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- =====PsL Monthly Additions Disks
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- The programs in this section are new small programs of different types.
- Disks of new small programs specific to Windows, to programming, and to Games
- are in those sections.
-
- Subscriptions to the PsL Monthly Additions disks are available. See the
- inside, back cover of PsL News. (Call 800-2424-PSL for a free sample issue.)
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- -----August 1993 Additions Disk #1
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- Bar Graphs 2.0 [BARGRAF] <bars.pcx>
- System Analysis
- David Smith; $0
- displays a 3D bar graph of how many and what type of files are on your
- drive.
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- HardTrack 1.0 [HARDTRK]
- Hard Disk Utilities
- Jim Olsen; $29
- keeps track of and reports on new, modified, and missing files on your
- hard disk or network drive.
-
- Internal Commands 2.1 [INTCOM]
- Batch File Utilities
- Geoff Friesen; $25
- is an 18k TSR that adds many additional commands to DOS, most of which
- are mainly of use in batch files: clear screen with color settings,
- toggle -Lock key status, change the cursor shape, hide files, rename
- directories, position the cursor on screen, play music in the
- background, swap printer ports, sum the sizes of specified files,
- suspend execution until a specified time, and more. Specifications are
- included to allow programmers to add commands of their own.
-
- [Job_Jar]
- Task Manager
- Bill Pinkerton; $0
- lets you add, delete, view and print job tasks. Up to 500 entries are
- allowed. A monthly calendar is included.
-
- [Smiley]
- Games
- Jeff Fitzsimons; $0
- Are you sick of seeing Smiley Faces everywhere you look. Here is your
- chance for a little sick revenge: try to shoot the bouncing Smiley Face.
- The faster the speed the more points per shot you earn. ("R" rated for
- violence.)
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- [Snooze] 1.0
- Alarm Clock
- John Owen; $5
- is a TSR clock with a snooze alarm. When the alarm pops up, it displays
- the current time, plays a tune, and allows you to either turn it off or
- select a 3 minute or 5 minute snooze before the alarm pops up again.
-
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- -----August 1993 Additions Disk #2
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- Credit Card Checker [CCCHKR]
- Order Entry
- Paul Mayer; $25
- is a 70k TSR which does basic validation of credit card numbers. It
- can be used in a swap mode that just takes 7k. It can be configured to
- grab credit card numbers from an order-entry screen.
-
- Investment Withdrawal 1.0 [INVEST]
- Financial Analysis
- Peter L. Fishback; $10
- shows the effect of inflation and taxes on withdrawals from an
- investment fund. You select the percent of income earned to be withdrawn
- and the program will determine the amount which must be withdrawn
- monthly to maintain your purchasing power.
-
- [M_Repeat] 3.0
- ViruScan Utility
- Datachip; $50
- is a group of programs to automate and manage virus scanning using
- McAfee's ViruScan program. It can be used on standalone or networked
- PCs.
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- MenuMedia 1.0 [MENUMED] <mm.pcx>
- DOS Menu
- EFD Systems; $8
- is a quick and easy DOS menu application. You can create a menu data
- file with any text editor (or even using COPY CON:) with each line
- containing the menu prompt followed by the program name to run if the
- prompt is selected.
-
- Programs to run can include COM, EXE and batch files, as well as calling
- MenuMedia to execute a submenu or parent menu. You can also specify a
- "wallpaper" in the form of a PCX file of your choosing (see screen shot)
- or ANSI graphics.
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- VGA Clear Screen [VGACLR]
- Batch File Utilities
- David Smith; $0
- is a set of 28 VGA designs for clearing the screen with a graphics
- display. Designs include shadows, doors, stars, an exploding ball, and
- more. Requires EGA/VGA.
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- View 2.1 [VIEW]
- File Viewing
- David M. Dibble, $0
- is a very small (1k) file viewing utility, ideal for inclusion on
- distribution disks. In fact, we include View on all of our disks.
- Assembly source code is included.
-
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- -----August 1993 Additions Disk #3
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- Create A Quiz. 1.2 [CAQUIZ]
- Test Making
- Philip Kapusta; $12
- lets you create multiple choice and fill-in-the-blank quizzes. Teachers
- can create interactive on-screen or printed quizzes for students.
- Solutions to each question can be suppressed or displayed on a printout.
- Other features include mouse support, full line text editing, progress
- charts, and password protection for quizzes.
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- Driv-Man. 1.01 [DRIVMAN]
- Disk & Drive Utilities
- Micrometric ASP; $25
- is a disk management tool. It shows logical disk drive data for up to 26
- drives on one screen.
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- DriveTypes. [DRIVTYP]
- Disk Drive Util.
- Jeff Camino; $0
- tells you the type of floppy drives on a machine. Since you cannot tell
- a high-density from low-density drive by looking, this is handy if you
- are on a strange machine.
-
- Envi-Man. 1.03 [ENVIMAN]
- Operating System Utilities
- Micrometric ASP; $25
- is an environment analysis utility. It shows all of the current
- environment strings and data such as the location, size and space
- availability of the master environment. It also lets a batch file know
- how much environment space is currently available and provides a
- graceful exit if there is not enough.
-
- Faxer 1.1 [FAXER]
- Communications: FAX
- Simple Simon Software; $0
- sends a fax to a fax machine/board without CAS or any other interface.
- It should work on most Class 1 boards using Rockwell chips.
-
- GRFBook [GRFBOOK] <grf_book.pcx>
- Electronic Publishing
- EFD Systems; $30
- is an electronic hypertext publishing system that supports integrated
- text and PCX files.
