Here is a list of the discs that are currently available on August 1 1994 ============================================================================ 1. Simtel MSDOS CDROM 2. Cica Microsoft Windows CDROM 3. Giga Games CDROM 4. Hobbes OS/2 CDROM 5. GIFs Galore CDROM 6. Space and Astronomy CDROM 7. Project Gutenberg CDROM 8. Clipart Cornucopia CDROM 9. Fractal Frenzy CDROM 10. Internet Info CDROM 11. Taxinfo '93 CDROM 12. Source Code CDROM 13. Libris Britannia CDROM 14. QRZ! Ham Radio CDROM 15. Aminet Amiga CDROM 16. GEMini Atari CDROM 17. Info-Mac CDROM 18. La coleccio'n CDROM 19. C Users' Group Library CDROM 20. FreeBSD Operating System CDROM 21. Linux Operating System CDROM 22. Toolkit for Linux CDROM 23. X11R5 and GNU CDROM 24. Nova for NeXT CDROM 25. Nebula for NeXTStep Intel CDROM 26. Ada CDROM 27. Sprite CDROM 28. Garbo MSDOS/MAC CDROM 29. Tcl/Tk CDROM 30. 4.4BSD Lite ============================================================================ Simtel MSDOS CDROM. This disc contains about 660 MB of utilities, programming tools, source code, technical documentation, etc. It includes the entire Simtel20 MSDOS Archive. There is an index file in each directory, and a master index file in the top directory that describes each file. The current edition of this disc was made in October 1993. The next edition will be available once the future of the Simtel Site has been decided. This disc is available by quarterly subscription for $19.95 per issue plus appropriate shipping. The single issue price is $29.95. CICA Microsoft Windows CDROM. This disc contains 640 MB of Microsoft Windows programs. It includes hundreds of utilities, games, fonts, bitmaps, etc. All are written especially for Windows. It includes the entire CICA Windows collection from Indiana University. Most of the files on the disc are in zip format. This disc was produced in April 1994. The next issue will be July, 1994. This disc is available by quarterly subscription for $19.95 plus appropriate shipping. The single price is $29.95. Giga-Games CDROM. Thousands of the finest sharware/PD games for MSDOS and Windows from the Giga-Games archive at ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/games. This disc contains over 3000 files, including arcade games, educational games for all age groups, adventure games, board games, card games and strategy games. You can play many of these games either against the computer or against another human. There are sports games, trivia games and word games. There are lots of utilities and "cheat sheets" for commercial and shareware games. There is an easy to use shell that makes the disc easy to navigate, and each program has a detailed description. This disc is set up for most popular BBS's. The price is $39.95. Hobbes OS/2 CDROM. This disc contains the OS/2 archives from ftp-os2.cdrom.com. With over 675 megabytes of files in over 10,000 files, this is the largest collection of shareware and public domain programs for OS/2. This disc includes ultimedia programs, desktop accessories, drivers, 32 bit software, demos, games, compilers, icons, and other programs. This issue even includes the entire 2.1 Service Pack, installable directly from the CDROM! This disc is available also by quarterly subscription for $19.95 per issue, plus appropriate shipping. The single issue price is $29.95. The next update will be available in June. GIFs Galore CDROM. Six Thousand GIF images in dozens of catagories, including art, aviation, birds, cars, cats, flowers, fractals, military, people, raytrace, sci_fi, swimsuit, technology, trains, vietnam, and about twenty other categories. There is no "adult" material on this disc. Most images are 640x480 and in full color. Viewers are provided for MSDOS, Windows, Amiga, Macintosh, OS/2, SPARC, SGI, X11R5, and several other systems. The price is $39.95. Space and Astronomy CDROM. Thousands of NASA images and data. The images include pictures of the earth, the planets, satellites, rockets, distant galaxies, and nebula. There are also thousands of text files, including information on asteroids, astronauts, NASA news bulletins and press releases since 1962, and the USENET sci.space archives. A large collection of astronomy and space related shareware and PD software is also included. The price is $39.95. Project Gutenberg CDROM. This disc contains the etexts of Project Gutenberg for 1991, 1992, 1993, and January 1994. The etexts on the disc include classic literature such as Aesop's Fables, Alice in Wonderland, Moby Dick, and Paradise Lost; historical documents such as the Magna Carta, U.S. Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution, Inagural Addresses and the NAFTA documents; references such as Roget's Thesaurus, almanacs, census data, the CIA World Fact Book, "Surfing the Internet", mathematical constants, and select philosophical papers from the International Philosophical Preprint Exchange; religious documents such as the King James Bible, and the Book of Mormon. This disc is available by semi-annual subscription for $24.95 plus appropriate shipping. The single price is $39.95. ClipArt Cornucopia CDROM. The Clip Art CDROM contains 5050 black-and- white clip art images, totaling 408 MB of files. Subjects portrayed range from cartoon animals and Wild West caricatures to space craft and school scenes. These Clip Art images are perfect for any desktop publishing project! You get all the clip art images on this disc in both .PCX (PC Paintbrush) and .WPG (WordPerfect Graphics) formats for maximum portability. We have thoroughly indexed the Clip Art CDROM and include an easy-to-use file browser. It is simple to locate, view and copy the images by filename or subject. Order yours today! $39.95 Fractal Frenzy CDROM. The Fractal Frenzy CDROM contains the definitive collection of Lee Skinner's fractal art work. These images are a beautiful testament to the power of computer generated art. You'll find thousands of fractal images on this disc. The Fractal Frenzy CDROM contains examples of all the major fractal types: Mandelbrot, Zexpe, Barnsle, fn(z)+fn(pix), etc. You get all the images on the disc in both very high resolution GIF images (1024x768/256 color) and most of the images also in low resolution GIF (640x480/256 color). The low resolution versions are completely royalty free. You can view the images on the Fractal Frenzy CDROM with a PC compatible or a Macintosh. The images display their best colors on a PC compatible with a 512K of 1MB SVGA card. On the Macintosh you need high resolution video. You'll be enthralled by the images on this disc. Don't miss out, get your copy today. $39.95 Internet Info CDROM. The Internet Info CDROM contains a sample of the wealth of information that is available on the Internet. You get 12,000 documents about computers and networks: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's), Internet RFCs and IENs, Computer security documents, Internet Network maps, Usenet technical discussion archives, FTP site lists and descriptions of the archives they hold, Extensive bibliographies and technical book reviews, documents and standards from IEEE, ISO, NIST, ANSI and others. If computers, networking and technology interest you, order this CDROM today. March 1994. $39.95 Taxinfo '93 CDROM. Would you like to have virtually a complete set of federal tax forms and instruction at your finger tips when you begin work on your 1993 taxes? Then the Tax Info CDROM is for you! This 620 MB disc contains a complete collection of 335 forms and schedules for filing your 1993 U.S. Federal Income Taxes. This 620 MB collection is the most complete collection of Tax forms and instructions outside the IRS. Our great Windows viewer makes it easy for you to print any form you need. You get extensive on-line help, including Forms Help which provides a description of many principal federal tax forms. In addition, you get six federal tax publications including 493 Alternative Tax Withholding Methods and Tables, Circular E Employers Tax Guide, 1045 Information For Tax Practitioners and Notice 931 New Deposit Requirements for 1993. This disc is $39.95. Source Code CDROM. This disc contains 643 megabytes of source code in 14,000 files. A large collection of source code and programming utilities for MS-DOS and MS Windows is included, as well as the entire Unix-C archive. The disc also includes the Usenet comp.sys archives for 3B1, games, Unix, X, and miscellaneous as well as net.sources. It also contains the most current GNU software source code, including GCC 2.5.8, Emacs 19.22, Ghostscript, Perl 4.036, and gzip. The source code is mostly in C, but also is in Pascal, Lisp, C++, Modula2, Fortran, Assembly, etc. The disc was produced in March, 1994. The price is $39.95. Libris Britannia CDROM. This disc was made as a joint project with the Public Domain and Shareware Library