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- BIOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT All Ages
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- * UPDATED * H384: MICROSCOPE v2.0 (94) MOLCOL (UK) - £6.00 2 HD DISKS ONLY
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- Fantastic piece of work. Now has full mouse support and much improved slide-
- set management utility, plus many many other enhancements. Two slidesets
- included; first is a mixture of 8 stills including sperm, fly, leaf sections,
- and human muscle, the second is an animated daphnia sequence. Unique teaching
- tool - just like the real thing! Simulates magnification, lighting, polaris-
- ation, staining and other techniques. Tutorial files may accompany slides.
- "Pointers" show specific features. Two registration options, full PRO version
- for £38 or an extended shareware certificate (£12). This second option would
- be ideal for students that maybe use the PRO version at school but need a low
- cost version at home with which to familiarise themselves the program's
- capabilities. Registered users have a vast selection of slidesets available
- to them including some specifically designed for GCSE and A level. Supports
- foreign languages. On-line help and tutorial. Ages 11-ADULT; 2MB (4.5); Needs
- 286, VGA, HD, MOUSE. DOS 3.1+. Faster, improved performance with any (or all)
- of the following: 386/486, extra RAM, maths co- processor, etc. *****
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- │ * REGISTERED VERSION * │
- │ NOW AVAILABLE FROM WISEOWL SHAREWARE │
- │ ONLY £38.00 INCLUDING POSTAGE AND PACKING │
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- H385: MICROSCOPE SLIDES (93) MOLCOL - extra slidesets for Microscope (H394).
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- Animated crawler, nice set of extra wide slides & a general mix including an
- unknown insect for you to identify! 10+; 600K(1MB); ***** [3½" DD £2.00]
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- H399: MICROSCOPE SLIDES PACK 4 (94) MOLCOL - £3.00 HD ONLY
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- This selection is for Pond Life enthusiasts and includes 6 "stills" (rotifer,
- fly laying an egg, etc.) and 4 animated sets (drop of pond water, vorticella
- "bells" etc).Fascinating! 10+; 1.4MB (2.5). *****
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- H454: MICROSCOPE SLIDES PACK 5 (94) MOLCOL - £3.00 HD ONLY
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- More excellent shareware slidesets for MICROSCOPE (H348) - includes a general
- mix of "stills" (fly, shrimp, spider, etc), animated sequence, brine shrimp
- study set. 1.2 MB (2MB); *****
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- H466: MICROSCOPE SLIDES PACK 6 (95) MOLCOL - £3.00 HD ONLY
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- Another excellent selection of animated and still slides for MICROSCOPE. Inc.
- Amoeba, electric spark, mammalian and plant tissue (for A level students),
- spider and several others. Built in tutorial gives full explanations of what
- you are looking at, plus it has useful instructions for practice with various
- techniques - focusing, filtering, etc. 1.4 MB (2MB); *****
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- H356: BUILD A FISH v2.1 (91) M.C.VANG
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- Run as an interactive display at Virginia Marine Museum, this program allows
- the user to select various attributes (body shape, cross-section, dorsal fins
- etc) and build a "real" fish (67 covered) plus a brief description. 10+; 220K
- (1.2MB); $20 (update, other programs); CGA. HD. ****
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- ***UPDATED*** H167: ANIMAL QUEST v2.02 (93) ALIVE SOFTWARE
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- Now has optional soundcard support so you can have music and digitised sound
- effects whilst you play! (PC Speaker is OK), also new mouse support. Select a
- forest animal, then cross your habitat collecting as many energy tokens as
- possible. Play as a board game or remove grid and use as an arcade type game.
- Discover prey, learn about food chain ecology. Use magnifying glass to learn
- more about any animal or plant. Excellent graphics - sVGA users are in for a
- real treat! RECOMMENDED. 7+; 380K (700); $22(jungle and ocean animals, digit-
- ised animal sounds);HD. EGA. VGA. sVGA. *****
- [3½" DD (£2.00) or 5¼" HD (£3.00)]
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- E226: GREEN (92) CASCOLY
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- Educational strategy game with an environmental slant. Help the Planters
- prevent Pavers from building parking lots. Incredibly detailed 3D EGA
- graphics. Maps of varying complexity can be scrolled/rotated. Change maps by
- building hedges and walls, or reducing Lots to rubble. 340K; 10-ADULT; $25
- (bonus maps, program, update); EGA. MICROSOFT MOUSE (not Amstrad mice). ****
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- E129: SAVE THE PLANET v2.5 (92)
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- Impressive environmental database with vast amount of information. Supports
- all graphics (HERC/CGA in mono only). Menu-driven; text with colour graphs,
- charts and pictures where appropriate. 10 main areas: greenhouse gases, CO2
- from fuels, deforestation, CFCs, population, extinction, etc. Plus further 12
- topics on "what action to take" (recycling, saving energy at work/home, etc).
