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WI-05: Graphics, Icons, Fonts, and Wallpaper GRAPHICS: ========= --------------------- 3708 Fractal Graphics Small Programs Disk --------------------- Fred's Fractals 1.2 (FREDFRA) McLain, Fred $0 generates IFS fractals under MS Windows. Graphics Toys 1.0 (GTOYS) Lindgren, Chuck $15 is a fractal generator. The program can use 256 colors, if available, and draws Mandelbrot, Julia, and fractal dragon sets. Islands 2.1 Gillespie, David $0 draws 3D landscapes of mountains and water using fractal graphics. Lorenz Attractor 1.0 (LORENZ) Woodruff, Bryan A. $0 generates the Lorenz Attractor chaotic pattern. Source code is included. Mandelbrot for Windows 1.2 (MBW) Epps, Robert $? allows you to view the Mandelbrot set in one or more windows under Windows 3.0. Scaling and zooming the image are supported, and the drawing parameters of an image can be saved to disk so that the image can be redrawn later. Norner2 Vass, Garry J. $0 is a biomorphic-capable fractal generator. You can select any combination of six trig, three math, and nine powers functions to create a fractal. Zooming and adjustable speeds and iterations are supported. -------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #3708 -------------------------------- -------------------------- 2564 Graphics Applications Small Programs Disk -------------------------- Art Show 2.3 (ARTSHOW) Overmyer, Doug $5 lets you create a slide show of BMP files. Bitmap Converter 1.0 (BMPCVTR) Petrasoft $0 converts OS/2 PM bitmaps to a Windows bitmap format. Mr. Bitmap 1.0 (MRBITMP) Iseult Technology $25 (formerly Bitmap Extract) allows you to scan through an EXE or DLL file and view or replace all bitmaps present. Key information on each bitmap will be displayed as it is viewed, including the name of bitmap in the resource file, dimension of bitmap (in pixels), number of colors in the bitmap's color palette, and type of bitmap (Windows, OS2, Other). Other features include the ability to change the name of the currently viewed bitmap in the file, and the ability to add/delete bitmaps to a file. Cap Armstrong, Roger $0 is a TSR for Windows that will capture screens to the Clipboard. You may capture the active window or the whole screen in color or mono. Fatbits (FATBITW) Ridges, John $0 is a screen magnification utility. It magnifies an area of the screen centered around the cursor up to 20 times and displays it in a window in a corner of the screen. Several viewing options are provided. Gif2Ico Klepper, Pat $? converts a GIF picture to a Windows icon. ICO2BMP Campbell, George $0 converts ICO files to BMP files. VB source code is included. Mdraw 0.6 [MDRAW] (09-93 CD) Dierken, Mike $15 is an object-oriented drawing package for Windows. It features a toolbar/pallete display that can be set up horizontally or vertically, full cut/copy/paste/delete functions, the ability to link objects, snap grid, printing options, CGM/WMF export, font support, and much more. ROPS Bellin, Allan $0 is a Raster image loader for Windows 3. Snapapp & Clip2BMP (SNAPAPP) Woodward, Mark L. $15-$20 lets you capture screens into BMP which can be used as Wallpaper on the Desktop and/or touched up with Paintbrush. T2S Draw 1.2 (T2SDRAW) Stocksdale, Thomas $15 is a simple object-oriented drawing program for Windows 3.1. The icon-based button interface is easy to use and understand. Other features include variable line thickness, fill patterns, custom color support, multiple file editing, and much more. -------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #2564 -------------------------------- ----------------------------- 4399 Graphics Applications #2 Small Programs Disk ----------------------------- Image Convert (IMGCON) MTE Industries $20 is a drag and drop image conversion utility. You simply drag a graphic file to the program's icon and specify which format you want. It supports TIFF, BMP, TARGA, PCX, GIF, WPG, WMF, TIFF G3, TIFF G4, TIFF Mod Huffman, TIFF LZW, EPS, and BMP Compressed. QwikDRAW! 1.01 (QDRAW!) Smart Typesetting $15 adds a floating icon box to Corel Draw 3.0. These icons represent short-cuts for commands (such as open a file, print, etc.) so you don't have to remember what menu a particular function is in or what keyboard shortcut to use. The box is easily hidden when you need it out of your way. Requires WIN31 and VBRUN. Softline Ticker 4.0 [TICKER] Message Display Softline Inc.; $14 displays up to five different scrolling messages of up to 450 characters each. Features include speed control and the ability to import graphics. Viewer 1.1 Marquette Computer Consultants $0 is an incredibly easy graphic file browser. It allows you to view bitmap, icons, RLE, and Windows Metafile formats by simply clicking on the filename. Supports 16-color display only. VBRUN is required. VMI TrueView (TRUEVIE) Carroll, Jim $0 is a TGA and BMP file viewing utility for users with Vermont Microsystems X/Series 256, Cobra Elite Spectrum, or Design Master VGA graphics cards. WGIF 1.1A Bells and Whistles Software $0 is a GIF87a viewer for Windows 3.1. Windows Graphic View 1.0 (WGV) Bob Jack Software $10 displays, converts, and manipulates both GIF and BMP graphic formats. Images can be enlarged or compressed. A slide show feature is included. WinTIF Lapis Software $15 is a TIF file viewer. It can read TIF 5 Class P files, adjust the size and color of the image, print, or save it in the same format. It features full Clipboard support, and you can cut, copy, or paste DIBs. -------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #4399 -------------------------------- ------------------------------ 12022 Graphics Applications #3 Small Programs Disk ------------------------------ DropView 1.1 (DRPVIEW) SJHDesigns $15 is a drag and drop bitmap viewer/editor. Support is provided for Win 3x, OS/2, RLE, and 24-bit bitmaps. The program runs as an icon on your desktop. Multiple graphic files can be viewed. Wallpaper can be changed to the file being viewed. Graphic Viewer 2.0 (GRVIEWR) C/Systems $8 is a graphic file viewer for Windows BMP, OS/2 BMP, and PCX files. It can display 2-, 16-, and 256-color files and 24-bit files, with appropriate hardware. VBRUN100 is required. PCX2BMP OsoSoft $0 easily converts between PCX and BMP files, in both directions. It can convert just one file, or an entire directory of files at once. Requires VBRUN200. PicView 1.0 Cook, Dale J. $0 is a utility to view ICO, BMP and WMF files. Requires VBRUN200.DLL. Pop Charts! 