PsL News & CD-ROM August 1993 CONTENTS: 1. News & Views - articles, bug reports, retail products reviews/specials 2. Monthly Additions Disks - new small programs of a general nature 3. Windows 3 - applications, games, graphics, programming, utilities 4. Home - finance, education, games, diet/health, home management, science 5. Business - accounting, comm., network, database, mail list, spreadsheets 6. Words & Graphics - DTP, graphics, printer fonts & utils, word processing 7. Programming - A.I., assembler, Basic, C, Forth, Pascal, other 8. Utilities - anti-virus, archiving, DOS tools, system testing, etc 9. Special Interests - religion, engineering, music, stats & math =====News & Views: - PsL Monthly CD ... introduction to PsL's premier monthly CD issue. - A CD-ROM Drive for Everyone ... cheap, expensive, internal, external - Programmers Respond to PsL's CD ... no outdated software. - PsL News Cover Date Moved Up ... where did July go? - Shareware Copyrights ... what can you do with this software? - Haunted Computer ... doesn't like user walking away! - Does Not Compute ... bug reports, fixes, feedback. - New Retail Product Reviews ... Personal Label Printer ($129.95), Pool for Windows ($17.50), Where in Space is Carmen... ($39.95) -----PsL Monthly CD How would you like to get every one of the more than 250 new and updated pd/shareware programs written up in this issue (and more!) for just $19.95? Now you can - with one catch: you need a CD-ROM drive. (See following article.) In the past, other shareware vendors, BBS sysops, and computer magazine columnists have paid PsL as much as $1000 per month (or more!) to get all the new and updated programs we add each month. They know that PsL offers many times more new programs every month than any other vendor and that we generally get new programs out fastest. (Typical programmer response this month from John Shramko: "I would like to thank you for your rapid publication of my previous submissions. I have found such professionalism to be all too rare in the shareware business.") They also know that our experienced staff of testers and reviewers are unequalled at picking the best new programs and giving them concise, honest reviews. And of course, they also know that PsL virus-checks every program before doing anything with them. Now you can get all the great new PsL monthly software additions for just a tiny fraction of the cost these other groups have happily paid. You can get over 300 programs for less than the cost of just 4 disks at our regular disk fees. --We Heard You Several months ago, we asked readers how PsL should move into the 20th century in terms of shareware distribution. One option was having a PsL BBS. Another was to have a CD-ROM. We heard a lot of pro's and con's for both ideas. After weighing the input from readers and considering all the factors involved, we decided to offer a monthly CD-ROM containing all the new programs written up in PsL News each month (and more!). --The Costs The CD is being offered on a subscription basis for $19.95 per month plus shipping, billed monthly. We will send you an invoice with each month's CD or you can have it automatically billed to your credit card each month. Either way, you can cancel the subscription at any time. Single issues (including back issues) are $29.95 plus shipping. --Wading Through A CD-ROM? One objection we frequently heard from people who were opposed to a CD-ROM was having to wade through all the software to find what they need. (Or in the case of most CDs, wade through the junk to find the good stuff.) With PsL's Monthly CD, the difference is that as you are reading through the current PsL News and see something you would like to try, you can just pop in the CD-ROM, bring up PsL's installation program, and try it. Each month as we update the PsL Review's files (which contain write-ups of the more than 7000 programs in PsL), we will add a note indicating which month's CD the program was last on. As you accumulate CDs, you will be able to easily go back to get programs you read about in the Reviews. Since each CD will have a lot of programs that do not make it into our Reviews/catalog, we will also have an ongoing catalog file on the CD of the contents of previous month's CDs. --And More... The 250+ programs we add every month, while a lot of software, still leave lots of free space on a 650MB CD. This extra space will allow us to distribute a lot of things whose distribution by PsL is not feasible now. For example, a 4MB animation file that you will only run a couple of times is not worth the disk fees we would have to charge to provide it on floppies, but it costs nothing to add it to a CD. Sound files (WAVs) and graphics files are other disk space eaters that we will include. We also reject a LOT of programs every month, although they may be of very high quality. The main reason is that we do not have room to keep adding programs to PsL which are minor variations of programs already in our collection. With the CD, we will be able to distribute even those programs. These programs are written up as Quick Looks in each issue. If you do not wish to get the CD, but want a Quick Look program, you can order it by name and we will copy it to one or more floppies for you at our regular disk fees. (Please note that some programs are multiple disks and our per-disk fee applies.) With the large number of Quick Look files evident in this issue, readers will, for the first time, get a feel for the amount of screening and testing PsL has been doing every month for years. We will have the latest monthly updated version of PsL's Reviews files on the CD, unarchived and ready for reading and searching, as well as the text of the current month's PsL News. A category which we have begun to distribute on the Monthly CD is electronic publishing (magazines and books on disk). Much of this material is time-sensitive and a monthly CD is an ideal way to distribute it. --File Format Files will be stored on the disk in ZIP format (with FILE_ID.DIZ files for BBS use). Many people have asked why we don't store the programs in separate directories, ready to run, since there is plenty of space. One reason is that BBS sysops are an important segment of our target audience, and they need the files to be in ZIP format ready for downloading. Another reason is that many programs configure themselves to your preferences and/or to your system configuration during installation. Obviously, it would not work to install these on a CD. Non-sysop users will be able to run a program that lets you read about the files and install the ones you want to try quickly and easily. Alternatively, if you read about a program in PsL News and want to install it even more quickly, a one-line command will find the file for you on the CD and install it. One exception to the above is that extremely large programs, in addition to being on the CD as ZIP files, may also be preinstalled on the CD (if they will run from CD). For example, the Movies database on this month's CD takes up 10MB of disk space, so it has been preinstalled on the CD to save your hard disk space. Japanese I, which takes over 4MB, is also preinstalled. (Incidentally, buying the Japanese I set of disks from most vendors on 12+ 360k floppies would cost you as much as the