- Text may be printed out. Also a "game" (actually a global warming simulator),
- bibliography (300+) and a list of 200+ relevant organisations. For home or
- classroom. 12-adult; 340K; $25 (update, guide). Any graphics monitor. *****
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- PHYSICS, CHEMISTRY, COMBINED SCIENCE Ages 14+
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- H562: SENIOR PHYSICS FACTS (92) R.LAMONT (EIRE) - £2.00
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- Super tutorial / revision aid for GCSE through to A level. Split into 8 main
- sections (Waves & Sound, Mechanics, Electricity, Atomic/Nuclear Physics, Heat
- & Temperature, Light, etc). Each has fifty odd pages of help, notes, colour
- diagrams, and sample questions. Also hypertext buttons to click for more
- info, which includes interesting historical background on famous physicists.
- Each section is then followed by an optional test. 14+; 170K (460); £10 (more
- features); MOUSE OPTIONAL. ANY MONITOR. *****
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- E477: DO YOU KNOW YOUR PERIODIC TABLE? (menued)
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- THE ELECTRONIC PERIODIC TABLE v2.0 (92) C.DAVIES - view table or search for
- info (no. mass, oxidation states, boiling/melting points, radius, crystal
- structure and many more categories). Print option. 85K; PD; EGA. ****
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- PERIODIC TABLE v1.1 (88) J.CLARY - nice colour coded table, a small box on
- info comes up automatically as you select each element. 90K; FW; CGA. ****
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- CHEMPAL v3.2 (90) B.BAKER - tests your knowledge of Periodic Table. 7 skill
- levels. Match name to symbol, symbol to name, name to atomic no. etc. Scores
- and encouragement, custom colours. 80K; FW; ANY MONITOR. CGA. EGA. ****
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- H476: THE INTEGRAL SCIENTIST v1.11 (92) INTEGRAL SCIENTIFIC SW
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- An amazing, multipurpose program for scientists. A periodic table (with a
- flashcard test option) that has five pages of info about each element - and
- this is just part of the program! Also includes a super fast VERY useful unit
- converter covering thirty categories of units, chemical solutions calculator,
- solvent selection database, molecular weight calculator, dilution calculator
- and user customizeable data viewer. Built in help, customisable colour
- screens, easy to use. Indispensable! Ages 14+; 340K (900K); $50 (support,
- update, printed documentation); ANY MONITOR. *****
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- **UPDATED** H071: CALFACTS GCSE PHYSICS PROGRAM v4.0 (92) SERGOR (UK)
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- Improved screens and layout, plus a "Shell" that can be used to run all three
- Calfacts programs from a single directory. Written especially for U.K GCSE
- exams, it includes about half the topics that are found in the registered
- version. This amount of coverage is useful in its own right and allows you to
- assess whether you'd benefit from the complete program. Fully menu-driven,
- nicely set out coloured screens (mono's OK too). Topics covered inc; Basics;
- Linear motion forces; Work; Pressure; Energy; Heat transfer; Specific heat;
- Expansion etc. Registration brings coverage of: Molecular structure; Waves;
- Light; Charged particles; Magnetism; Electricity; Electronics; Atomic
- structure. Choose a topic and work through its keypoints sequentially (ones
- you already know can be skipped). Each keypoint (between 2-17 per topic)
- consists of 1 or 2 screens of help and explanation; many also have line
- diagrams and drawings. After these are studied there's a question. Your
- "success rate" shown on a % bar. Sound on/off. A good way to help students at
- exam time and add some variety to the monotony of revision. Registration
- brings latest version with all topics, £19.95 (individual) or £49.95 for a
- site license. 14-16; 200K (600). ANY MONITOR. HD. ****
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- PLEASE NOTE: IF YOU HAVE ORDERED THE PREVIOUS VERSION (2.1) OF THIS PROGRAM
- FROM US AND HAVE EXPERIENCED LOADING PROBLEMS (AN "OUT OF MEMORY" MESSAGE)
- PLEASE CONTACT US FOR A FREE UPDATE TO VERSION 4. THANK YOU.