1.0 (POPCHRT) Toggle Booleans $30 provides an easy way to add professional-looking charts to your Windows documents. It takes any ASCII data you prepare and quickly transforms it into any of several different colorful charts. The chart can then be copied to the clipboard for easy importation into other applications. Chart styles available include simple Bars, 3D Bars, Stacked Circles, Tubes, and Ladders. Other features include grid display options, color schemes, and more. RGBvue 0.9 Gozum, Lawrence & Gozum, Marvin MD $0 is a GIF decoder/viewer. It supports resolutions from black and white to 24-bit color. Other features include auto window resizing/centering, gray scale support, automatic removal of 256-color "hotspots", and more. Requires VBRUN100. WinGIF 1.4 SuperSet Software Corporation $15 is a GIF viewer and GIF-to-BMP converter. It will scale the size of pictures up or down, mirror or flip the image, and dither to VGA 16 colors or to monochrome. The ability to save GIF files in provided, and you can select a different 16-color palette. Other features include palette manipulation commands, PCX support, printing, slide show capabilities, and integrated help. --------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #12022 [12] --------------------------------- WMF2BMP 2.0 (WMF2BMP) 10/93 CD Graphics Utilities OsoSoft; $0 converts standard WMF graphics to Windows BMP files. Features include full scaling options to 1024 pixels, batch conversions, and more. Requires VBRUN200. Special order from 10/93 CD. 17k. ---------------------- 3065 Graphics Displays Small Programs Disk ---------------------- Dance of the Atoms 2.0 (DOTA) AK-SYS $0 generates interesting random images. It will work in both DOS and Windows 3. EyeCon 3.0 Higashiyama, Nobuya $0 is a pair of eyes that follows the mouse as it moves around the screen. Eyes 2.1 Eisnaugle, Chris $0 displays a set of eyes on the desktop which follow your cursor around the screen. The eyes also have a number of other small features including winking, blinking, and falling asleep after mouse inactivity. Horse & Yin-Yang (HORSE) Curran, James M. $0 is a pair of rather odd applications. Horse creates a small (1.5") window that shows an animated, galloping horse, even when minimized to an icon. Yin-Yang draws the yin-yang symbol with computer influences and quotes a Kaon from the book "The Zen of Programming." Kaldemo 2b13 Parker, Clinton $10 displays a colorful kaleidoscope on your desktop. It has a screensaver option and continues to work even when minimized. Neko 1.0 Khani, Dara T. $0 opens a window with a cute Japanese kitten named Neko in it. Neko chases the cursor around the screen if it is moving, and he will go to sleep if he detects no cursor movement. The animation of the kitten is very amusing to watch. Small World 0.1 (SMLWRLD) Galassi, Andy $0 displays a spinning world globe as an icon on your desktop. Termite 1.0 Kellner, Hans $0 is a Termite simulation. The multi-colored graphic display resembles a feeding swarm of termites. The swarm grows until it fills the screen. The animated icon included is very interesting. Trash Grey, Jack $? displays a Macintosh-like trash can on your desktop. For maximum satisfaction, make sure a Mac fanatic is around when you double-click on the trash can. Windows Pool 1.0 (WINPOOL) Lutton, Mark $0 is a kaleidoscope type display that produces amazingly intricate images. WinRoach 2.2 (WIN-RCH) New Generation Software $13-$18 scatters animated roaches across your desktop. They scurry about and hide under the active window. When you close the window, the pests are exposed and you can squash them with a click of the left mouse button. Optionally, roaches may wander out of hiding at random intervals. A funny way to liven up your desktop. Xmas Tree (XMASTRE) Vass, Garry J. $0 is a Christmas tree painter for younger children. Source code is included. Yet Another Windows Kaleidoscope (YAWK) Vass, Garry J. $0 displays colorful Swirlies, Twirlies, Curlies, Flugies, and Planets. The latter is the most interesting, with orbiting planets being circled by their moons. C++ source code is included. -------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #3065 -------------------------------- ------------------------- 3886 Graphics Displays #2 Small Programs Disk ------------------------- A_Tartan (A_TART) Russell, Jim $0 generates a small swatch of tartan plaid, which can be saved as a bitmap and used as wallpaper. It weaves the design on screen from a description you provide. Several sample files are included. VBRUN is required. BartEyes III (BARTEYE) Eccles, Randy $5 puts an icon of Bart Simpson on the desktop with eyes that follow the mouse. It also plays digitized sound clips of Bart and has user-settable screen blanking. Any icon can be used in place of Bart. Coffee Mug 1.0 (COF-MUG) Toggle Booleans $0 displays a steaming cup of coffee on your desktop. If a window happens to bump the cup, it will spill onto the screen and you'll have to upright it from a menu. This falls soundly into our UBF (useless but fun) category. Colours for Windows (COLOURS) Schwartz, Steven A. $10 will produce a dazzling display of color by simply moving the mouse. Young tots will love it, and it is a rather enticing mind blanker for adults, as well. Face*Maker 1.0 (FACEMKR) Page, Alan $0 lets you generate a variety of faces from a library of eyes, noses, mouths, hair, and head shapes. You can add text captions and print out the pictures or copy the bitmapped image to the Clipboard for importing into other programs. This is a lot of fun for both kids and grownups. Ghost 2.0 (GHOSTBM) Myers, Brian $0 is a simple animation that you may want to use as a screen blanker at Halloween. Ghosts rise from a graveyard and float off the top of the display past a full moon and drifting clouds. The cursor turns into a witch on a broomstick and can be used to annoy the ghosts. Icon Movies 1.0 (IMOVIES) Bell, James $0 displays tiny animated movies in an icon. It includes a bouncing ball, two stick figures boxing, and a paper airplane being folded and thrown. Lens 1.03 Konz, Ned $5 is a magnifying glass for Windows. It magnifies the area around the mouse or text cursor from 1 to 20 times. When minimized the icon will reflect the magnified area. PolyAnna 1.1 (POLYANN) Bennett, David $0 produces an interesting animated color display with bouncing polygons. Many options are available to customize the colors and shapes. When minimized, the program's icon is also animated. PolyGone (POLYGO) Mack, Jim $0 is an interesting graphics display that you can adjust to any size. It even continues the show when iconized. -------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #3886 -------------------------------- ----------------------------- 4140 Startup Screen Utilities Small Programs Disk ----------------------------- LogoGo 1.0 Koster, Dick $0 automatically inserts a new startup screen each time you run Windows. It uses RLE images stored in a ZIP file, extracts a new graphic, and creates a new WIN.COM file. This is a great alternative to Microsoft's rather boring startup screen. NewStart 1.04 (NEWSTRT) Mote Prime BBS $0 lets you change the screen displayed when Windows starts. Several graphics files are included, or you can use your own RLE files. (Paint Shop on disk #3388 can convert GIF and BMP files to RLE format.) Startup (STRTRLE) December Rose Publications $0 is a batch file that creates a new WIN.COM with the RLE graphic of your choice. You will need a graphic utility that can create RLE files (like Paint Shop on disk #3388). This is a really easy process, and detailed instructions and three sample files are included. The following are additional RLE graphics files included on this disk: WinJedi...the Death Star floating in space. WinTrek...the new Starship Enterprise. Computr...a tower computer. HandWin...a hand holding a diskette. StartupScreen 3.2 (SUS) Checkbox Software $0 lets you replace the Microsoft startup screen in Windows with a screen of your own design or choosing. Other features include a BMP file viewer and the ability to install RLE graphic files as Wallpaper. VBRUN is required. -------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #4140 -------------------------------- Advent Calendar Gyugyi, Paul $0-$10 #2979 is a beautifully done Advent calendar for Windows 3. The three scenes included are a winter scene, an indoor Christmas Tree scene, and a manger scene. As you open each