image buffering in a cyclic slideshow or start a slideshow from the command line. You can capture windows, client areas of windows, or portions of the entire desktop. RoboSave by R. R. Kurtz & J. G. Knauth Quickly and easily back up your OS/2 2.x Desktop with RoboSave, including a limited number of user-specified files. If problems occur later, you can easily restore any saved information. Because it's easy to save, you'll find frequent backups are easy to perform. The OS/2 2.x Desktop consists of control information for such things as folders, program objects, printer objects and shadows. It also contains data about user-modified colors, fonts, titles, window positions, associations and other important information. You may have invested a significant amount of time in adjusting the Desktop to your preferences. RoboSave provides a good way to protect that investment. Software of the Month Club June 1996 CD-ROM Windows Master Program Guide -Windows Latest & Greatest- BUDGET MANAGER v2.1 by Timothy R. Wagenmaker Keep track of your household budget with this great personal manager. Track expenses and income and manage cash with checking and saving accounts. A help file and tutorial get you started. Great for home businesses, too. EXILE II: CRYSTAL SOULS v1.00 by Spiderweb Software Can you survive this fantasy role-playing saga? Create an exploration party consisting of fighters, mages and wizards. Talk to townspeople and battle creatures in more than 100 towns and dungeons. Pick up weapons and armor as you travel. Filled with detailed graphics and great game play. FUNSOL SOLITAIRE v2.0 by The Softgame Co. of Vermont A huge collection of solitaire games - 113 in all! Includes Klondike, Aces Up, Yukon, Forty Thieves and more. View all cards (even under the pile), bring up the card counter, perform undos and graph your completion percentage. Comes with different card backs and table backgrounds. GOLDWAVE v3.03 by Chris S. Craig This program sounds great! Play, record, edit and convert audio on your computer with this comprehensive digital audio editor. Generate everything from simple dial tones to band pass filters with the Expression Evaluator. It supports more than 20 common functions and operations. It contains controls for playback, rewind, fast forward, record, volume and speed. LED meters and oscilloscopes display the sound during playback and recording. It's an excellent and comprehensive tool for all of your sound needs. NOTE: Requires Sound Card KIDS CARDS v2.0 by Ben Woodruff Teach kids their numbers and letters with this Concentration-style game. Features include an interactive opening screen, sound effects and animation's. This is an entertaining way to teach children the basics of numbers and the alphabet. *** Feature Program *** ON TOP OF THE WORLD LITE v2.0 by Exploration Software Explore the world as you travel around the globe in this excellent geography program. It combines the fun of a flight simulator with learning about the world. Fly around a colorful 3D model of Earth while learning thousands of geographic features. The globe's position and sunlit side are correctly depicted for the time and date. PIANO PROFESSOR v2.5 by SofTech Multimedia Inc. Learn how to read music with this melodic program. Begin by learning the basics of the piano with Keyboard Teacher. Identify corresponding keys on a piano keyboard in Note Tutor. Expand your musical talents with Chord Encyclopedia, Key Signatures, Name that Note and a detailed help system. Music to your ears! POSTER v2.3a by R. Bedoll Create your own signs, posters, banners, murals and more with this great little program. Select different shapes from vertical, horizontal and banner. Add different borders and even import graphics. Apply special effects to your text, including raised, outline and more. TRACK 'N TREND v3.0 by Sierra Software This trendy program will keep you on track. It creates a graphic displaying entered data. You can then use the chart to identify any trends. For example, sales trends can be discovered with financial figures or attendance can be tracked over a period of time. Use it for any number of applications. Import and export data through the Track Spreadsheet. Use the Clipboard to move graphed images and spreadsheets to other applications. WORDWIZ v3.0 by James A. Buccigrossi Create four different word puzzles with this highly-automated composition program. Design a crossword puzzle by clicking on a grid to open or close letter squares. The WordWiz composer automatically finds words to fit your empty pattern. In Word Search, the Instant Construction feature creates puzzles from any short word list. It comes with a built-in word list of more than 30,000 words. Compile your own special word lists from any ASCII text or word processing document. Also, create your own Number Fill-In or Word Fill-In puzzles. Print your games or export them to any Windows page layout program. Use the puzzles for party activities and school