of Sussex, England. It contains over 600 MB of up to date and very well indexed software. It is biased toward the technical and scientific PC user and includes extensive sections on electronics, engineering, mathematics, medicine, ham radio, and other specialist areas. PDSL acts as librarian for the UK C User's Group, and the programming section includes the UK CUG volumes. The disc comes with a 124 page manual that contains capsule descriptions of about 100-250 words for each item, with information on version number, registration fee, and hardware required. This disc was just updated in January, 1994, and costs $69.95. QRZ! Ham Radio CDROM. This disc contains the November 1993 US CALLSIGN DATABASE (in ASCII), PC (MS-DOS) compatible search and retrieval software, search by callsign, name, city, zip code, several output formats including screen, mailing lists, etc. There are hundreds of popular ham related (shareware) programs and nearly 200 radio and scanner modifications. Also included are USENET news articles from rec.ham-radio and rec.radio.amateur.{misc,packet,policy} since 1989. Also provided are complete dumps of several internet ham radio archives, Canadian and US CLUB callsigns, FCC Rules and Regulations (Part 97), DX lists, DXCC info, BBS lists, UNIX callsign database/server 'C' source code, SIMTEL20 Ham Radio Archive files, and vast amounts of useful reading information for the beginning to the advanced ham enthusiast. This disc was made in December 1993. The price is $29.95. Aminet Amiga CDROM. This disc contains 3200 programs in 570 megabytes for the Amiga computer from the Aminet, the largest repository of shareware and public domain software for the Amiga computer. Games, utilities, animation and graphics programs, business programs, music software, and telecommunication software fill this disc. For the technical user, the Aminet disc includes programming tools, technical documents, development software, and compilers. It includes programs such as GCC, GNU Emacs, and TeX. This disc was made in February, 1994. This disc functions with CDTV, and is available by subscription for $19.95 per issue. The normal single issue price is $29.95. GEMini Atari CDROM. 2872 of programs for the Atari in 616 MB. These files are for the Atari ST, TT and Falcon Computers plus a section for the Porfolio palmtop computer. You also get text files and graphics for the Lynx and Jaguar video game system. All programs are ready to run directly from the CDROM. Each directory contains an index and a list of files to make it easier for a user to locate a file. Programs and files in groups such as accessories, archivers, astonomy, database, utilities, fonts, games, gnu, programming, scree savers, virus, text editors. 50 megabytes of games and entertainment software. 15 megabytes of fonts. Lots of source code. You can install the GEMini CDROM on an Atari or MSDOS BBS. All the noncompressed files have a compressed version in the zip folder. BBS operators can easily make thousands of Atari files available to their users. You get PCBoard, Opus, Wildcat, RBBS, Spitfire, and Maximus index files. This CDROM was made in Dec 1993 by Eric Tremblay and Rene Guimont. The price is $39.95. Info-Mac CDROM. Over 10000 programs from Stanford University's SUMEX Archive, including desk accessories, games, virus-detection programs and commercial demos. It is also jam-packed with graphics, sounds and Hypercard stacks. For the more technically inclined, there are source code samples and entire program listings as well as technical documentation and discussions. The programs on this CDROM are from Stanford University's Sumex-Aim Info-Mac Archive, one of the most complete and up-to-date collections of Macintosh software. This disc is in HFS Mac format. It was updated in January, 1994. The price is $49.95. La coleccio'n CDROM. 