window with the mouse, a new item is added to the picture. ArcDIB 2.12 [ARCDIB] (08-93 CD) Better Maps $28 #20248 is a powerful tool for storing and organizing graphical images and multimedia files. You can create catalogs of compressed images, video clips, and sound clips. Files can easily be extracted from these catalogs, saving HUGE amounts of disk space. Support is provided for PCX, BMP, GIF, TIF, WMF, WPG, FAX, DCX, and TARGA images. Other features include image conversion, the ability to record and attach sound files to images, OLE support, thumbnail preview, image manipulation functions, a scrollable note field for each image, and much more. Available on 3.5" 1.44mb MegaDisk and CD only. BMP Clip Art Compiled by Campbell, George $0 #4360 contains one hundred black-and-white clip art files in Windows BMP format. These are mostly rather small images, but are very high quality - good for use with Campbell's "Rockford" program. Files take over 500k unarchived. Cats & Flowers Topf of the Art $5 each #7817/4587 [2 disks] contains five beautiful 16-color BMP files of tigers and leopards one one disk and six BMPs of assorted flowers on the other. People with 256-color VGA cards will love these high-quality pictures. They even look impressive on 16-color systems. Each disk takes about 600k of disk space when unarchived. ChartTamer 2.0 [CTAMR2] (09-93 CD) Software Excellence by Design $30 #20250 [2 disks] lets you easily create presentation quality 3-D Bar, Pie, Area, and line charts. You have total control of colors and fill patterns, and you can add any bitmapped image as a background to your chart. A powerful "What If" command lets you change any data point by simply clicking on it. Other features include the ability to import ASCII data files, clipboard support, and much more. Requires VBRUN200. ClpMap 1.0 Mayfield, W.W. $25 #20207 [3 disks] is a world map plotting program. It can produce two different cylindrical projections and a 3-D satellite view. Colors, line widths, and resolutions are all user-selectable. Zoom capabilities allow you to customize a map to any particular Earth view. After a map has been plotted, it can easily be copied to the clipboard for importation into other applications. A hard disk is required, and a 386 with 2 meg RAM is recommended. CodeReader 1.0b [CODERDR] (10-93 CD) EcheSoft $45 #12399 is an Optical Character Recognition program. It works with bitmaps produced using low cost hand-held scanners and is intended to provide a cheap and effective method of data entry for computer programmers. Requires 2MB RAM. Ikonize 1.20 King, Andrew $10 #12167 is a DOS application which allows you to capture a graphic and save it as a Windows icon or use it as wallpaper. Images can be scaled up or down to icon size or a size which will fit an exact number of copies onto your wallpaper. Original colors can be saved or converted to 16 colors. Kidpix R. K. West Consulting ASP $0 #2836 is a collection of children's drawings in 16-color BMP format as well as in PCX format. The Mandelbrot Set 3.0 [MAND30] (08-93 CD) Cerious Software $25 #12409 is an incredible fractal image generator. You can easily zoom in on an interesting section, change the color palette, and save the image to disk. You can even animate the images by cycling the colors for a spectacular effect. 256-color VGA is recommended. Terminator New World Software $0 #3691 is a useless but fun application that puts a picture of everyone's favorite cyborg in a window. Pressing the "I'll Be Back" button causes the terminator to say just that. The picture then vanishes for a user-specified interval, only to relentlessly return again and again. (This disk includes Aaron Wallace's SOUNDER program, which requires a $2 registration fee.) WinFract Stone Soup Group $0 #7626/2837 [2 disks] generates complex fractal images. Features include selectable, scrollable image sizes to 2048x2048x256, on-line help, zooming, file save and restore, print, biomorphs, decomposition, and color-cycling. L-Systems fractal types are supported, and fractals can be copied to the clipboard. When running iconized, the icon is replaced by an iconized version of the current fractal image. Complete source code is included, and a hard disk is required. Wallpaper Disks: --------------- PsL has the following MegaDisk Sets of mostly photographic quality Wallpaper files in 640x480 resolution, 256 colors. (Obviously, your video card must support the 640x480x256 mode.) Each set comes on four 360k disks or one 1.44 meg for $6.99. The Glamour disks, in the context of artistic photography, contain partial female nudity -- a little more risque than National Geographic, a little less so than Playboy. General............(#7308) Space, Flight......(#7320) Animals............(#7314) Nature, Scenery....(#7311) Glamour #1.........(#7312) Glamour #2.........(#7313) Glamour #3.........(#7321) Glamour #4.........(#7322) Glamour #5.........(#7323) Glamour #6.........(#7324) Glamour #7.........(#7566) GRAPHICS TOOLS & APPLICATIONS: ============================== CAD Vantage 1.0 Gamma Software ASP $25 #4736 is a CAD package for Windows 3.1. It features full cut/copy/paste functions, and has rotate, scale, and undo options. Drawing elements include lines, arcs, circles, points, and text. Other features include full text font support, scaled plots, on-line help, element snaps, zoom/pan options, and much more. ColorView for Windows 0.97 Millennium Technologies Corp. ASP $30 #4504 is a color image viewer for JPEG, GIF'87, GIF'89, and Windows BMP graphic files. Features include Floyd-Steinberg dithering, Heckbert color reduction, one-pass Fast Quantization color reduction, Gamma correction, up to 24-bit color display support, and much more. A 286 or better and 2MB+ RAM req. Graphic Workshop for Windows 1.1g (10-93 CD) Alchemy Mindworks Inc. $40 #20108 [2 disks] lets you view, print, dither, flip, rotate, reverse, crop, convert, and perform special effects on virtually all bitmapped image files. It supports MacPaint, GEM/IMG, PCX, GIF, TIFF, WPG, MSP, IFF/LBM, PIC, RLE, TGA, Halo CUT, as well as self-displaying .EXE and .TXT files. It automatically dithers 256-color and 24-bit images for viewing on 16 color displays. Other features include a screen capture application, Kodak PhotoCD support, thumbnail previews, and much more. This is a very powerful and easy to use utility. Several sample image files are included. A hard disk is recommended. Metafiler for Windows 1.0 Six, Raymond W. $0 #12321 lets you transfer Windows MetaFiles (WMF) to and from the Clipboard and disk storage. This allows Word for Windows users to save documents to disk as WMF files instead of having to encapsulate their work in a Word DOC file. VBRUN200 is included on this disk. Paint Shop Pro 2.0 (PSP1, PSP2) (10-93 CD) JASC, Inc., ASP $69 #20265 (3 disks) is a powerful image viewer, converter, and editor for Windows 3.1. This major upgrade adds a host of useful new features, including the ability to open multiple images, image rotation in 1 degree increments, image filtering, palette manipulation, enhanced screen capturing, and direct support for scanners. IFF, REL, LBM, CUT, JIF/JPG, PCD (Kodak Photo CD), EPS, CLP, and WMF images are now supported. Other new features include OLE support, improved printing options, batch conversions, a preview of manipulated images, a handy toolbar, and much more. A 286 or better machine is required, and at least a 256-color Windows driver is recommended. A scaled-down