projects. -Windows Education- CHEMICAL v1.5 by Larry Puhl Construct molecule models with this scientific program. Select atoms from a complete periodic table and drag them to other atoms. The Time feature sets the molecule in motion. Determine the energy configuration by working with the Minimize Energy option. See your molecule in 3D with the Shade feature. Transfer your scientific creation to a graphics program through the clipboard. NOTE: Requires a 256-color display. EASY ACTION v1.0 by Boomeria Software Teachers take note! This learning tool comes with three components to assist educators: Rosters, Seating Charts and Drill. Organize your students in Rosters. It alphabetizes class lists so you can print student rosters, data entry records and attendance sheets. Import text files from word processors, databases and spreadsheets. Maximum class size is 100. Arrange your classroom in any format with Seating Charts. Choose desk size, page orientation and fonts. Create and edit your layout simply by dragging desks with your mouse. Use Randomize to create original arrangements. Drill randomly displays students' names on your computer screen. It's great for impartial calling on kids during drills. Organize your classroom into cooperative learning, project or lab groups. Names are displayed in large type. An ideal tool for teachers! GEO3D by Salt Creek Software View geographical elevation data through topographic maps and 3D drawings on several included maps. Import your own maps from Geological Survey Digital Elevation Model (DEM) files. Choose from black-and-white and color, change your viewing angle, view direction and vertical scale, and save to BMP files. Use bookmarks to save your favorite locations. GRAMMAR SLAMMER by James Bair This writing program answers questions not covered by standard grammar checkers. Based on the Windows help file format, this extensive file provides resources for all writers. Topics include writing style, word usage, abbreviations, capitalization and punctuation. HOW OUR LAWS ARE MADE by Edward F. Willett, Jr., Esq. Confused about how Federal laws are made? This handbook provides a readable and non-technical outline of the many steps of the Federal law-making process. Follow a law from the origin of an idea through its publication as a statute. A great educational document! LAURA'S MATH PRACTICE by Laura Ashley Sturgeon This math program really adds up. Test your skills in addition, multiplication, subtraction and division. Change the difficulty to match your grade level. Great for kids of any age. METER CHALLENGE by ETCAI Products Don't get zapped by this electronic program. Test your ability to wire from electrical schematics. Learn to use an ohmmeter and a voltmeter. Its simple story-line format makes learning electronics easy and fun. *** Feature Program *** ON TOP OF THE WORLD LITE v2.0 by Exploration Software Explore the world as you travel around the globe in this excellent geography program. It combines the fun of a flight simulator with learning about the world. Fly around a colorful 3D model of Earth while learning thousands of geographic features. The globe's position and sunlit side are correctly depicted for the time and date. PIANO PROFESSOR v2.5 by SofTech Multimedia Inc. Learn how to read music with this melodic program. Begin by learning the basics of the piano with Keyboard Teacher. Identify corresponding keys on a piano keyboard in Note Tutor. Expand your musical talents with Chord Encyclopedia, Key Signatures, Name that Note and a detailed help system. Music to your ears! -Windows Children- *** Feature Program *** KIDS CARDS v2.0 by Ben Woodruff Teach kids their numbers and letters with this Concentration-style game. Features include an interactive opening screen, sound effects and animations. This is an entertaining way to teach children the basics of numbers and the alphabet. LARRY'S ANIMALS 'N THINGS by Lawrence Goetz Pictures come to life in this simple program. Click on images to hear fascinating sounds, including a roaring lion, a trumpeting elephant and a hissing snake. Some pictures are also animated - a motorcycle moves across the screen. Kids of all ages can easily learn and use this program by themselves. LARRY'S LEARNING LETTERS AND NUMBERS by Lawrence Goetz Animated animals introduce your kids to letters and numbers. They learn the entire alphabet and the first ten numbers with the help of amazing graphics and cool sounds. Complete with a user-friendly interface - it even talks! LARRY'S TOYS by Lawrence Goetz Capture your child's imagination with these classic toys. Kids can play with toys by using the mouse. Children feel like they are actually holding them. Choose from several toys, including a rocket, taxi cab, helicopter and knight. Complete with background music. LAURA'S MATH PRACTICE by Laura Ashley Sturgeon This math program really adds up. Test your skills in addition, multiplication, subtraction and division. Change the difficulty to match