-
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- -----August 1993 Additions Disk #4
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- Menu-Man. 1.25 [MENUMAN]
- Batch File Utilities
- Micrometric ASP; $25
- displays menus in batch files. Options include user response time limit,
- menu positioning, erasing screen before/after menu display, and menu
- sound, color and type customization.
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- Path-Man. 1.13 [PATHMAN]
- Path Utilities
- Micrometric ASP; $20
- determines if a file is located on a path directory. Errorlevel is set
- for batch file use.
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- PRT-Menu. 1.0 [PRTMENU]
- Printer Control
- Larry W. Nicholas; $20
- is a printer menu which allows you to access the following various
- features of your printer: color selection, character font, character
- highlight, character pitch, word processing, paper feed, paper feed
- (amount), and page format. Requires a mouse, VGA and Epson or compatible
- dot matrix printer.
-
- PC-CRYP 6.0 [PC_CRYP]
- File Encryption
- James T. Demberger; $0
- is a file encryption programs that uses the Vernam process.
-
- Strip [STRIP]
- File Changing
- Patrick R. Rygiel; $0
- removes ASCII control codes 1 to 31, & 127 from any size text file.
-
- TiffRead [TIFFREA]
- TIFF Viewer
- $0
- is a small program that displays TIFF image files.
-
- TXT2PS [TXT2PS]
- OS/2: Printing
- IBM; $0
- lets you print non-PS files on a PostScript printer in OS/2.
-
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- -----August Updates Disk #1
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- (AH-02) Home Loan Diary 1.1 [HLDIARY] is a home mortgage diary and
- amortization schedule calculator. ($14)
- (CH-03) Grape Vine 3.0 [GRPVINE] is a Bible game similar to Hangman.
- (CM-02) ZIP 1.63 [ZIP] is a utility to transfer files between two IBM
- compatible computers over an ordinary serial cable connection.
- NEW: options for handling hidden, system, read/only, and archive files.
- (ED-06) Big Math Attack 1.0 [BIGMATH] tests math, spelling, typing and
- metric conversions skills in an arcade environment.
- (GA-03) DragCity 3.0 [DRAGCIT] drag racing game.
-
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- -----August Updates Disk #2:
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- (GA-03) Moraff's Super Blast I [SUPBLAST] is an advanced breakout type game.
- (GA-05) Blitz 3.6 [BLITZ] is a very strong game of checkers with many options.
- (GA-05) Contax 2.2 [CONTAX] is a game variant of GO.
- (GA-05) Domino 4.2 [DOMINO] matches you against the computer in a
- challenging game of dominos. (Formerly a large program on disk #828.)
- (GA-05) Dynamo Draughts 5.9 [DYNAMO] is the European version of
- Draughts, a variant of checkers.
- (GA-05) Flip-It 4.7 [FLIP_IT] is an interesting variation of Reversi/Othello.
- (GA-05) TakeNote 6.1 [TAKENOT] is a study tool for chess. NEW: tutorial.
-
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- -----August Updates Disk #3:
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- (GA-04) Four-Handed Euchre 3.5 [EUCH_DF]
- (GA-12) Acrostix 2.3 [ACROSTX] lets you try to solve, as well as create
- Acrostic puzzles.
- (GA-12) Krypto 2.3 [KRYPTO] is a challenging word game in which you solve and
- create cryptograms. ($0)
- (GR-01) VGA Art [VGAART] is an incredible graphics demonstration.
- (MS-01) Bio-Cal 9.95 [BIO_CAL] is a biorhythm-calendar program.
- (P1-01) UnderBar 2.2 [UNDRBAR] is a 2K TSR which prints a Postnet bar
- code under any address that has a zip+4 code or a delivery point bar code.
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- August Updates Disk #4:
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- (P1-01) WonderBar 4.4 [WONDERB] is a (2k) TSR that prints five and
- nine digit bar codes and Zip+4 codes.
- (PG-04) LZW For C 1.2 [LZW4C] is a Lempel-Ziv-Welch data compression
- library for C programmers.
- (PG-06) BTP 2.0 [BTP] is a TP unit that makes it easy to use Btrieve. It
- now works with TP7.
- (U1-03) Screen Wizard 4.5 [SW_WS] is a windowing, screen color, and text
- placement utility for batch files. New mask input for passwords, help
- screen can be defined for screen definition and windows can be
- horizontally subdivided.
- (U1-09) Protect! EXE/COM 2.0 [PROTEXE] protects EXE/COM files by
- encrypting them.
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- August Updates Disk #5:
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- (U1-05) Hotdir 7.3 [HOTDIR] colorful sorted directory utility.
- (U1-06) Split 6.0e [SPLITMD] file splitting utility
- (U1-08) DiskALog 3.21 [DLOG] is a combination Read-and-Run type program
- plus file manager.
- (U1-08) File Maven 2.1 [FMAVEN] (ASP) ($16.50) NEW: view & copy read only
- files (necessary for CD-ROMs).
- (U1-09) PC Padlock 2.2 [PADLOCK] is a floppy disk locking system.
- (U1-11) SNR 5.3b ($50) [SNR] text search/replace utility. NEW: wild-card
- and variable-length conversion patterns and more.
- (U2-01) NoteWare 2.0 (ASP) [NOTEWR20] is a 16K TSR notepad. NEW: unlimited
- number of notes, cut, copy and paste features, index of notes, exporting
- to the current program, file or printer, view any files with search and
- exporting, and screen capture to a disk file. ($25)
- (U2-07) SCROLLit 1.7 [SCROLIT] is a screen backscroll utility which
- allows you to bring back into view lines that have already scrolled
- off the screen. NEW: the scrollback buffer can be stored in upper
- memory.
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