version (Paint Shop 3.0 [PS30] (10-93 CD) $39) is on the third disk of this set. Paperman Plus Eagle Software $24 #20198 automatically changes your wallpaper every time you start Windows. Several 256-color BMPs are included. Other features include slide-show capabilities and screen saver functions. Requires WIN31, a 286 or better, and VGA. Available on 3.5" 1.44mb MegaDisk only. PixFolio 2.0.86 [PIXFOLIO] (10-93 CD) ACK Software ASP $39 #27615 allows you to view and catalog graphic files. Formats supported include GIF, PCX, TIF, TGA, IFF, BMP, RLE, EPS, IMG, ICO, and CLP. Support is also priovided for Autodesk Animator FLI and FLC files, WordPerfect Graphics, Micrografx DRW/GRF, Macintosh MacPaint files, and Windows Metafile format. Multiple catalogs can be maintained, even if the files reside on different disks. You can save a primary and backup copy of an image concurrently. The enhanced search capabilities include displaying of postage stamp sized images in a matrix. Basic image manipulation functions such as brightness, contrast, cut and paste, dithering, and rotation are also available. It can automatically dither an image for display if it's color resolution is greater than your video card's. Support is also included for users of Bernoulli boxes or other high-capacity removable media. A Slide Show mode is also provided. A hard disk is required. Available on 3.5" 1.44mb MegaDisk and CD only. StartupSwapper Deluxe 2.01 [SWAPPER] (09-93 CD) Checkbox Software $30 #12096 displays a different startup screen each time you start Windows. It randomly selects a new RLE file from a specified directory. Installation is very easy, and several sample graphic files are included. Requires WIN31 and VGA. VBRUN200 is included on this disk. WinClip 3.0 Campbell, George $20 #12149 allows you to view, catalog and print your collection of BMP and PCX graphic files. It also ties in with Paintbrush or other graphics program for editing selected graphics. Other features include support for all graphics-capable printers, file management tools, and CD-ROM support. VBRUN200 is included on this disk. XVT-Draw Rochkind, Marc J. $0 #3975 is an object-oriented drawing program. It is completely menu-driven, with on-line help for every function. ------------------------ 3280 Wallpaper Utilities Small Programs Disk ------------------------ Backlines (BACKLIN) $0 creates a bouncing-line graphics display in the background on your desktop, for use in place of Wallpaper. Drawbacks are that the line color is not adjustable and you have to restart to get rid of it. Change Paper (CHPAPER) Ford, Nelson ASP $0 lets you manually change paper or set a timer for automatic cycling through all the wallpaper file in a directory. VBRUN100 required. Flags of the CSA (FLAGCSA) Chumbley, James F. $0 contains 256-color bitmapped images of the flags of the Confederacy. Historical information on these flags is also included. Fractal Wallpaper (FRACWP) Vass, Garry J. $0 is a beautiful 640x480x32 BMP file of a biomorphic fractal. Fuse $0 is animated wallpaper: a bitmapped picture of a smiling female that moves around in the background. Paperback Writer 1.1 (PBW) 64 Bit Computer Consulting, Inc. $? allows you to pick any available bitmap to be used as wallpaper the next time Windows starts up. If nothing is picked within 10 seconds, a bitmap is picked at random and your WIN.INI is modified. WallBlaster 1.2 (WALLBLS) WrightWorks $0 changes the desktop wallpaper from a library of up to six images contained in a ZIP archive (#1705 PKZip required). It selects files at random either at a timed interval or on demand. This really lets you get the most enjoyment from your Wallpaper files. Wallpaper (WALPAPR) Kather, Todd $0 lets you keep BMP files compressed into a ZIP file and still use them. The program extracts a selected BMP file and updates the Windows desktop to use it as wallpaper. PKZIP (on disk #1705) is required. This is a very well done little utility that allows you to salvage a lot of hard disk space eaten up by large BMP files. Wallpeeper for Windows 1.11 (WALPEEP) (08-93 CD) Smith, Wilson and Rogers, Carole $0 lets you scroll through all the BMP, WMF, DIB, RLE and ICO files on your hard drive in a single list to see them previewed in tiled format as wallpaper. You can choose to install a selected file as your wallpaper, or automatically open Paintbrush to edit it first. Requires VBRUN200 and WIN31. ZiPaper 1.3c Thomas, Daniel ASP $15 allows you to compress all your BMP Wallpaper files into a ZIP file. When you start Windows, it will randomly select one for display and unarchive it. With the large, 256-color BMP files such as those that PsL distributes, this can save you several megs of disk space. You can select Tile or Center for each individual Wallpaper file. Files can be temporarily disabled, and won't be used until you re-enable them. A startup option allows you to select which wallpaper file you want extracted from a list. You can use multiple ZIP files, and keep them in the same directory. Support is also provided for LHA. PKZIP and PKUNZIP (disk #1705) or LHA (disk #1862) are required. -------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #3280 -------------------------------- -------------------------- 4930 Misc. Wallpaper Files Small Programs Disk -------------------------- Bitmaps McCloskey, Frances $5 contains beautifully detailed drawings of a baseball scene, a golf course, and a seascape. These BMP files make interesting and attractive Wallpaper for Windows. Keys (KEYS-WP) Jaywil Software Development, Inc. $0 is a .BMP graphic file of a piano keyboard. This is very striking when tiled and ksed as wallpaper. Lambo $0 is a stunning 640x480 256-color GIF file of the "money-green" Lamborghini ordered by Malcom Forbes before he died. Use it for Windows Wallpaper and give yourself something to work for! OS2-640 $0 is a 640x480 BMP of the OS/2 logo screen. You get the power-user snob appeal of OS/2, without leaving Windows 3! Samad Garr, Robin $0 is a BMP of the Samuel Adams Boston Lager beer label. TNG2BMP $0 is a BMP of the background that is on the StarTrek TNG screens when not in use. Turkey $0 is a 256-color small bitmap of a turkey for use as Thanksgiving Wallpaper. Uncle1 $0 is a BMP picture of the stars and headquarters of the old Man From Uncle TV show. WallArt Thomas, Bob $6 is an interesting collection of original Windows wallpaper tiles. They will work at 640x480 and 800x600 but were designed to look best at a resolution of 1024x 768x256. These 16-color bitmaps have been optimized to look best at a color depth of 256. WP4U Robert Phillips $10 contains 12 unusual 256-color .BMP graphic files for use as tiled wallpaper. The designs include abstracts, geometrics, and assorted exotic textures. -------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #4930 -------------------------------- ------------------------ 12352 Misc. Wallpaper #2 Small Programs Disk ------------------------ BBLogos (08-93 CD) is a 256-color BMP graphic of all 28 Major League Baseball logos. ChessWP is a greatly enhanced 256-color version of Windows' chess wallpaper. Hack4 Digital Dungeon Corp. $0 is a 256-color BMP graphic of a handsome skull-faced dungeon dweller sitting in front of a computer. NCC170 contains three different views of the Enterprise from Star Trek: The Next Generation in Windows BMP format. Saturn is a beautiful 640x480x256 color .RLE graphic file of the planet Saturn. SCW is the Second Conflict