entire PsL CD.) In contrast, Painless Accounting, which takes 5MB of disk space, was not preinstalled because it configures to your system during installation. --Reserve Your CD Now! If this is your first time to see PsL News, take a look at all the new pd/shareware programs written up in this issue. (Note: The listing in the back of PsL News is of most of the 7000+ programs ALREADY in PsL and are not on the monthly CD.) Don't miss the updates; they are enhanced versions of programs already in PsL. Updates are included on the monthly CD. Once you have seen all the terrific new programs you can get for just $19.95, we know you will want to call or write to sign up for PsL's Monthly CD. But please hurry. Supplies of CDs for each month are limited. --Converting Other Subscriptions A lot of people have already called with this question, so here's the answer: Yes, you can convert your existing Monthly Additions Disks subscription(s) to Monthly CD subscriptions. -----A CD-ROM Drive For Everyone If you do not already have a CD-ROM drive, PsL's Monthly CD can cost-justify one in a hurry. On the high end, PsL has the Toshiba 3401B, the fastest CDROM drive available. It has an access time of 200ms and 300kb throughput. It has a SCSI-2 interface included for just $599 for the internal, $699 for the external (add 4% for credit card). For just $225, PsL has the Mitsumi internal drive with proprietary interface. It has a more typical 350ms access time and 150kb throughput. Both of these drives are Kodak Photo CD Ready. If you want an external drive with no installation hassles, it's hard to beat the Sydos Personal CD. It plugs into any parallel port and has a pass-thru connector so that you can still plug in a printer. With a 545ms access time and 176kb throughput, it is amazingly zippy for a CD drive with a parallel interface. An optional interface card is promised for the near future to make the drive even faster. Its printer port interface and small, light-weight size makes this unit ideal for use with laptops. Its $325 price is extremely reasonable for an external, especially since you don't have to buy an additional interface card for it. If you are leaning towards a full multimedia system with sound card, see the file RE-02 Multimedia Products in PsL's Reviews files. -----Programmers Respond to PsL's CD We were delighted with the (unsolicited) response we got from programmers to the announcement of our monthly CD: "This is a brilliant idea...a way to finally introduce shareware into Fortune 500 companies with the latest shareware on a regular basis from a reputable source and virtually guaranteed to be virus free." - Chris Thornton "I really like the monthly approach. Normally, I don't like distributing on CD-ROMs, but in the case of PsL, I'll certainly make an exception. You may take this letter as full permission to include any (of these) OsoSoft programs on your CD. It's always been a great pleasure to work with PsL, and I hope we all continue to grow and prosper." - George Campbell "All of our newer shareware products expressly forbid CDROM distribution without written permission. This gives you permission to distribute any of our products on your CD-ROM." - Gary Elfring We also received software from a number of other programmers who took the trouble to mention that they were sending their materials only to PsL or that we were the only vendors authorized to distribute their software on CD. Many programmers expressed concerns about other CDs which continue to be sold for a long time with outdated versions of their programs, and they were happy to see a monthly CD that would have only all-new software on it each month. -----PsL News Cover Date Moved Up Unlike other publications, PsL News has always been shipped the month of the cover date. To accommodate some additional methods of distribution of PsL News and the new Monthly CD, we have to move the cover date up a month, so we have skipped July and labeled this month's issue as August. Subscriptions have been adjusted to allow for the missing month. (Check your mailing label.) -----Shareware Copyrights We frequently get letters asking about PsL's copyrights on shareware programs. Most of these are from individuals asking about redistributing disks purchased from PsL. Even a shareware author assumed he had given up his rights to his programs by sending them to PsL and asked us for permission to upload his files to a BBS. PsL does NOT have ANY rights to the individual programs other than the right to distribute them. The authors of the programs have sole rights to how programs are distributed and used. Anyone who gets a program from PsL and wants to redistribute it simply has to do what we do - check the documentation for distribution/usage restrictions and if necessary, write to the author for permission. PsL does have rights to the use of our trademarks and copyrighted program reviews (see Contents page). We also have rights to our specific compilations of programs on a disk or CD, but not to the individual programs that make up those compilations. -----Haunted Computer Here is one for the Time-Life books on the Occult: my computer reboots itself when (and only when) I walk away from my desk! It doesn't do it every time, but a large percentage of the time (6-8 times a day). It NEVER reboots while I'm at my desk, whether I'm working on the computer or not. My computer is in a disassembled tower case on a table to the right of my desk with just the keyboard and monitor on my desk. There is absolutely no physical contact, such as nudging loose wires, bumping into components, etc. The best the folks on the IBM Hardware forum on CIS could come up with was to suggest a weak power supply, but that does not explain why it would reboot only when I walk away. It sounds more like my body is setting up some kind of capacitance with the computer, but that goes beyond the scope of my electronics background. Any of you technical whizzes out there ever heard of anything like this? -----Does Not Compute Bug reports and fixes. PsL does not warrant programs to work on any particular system. We do offer a two-disk credit to anyone reporting a program which we decide, based on the report, to remove from PsL because of the program being too buggy, outdated, etc. We also welcome general comments. All letters to PsL become the property of PsL and may be edited for clarity. --Installing PsL Disks John Wallan, Oakland, CA: "In many respects, PsL is the best of the shareware dealers, but your disks vary greatly in the provisions made for reviewing and installing the programs. Some make it very easy, some not so easy, and some devilishly difficult. Consider developing more consistency in this matter, as other shareware distributors have done." PsL: We have two types of disks those containing a number of small programs and those where one program takes up one or more disks by itself. For the small programs disks, we have a GO installation program on each disk with descriptions of each program and a push-button installation procedure. On the large program disks, the programs usually have an installation program written by the author of the program. As you say, some of the installation programs are good and some are not. However, because the installation programs frequently configure