your grade level. Great for kids of any age. LET'S COLOR v1.1 by TOTO Multimedia Kids can create their own masterpieces with this easy painting package. Color ten different images, including birds, animals and cartoon characters. Kids can even color with textures. Complete with cool sound effects. WILLIE WORM MATH v1.0 by Cici Morton Test your math skills with this fun game. Solve math problems before Willie Worm crosses the screen. Questions cover addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Choose from three difficulty levels. -Windows Desktop Publishing- FONT HANDLER SE by QualiType Software Expand your font management capabilities with this utility. Organize your font collection. Install, remove, preview and group fonts. Use this program with Font Sentry SE, included on this volume. NOTE: For Windows v3.1 only. FONT SENTRY SE by QualiType Software Have you ever loaded a document and been asked for a font you don't have? Font Sentry solves this problem! When Write documents ask for a nonexistent font, Font Sentry automatically substitutes a font of your choice on-the-fly. Save your substitution choices temporarily or permanently. You'll never have to install certain fonts just to view a document. NOTE: This program works with Windows Write and Windows 3.1 only. *** Feature Program *** GOLDWAVE v3.03 by Chris S. Craig This program sounds great! Play, record, edit and convert audio on your computer with this comprehensive digital audio editor. Generate everything from simple dial tones to band pass filters with the Expression Evaluator. It supports more than 20 common functions and operations. It contains controls for playback, rewind, fast forward, record, volume and speed. LED meters and oscilloscopes display the sound during playback and recording. It's an excellent and comprehensive tool for multimedia development. NOTE: Requires a Sound Card. GRAPHICS FACTORY v1.0 by Kamyan Software Create and review your own patterns with this fascinating program. Explore the infinite world of fractals or experiment with artificial life simulations with cellular automations. Create marble backgrounds or cloud textures. Generate repeatable patterns that you can tile. Employ modules that randomly build entire landscape pictures. Control the flow of drawing or let your module run overnight to produce hundreds of patterns automatically. POSTER v2.3a by R. Bedoll Create your own signs, posters, banners, murals and more with this great program. Select different shapes from vertical, horizontal and banner. Add different borders and even import graphics. Apply special effects to your text, including raised, outline and more. SYMMETOY by Hufnagel Software Generate symmetric art with this amazing program. All the tools are provided for making kaleidoscopic designs, beautiful geometric mosaics and wondrous 3D models. TRUE MANDEL v1.5 by Uberto Barbini Make stunning images with this creative program. It's based primarily on the Mandelbrot Set, a scientific method of calculating fractals. Enter and manipulate scientific equations necessary to produce images. Complete with an intuitive interface and comprehensive tutorial. CLIP ART BRIGHT IDEASr CLIP ART a Software of the Month Clubr exclusive! This month's collection of clip art contains 19 images in PCX format, including an elephant, a gardener and a wedding scene. For information about how to receive even more original Bright Ideasr clip art, along with fantastic fonts, original backgrounds and useful desktop publishing tips and tricks, call Customer Service at (619) 930-7302. FONTS BANKRUPT by Gerard E. Bernor This unusual font adds a unique flavor to your work. The characters are constructed of bold strokes typical of a calligrapher's pen. A great addition to your font library. (TrueType) BOLTED BOLD by Gerard E. Bernor With strong characteristics, this font makes an impression. It has precise edges and is reminiscent of computing/technology circa 1970s. (TrueType) DOUBLE TROUBLE by Gerard E. Bernor This bold, sans serif font has uniquely curved surfaces. Adds a distinctive look and feel to your publications. (TrueType) -Windows Games- DEPTH CHARGE v1.0 by Roger Robertson An enemy submarine lurks beneath the dark blue waters of the Pacific Ocean. As captain of a naval destroyer, you must engage the enemy and send them to a watery grave. Select coordinates to fire depth charge drums, guided only by a depth sonar. Two patrol sizes challenge even the most seasoned sailors. *** Feature Program *** EXILE II CRYSTAL SOULS v1.00 by Spiderweb Software Can you survive this fantasy role-playing saga? Create an exploration party consisting of fighters, mages and wizards. Talk to townspeople and battle creatures in more than 100 towns and dungeons. Pick up weapons and armor as you travel. Filled with detailed graphics and great game play. FLEET TACTICAL COMBAT v1.0 by Smoke and Mirrors Studios This strategy-based war game is out of this world! You must rely on maneuverability