for Windows box cover art in BMP format. This is a very striking picture of space ships hovering over a planet. --------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #12352 --------------------------------- FONTS: ====== ATM Fonts #27710 (9 MegaDisk Sets for $27 total) This set is made up of nine 1.44-meg 3.5" disks with dozens of fonts. You can get the complete set of nine disks from PsL for a special price of just $27. (Only available on 1.44meg disk). Nine 1.44-meg disks is the equivalent of 36 regular disks. You would pay $100 and up for this set at most distributors' regular disk fees. Even at our low MegaDisk Set fees, you would normally pay over $60 for this many sets, so $27 for these 9 disks is an incredible savings. The following is a list of names of the fonts on each high density, 3.5" disk: Disk #1: NATMF12: Lemiesz, Rodchenko, UltraBlack; NATMF13: Silicon, Upsilon, Windsor; NATMF15: FarquharsonFree, LoopDeLoop, Luxembourg; NATMF16: Nordic, PCEire, PCMira, Sydney; NATMF17: Middleton-Light, Monotony, Rothman; NATMF4: Ambrosia, Arabian-Normal, Florence-Light; NATMF5: GenoaItalic, GenoaRoman, Harrington, Isadora; NATMF6: LeftyCasual, LibbyScript, Lumparsky, MaidstoneScript; NATMF9: Harquil, Inkwell, RoostHeavy. Disk #2: Frutiger (12 variations); ATMV1D3: CuneiFont, Daytona, Deusex, Flifon, Futura, Gordon, GraphicLight; Bedrock; BodidlyBold; Cunei; Luxembourg; ParisMetro; PoloSemiScript; Tiempo. Disk #3: Florence; Muriel; Arabian; ClassicHeavy; Dragonwick; FrizQuadrata; Rudelsberg; Sharktooth; Tribeca; VarahCaps; Windsor. Disk #4: BalletEngraved; Old-Town; PostAntiquaRoman; Tekton; ATMV1D1: FuturiBlack, Architect, BlackChancery, Caligula, GraphicLight, Parisian-Thin, PostCrypt, RSAlison; ATMV1D2: Andromeda, RSCanaith, RSCaveman, ChasLine; BlackForest; Capri; CartWright; Diego1; Garamond; GraphicLight; Heidelbe-Light; Judas; Manzanita; Miami Beach; Middleton; Rhyolite. Disk #5: ATMFNTS1: Aachen-Light, PostAntiqua-Light, Ariston-ExtraBold-Italic, AvantGarde-Thin-Italic, Bauhaus-Heavy-Bold, Bauhaus- Light-Light, Bauhaus-Thin; ATMV1D4: Heidelberg 89, RSJacksonville, Kathlita, RSLaserLondon, Slant Informal, RSStyle, RSTimesMirror, RSToulouseLautrec, RSToyBlock; IglooLaser; LoopDeLoop; SecretCode; Showboat; UpperEastSide. Disk #6: ATMFNTC: Essay-Normal, LightItalic-Light-Italic, OldeWorld-Bold, Presentor-Normal; ATMFNTS4: Futura, Futura-Condensed, Futura-CondExtraBold, Futura-Condensed Light, Helvetica-Black-SemiBold, Helvetica-Condensed-Black-SemiBold, Helvetica-Condensed-Thin, HelveticaInserat-Roman-SemiBold, Helvetica-Condensed-Light-Light, Hobo-Thin, Juniper-Thin; ATMFNTS7: Revue-Thin, Roissy-Normal, Roissy-Bold, Souvenir-Light, Symbol-Light, Tiffany-Heavy-Bold, Tiffany-Thin, AmericanTypewriter-Light, Umbra-Thin, American-Uncial-Normal, UniversityRoman-Thin, Univers-Light-Light, Univers-Black-Thin, VGAROUNDED-Thin. Disk #7: ATMFNTS2: Benguiat-Bold, Benguiat-Light, Carta-Thin, Caslon-Light, CASLONOPENFACE-Thin, CenturyOldStyle-Light, CenturySchoolbook-Thin, ZapfChancery-Thin-Italic, Cottonwood-Thin, Dingbats-Thin; ATMFNTS5: Kaufmann-Thin, Latin-Wide-Normal, Linotext-Light, Linoscript-Light, LetterGothic-Thin, Machine-Light, Mariage-Normal, Mystical-Thin; SHOW-Light, UpperWestSide. Disk #8: ATMFNTD: PrestigeEliteBold-Bold, PrestigePica-Normal, Title-Bold; ATMFNTS3: DomCasual-Thin, Eurostile-Bold, FetteFraktur-SemiBold, Flora-Normal, Flora-Bold, FranklinGothic-Heavy-SemiBold, FranklinGothic-Light, Fusion-Normal, Fusion-Bold; ATMFNTS6: NewBaskerville-Light, News-Gothic-Normal, News-Gothic-Bold, Optima-Thin, Palatino-Thin-Italic, Parisian-Thin, Prohmpt-Light-Thin, Peignot-Thin, PostCrypt, PresentScript-Thin. Disk #9: NATMF1: Albatross, DubielItalic, FrankTimes; NATMF10: BalletEngraved, Broadway-Normal, ChiliPepper-ExtraBold; NATMF11: CartWright, Crillee, CSD-Block-Bold; NATMF14: DavysRibbons, GoudyMedieval, Iglesia-Light; NATMF18: PCRounders, RansomNote, ReliefDeco; NATMF19: Capri, SchwarzWald, Shoraei; NATMF2: Animals, GriffinDingbats, PCOrnaments; NATMF20: DotMatrix, TechPhonetic, Tribeca, Wedgie; NATMF3: Alex-Fraction-Normal, TmsFraction:b-Normal, TmsFraction:e-Normal; NATMF7: Muriel, Script-Normal-Italic; NATMF8: Arctic, Bodacious-Normal, CarawayBold. ------------------ 3493 Windows Fonts Small Programs Disk ------------------ Alex-Antiqua 1.0 (ALEXANT) Alexandre, Carlos $0 is a Type 1 PostScript font compatible with Windows applications and other programs that support PS fonts. BeesWax Harvey, Thomas E. $0 is a bold, all caps, fun ATM font ideal for use in attention-getting headlines. Blades $0 is a Graffiti, uppercase font for ATM and Corel, etc. Cairo Harvey, Thomas E. $0 is a bold serif ATM font for headlines that need to be more elegant or business-like. It is similar to Egyptian bold condensed, and contains a full set of upper and lower case characters. Capri Ciesek, George $15 is a font similar to Sinaloa. It can be used with Corel Draw and Adobe Type Manager for Windows. clySmic Fonts for Windows 1.0 (CLYFONT) clySmic Software $0 are replacement bitmapped VGA screen fonts. They can replace the system font (used for menus and many other elements), the fixed system font (used for Notepad and most text editors), and the fixed OEM font (used for running windowed DOS programs). Coliseo Harvey, Thomas E. $12 is a bold, non-serif font similar to a press-type font called "Koloss." Comaro Harvey, Thomas E. $0 is a bold, modern font of all caps, numerals, and some punctuation marks. It is particularly useful for logos, and is similar to a commercial font known as "Stop". Diego1 1.2 Shubitz, Steve $10 is the first shareware fully functional typeface for MS Windows or Ventura. It is a display face with a subtle Calligraphy effect. All possible characters have been mapped. Most of the foreign language characters as well as some useful graphics that most typefaces do not contain like enlarged quotes, arrows, and three different sized bullets are provided. The MGX PostScript driver is required. Marbolo (MARBOP) Harvey, Thomas E. $0 is a bold ATM/PostScript Type 1 font for headlines or graphic design. Tabatha Graphniques Software $5 is a TrueType font that simulates a Kindergarten-age childs's handwriting. A normal and a bold font are included. -------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #3493 -------------------------------- --------------------- 4929 Windows Fonts #2 Small Programs Disk --------------------- CindyBob (CINBOB) (09-93 CD) Harvey, Thomas E. $0 is a "thick-and-thin" semi-serif TrueType font. This condensed font works in text or display sizes, and is kerned and hinted. FontPak #1 Lawrence, Steve $22 is a set of four fonts in Adobe type 1 format: Atlas Overweight, Daisyland, Jester Script and Polo Semiscript. NiteClub-T (NITE-T) Harvey, Thomas E. $0 is an elegant sans serif True Type font. It is good for attention- getting headlines or graphic design. It includes upper case and small cap lower case. NiteClub-P (NITE-P) Harvey, Thomas E. $0 is the same font described above in ATM/PostScript format. Ol' 54 (OL54-TT) ARRGGHH! Graphics $4 is a script True Type font with letters that attach to each other (like the metallic letters on the side of older cars). It contains complete upper and lower case letters, numbers, punctuation, fractions, and some interesting dingbats/bullets. Also included is OL54-PS, the Postscript version of the same font. Video Terminal Screen (VTS-TT) Behl, E.A. $10 is a True Type font that resembles screen characters