the programs for the user's system, install files in specific directories, and even change files, it is not feasible for us to bypass the author's installation, and doing so could be a violation of the author's copyright and terms of distribution. --Slim vs. Stacker? Stanley Wong, Palos Verdes, CA: "In May's PsL News, you state that there are no shareware programs similar to Stacker and DoubleSpace. What about Slim on your disk #4053?" PsL: Slim is not really the same type of program as Stacker and DS. With Slim, you must manually compress files. Then, with Slim in memory (72k), any/every time you run or open a compressed file, Slim creates an uncompressed copy of the file on the disk which is then run or accessed. In comparison to Stacker and DS, which compress and decompress EVERYTHING on the fly, Slim is slower and requires more disk space. Slim is still useful for some specific situations, but for general use, Stacker and DS are superior. --TSR's Noted Dave Petterson, Etna, CA: "(1) Please print the version number of programs in the listing. (2) Please state if a program can be used as a TSR and how much memory it takes." PsL: (1) Because of the large number of disks and limited space, we do not always have room to show version numbers. Our practice now is to show the version numbers in the Reviews files. (2) Our policy is always to state if a program can be used as a TSR and the amount of memory used. Let us know specifics if you find otherwise, and we will correct the Reviews. --Bugs In Shareware A reader reported some design flaws in a couple of programs and continued: "I wanted to point out these problems to you. When I see things like this, I get discouraged with the whole shareware concept because of inexperienced or borderline programmers." PsL: We agree that design flaws, program bugs, poor documentation and poor support are frustrating and discouraging, but these are just as rampant, if not more so, in non-shareware software and hardware. We could besiege you with examples, but we suspect that it is a rare individual who has not had their own share of bad experiences with retail products, so we'll just ask you to keep those in mind when you're feeling down on shareware. -----New Retail Product Bargains This month we are happy to pass along to you "show special" priced new products from the Computer Electronics Show. Quantities of the following items are limited at these prices. --Personal Label Printer - #30387 $129.95 The Avery Label Printer is another of those dedicated label printers about the size of a tape dispenser. What makes this one special is the price ($129.95), plus the fact that it is from Avery. Whether you have a laser printer through which you have to run a full sheet of labels to print a single one*, or a dot matrix printer which requires five minutes to swap between paper and labels, almost everyone can make good use of a dedicated label printer. (* Feeding a sheet of laser labels back through with labels missing can melt the wax paper where the labels are missing and cause serious damage to the drum.) The PLP comes with about $100 worth of software. The PLP software lets you grab and print addresses (or any other text) right from the screen while in your word processor, database, etc. The famous Avery LabelPro Software (list price:$99) lets you design professional looking labels with graphics (import PCX files) and fonts. Although you get some labels with the PLP, you'll also want to stock up while we have them at "show special" prices too: #30388 White $6.99 per roll #30389 Clear $6.99 per roll --Pool For Windows - #30386 $17.50 This is the slickest PC pool game we have seen. Other games make you set menu options for cue force, english, etc. This game is more like a real pool game. The force of the shot is determined by how far you draw the cue away from the ball. The aiming linecan be turned off when you think you are good enough. Other features include sounds, saving games, displaying the ball's path, and your choice of several popular pool games, including 3-ball billiards. --Where in Space Is Carmen Sandiego? - #30390 $39.95 The latest in the educational and entertaining "Where ... is Carmen?" series, this Deluxe Edition takes 10MB of hard disk space and features breathtaking NASA photographs (VGA required), video clips of planetary flybys, digitized sound effects, and hundreds of different cases. A 386 or better is required to manage this feature-filled program. Your VAL-9000 computer contains a wealth of information about the geography and science of space. You must plot your course through the stars, interview witnesses, and interpret clues as you hunt for the infamous Carmen Sandiego. Also included is a 128-page guide to the stars and planets. =====PsL Monthly Additions Disks The programs in this section are new small programs of different types. Disks of new small programs specific to Windows, to programming, and to Games are in those sections. Subscriptions to the PsL Monthly Additions disks are available. See the inside, back cover of PsL News. (Call 800-2424-PSL for a free sample issue.) -----August 1993 Additions Disk #1 Bar Graphs 2.0 [BARGRAF] System Analysis David Smith; $0 displays a 3D bar graph of how many and what type of files are on your drive. HardTrack 1.0 [HARDTRK] Hard Disk Utilities Jim Olsen; $29 keeps track of and reports on new, modified, and missing files on your hard disk or network drive. Internal Commands 2.1 [INTCOM] Batch File Utilities Geoff Friesen; $25 is an 18k TSR that adds many additional commands to DOS, most of which are mainly of use in batch files: clear screen with color settings, toggle -Lock key status, change the cursor shape, hide files, rename directories, position the cursor on screen, play music in the background, swap printer ports, sum the sizes of specified files, suspend execution until a specified time, and more. Specifications are included to allow programmers to add commands of their own. [Job_Jar] Task Manager Bill Pinkerton; $0 lets you add, delete, view and print job tasks. Up to 500 entries are allowed. A monthly calendar is included. [Smiley] Games Jeff Fitzsimons; $0 Are you sick of seeing Smiley Faces everywhere you look. Here is your chance for a little sick revenge: try to shoot the bouncing Smiley Face. The faster the speed the more points per shot you earn. ("R" rated for violence.) [Snooze] 1.0 Alarm Clock John Owen; $5 is a TSR clock with a snooze alarm. When the alarm pops up, it displays the current time, plays a tune, and allows you to either turn it off or select a 3 minute or 5 minute snooze before the alarm pops up again. -----August 1993 Additions Disk #2 Credit Card Checker [CCCHKR] Order Entry Paul Mayer; $25 is a 70k TSR which does basic validation of credit card numbers. It can be used in a swap mode that just takes 7k. It can be configured to grab credit card numbers from an order-entry screen. Investment Withdrawal 1.0 [INVEST] Financial Analysis Peter L. Fishback; $10 shows the effect of inflation and taxes on withdrawals from an investment fund. You select the percent of income earned to be withdrawn and the program will determine the amount which must be withdrawn monthly to maintain your purchasing power. [M_Repeat] 3.0 ViruScan Utility Datachip; $50 is a group of programs to