6,696 MSDOS, MicroSoft Windows and OS/2 files with complete file descriptions in Spanish (only). Este CDROM cuenta ma's de 6.696 archivos clasificados en 55 directorios. La coleccio'n contiene aplicaciones, informacio'n y mucho ma's para MSDOS, MicroSoft Windows y OS/2. Incluye dos secciones especiales llena de material para autoediccio'n y programas para calculadoras HP-48SX. Este CDROM fue preparado para ser instalado in BBS. La coleccio'n fue preparado en agosto 1993. $39.95 C Users' Group Library CDROM. C source code from the C Users' Group. Most code is for MSDOS, early volumes are CP/M, later UNIX. Includes source code for editors, disassemblers, compilers, interpreters, communications, bbs', games, tutorials, libraries, etc. Also all source code listings from the C Users' Journal. CUG volumes 100-384 are included on the disc. Part of the proceeds of this CDROM go to the C Users' Group. Made in December 1993, the price is $49.95. FreeBSD Operating System CDROM. This CDROM contains the complete FreeBSD Operating System, release 1.1, a full 4.3 BSD compatible 32 bit operating system with features from 4.4 BSD. It comes with XFree86 2.1 (X11R5 patch level 25 for the PC) and ready-to-run X11 utilities and libraries such as XView, XV, Tcl/Tk, JPEG library, etc. Full Berkeley-style networking. TCP/IP, SLIP, PPP, telnet, ftp, gopher, archie, and industry standard NFS and YP services. USENET News and mail reading software (elm and mh). Complete ANSI/POSIX-1003.1 compliant development environment - including kernel source, GCC C++ v 2.3.5, GDB, lex, yacc, f2c, profilers, Gnu emacs 19.19, perl, etc. You get TeX 3.14, dvips, ghostscript, FlexFax fax software, ksh, tcsh, and bash shells, sc spreadsheet, Ingres database, etc. Audio support for SoundBlaster, ProAudio Spectrum and Gravis UltraPro and compatibles. Everything comes with source code. With FreeBSD you get a tightly integrated build system. You can make the while source tree with one command. ISO-9660 and Rock Ridge CDROM support. This disc is in Rock Ridge format with source on the CDROM in long native filenames. This CDROM was made in December 1993 by Rod Grimes. The price is $39.95. Linux Operating System CDROM. Tired of MSDOS and Windows? Try Yggdrasil Linux, a genuine UNIX clone with full source code. Linux is based on the 1.1.0 kernel, GCC 2.4.5, Xfree86 2.1 (X11R5) X windows, and hundreds of other programs. Sound support for *every* computer, support for almost *any* cdrom drive, support for almost every video card. Linux uses as little as 2 MB of hard disk space or as much as 680 MB. An easy graphical install program guides your setup. Andrew multimedia mail system, MIME multimedia mail, X windows programming tools, and two emacs versions are just a few of the other ported software on the disc. Yes, if it doesn't work on your system, return it for a full refund. Experience an advanced, professional unix on your PC -- order your Linux CDROM today. This CDROM was made by Adam Richter of Yggdrasil Computing. The price is $49.95. Toolkit for Linux CDROM. This CDROM contains a huge collection of utilities and documentation for Linux. It also contains the complete Slackware Linux system, and many Xfree86 programs. This disc was made in May, 1994. The price is $39.95. X11R5 and GNU CDROM. This disc contains all the X11R5 Window System sources, including all the contributed software, all the GNU source code, and sparc binaries and libraries for the Gnu programs and the X11R5 server and clients. The X11R5 sources are at patch level seventeen. This disc is in Rock Ridge format, so full unix pathnames are visible on systems that support the RR extensions. This CDROM was made in December 1992. The price is $39.95. The Nova CDROM Second Edition. This new totally revised edition of the Nova will give you more applications, more source code, more fun and information. On this disc you will find utilities, games, fonts, sounds, music, PostScript and tiff graphics. Included on the Nova is the largest collection of public domain and shareware applications of it's kind. There is more applications then ever before and you will see why the Nova is one of the most popular CDROM for the NeXT platform. Each directory on the disc contains an index listing filename, version, author and a short description of each file. A central index is also included which you use with Digital Librarian to quickly locate any file. The Nova for NeXT hardware is in ISO-9660 format with Rock Ridge extensions. A must for every NeXT owner. Remember this is a lot more then an update it's a totally new revised edition. Made in January 1994, the disc costs $59.95. Nebula for NeXTStep Intel CDROM. The largest collection of applications presently available for NeXTStep Intel in categories such as utilities, games, general productivity. Also included are graphics files in Tiff, PostScript, Gif, and Login Panels format, as well as a large collection of fonts and sounds. Programmers will be happy to note that almost all the applications on the disc comes with complete source code making the Nebula a valuable reference for NeXTSTEP programmers. A central index is included which can be used with Digital Librarian to quickly locate the file you're looking for. NeXTSTEP 3.1 or above for Intel processors is required to use this disc. This disc was made in October, 1993, and costs $59.95. Ada CDROM. 