of a data terminal. This is designed for use as a text font for technical documents such as software programming manuals. The character set is fixed-pitch, so that text captured from a data session can be imported directly into a document with minimal touch up. VTS-PS is a Postscript version of the same font . -------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #4929 -------------------------------- ---------------------- 12273 Windows Fonts #3 Small Programs Disk ---------------------- Elbjorg True Type Font (ELBJTTF) AARRGGHHH! Graphics $4 is an unusual artistic font. It contains complete upper and lower case, numbers, punctuation, and kerning pairs. ELBJ-PS is the Postscript Type 1 version of the same font. Hirosh AARRGGHH! Graphics $5 is a True Type Font made up of unusual modernistic letters with a Japanese flavor. It contains letters, punctuation, and many dingbats patterned after Japanese crests and design motifs. NewForum Italic (NEWFORM) Harvey, Thomas E. $0 is a stylish oblique typeface for Windows. It includes upper and lower case, numerals, punctuation, kerned/hinted characters, and more. TrueType and Postscript versions are included. Mirisch Harvey, Thomas E. $0 is a headline font (no kerning done) in True Type, ATM, Corel, and PostScript formats. Porter Lil' Caps (PL-CAPS) AARRGGHH! Graphics $7 is an interesting headline True Type font. It contains complete upper case, small caps, numbers, punctuation, fractions, assorted dingbats/bullets, and kerned pairs. Wet Paint (WP-TT) AARRGGHH! Graphics $5 is a True Type font with a unique hand-painted look. It contains complete upper case, lower case, numbers, punctuation, and kerning pairs. WP-PS is the Postscript version of the same font. --------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #12273 --------------------------------- ---------------------- 12431 Windows Fonts #4 Small Programs Disk ---------------------- 3of9 (08-93 CD) LeBlanc, Paul Andre $0 is a TrueType font for printing 3 of 9 barcodes. Calendar (CAL-TTF) (08-93 CD) Harvey, Thomas E. $0 is a TrueType font which helps make calendars. Characters are included for boxes, day-of-week names, and more. DOSFON Playroom Software $5 is a collection of fonts designed to improve the readability of DOS applications running in a window. Serif and Sans Serif fonts are provided. Also included are two utilities for restarting Windows and rebooting your system. HolyMoly (HOLYMLY) (08-93 CD) Harvey, Thomas E. $0 is a heavy sans serif TrueType font with holes in it. TMarshall (MARSHAL) (08-93 CD) Trinkle, Tim $4 is a unique hand-lettered TrueType font for architectural uses. It consists of hand-drawn outlines of block letters, and contains caps, numbers, and punctuation. (The screen name for the font is Caitlyn.) Woafont (08-93 CD) Karrer, Peter $0 contains several replacements for the standard screen fonts used by Windows for its windowed DOS sessions. Font sizes include 4x6, 5x12, 6x8, 7x12, 8x8, 8x12, 10x18, 12x16, 16x8 and 16x12. --------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #12431 --------------------------------- ATM Fonts Various Authors $0 #3193 is a set of fonts for use with Adobe Type Manager for Windows. Fonts included are Architect, Saint Francis, PostCrypt, BlackChancery, and GraphicLight. ------------------- 3794 Font Utilities Small Programs Disk ------------------- ANSI Table 1.1 (ANSITAB) Allen, Phil $10 displays a table with decimal, octal, and hex values of all the ANSI characters of a font. It also allows you to copy any of the 255 ANSI characters into the clipboard for pasting into other applications. Requires VBRUN100. DownWind 1.0 (DWNWIND) Harding, Craig N. $10 is a soft font downloader for PostScript printers. It can download Adobe Type 1 fonts and PostScript macro files to any PostScript printer configured to operate under Windows. It can also download the PostScript header that Windows downloads before each print job. Font Central 0.9 (FNTCNT) American Computer Consultants $15 is a comprehensive font viewing and printing utility for Windows 3.x. It features the ability to save and retrieve user-defined viewing and printing preferences, and can directly run the Control Panel or ATM Control Panel. You can view fonts sizes up to 200 points, with a sample of bold, strike-through, and underline. VBRUN is required. FontNamer (FNTNAMR) OsoSoft $0 allows you to see the true Windows font name for any ATM or TrueType font file. This is useful for deciphering cryptic file names that do not seem to reflect the actual font name. Requires VBRUN200. Font Preview 1.3 (FNTPREV) Overmyer, Doug $0 displays a list of all typefaces supported by the current printer. A sample of a selected font is also provided. You can print a typeface sheet, choose font sizes, and get detailed font metric information. TPW source code is included. Font Viewer 2.0 (FNTVIEW) Freeland, Frederic J. Jr. $0 lets you view the characters available in any Windows 3.0 font to see how the font looks. VBRUN100 is required. MakeFont 1.01 (MAKFONT) McCrory, Dean D. $0 creates Windows font files from those that are in your video card's ROM. OKFonts OsoSoft $0 helps you track down defective ATM and TrueType fonts on your system. Requires VBRUN200. PopFont 1.2 Lehmann, A. $20 lets you easily add to your document ANSI characters from a selected font. Refont 1.4 Acute Systems $24 is a Postscript type 1 font utility that allows you to use MAC type 1 fonts on IBM PC machines with Windows and ATM. It can convert MAC format type 1 outlines to IBM format type 1 outlines, convert MAC format type 1 outlines to ASCII hex format type 1 outlines, and convert Postscript AFM files to Windows compatible PFM files. Other features include generation of INF files, conversion of Mac TrueType to PC TrueType, extra character support for ATM 2.0, automatic file type sensing, and wild card support. Sysfon 1.0 (08-93 CD) Karrer, Peter $0 lets you change the system font that Windows uses for window titles and menus. It allows you to use any existing screen font (Bitmap, TrueType, etc.) and it will display a sample before any changes are made. Pascal source code is included. TTFPFX2 Davis, Jim $0 lets you modify TrueType font names before installing them to add a class designation, such as F_ for fixed and S_ for script. This makes it easy to indentify font types after installation and to group similar types together. Quick-C source code is included. WinPSX 1.1 Kitsos, Costas $0 is a PostScript Soft Font Downloader. It supports PostScript Type 1 and Type 3 soft fonts and bitstream QEM PostScript soft fonts. WinPSX gives you the ability to print device information reports that list available fonts in the printer and general printer statistics, as well as font samples of your Type 1 soft fonts. -------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #3794 -------------------------------- Exler Fonts Exler, Wolfgang $0 #2984 contains bitmap font files for use with Windows 2.x/3.0. Typefaces included are Courier, Helvetic, Times Roman, Broadway, BrushScript, Cloister Black, Cooper Black, DomCasual, Park Avenue, Unical, and University. They are designed for use with 24-pin matrix printers with 180x180 dpi resolution. Exler VGA Fonts are on disk #2985. Font Off 1.0 [FOFF] (09-93 CD) Tardis DP Consultants $15 #12508 helps you manage large amounts of TrueType fonts. It allows you to remove those rarely-used fonts from your system and store them on floppies or other media. You can then easily reload selected fonts when they are needed. This is an excellent way to free up valuable hard disk space. VBRUN300 is included on this disk. FontMe! 