automate and manage virus scanning using McAfee's ViruScan program. It can be used on standalone or networked PCs. MenuMedia 1.0 [MENUMED] DOS Menu EFD Systems; $8 is a quick and easy DOS menu application. You can create a menu data file with any text editor (or even using COPY CON:) with each line containing the menu prompt followed by the program name to run if the prompt is selected. Programs to run can include COM, EXE and batch files, as well as calling MenuMedia to execute a submenu or parent menu. You can also specify a "wallpaper" in the form of a PCX file of your choosing (see screen shot) or ANSI graphics. VGA Clear Screen [VGACLR] Batch File Utilities David Smith; $0 is a set of 28 VGA designs for clearing the screen with a graphics display. Designs include shadows, doors, stars, an exploding ball, and more. Requires EGA/VGA. View 2.1 [VIEW] File Viewing David M. Dibble, $0 is a very small (1k) file viewing utility, ideal for inclusion on distribution disks. In fact, we include View on all of our disks. Assembly source code is included. -----August 1993 Additions Disk #3 Create A Quiz. 1.2 [CAQUIZ] Test Making Philip Kapusta; $12 lets you create multiple choice and fill-in-the-blank quizzes. Teachers can create interactive on-screen or printed quizzes for students. Solutions to each question can be suppressed or displayed on a printout. Other features include mouse support, full line text editing, progress charts, and password protection for quizzes. Driv-Man. 1.01 [DRIVMAN] Disk & Drive Utilities Micrometric ASP; $25 is a disk management tool. It shows logical disk drive data for up to 26 drives on one screen. DriveTypes. [DRIVTYP] Disk Drive Util. Jeff Camino; $0 tells you the type of floppy drives on a machine. Since you cannot tell a high-density from low-density drive by looking, this is handy if you are on a strange machine. Envi-Man. 1.03 [ENVIMAN] Operating System Utilities Micrometric ASP; $25 is an environment analysis utility. It shows all of the current environment strings and data such as the location, size and space availability of the master environment. It also lets a batch file know how much environment space is currently available and provides a graceful exit if there is not enough. Faxer 1.1 [FAXER] Communications: FAX Simple Simon Software; $0 sends a fax to a fax machine/board without CAS or any other interface. It should work on most Class 1 boards using Rockwell chips. GRFBook [GRFBOOK] Electronic Publishing EFD Systems; $30 is an electronic hypertext publishing system that supports integrated text and PCX files. -----August 1993 Additions Disk #4 Menu-Man. 1.25 [MENUMAN] Batch File Utilities Micrometric ASP; $25 displays menus in batch files. Options include user response time limit, menu positioning, erasing screen before/after menu display, and menu sound, color and type customization. Path-Man. 1.13 [PATHMAN] Path Utilities Micrometric ASP; $20 determines if a file is located on a path directory. Errorlevel is set for batch file use. PRT-Menu. 1.0 [PRTMENU] Printer Control Larry W. Nicholas; $20 is a printer menu which allows you to access the following various features of your printer: color selection, character font, character highlight, character pitch, word processing, paper feed, paper feed (amount), and page format. Requires a mouse, VGA and Epson or compatible dot matrix printer. PC-CRYP 6.0 [PC_CRYP] File Encryption James T. Demberger; $0 is a file encryption programs that uses the Vernam process. Strip [STRIP] File Changing Patrick R. Rygiel; $0 removes ASCII control codes 1 to 31, & 127 from any size text file. TiffRead [TIFFREA] TIFF Viewer $0 is a small program that displays TIFF image files. TXT2PS [TXT2PS] OS/2: Printing IBM; $0 lets you print non-PS files on a PostScript printer in OS/2. -----August Updates Disk #1 (AH-02) Home Loan Diary 1.1 [HLDIARY] is a home mortgage diary and amortization schedule calculator. ($14) (CH-03) Grape Vine 3.0 [GRPVINE] is a Bible game similar to Hangman. (CM-02) ZIP 1.63 [ZIP] is a utility to transfer files between two IBM compatible computers over an ordinary serial cable connection. NEW: options for handling hidden, system, read/only, and archive files. (ED-06) Big Math Attack 1.0 [BIGMATH] tests math, spelling, typing and metric conversions skills in an arcade environment. (GA-03) DragCity 3.0 [DRAGCIT] drag racing game. -----August Updates Disk #2: (GA-03) Moraff's Super Blast I [SUPBLAST] is an advanced breakout type game. (GA-05) Blitz 3.6 [BLITZ] is a very strong game of checkers with many options. (GA-05) Contax 2.2 [CONTAX] is a game variant of GO. (GA-05) Domino 4.2 [DOMINO] matches you against the computer in a challenging game of dominos. (Formerly a large program on disk #828.) (GA-05) Dynamo Draughts 5.9 [DYNAMO] is the European version of Draughts, a variant of checkers. (GA-05) Flip-It 4.7 [FLIP_IT] is an interesting variation of Reversi/Othello. (GA-05) TakeNote 6.1 [TAKENOT] is a study tool for chess. NEW: tutorial. -----August Updates Disk #3: (GA-04) Four-Handed Euchre 3.5 [EUCH_DF] (GA-12) Acrostix 2.3 [ACROSTX] lets you try to solve, as well as create Acrostic puzzles. (GA-12) Krypto 2.3 [KRYPTO] is a challenging word game in which you solve and create cryptograms. ($0) (GR-01) VGA Art [VGAART] is an incredible graphics demonstration. (MS-01) Bio-Cal 9.95 [BIO_CAL] is a biorhythm-calendar program. (P1-01) UnderBar 2.2 [UNDRBAR] is a 2K TSR which prints a Postnet bar code under any address that has a zip+4 code or a delivery point bar code. August Updates Disk #4: ----------------------- (P1-01) WonderBar 4.4 [WONDERB] is a (2k) TSR that prints five and nine digit bar codes and Zip+4 codes. (PG-04) LZW For C 1.2 [LZW4C] is a Lempel-Ziv-Welch data compression library for C programmers. (PG-06) BTP 2.0 [BTP] is a TP unit that makes it easy to use Btrieve. It now works with TP7. (U1-03) Screen Wizard 4.5 [SW_WS] is a windowing, screen color, and text placement utility for batch files. New mask input for passwords, help screen can be defined for screen definition and windows can be horizontally subdivided. (U1-09) Protect! EXE/COM 2.0 [PROTEXE] protects EXE/COM files by encrypting them. August Updates Disk #5: ----------------------- (U1-05) Hotdir 7.3 [HOTDIR] colorful sorted directory utility. (U1-06) Split 6.0e [SPLITMD] file splitting utility (U1-08) DiskALog 3.21 [DLOG] is a combination Read-and-Run type program plus file manager. (U1-08) File Maven 2.1 [FMAVEN] (ASP) ($16.50) NEW: view & copy read only files (necessary for CD-ROMs). (U1-09) PC Padlock 2.2 [PADLOCK] is a floppy disk locking system. (U1-11) SNR 5.3b ($50) [SNR] text search/replace utility. NEW: wild-card and variable-length conversion patterns and more. (U2-01) NoteWare 2.0 (ASP) [NOTEWR20] is a 16K TSR notepad. NEW: unlimited number of notes, cut, copy and paste features, index of notes, exporting to the current program, file or printer, view any files with search and exporting, and screen capture to a disk file. ($25) (U2-07) SCROLLit 1.7 [SCROLIT] is a screen backscroll utility which allows you to bring back into view lines that have already scrolled off the screen. NEW: the scrollback buffer can be stored in upper memory. =====Windows Programs: ...applications, desktop utilities, games, graphics/icons/fonts/wallpaper, Program