and resource management. Combines the strategic elements of the best war games with a sophisticated computer opponent. For one or two players. FUNCRD v1.1 by The Softgame Co. of Vermont Challenge three computer players to a game of hearts. Choose from eight different opponents, each having unique skills. Features include score tallying, cheat mode and card counting. Comes with realistic graphics and multiple card backs. FUNPOK VIDEO POKER GAME v1.2 by The Softgame Co. of Vermont Play video poker Las Vegas-style. Choose from six machines, including nickel, dime, quarter, dollar and more. Options include double-up, progressive jackpot, casino style and different card backs. You can even ask for more money if you lose it all! FUNSOL SOLITAIRE v2.0 by The Softgame Co. of Vermont A huge collection of solitaire games -- 113 in all! Includes Klondike, Aces Up, Yukon, Forty Thieves and more. View all cards (even under the pile), bring up the card counter, perform undos and graph your completion percentage. Comes with different card backs and table backgrounds. PIXM by Roger Robertson Test your memory with this Concentration-style game. Pairs of animals are hidden under 40 tiles. Uncover two tiles at a time. If the tiles match, your score increases. The quicker you uncover similar pairs, the higher your score. SPADES v2.0 by Windswept Software Play the classic Spades card game. Change suit orders, choose your opponents, use Jokers and add sounds. Review your game and stats. NOTE: Requires VBRUN300.DLL (included in your Utility Collection). THE CAVES v1.0 by AtomSoft This simple game is full of high energy! Avoid three monsters - Evil P. Eye, Crazy T. Lights and W. C. Hungry. Drop radioactive waste on the monsters to stop them. If you hit a monster, the waste is reprocessed into barrels. Pick up the barrels to gain points. Gather bonus objects on each level. WORDWIZ v3.0 by James A. Buccigrossi Create four different word puzzles with this highly-automated composition program. Design a Crossword puzzle by clicking on a grid to open or close letter squares. The WordWiz composer automatically finds words to fit your empty pattern. In Word Search, the Instant Construction feature creates puzzles from any short word list. It comes with a built-in word list of more than 30,000 words. your own special word lists from any ASCII text or word processing document. Also, create your own Number Fill-In or Word Fill-In puzzles. Print your games or export them to any Windows page layout program. Use the puzzles for party activities and school projects. -Windows Business- ACCOUNT PRO FOR WINDOWS v3.21d by W. R. Aus der Au Manage your finances easily with this user-friendly accounting planner. It's based on double entry bookkeeping principles. Choose from many standard account charts and customize them to your own needs. Other features include 2,000 accounting systems and 1,000 accounts per system. Work with 16,300 double entry transactions per system, including 200 standard transactions and 200 recurring transactions. Print income statements, balance sheets and monthly income and expenditure reports. APR CALC v2.2 by Larry Leonard Review various loan scenarios quickly with this generic amortization calculator. The calculator works with four loan variables: amount financed, term, annual percentage rate and payments. Enter any three variables to determine the fourth. Complete with adjustable rate mortgages support and break-even analysis. *** Feature Program *** BUDGET MANAGER v2.1 by Timothy R. Wagenmaker Keep track of your household budget with this great personal manager. Track expenses and income and manage cash with checking and saving accounts. A help file and tutorial gets you started. CASH EXPRESS HOME ACCOUNTING v3.0d by Silicon Programming Manage your bills, savings and investments with this straightforward program. Use separate windows to enter and retrieve important information, including addresses, outstanding bills, investments, and saving and checking accounts. Project securities, graph bill information and reconcile bank statements. Provides easy backup of all important information. Ideal for business use. EMPLOYEE SCHEDULING ASSISTANT v1.09 by GUIA International Organize your employees' work schedules with this handy staff assignment program. Assign work shifts to full- and part-time employees, considering vacations, sick days, holidays and special events. Graph time and wage distribution, and determine the number of employees scheduled at any time. This comprehensive scheduling program is perfect for any business. MASTER INVESTOR v1.17 by OWL Software Be informed before making important business decisions. This powerful tool helps individual investors and professional money managers organize and analyze information. Use the comprehensive portfolio manager to work with up to 1,000 portfolios and generate reports based on any number of portfolios. Track capital gain, return on investment, security and cash