2.1 [FONTME] (09-93 CD) Fischer Graffix & Software ASP $20 #4993 is a font comparison/printing program for Windows. It allows you to closely compare two different fonts on screen in varying styles and sizes. You can also enlarge a sample to 72 point size for a better comparison. A handy side-by-side comparison chart can be printed, as well as a complete book of all available printer fonts. VBRUN200 is included on this disk. Fonter 6.0 Campbell, George $15 #12148 lets you view and print charts for all the Windows fonts available for your printer and screen. You can view fonts in sizes from 6 to 36 points, with a sample of type for each font and an extended ASCII character set display. You can produce a Font Book, complete with pages showing the character set for your fonts, plus a sheet showing all available fonts. Other features include an on-screen ANSI grid, keyboard simulation for any font, the ability to create BMP clip art from any character in 72-point size, and more. This program is a must if you have a large selection of fonts to manage. VBRUN200 is included on this disk. FontSpec 3.2 UniTech Corporation $19 #12353 is a TrueType font viewer and type specimen printer for Windows 3.1. You can display fonts in sizes from 8 to 98 points using different effects and in various justification modes. In print mode, you can produce quality formatted font specimen sheets in single or two-column, or full sheets. VBRUN200 is included on this disk. Font Monster 3.1 [FMONST31] (08-93 CD) Leaping Lizards $20 #20231/4886 [2 disks] is a TrueType and Type 1 font data editor for Windows 3.1. It allows you to rename fonts, change style settings, and much more. You can also preview TrueType fonts before installing them, and print sample pages or a font catalog. Requires VBRUN200. Font Viewer Smart Typesetting $15 #4584 is a font viewing utility for Windows 3.1. You can easily select and view any installed font from 6 to 72 points, and you can type in your own sample text to view. It also provides a display with a 10 point sample of all characters supported by a selected font. Clicking on a specific character produces a 24 point sample and the keystroke sequence necessary for tying that character in most Windows applications. VBRUN is included on this disk. Font Viewer - DE 1.1 [FVDE] (09-93 CD) Eisenberg, David $0 #20259/12004 [2 disks] displays all of your printer fonts. You can customize the sample screen text, and view fonts in various point sizes. It can also display bold, italic, bold/italic and underlined samples. A sample of all or selected fonts may be printed. VBRUN300 is included. Fraction Fonts for Windows 2.0 White Dog Communication Services $25 #12005 is a font which allows you to produce true fractions in virtually any Windows application. Postscript Type 1 and True Type versions are both included on this disk. Hebrew for Windows 1.0 KESHERworks LTD. $54 #12002 allows you to type Hebrew characters in Windows programs. It includes a keyboard driver and several Hebrew True Type fonts that provide direct right to left printing. More ATM Fonts Compiled by Campbell, George $0-$6 #4374 contains the following seven fonts for use with ATM and Windows: TEACHER: cute, childish letters, CARTOON: casual hand-lettered look, LEFTI: left Italics, based on Times Roman, ATMSTEN: a stencilled look, ATMLNTX: a readable Old English style font, ATMARNL: Arnold Boeklin...nice casual font for headlines, and DAVOTH: an interesting dingbat font with lots of symbols. Printer's Apprentice 5.61 [PA561] (10-93 CD) Lose Your Mind Software $20 #20262/3959 [2 disks] is an excellent screen and printer font viewing utility. It provides connections to the Clipboard, ATM, Control Panel, and more. Other features include a user-editable sample text box, both capital and lower case spec sheets, batch printing, TrueType font support, and more. VBRUN300 is required. Top Fonts Sampler 1.0 Elfring Soft Fonts ASP $20 #4915 is a set of eight TrueType fonts for Windows. Text faces are Nova in medium, bold, italic and bold-italic. Display faces are Cooper Black, Cursive Elegant, Future Black, and Old English. TrueType Fonts Compiled by CheckBox Software $0 #7761/4379 [2 disks] contains 18 public domain TrueType fonts for use with Windows 3.1. Included are Cairo, Caligula, Camberic, Black Chancery, Chopin, Crackling Fire, Eras, Eurotype, Garamond Regular, Garamond Bold, Garamond Italic, GoudyHundred, Inter, Nauert Plain, Polo, Rechtman Plain, Riverside, and Saint Francis. No punctuation is included with these fonts. TrueType Font Installer 1.51s Kaltenbach, Kai $15 #4380 provides the ability to preview fonts BEFORE they are installed. The program supports network font installation and supports compressed TrueType font files. Fonts can be previewed in any desired size, and font specimen sheets can be printed. VBRUN is included on this disk. ICONS & UTILITIES: ================== Allicons Mueller, Russell $0 #27773/4444 [3 disks] is a massive collection of over 4000 icons for Windows, arranged alphabetically on this three-disk set. -------------------------- 27494/2608 Windows 3 Icons Small Programs Disk -------------------------- This disk contains many hundreds of icons for use in Windows 3 - too many to list, in fact. Descriptions of some of the more unusual icons follow: 3DIcons $0 a collection of 60+ icons. They range from icons from commercial products such as Corel Draw, Lotus, and Excel, to the more whimsical. Nicely done. Icon Library (ICONLIB) Hill, Alan $0 is a collection of around 400 icons contained in a program that lets you view the icons without having to install them first. Icons (ICONS3) $0 is a set of 32 various icons. ListIcon 1.1 (LSTICON) Lance, Karen S. $0 displays a screen full of icons. C source code is included. NLHIco Hills, Norman L. $0 is a set of 57 original icons for Windows 3. These are very colorful and unusual. Some utilize fractals. ToonFun contains over 300 cartoonish icons in DLL format which can be added to any program. Images include the Flintstones, Simpsons, Disney characters, and more. Varicon $0 is a selection of almost 70 various icons. They range from commercial productivity programs, like Dbase III and Microsoft Word, to commercial games, like Leisure Suit Larry and King's Quest, and more. W3Icons $0 is a collection of almost 100 interesting and useful icons. -------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #2608 -------------------------------- 1,768 Icons Compiled by Melhorn, Joseph $0 #27494/3270 [2 disks] is a set of 1,768 individual icon files grouped into sets in alphabetical order. Icons6 $0 #27494/4367 contains over 500 all-purpose icons for Windows 3. ------------------ #4059 Icon Editors Small Programs Disk ------------------ Icon Magic! 