Manager & File Manager replacements, programming, utilities. -----August 1993 Windows Additions Disk #1 ABM Command [ABM_CMD] Arcade Games Kent Rollins; $0 is a faithful adaptation of the game Missile Command. You must defend keyboard to aim and fire your missiles. There are smart bombs, MIRVs, and bonus cities just like the classic arcade game. A 386 or better is recommended. BBLogos [BBLogos] Wallpaper $0 is a 256-color BMP graphic of all 28 Major League Baseball logos. Calendar [CAL_TTF] Fonts Thomas E. Harvey; $0 is a TrueType font which helps make calendars. Characters are PrintSwitch 1.1a [PRSWITCH] Printer Utilities Michael Haschka; $10 provides a fast and easy way to change your default printer. It will display all currently installed printers on your system as buttons. All you have to do to change printers is click on the desired button. When running as an icon, the caption displays the default selection. It also allows you to quickly access the printer setup section of Control Panel. This is an excellent utility for persons with multiple printers on their systems. Requires VBRUN200. Private Cryptographer 1.02 [PRICRYP] File Encryption Ivory Tower Software; $20 allows you to easily safeguard sensitive files. It can encrypt and decrypt clipboard text as well as any other type file, including graphics and executable files. There is also a built-in editor to create encrypted text from scratch. Other features include a random password generator, a high priority multitasking option, two built-in test samples, and more. Requires VBRUN200. Surf's Up! 3.0 [SURFSUP] Sound Utilities AddSoft; $15 lets you attach your favorite WAV file to any program. It will work with sound cards or a speaker driver. This is a great way to add some fun to your desktop. Requires VBRUN200. Sysfon 1.0 [Sysfon] Font Utilities Peter Karrer; $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. TypeSmart 2.2 [TYPSMRT] Word Processing Utilities Tim W. Lian; $32 helps reduce keystrokes when typing long or repetitive words. It works in the background while you are in a text editor or word processor, creating a database of the words you have typed. If you start to type a word already used in the same session, it pops up and allows you to insert the word by pressing the ALT key and a letter from the list. This is an excellent time-saving utility. All API function names are included for interested programmers. -----August 1993 Windows Additions Disk #2 Atlantic City Blackjack 1.0 [ACBJ] Card Games Oleg Goldfayn; $25 is a game of casino blackjack for Windows 3.1. Up to seven gamblers can participate, and the computer will auto-play any unused hands. You can even customize the playing strategy of the computerized hands. Other features include on-screen advice, card counting, three dealing speeds, and more. VGA is required. Allini 2.1 [Allini] INI File Utilities Words Plus Connectivity; $2 is a point-and-click INI file viewer/editor. It displays all the sections of any INI file, and lets you view the section or quickly delete it out of the file. You can also edit the section to change any item that needs updating or insert a new section or an entry. This is very handy for cleaning up a cluttered WIN.INI file. The Byzans Task Manager 0.9 [BYZ_TM] Task Management Yorgo Vergos; $30 is a powerful replacement for the Windows 3.1 Task Manager. It provides a tool bar with commonly used accessories, a scrolling visual task list with icons, a run dialog with a 20-event history, a configurable application bar for launching your favorite applications, and much more. HolyMoly [HOLYMLY] Fonts Thomas E. Harvey; $0 is a heavy sans serif TrueType font with holes in it. QuickClick 1.00 [QCLICK] Miscellaneous Utilities Uli Mittermaier; $5 allows you to assign events to the four corners of your screen. Each corner can either launch any application, show the Task List, exit Windows, or activate the screen saver. All you have to do to carry out an event is move the pointer into a corner and press the right mouse button once. This is very easy to set up and use, and can greatly improve your desktop productivity. -----August 1993 Windows Additions Disk #3 Air800 [AIR800] Travel Horizon MicroServe; $5-$10 is a Windows Cardfile data file with over 125 toll-free Airline reservation numbers. Big Number Cruncher 1.02 [BNCRNCH] Calculators Ivory Tower Software; $0 lets you perform math operations on very large numbers without round-off errors. You can add, subtract, or divide two numbers of up to 45-digits. You can also multiply any two integers as long as the product is 45 digits or less. VBRUN200 is required. Brain Jam 1.3 [BRAINJM] Solitaire Games Brain Jam Publications; $12-$20 is an unusual card game for Windows. All the cards are dealt face up into eight columns. You can move cards sequentially onto the build pile, or onto the discard pile. This looks to be very difficult to win, but six winnable hands can be dealt from a menu. RestrictProgMan 1.00 [RPM] Program Manager Utilities Uli Mittermaier; $5 allows you to disable some of Program Manager's functions. You may deactivate the Exit Windows and File/Run selections, the entire File-menu, and the Save Settings on Exit option. StarBar 3.1 [StarBar] Desktop Clocks Ambient Systems; $8 is a clock for Windows 3.1 with a distinctive Star Trek flair. It can display the time in a variety of formats (standard, military, stardate, or stardate with TNG sync). Other features include a system resource monitor, Windows shutdown/restart options, WAV sound file support, live DDE link to other applications, and more. This is a must-have for all Star Trek fans! Requires VBRUN200. TMarshall [MARSHAL] Fonts Tim Trinkle; $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 [Woafont] Fonts Peter Ka rrer; $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. -----August 1993 Windows Additions #4 3of9 [3of9] Fonts Paul Andre LeBlanc; $0 is a TrueType font for printing 3 of 9 barcodes. A Mac System 7 (MRF) version is also included. Astronomy Clock 1.02 for NT [AC_NT] Desktop Tools Pocket-Sized Software; $5 displays the current time in local mean time, universal time, local sidereal time, and greenwich sidereal time. Requires March Beta or later version of Windows NT. Import Quotes 1.0 [IQ_WIN] Financial Apps The Carey Group; $12 imports/converts stock and mutual fund quotes from various online services into Quicken. Features include a configurable parser, a set editor for creating parser sets, date selection for imported quotes, and more. Stopwatch for Windows NT [SW_NT] Desktop Tools Pocket-Sized Software; $5 is a computerized stopwatch and clock. Text Manager 1.0 [TXTMGR] Editors Digital Software; $10 is a nice replacement for NotePad. It allows you to open multiple files, and has a handy toolbar for most commands. WinFly 1.0 [WINFLY] Business Apps James E. Rylander; $12 helps keep track of your frequent flyer miles. The following airlines are supported in this version: American, Continental, Delta, TWA, USAir, and United. VBRUN200 is required. -----August 1993 VB/Windows Programming Disk IndexTab and Ruler [IT_RULR] VB: Custom Controls VideoSoft; $0 contains a demo of two interesting custom controls. IndexTab displays notebook tabs like Borland Quattro Pro for Windows, letting you easily organize information by subject. Ruler