transactions, asset allocation and more. Chart technical analyses, indicating moving averages, balance volumes, relative strength indexes, trend analysis and correlation analysis. MONEY MATH v2.0 by Robert Lovell A comprehensive set of financial analysis tools in one package! Performs more than 50 financial calculations, including bank discounts, and simple and compound interests. Figure multiple calculations in the specialized work sheets -- from refinancing mortgages to calculating savings income. Any way you look at it, this program really adds up. PAY WINDOW v1.2 by ZPAY Payroll Systems, Inc. Clock into this unique payroll system. Configure the system to account for local, state and federal tax. Track employees' hourly and salaried rates on screen or through a series of printed reports. This excellent package may ease your payday headaches. TRACK 'N TREND v3.0 by Sierra Software This trendy program will keep you on track. It creates a graphic displaying entered data. You can then use the chart to identify any trends. For example, sales trends can be discovered with financial figures or attendance can be tracked over a period of time. Use it for any number of applications. Import and export data through the Track Spreadsheet. Use the Clipboard to move graphed images and spreadsheets to other applications. WXPNS v1.0 by Treeless Software and Design Bon Voyage! Business travel just became easier with this expense tracking system. Enter, print and generate business travel expense reports. Organize expenses into ten categories, including lodging, transportation, entertainment, meals and more. You can even create your own categories. -Windows Software Research Institute- - WINDOWS CHILDRENS/EDUCATION - MY PROGRAM - COUNTING by M&R Multimedia, Inc. My Program - Counting was designed to help your child learn to count. Using the "Natrual Approach" to learning they will learn their numbers by seeing and hearing. Once your young ones have the grasp of their numbers change the mode from easy to hard and let them test their comprehension skills. PENNY PENGUIN'S MATH BINGO (WINDOWS 95) by LatticeWork Software Teach your children simple math skills with this multimedia game. Includes addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. With cute animation and excellent sound effects, this game plays Bingo with your children, helping them choose the correct block with the appropriate mathematical answer. NOTE: Requires Windows" 95. RAYTRACE by IME Software Calculate the paths followed by light rays passing through two- dimensional optical systems of arbitrary complexity. This is primarily a teaching tool but can also be used for practical design of optical systems. All ray paths are calculated using double precision arithmetic and the basic principles of reflection and refraction , no approximations are made. In addition to "real" optical systems, Raytrace calculates and displays the standard thin lens and par- axial spherical mirror approximations found in text books. Z & Z PUZZLE v1.0 by Z and Z Software A great slider and jigsaw puzzle that improves kids problem- solving skills. When you move puzzle pieces to their correct locations, they change colors. Prizes are awarded when you successfully complete each puzzle. -WINDOWS GAMES- 3D Morejongg! v3.0 by MoraffWare The finest implementation ever made of the ancient Chinese tile game! This great game has the following features; outstanding 3d graphics with Field of Flowers background (or add your own) and multiple tile sets like Waterfall, Smooth Walnut, Thailand, Animals and more; MegaGame mode that will surely melt your brain, full game play statistics so you can measure how fast and average game wins ratio; game hints and undo's, especially useful in MegaGame mode. Tired of the redundant Mahjongg clones then try Morejongg! and look at what enhancements MoraffWare has done to this popular classic. NOTE: Requires Windows 95. Don't have Windows 95? No problem, we have also included the 16-bit version of MoraffWare's Morejongg!. - WINDOWS GENEOLOGY - GENIUS v1.35 by Peter Resch Genealogy, or tracking family history, has become an extremely popular activity. This is an easy-to-use Windows based family tree. Four generations of family members are displayed on the Family Tree screen. The display includes parents, grandparents, one partner, up to two siblings, up to four children and the currently selected person. Select any person displayed on the family tree with the mouse or keyboard, then print, view or edit their information. Reports include Descendants Chart (eight generations), Pedigree Chart, Individuals Data Sheet and Lists of All Persons on Record. - WINDOWS ICONS - ICONMASTER The premier icon creator/editor. MICROANGELO v1.0 by Leonard A. Gray Personalize your computer with MicroAngelo, the ultimate customization tool for Windows 95. Use it to customize your multi- image icons. Now you have complete access to all images types provided with Windows 95. NOTE: Requires Windows 95 - WINDOWS PERSONAL INFORMATION MANAGERS - LIFETIME v2.00 FOR WINDOWS by Amber Timbre Software The PIM of a lifetime! This new Windows PIM features an object- oriented interface which allows you to drag and drop, drag and modify, drag and print, drag and dial, drag and view, and mouse click your way into time management efficiency.LifeTime has some great features. Modify your schedules, drag and drop from the all powerful calendar, browse any day's items with the pop-up schedule. If you are a traveler, you'll find the special select-dial feature indispensable! Use the WYSIWYG print preview to verify results before you print! You'll love the animated, five minute tutorial. LifeTime also has a superb Windows Help file that is context sensitive and minutely indexed. This one also has all the standard features you expect in a PIM: maintain a to-do list and appointment scheduler; view an entire week or month of your items on one screen; attach notes to any item or to any day; set alarms, due dates and priorities; use a full-featured phone book with auto-dial (and keep detailed contact information on each entry); print your daily schedule and to-do list, and their attached notes; and use the powerful find facility to search for text strings. SMART ADDRESS by Oakley Data Services Oh this is just another PIM (personal information manager), not even close! You could use it as a PIM , only if you used a minor part of this program capabilities. This is a GREAT Windows address management system. Direct Links to any Word Processor, Mail- Merge Data File Creation for MS-Word, Modem Support, Envelope and Label Printing Mail-Shot capabilities, Reminder systems, callbacks, tabbed dialogs, dialing very user configurable, User defined notes, MDI, sophisticated searching, Import/Export, Full context sensitive Windows Help. Tooltips. This program does much more than stated here. We ran the program and changed it from address book to a program that tracked products. Hidden beneath it's basic appearance lies the power to create literally a new program. Once you realize its true potential you will grow to love this program for it's simplicity and it's incredible depth. Time & Chaos Time & Chaos is an alternative to the abundant supply of overly complex personal information managers. - WINDOWS WORD PROCESSORS & TEXT EDITORS - FACTOTUM FOR WORD v1.2 by Online Design Record and organize notes the easy way with this handy program. Collect notes for speeches, reports, presentations or anything you can think of. This template makes note taking, organizing and compiling a snap. Factotum uses dual windows for quick and easy control of your research. One window is an outline of your notes, the other is the detail window. You can quickly move through your notes and rearrange them from either window. This is a researcher's dream! -Windows Utility Collection- DISKERS by Fineware Systems and Al Meadows An easy and user friendly way to create copies of diskettes or for copying files to and from diskettes. This is accomplished by first creating an image file of the diskette on your local hard disk. FONTSPEC PRO v7.1 by UniTech Manage your fonts with this advanced organizer. Preview fonts before you install them or view and print samples of your installed fonts. A great feature is the program's ability to organize fonts into groups. Create Font Groups for specific projects or different applications and install those groups when needed. Mix and match different groups of fonts as needed. PAGEPLUS INTRO by Serif Inc. Create spectacular publications limited only by your imagination. PagePlus builds on the classic desktop publishing principle: the direct manipulation of many objects on the page. This program enables you to break your text into many blocks for greater flexibility. It's particularly versatile, providing both free and frame text. Provides extensive typographic adjustment for fine-tuning text appearance. Letter and word spacing, variable line spacing (leading), kerning, variable slant (artificial italic), patterns, colors and rotation are all available. This DTP program lets you draw frames and link them together to control text flow. It's exceptionally flexible and allows you to use the mouse to visually adjust margins, and lay out multiple columns of varying widths and depths in any frame. This elaborate DTP program is perfect for the holiday season. With the included Bright Ideas clip art and fonts, you can create superb holiday greeting cards and newsletters. PAINT SHOP PRO by Jasc, Inc. This is the ultimate image editor. Its array of options include filtering, masking and color depth altering. Supports more than 30 file formats! VISUAL BASIC RUN-TIMES by Microsoft "Club" members occasionally receive fantastic Microsoft Windows applications written in Visual Basic. This set of .DLL files insure that these insure that these exciting new applications run properly. Includes Visual Basic's VBRUN100/200/300.DLL files.