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- E075: CALTEST - GCSE INTEGRATED SCIENCE (91) v1.1 (menued)
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- More GCSE revision, purely a multiple choice test with no "keypoint" screens
- as in "Calfacts". Nicely set out with many options: sound on/off, answer
- questions in sequence, randomly or choose a topic. Includes a simple pop-up 4
- function calculator. 99 questions covering 16 topics; atoms and molecules,
- conservation, diet, electricity, maths, waves, photosynthesis, metal, etc.
- Single/multiple user; tests may be resumed later. Display class list on
- screen (or print) with names, number correct/incorrect, time taken, etc. Also
- good as a general quiz for anyone interested in science. 14+; 260K; £20
- (update, instructions, more test sets), or £50 site license (ability to make
- your own test sets or edit existing ones). ANY MONITOR (best in colour). ****
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- COMPUTERS, TYPING TUTORS, ELECTRONICS All Ages
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- H560: ET-CAI (ELECTRONICS TRAINING SYSTEM) 94 C.E.ORMAN
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- 31 comprehensive exercises arranged under 4 headings (DC-Circuits, AC-
- Circuits, Digital, Semi-conductors) to help you learn (or teach) electronics
- and electricity. Each exercise features explanatory notes, context sensitive
- help, drills, extensive graphics, plus questions created with a random
- problem generator. On-screen calculator available, where applicable, to help
- with problems. Covers wide range of levels from simple groundwork to advanced
- topics and problems (A level through to college). Results or "certificates"
- can be printed after each run , with student name, time and grade. 16+; 540K
- (1.3MB); $45 (manual, personalised copy); MOUSE. HERC. EEGA. VGA. *****
- [available on 3½" DD (£2.00) or 5¼" HD (£3.00) only]
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- H383V: PC-FASTYPE VGA v1.1 (92) TRENDTECH
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- Excellent, interactive tutor for both beginners, and more advanced typists
- wanting to improve keyboard skills. Portrays colour image of keyboard (101
- enhanced), prompting you to use correct keys. Beginners drills, intermediate
- and advanced exercises. Use your own texts. Concentrate on specific keys etc.
- Keeps track of errors, speed etc. 8-ADULT; 340K(550K); $35 (update, user
- guide, support); HD (or 720+ floppy). VGA. 512K RAM. DOS 3.3+. *****
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- H383C: PC-FASTYPE CGA v4.4 (92)
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- Exactly as above but for those with CGA or EGA.
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- H383M: PC-FASTYPE MONO v1.4 (92)
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- The same but for any monitor, ideal for laptops
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- E222: TUTOR BY ASSOCIATION v1.2 (92) AJOY
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- Lively colour screens use animation and diagrams. Interactive and menu
- driven. Starts with basics - using a menu, keyboard layout, what's a PC good
- for? Seven main sections each with many information screens. Floppies, files,
- drives, programs, DOS commands, etc. 180K; 10-ADULT; $19.95 (v2.0, hard disk
- and directory sections, more enhancements); ANY MONITOR. ****
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- **UPDATED** H070:CALFACTS COMPUTER SCIENCE v4.0 (92) SERGOR (UK)
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- For general setup of "Calfacts" programs please see Calfacts Physics (above).
- Topics in this title inc: Basics; Information systems; Hardware; Bits, bytes,
- hex; File structure; Systems analysis; Data input; Output design; Document-
- ation, technical manuals etc. Registration brings coverage of the following:
- Algorithms; Machine code; Languages; Operating systems; Translators;
- Utilities; Word Processors; Error detection; 14-16; 200K (600). HD. ****
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- PLEASE NOTE: IF YOU HAVE ORDERED THE PREVIOUS VERSION (2.1) OF THIS PROGRAM
- FROM US AND HAVE EXPERIENCED LOADING PROBLEMS (AN "OUT OF MEMORY" MESSAGE)
- PLEASE CONTACT US FOR A FREE UPDATE TO VERSION 4. THANK YOU.
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- H333: VGA TUTORS
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- VGA WHATS IN THE BOX? (92) J.NAPIER - a superb tutorial with very detailed,
- colourful diagrams showing how a PC works, sections on video, motherboard and
- much more. Excellent explanation of bits, bytes and binary counting. Very
- good. 12+; 140K(250); $9.95; VGA. *****
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- ANIMATED LESSONS (91) ANIMATED SOFTWARE COMPANY - three animated programs
- that can be run separately if desired. HORSE GAIT (canters, gallops etc).
- HEART (detailed with excellent pictures and explanations) and PISTON ENGINE
- (again lots of info). 9+; 200K(420); FW; VGA. ****
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