displays dimensions on the screen, and can be used as a 3D gauge. MemWatch [MEMWTCH] VB: Sample Apps David Warren; $0 displays available system memory as well as real-time changes in memory use. It also includes a graphical display of System, GDI, and User resource demand, and a count of the number of tasks running. MF 1.0 [MF_DB] VB: Database Carl Brown; $2-$186 is a multi-user, high performance database for Windows 3.x. Features include index-filters, structure-based records, userdefined keys as a DLL, and more. C and VB headers are also included. This will interface to any language capable of DLL calls. MRB Drop n' Comp [MRBDNC] VB: Tools/Help CHC Software; $0 is a Windows front end for the Microsoft Multiple Resolution Bitmap Compiler. It enables you to select a group of files using File Manager and drop them onto the MRB Drop 'n' Comp window or icon. An Auto Launch feature automatically starts compilation when a pre-determined number of files have been selected. STR2BMP 1.0 [STR2BMP] DLLs: Graphics Jorge Monasterio; $0 contains a DLL for converting VB bitmaps into VB strings and vice versa. Also included are functions for inverting, ANDing, ORing, and comparing bitmaps that have been converted to strings. SubFrm [SubFrm] VB: Controls Courtesy User Friendly, Inc.; $0 is an example of using an array of data control to simulate the subform capability of Access in VB3. Dlghlp [Dlghlp] Windows Programming: Pascal Pat Ritchey and Michael Denzlein; $0 allows you to use the F1 key to call WINHELP. It uses a filter function to get the F1 key in a dialog and sends a message to the dialog window function. F1Help [F1Help] Windows Programming: Pascal Pat Ritchey and Scott Steketee; $0 contains an example for implementing F1 help for both menus and dialog boxes using a Windows hook procedure. Menu help allows the user to press F1 while highlighting any menu item, and to receive context-sensitive help on that item. Modal Windows [MODAL] Pascal for Windows $0 contains a unit implementing modal windows which can behave completely like a dialog box but needs no dialog resources. Player [PLAYER] Pascal for Windows: Multimedia Charles Calvert; $0 contains source code demonstrating how to use the multimedia extensions to Windows. The code uses the MCI interface to play MIDI, WAV, and CD-ROM. A batch file is included to compile an executable and three DLLs. The DLLs contain the multimedia functionality and the executable represents an object oriented interface. StatDLL [StatDLL] TPW: DLLs and Utilities Bradley Plett; $0 contains a DLL which displays a % complete status box. It also allows the user to cancel a task. The status box is done using a modeless dialog box. Tools [TOOL_GS] Pascal: Toolbar/Status Bar Glen Swindell; $0 is a BP7 unit which provides all the mechanisms required for the implementation of both a toolbar and status bar. -----August 1993 Windows Updates Disk #1: (WI-01) CaseLinr 3.8 [CASELIN] (WI-01) Parents [PARWIN] 3.0 genealogy program NEW: GEDCOM import export options. (WI-01) Recipe Maker 2.3 [RECIPE] grocery shopping/meal planning aid. (WI-01) WindBase 2.0 [WINDBAS] lets you easily create a customized database. (WI-01) WinTide 1.5 [WINTIDE] a linear tide clock. -----August 1993 Windows Updates Disk #2: (WI-02) QuickDex 1.06b [QDEX] full-featured CardFile replacement. (WI-02) [SCFile] 1.3 viewer for very large text files. Now requires VBRUN300. (WI-03) WinFlash 2.1 ASP [WINFLSH] (WI-04) Bog 1.06 [BOG] word game similar to Boggle. Requires WIN31. (WI-04) Roulette 2.0s [ROULWIN] animated casino game. -----August 1993 Windows Updates Disk #3: (WI-05) WallPeeper 1.11 [WALPEEP] req. VBRUN200 and WIN31. (WI-06) Launch Utility Set 2.0 [L_UTIL] useful add-ins for the menu program LAUNCH (on disk #3347) NEW: options to restart/reboot, tile/cascade windows, and arrange icons. (WI-06) [NewCap] 2.0 NEW: optional toolbar with resource/memory display. (WI-06) Super Task Man 3.01 [SUPRTM] ASP (WI-06) Windows Dialog Extenders 1.42 [WDE] -----August 1993 Windows Updates Disk #4: (WI-07) Catsplayer 2.11 [CATPLAY] plays multiple MIDI and WAV files. (WI-07) MIDI Jukebox 1.06 [JUKEBOX] (WI-09) Drag And Zip 2.40 ASP [DRAGZP] (WI-09) Steve's INI Editor [SI_EDIT] -----August 1993 Windows Updates Disk #5: (WI-08) IniCon 2.0 [INICON] allows you to read/write to INI files w/o using API calls. (WI-08) [Janus] (WI-08) Percnt 2.0 [PERCNT] control for displaying percentage complete (VB). (WI-08) PPRTR 3.0 [PPRTR3] NEW: allows you to get a list of available printers, change default printer, and get default printer and port. ($10) (WI-08) RTF Magic [RTFMAG] convert WinWord docs to help files. ($20) (WI-08) VB Messenger 1.00b [VBMSNGR] is a subclassing custom control. =====Large Windows Programs: DeQuoter 1.0 [DEQUOT] Word Games #12394 (WI-04) Shadoware; $12 is a fantastic game that challenges you to decipher famous quotations. When one of the 200 quotes is displayed, you have five minutes to move all the letters into the correct spaces. Hints can be given at a cost of 30 seconds each. The digitized sound and music is very well done, and the 256color animations are equally impressive. Other features include a high score list, and bonus time when your score reaches 1000. Requires Windows 3.1. A sound card is optional, but highly recommended. Hurricane 1.01 [HURRI1] Arcade Games #12395 (WI-04) Systems Software Developing, Inc.; $15 is an excellent adaptation of the classic arcade game Tempest. For those of you too young to remember, your firing cursor travels around a variety of geometric mazes while you try to shoot the bad guys that come from the center. There is a "smart bomb" available on each level that destroys all enemies on the screen at once. Digitized sound effects add to the excitement. The top ten high scores are recorded for posterity. VBRUN200 is included on this disk. Super Craps 1.0 for Windows [CRAPS1, CRAPS2, CRAPS3] Casino Games #20226 (WI-04) Chris Peterson; $25 is a colorful game of craps for up to two players. It features animated rolling dice, casino-style betting, and digitized WAV files with talking commentary for systems with sound cards. This game does not provide help for novices, so you must have at least a fundamental knowledge of the game of craps. Requires VGA and a hard drive. Available on 3.5" 1.44mb MegaDisk and CD only. Super Video Poker [SVPOKE] Card Games #12396 (WI-04) Elton Inada; $15 is a game of Jacks-or-better video poker for Windows 3.1. It will also let you play a Joker's Wild variation. Other features include clever card animations, sound effects, a probability/statistics display, best hand suggestions, user-defined payoff tables, and an autoplay mode. Games can be saved and restored, and all hands can be saved to a disk file. There is also a cheat mode, to make playing a little easier. Context-sensitive help is available at all times. Requires a 640x480 VGA display. Bloat 2.1 [Bloat] File Management #12397 (WI-06) Babbacombe Computers Ltd.; $25 helps you analyze the space used on your hard disk. It quickly scans the files/directories on your hard drive and presents a bar or pie chart representing file distribution. It can also locate specific files with sophisticated searching functions. Found files can easily be viewed, launched, or deleted. Options are provided to use any popular compression program to archive infrequently used files. This is an excellent multi-function utility with many customizing options. Casablanca Clips [CSABLN] Sounds #12398 (WI-07) $0 is an excellent collection of nine WAV sound files from the classic movie Casablanca. You'll hear Bogart say his famous Play it Sam, Here's looking at you kid, We'll always have Paris, and more. CodeReader 1.0 [CODERDR] OCR #12399 (WI-05) EcheSoft; $45 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. Collect! 