2.0 (ICONMAG) (10-93 CD) Stedman, Steve and Ayars, Jeff $20 allows you to easily create professional-looking icons. The numerous drawing tools allow you to create your own 16-color icons, edit standard icon files, and modify icons captured from executable files or directly from the screen. You can directly assign custom icons to your applications with built-in DDE support to Program Manager, allowing you to bypass the somewhat-confusing Properties menu. Clear and inverse icons can be created with the Special Effects tools. IEdit 3.2 Bell, James $8-$10 is a powerful DOS-based Windows icon editor. Features include icon extraction from executable files, checkerboard coloring, mirroring and inversion of icons, scrolling the image, changing colors and much more. Other features include the ability to save an icon as a Windows mouse cursor and automatic replacement of icons into your applications. Requires VGA, a mouse, and at least a 286 machine. Nicon V1.2 Scarborough Digital $10 is a DOS-based application for creating and editing Windows ICO files. It has many of the features found in commercial paint programs such as spray paint, filled objects, and more. The program is very easy to use, and features a slick graphical user interface. VGA and a mouse are required. PhishEdit 1.3 (PHISH) Eskelin, Philip B. Jr. $25 (formerly IconDraw) is a powerful icon editor which allows you to work on up to eight icons at once. There are six drawing tools, providing hollow and filled rectangles, free hand drawing, and single pixel editing. Icons can be rotated 90 degrees and shifted within the drawing area. -------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #4059 [83] -------------------------------- ------------------- 3278 Icon Utilities Small Programs Disk ------------------- DOSIcon 1.10 Soh, Kok Hong $10 lets you replace the ugly minimized DOS icon with one of your choosing. Windows lets you replace the DOS icon while in the Program Manager, but it does not let you replace the icon you get when the DOS window is minimized on the Desktop. This utility overcomes that flaw. Icons in ICO, DLL, and EXE formats are supported. DumpIcon 1.1 (DUMPICN) Ferguson, Monte $0 prints all the icons in a directory on an HPLJ III printer, up to 99 per page. IcoFrite 2.0 (ICOFRIT) Clickon Software $0 is a practical joke program that definitely falls into the "Cruel and Unusual" category. Once loaded, it causes all icons on your desktop to run away from the cursor. This makes it impossible to run any program by clicking on it's icon. You could try to run a program by using the Task List, but when the cursor crosses the frame of an open window, it automatically iconizes the program. Icon Catalog (ICONCAT) Sander, Louis F. $? catalogs all Windows icon files on the disk from which it is run. This is really useful if you have a large number of icons, or if your icons are spread out all over your hard disk. It creates three types of catalogs, including one by directory. Icon-Fixer 1.1 (ICONFIX) Nee, Robert F. $12 allows you to display a user-specified icon when minimizing a DOS window instead of the boring default DOS icon. There no limit on the number of icon associations you may have, and associations are dynamically allocated. Support is provided for icons in EXE, DLL, and ICL files. Multiple icon files are also supported. This will not function in Real mode. Icon Management (ICONMGM) Barrs, Mike $0 is a system for managing large numbers of icons. IconTamer 1.01 (ICONTMR) Moon Valley Software Inc. $18 allows quick and easy viewing of icons and interfacing to your favorite icon editor. It also lets you clip graphics from the screen to make into an icon and will convert among four icon formats. ListIco 1.0 Rabergeau, Philippe $0 is a DOS utility that allows you to view a screen full of Windows 3 icons at one time. NoDOS 2.11 New World Software $20 displays DOS applications as any icon you choose, not just in the Program Manager, but when minimized on the Windows desktop. It works with COM, EXE, BAT and PIF files, and supports up to 30 icon definitions. -------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #3278 -------------------------------- ---------------------- 4398 Icon Utilities #2 Small Programs Disk ---------------------- Arrange Icons 1.0 (ARRANGE) MABnamaniac $0 arranges the icons at the base of the screen when they start stepping all over each other. Requires VBRUN. DupIcon 2.0 Ledbetter, Keith ASP $0 will go through a directory and find all exact matches of icon files and delete them. Up to 10,000 icons can be processed. IconPower 2.5 (ICNPOWR) AZ Computer Innovations $17 (formerly Icon Master) allows for the viewing and management of multiple Windows icon files. It will display as many icons as will fit into the display window. From the display window you may select any one of the icons that are shown and then rename it, delete it, or invoke your favorite icon editor. You can easily replace existing Program Manager icons by dragging an icon from the viewing window and dropping it on the icon that you wish to replace. Icons in EXE and DLL files are also supported. Icon_c 1.01 Tri-S Designs $15 is an incredibly easy icon management system. It supports 2-, 8-, and 16-color icons, and can read icons in ICC, ICO, EXE, and DLL files. Changing icons in the Program Manager is as simple as dragging an icon from one window to another. Icon Librarian 1.1 (ICNLIBR) Ledbetter, Keith ASP $15 (formerly Icon Chooser) makes it easy to categorize, delete and change icons. You can organize up to 100,000 icons it 100 different categories. From there, you can drag-and-drop to get them where you want them, including assigning them to a file. An option lets you minimize the program when it is first run. Requires WIN31. Mr. Icon 1.0 (MRICON) Iseult Technology $25 allows you to scan through an EXE or DLL file and view and extract all icons present. Other features include the ability to change the name of the currently viewed icon, the ability to add or delete icons to a file, and the ability to read BMP files as well as ICO files when replacing or adding an icon. -------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #4398 -------------------------------- Decor Wooton, B.F. $33 #3389 is a powerful graphics resource browser and icon editor. It allows you to retrieve, edit, cut, paste and save programs' icons and bitmaps. Edited graphics are saved into a copy of the program file being browsed. Several graphic libraries are included. GrpIcon 2.01 (08-93 CD) New World Software $15 #4844 allows you to assign icons to Program Manager Groups to replace the default group icon. It provides a scrollable visual sample of the icons available, and it can read ICO, EXE, DLL, and DRV files. When you find one you like, simply click the assign button. This is an incredibly easy way to customize your Windows desktop. Icon Manager 3.3 [ICM] (10-93 CD) Impact Software $27 #4887 lets you easily create, extract, organize, and install icons in Windows 3.1. Features include OLE edit sessions with Windows PaintBrush, .WAV sound file support, drag and drop capabilities, archive support, and much more. If you have a lot of icons to keep track of, this utility will be invaluable. IconMaster Kaufman, Phillip A. $20 #4122 is an outstanding icon editor, previewer, and manager. It allows you to create, edit, and extract icons from .EXE and .DLL files, and includes support for 10 different icon file formats. Other features include automatic Zipping and Unzipping with PKZIP (#1705), a scrollable icon display, full support for Norton Desktop for Windows, drag and drop icon installation, and extensive on-line help. This is a very comprehensive and easy-to-use package. VB Icon Browser 2.15 Valley Programming $22 #12256 is an icon viewer that lets you copy, rename, delete, and sort icons. It can also print customized icon catalogs with a single poster-sized icon to hundreds of icons per page. Other features include full Windows font support for icon catalogs, drag and drop capabilities, and more. ]]]]]]]]]]