620+ MB of documentation, information, and source code. This disc contains the entire Public Ada Library (PAL). With more than 5000 files, this disc is an indispensible resource for any Ada programmer. Imagine the convienience of refering to the disc for all the Ada language reference manuals, a complete set of Ada language issue comments, the GNAT compiler, PC and Mac Ada/ED compilers, benchmarks, validation suites, courseware, Ada programming tools, and prodigious amounts of source code. This disc is available in either ISO-9660 with Rock Ridge Extensions, or Macintosh HFS. Made in July 1994, the disc costs $39.95. Sprite CDROM. This disc contains the source code and documentation for the Sprite Network Operating System. Sprite was a research operating system developed at the University of California, Berkeley. All the reseach papers from the Sprite project are also included on the disc. This software on this disc is primarily intended for research purposes, and is not really intended to be used as a production system. Boot images are provided for Sun SparcStations and DECStations. The cost is $29.95. Garbo MSDOS/MAC CDROM. This disc contains the Garbo archive from Vaasa University in Finland. It contains almost 400 MB of software. About 250 MB is for MSDOS, and about 150 MB is for Macintoshes. The price is $29.95. This disc was updated in July 1994. Tcl/Tk CDROM. This disc contains the Tcl (Tool Command Language, pronounced "tickle") and Tk toolkit software from Sprite.Berkeley.edu and Harbor.ecn.purdue.edu. It also contains the archives for the comp.lang.tcl Usenet newsgroup. This CDROM is in ISO-9660 format with Rock Ridge extensions. It will work on almost any Unix system, and is also readable under Dos/Windows. The disc was made in April 1994 and the price is $39.95. 4.4BSD-Lite. Source code ONLY. If you love to read good code and tinker with your system, this is the disc for you. This software contains software developed by the University of California, Berkeley, and its contributors. This CDROM includes source code and manual pages for the C library, about 95% of the utilities distributed in 4.4BSD, and all but a few files from the kernel. The system is almost entirely ANSI C and IEEE POSIX 1003.1 and 1003.2 standards compliant. We have both a domestic (includes encryption) and an international version. ============================================================================ The CICA MS Windows, Simtel MSDOS, Aminet, Hobbes OS/2, QRZ Ham Radio, Toolkit for Linux, FreeBSD, Ada discs are available by subscription. We update these discs ABOUT quarterly. When we have a new version we ship them to our subscribers. We bill your credit card when we ship. The cost is only $19.95 per issue for CICA, Simtel, Aminet, Hobbes; $24.95 for FreeBSD, Ada, and Toolkit for Linux. The standard shipping charge applies. All of these CDROMs, except the Info-Mac Disc, are in ISO-9660 format, so they are readable on almost any system. No special software is required. Shipping and handling is $5 (per order, not per disc) for US/Canada, and $10 for airmail overseas. If you live in California, please add sales tax. You may order via email. Our email address is orders@cdrom.com You can send a check or money order to Walnut Creek CDROM 1547 Palos Verdes, Suite 260 Walnut Creek, CA 94596 USA Or you can order by MasterCard, Visa or American Express. If you do not trust email with your credit card number, you can call +1 800 786-9907 +1 510 674-0783 +1 510 674-0821 (FAX) There will be other discs available soon. * * * CDROM Caddies are available for $4.95 each. * * * Plastic jewel boxes are 10/$5. We continue to seek partners in CDROM production. If you have a good idea for a disc and want to work with us, give us a call. This catalog is dated August 1 1994. The most current version of this catalog is available via anonymous ftp from ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/cdrom/catalog, by fingering info@cdrom.com, or you can request it by sending email to (the human at) info@cdrom.com.