1.0 for Windows [COLW1] Home Applications #12400 (WI-01) Alston Software Labs; $25 is a powerful program for managing any sort of collection. It comes with several pre-defined templates for specific catalogs, or you may create your own. The built-in financial capabilities allow you to track the value of your collection. Customized reports can be printed with only the information you specify. Bitmapped graphics and descriptive text files can be attached to records. Other features include advanced search options, file overwrite protection, automated file backups, and more. VBRUN200 is included on this disk. (A DOS-based version of this program is available on disk #4183.) Describe It 3.0 for Windows [DSCRIBIT] File Management #12401 (WI-06) Apoplexy Software; $25 lets you easily categorize, order, locate, and view any file on multiple drives. A database is created with four keywords of up to 32 characters and a 256 character description for each file. Files can be organized into a group or up to three sub-groups based on subject matter. Once located, a file can be viewed by launching any one of up to nine user provided Windows programs. Macros and icons for running Describe It from the tool bars of AmiPro and WordPerfect for Windows are included. Distribution Functions and Probability Calculator [DFUNCTNS] Calculator #12402 (WI-02) Mark Von Tress; $10 calculates several statistical distribution functions and some simple power calculations for statistical hypothesis tests. The distributions are the normal, t, chi-square, F and beta distributions. It also calculates some non-central distributions and their inverses. The power functions are for z-tests and t-tests on means. The power function for the comparison of two proportions is also calculated. The Earth Centered Universe 1.4a [ECU] Astronomy #12403 (WI-03) Nova Astronomics; $35 simulates many features of the Earth's sky. You only need to enter your geographic location/time and the local sky is colorfully displayed on the screen. You can view stars, planets, Sun, Moon, and "deep sky" objects. Constellation, coordinate grid, ecliptic, and local horizon lines are also displayed. This is an excellent observation tool for any person interested in the night sky. A 386 or better is required. Edwin Addition/Subtraction 3.0 [EDAM03] Education: Math #20227 (WI-01) Edwin Educational Software ASP; $15 is a multi-level math tutorial for Windows 3.1. Each module features a standard drill, with clever pictures and simple demonstrations of how to do adding and subtracting. Levels and individual student names can be saved between sessions. Correct answers are scored on-screen, and elapsed time is also displayed. Each level can be tested with a multiple-choice quiz. Problems may also be printed. Available on 3.5" 1.44mb MegaDisk and CD only. Enjoy Your Guitar 1.0 for Windows [GUITAR] Music Apps #12404 (WI-01) Enjoy Computer Software; $29 is an editor-librarian for guitar chords and scales. Sounds can be played through MIDI or the PC speaker. Chords are shown using conventional diagrams, a music staff, and a keyboard. 432 chords and 360 scale definitions are provided. VBRUN200 is included on this disk. Football Stats 1.0 [FOOTST] Home Applications #12405 (WI-01) MOJO Software; $25 helps keep track of Youth and School Football Team statistics. You simply input the new figures after each game and the average and percentage fields will update automatically. It also keeps track of player names and telephone numbers. Stat sheets and phone books may be printed. VBRUN200 is included on this disk. (A version for baseball is on disk #12240.) Fractal Frenzy 1.2 [Fractal] Video Utilities #12406 (WI-09) Desert Frog Software; $15 is a set of three spectacular screen savers for Windows 3.1. These savers display palette-animated fractal scenes which run in 256 colors, even if you are running Windows in 16 colors. VGA is required. JRE Exit 1.2 [EXIT12] Misc. Utilities #12407 (WI-09) JRE Enterprises; $0 provides several options for exiting Windows 3.1. You can simply exit Windows, exit and reboot DOS, exit and restart Windows, or exit and run a DOS program and then restart Windows. VBRUN200 is included on this disk. Googolpede for Windows 1.4 [GOOGOL] Math #12408 (WI-03) Paul T. Dawson; $35 is a fun multi-player arcade math game for Windows 3.1. An equation is displayed at the top of the screen, and you must direct the Googolpede to the proper true/false square without running into yourself or the walls. To make things more interesting, your tail grows longer with each correct answer. Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division are supported and you can choose the highest value of the numbers used in the equations. Other features include a colorful animated background, high score list, sound options, and more. VBRUN200 is included on this disk. The Mandelbrot Set 3.0 [MAND30] Graphics Displays #12409 (WI-05) Cerious Software; $25 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. Personal Golf Tracker [GOLFTRKR] Game Management #12410 (WI-01) John Hancock ASP; $25 is a golf score database with extensive analysis of your golf game. You can calculate handicaps, averages, scores, statistics, improvement, Points, and more. This is suitable for individual golfers or leagues. Requires VBRUN200.DLL. Programmer's File Editor 0.04.008 [PFE004] Gen.Programming #20228 (WI-09) Alan Phillips; $0 is a programmer-oriented text editor for WIN31, Windows for Workgroups 3.1 and Windows/NT. Because its file capacity is limited only by the amount of available memory, it can handle very large files. Other features include the ability to run DOS commands, user- configurable key mapping, full font support, application launching, DDE support, and much more. The variety of features available make this package a powerful integrated development environment for any Windows programmer. Available on 3.5" 1.44MB MegaDisk and CD only. Rcalc for Windows NT [NT_RCA] Desktop Tools #12411 (WI-02) Pocket-Sized Software; $5 is a Reverse Polish Notation (RPN) calculator. On systems with sound cards it will speak each keystroke as it is entered. Requires the March Beta or later version of Microsoft Windows NT. (A WIN31 version is available on disk #4511.) Talking Clock NT [NT_TCL] Desktop Tools #12412 (WI-02) Pocket-Sized Software; $5 displays the current time in 12 or 24 hour format. It can optionally announce the time every 15 minutes using a Windows compatible sound card. Requires the March Beta or later version of Microsoft Windows NT. WinModem 3.0 [WMODEM] Communication Utility #12413 (WI-01) Information Technology, Ltd.; $10 lets you "see" what your internal modem is doing by displaying the status lights in a user-selectable graphic presentation that remains on top of the desktop. Resident Information 