My Little Realm version/2.5 ================================================= Free Bonus described at the end of this document! ================================================= -------------------------------------------------------------------- Retail software vis a vis Shareware software. Shareware is a marketing concept developed by software authors who were tired of the "buy it and like it" attitude of retail software distributors. With Shareware, you can actually try out a program before you pay for it ... right on your own computer, with your own computer system, just to make sure it meets your exact needs. If it does, you send the purchase price to the author/company that wrote it. If the Shareware program doesn't meet your needs, you simply delete it from your system. All you've spent is a little time testing it and the modest cost charged by the Shareware vendor. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Introduction to My Little Realm, the system My Little Realm gives non-technical PC owners the chance to use PC computers to easily maintain and balance their checking account; track charge card expenses; create a phone/address book; print labels; address envelopes; track savings instruments; create a library of their personal books, tapes, cd's, etc.; monitor public library withdrawals; create "memory" records that let the computer remember where important documents (like wills, passports, etc.) are kept; track business expenses and incomes for part-time jobs; easily backup and retrieve files; encourage young readers to visit their local libraries; and still more. MLR is self-installing, comes with online help files, and users need know nothing about DOS, accounting, or file maintenance to make use of the entire system. Requires 2 MB of hard disk space. Many of My Little Realm's programs may be purchased separately. These stand-alone modules can be run from either a floppy disk or a hard disk. The stand-alone programs even make great gifts! They'll run on almost any kind of IBM compatible PC. -------------------------------------------------------------------- The Stand-alone Programs of My Little Realm * Calling Cards. Calling Cards lets you access your phone/address database as if it were your own personal Yellow Pages. If you need a plumber, just tell Calling Cards to get you the number of your plumber. And if you need labels, Calling Cards lets you put your records in either of two categories such as "Friends" and "Clients". All you have to do is put fanfold labels in your printer and tell Calling Cards which category you want the labels printed for. You can also print from one to 999 labels of any name and address currently displayed using any of the Viewing functions, and you can even address envelopes. * Charging. If you're the "typical" American family you have seven credit cards. Have you ever wondered where you stood with all of those cards? How much is out on this one or that one? Or all of them? The press of a single key in Charging will answer those questions. If you need precise tracking of your charging expenditures, Charging can show you how much you spend at specific stores or in given situations. This program is also known as the Charge Card or Credit Card program. * Checking. Checking makes checkbook maintenance a breeze. You create the records of your checks, deposits, autowithdrawals, and so on with a minimum of data entry. A degree in accounting is definitely not required. Checking automatically balances your checking account and tracks your personal income tax deductions (or whatever else you tell it to keep track of). * Private Library. The Private Library routine gives you the opportunity to put all of your personal volumes (books, cd's, video tapes, etc.) online. You can sort, search, view and print your records in a variety of ways. * Public Library. The Public Library routine lets you easily keep track of the works you borrow from your public libraries. It helps you remember when the books are due, and it maintains a historical log of everything you borrow. That way you'll always know if you've returned a book or not, and you can view, sort, search and print your Historical file. * Read More. The Read More program was developed to encourage young readers to go to their public libraries. Kids frequently complain that they can't find anything to read. Almost all of the titles that come with Read More are fun reading. They are not meant to replace the "suggested reading lists" proffered by grade school and high school English teachers. Read More was designed to encourage young readers by showing them a wide variety of new authors and works that they would enjoy reading. It comes with more than 2,000 titles (registered version) that young readers can peruse and "check off" after they've read them. Books are listed by age groups. For ages 6 months to 18 years. * Records of the Realm. "Memory" records created by the Records of the Realm Routine help locate important documents in short order. This routine can also save you a lot of trouble and headaches should you ever lose one or more of your credit cards. It will automatically generate a list of phone numbers of all of your charge card issuers so you can quickly make the necessary calls to stop payments, print letters to those same issuers (required by most charge card issuers), and print labels for the envelopes. * Savings. Savings lets you keep track of all of your savings instruments ... certificates of deposit, passbook savings, Keough plans, IRA's, and so on. It prints your savings portfolio, showing the total of the portfolio as well as the sub-totals by instrument. -------------------------------------------------------------------- My Little Realm/The System You can purchase the entire My Little Realm system which comes with all of the above programs plus: 1 Main Menu. It lets you easily change color modes, shell out to DOS, see your computer's resources, and invoke MLR's ScreenSaver ... all at the touch of a button. It also gives you easy, single key access to all of the MLR stand-alone programs described above. 2 Utilities. MLR comes with its own backup and retrieval utilities. You can back up all of your files with the press of a single key. And you can retrieve backed up files by simply telling Retrieve which MLR program has a bad file. Retrieve will do the rest. You don't have to know a thing about DOS! 3 Documentation. MLR/the System comes with its own documentation viewer so you can refer to your help files without leaving the system. 4 Common interface. MLR's programs are easy to learn, and once you learn how to use one, you'll know how to use them all because they all work the same way. 5 Review Programs. Two review programs let you access your checking and charging files to see how you've been spending your hard-earned money. Both allow you to peruse your files in a scrollable window, and you can query and search your files as well. They also generate a year-to-date summary of your records. Note: The MLR system must be run from the hard disk and requires 2 MB of hard disk space. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Great reasons to buy programs from My Little Realm! 1 Free bonus program! When you purchase one of MLR's stand-alone programs, you can select another absolutely free! See details below. 2 The most recent release of the programs you order. 3 Free telephone support, you pay only for the phone call. 4 Free support by mail should you wish to use the U.S. Mail service instead of the phone. 5 Free CIS support. 6 My heartfelt thanks. Sincerely, John L. Salisbury -------------------------------------------------------------------- Free bonus! Purchase one MLR stand-alone program and you'll receive a second stand-alone program absolutely free. To get your bonus program, simply fill out the order form REGISTER.TXT and select the two programs you want. (And pay for only one!) If you're planning to give the bonus program to a friend, please indicate the name that should be listed as the official owner of the program in the allotted space on the order form. Purchased and bonus programs must be sent to the same address. Important: This offer expires 12/31/94. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Printing an Order Form To purchase your programs, print the order form REGISTER.TXT, fill it in, and mail it with your remittance. The author's name and address appear on the order form. Your registered versions will be promptly sent by first class mail. Thank you. --------------------------------------------------------------------