2.0 [RESIDE] Real Estate #20229 (WI-01) Tachyon Software; $20-$40 helps residential building managers track tenant information. It writes and maintains dBase IV tables and indexes and also supports Query By Example in all applicable search modes. Other features include built-in word processing, a telephone dialer, the ability to attach a note to any resident record, a variety of printed reports, an application toolbar, and much more. A hard disk is required. VBRUN200 is included on this disk. Available on 3.5" 1.44mb MegaDisk and CD only. WinPak #2 1.2 [WNPAK2] Misc. Utilities #12414 (WI-09) Rhode Island Soft Systems ASP; $20 contains four original Windows 3.1 animated Screen Savers, two TrueType fonts, and over 100 icons. The screen savers include Slug (a slimy creature that leaves a trail of blackness across your screen), Snore (a sleeping man floating in space), and others. The fonts include a unique typeface in the shape of U.S. states. WinDialog [WDIALOG] Windows Programming #12415 (WI-08) Soenke Cordts; $45 is a simple way for programmers to create dialog boxes. These dialogs can be implemented into programs using the Application Program Interface that is included, or C source code can be generated. Features include animation, animated buttons, sound for buttons, and more. Win, What, Where 1.0 [WWW] Business Applications #12416 (WI-01) Basic Systems, Inc. ASP; $37 is a powerful time and usage monitor for Windows 3.1. It will display when a program started and how long it ran, a list of activities by program name and window caption, and the location of the program and its associated files. Other features include detailed report generation, automatic history deletion after a user-specified time, daily summary information, and much more. Requires VBRUN200. -----Windows Updates: (WI-01: #12238) Account Manager 1.2 [ACCTMNGR] is a flexible time/usage tracking program for Windows 3.1. New: comment capability, automatic application start/stop sensing, and enhanced reporting capability. (WI-01: #12240) Baseball Stats 2.8 [BASESTAT] Little League management. (WI-01: #12000) Fileware [FW23] 2.3 file management macros for WinWord. (WI-01: #12143) Home Accountant for Windows 2.3 [HOMEAC] (WI-01: #20210) Hydgen 1.0 for Windows [INWSMADA] (WI-01: #20069) InfoRecall 3.30 [INFO33] NEW: phone dialer, longer record names, sample files, more. VBRUN200 is included. ($50) (WI-01: #27616) Parity Technical Analysis 1.4 [PRTY14D1, PRTY14D2] NEW: support for TeleChart 2000 file format, import/export Studies/Profit Tests/ and Scans to disk, improved error handling, and more. (WI-01: #4375) [Rockford] 3.0 professional business card designer. ($20) (WI-01: #12248) Scheduling Employees for Windows 1.03 ASP [SEW] (WI-01: #20163) WinCover 3.1 [WINCV31] prints professional fax cover sheets. NEW: support for WinFax Pro, printer change/setup options, faster preview load time. Req. VBRUN200. (WI-01: #12254) Work Status 2.1 [WSTATUS] NEW: the ability to send mail to User Groups, support for global bulletins, added return phone #'s to all messages, message sorting options, and more. VBRUN200 is included. (WI-02: #27884/3767) Barry Press Utilities [BARRYUTL] New: WAVER, a program to randomly play sound files. (WI-02: #20230 [2 disks]) Journal 3.0 [JOURNL] free-form text mgr. (WI-02: #4889) [Stickies] 2.1 is a powerful note manager. New: E-mail support for bundles and better hidden note support. (WI-03: #4508) Gradebook For Windows 2.11 ASP [GB] NEW: support for huge classes, more printout and charting options, improved backup and restore features, and more. Requires VBRUN200. (WI-04: #4361) CardShark Hearts 4.02c [CSHEARTS] Hearts game for Windows 3. NEW: several options for first trick (eg: QS not allowed; lead any suit). (WI-04: #20214) GatorBytes Game Pak [GATORB] (WI-04: #12302) The Greens [GREENV] 1.5 256-color miniature golf. (WI-04: #12020) Oil Baron [OILBRN] 1.2 stock trading game. (WI-04: #12019) Thieves and Kings [THINGS] 1.2 NEW: undo functions; several BMP graphic files to use when solving King's Corners are in [THINGP]. (WI-04: #12237) Video Poker [VPOKER] 1.3s (WI-05: #20231 [2 disks]) Font Monster 3.1 [FMONST31] NEW: sample pages/font catalog printing options, enhanced view/preview functions, font group capabilities, context-sensitive help, more. Req.VBRUN200. (WI-05: #4844) [GrpIcon] 2.01 assigns icons to Program Manager groups. (WI-05: #27615) PixFolio 2.0.76 ASP [PIXF20] (WI-05: 12149) [WinClip] 3.0 view/catalog/print BMP and PCX files. (WI-06: #12327) Super Group [SUPERG] 1.02 ASP customize ProgMan. (WI-06: #4771) WindowMagic [WMICON] 1.1 (WI-06: #12354) WinUpD8R 3.0 ASP [WINUPD8] (WI-07: #4646) CD Player for Windows 2.02 [CDP] (WI-08: #12250) SubDoc 2.01 [SUBDOC] (WI-08: #27776/12328) Visual Help 1.0f [VH] generates HLP files. (WI-08: #12052) Windows Developer 1.53 ASP [WINDEV] NEW: browsers for hex binary files and very large text files. (WI-09: #12306) *.INI-Navigator 3.1 [ININAV] (WI-09: #4643) [DiskMan] for Windows 2.1 (ASP) catalog/label diskettes. (WI-09: #3713) File Deduplicator 1.4c [DUPFILE] helps locate/remove duplicate files. (WI-09: #20070) Jargon 2.9.12 [JARGON] (WI-09: #12417) More Control 2.0 / ICL Builder 1.0 (ASP) [MCICLB] adds more options to Control Panel. NEW: ICL Builder allows you to build and maintain multiple icon libraries. ($20) (WI-09: #4510) MultiLabel 3.0 [MULTILBL] is a WYS WYG label designing program. ($20) (WI-09: #4841) Rebound 1.0 [RBND10] (formerly Open Axess) a file selection enhancement tool NEW: file operations (copy/move/delete), a pop-up menu interface, and an optional toolbar. ($20) (WI-09: #12027) UltraClip 1.7 [ULTRACLP] extends Clipboard capabilities. (WI-09: #27766 [2 disks]) [WinGRAB] 1.7 ASP envelope addressing utility. (WI-09: #27748 [2 disks]) Zip Manager 4.0 [ZM4] NEW: support for PKZIP 1.10, 2.04, and ARJ, WIN31 drag and drop support, DOS 6.0 and DblSpace compatibility, and much more. Requires PKZIP/UNZIP (#1705). -----Quick Looks: [BarMan] 1.0 (dL Technologies; $49) prints a variety of barcodes. [Barnes] Icons is a collection of custom-made icons. Baseball Icons [BBICON] icons that emulate the American and National League Baseball team logos. Berry RPN Calculator 2.0 [BRPNCALC] (Skip Berry; $10) is an RPN calculator with numerous functions built it. Bible Cryptogram [BCRYPT] (Jim Fox; $10) is a cryptogram puzzle/game based on Bible verses. Bit Recycler [RECYCLER] (Toggle Booleans; $0) gag program. BMP Browser [BMP_BROW] lets you browse through directories and view BMP files. [CBase] 1.59 (Ivory Tower Software; $35) tracks hardware/software info. [CDMaster] is a music CD disc playing and cataloguing program. Clean 1.0 [CLN] (Freestyle Software; $20) will search an entire hard disk for files matching a specified file mask, such as *.BAK, and delete them. Comics Icons [COMICS] (Donnie Lee; $0) is a collection of comics icons. Contacts 1.51 [CONTACTS] (Martinsen's Software; $49) incorporates the basic features of a PIM (Contact Mgmt, Form Processing, Calendar, more). Convert 2.1 [CVT21] (Gordon Haff; $15) is a units conversion program. Crazy Balls [CBALLS] is a screen blanking module. Credit Repair Kit for Windows [WINFIX] (North Atlanta Publishing; $49) tells you how to repair a bad credit rating. Data Manager [DATMGR] is the source code for the Data Manager of VB 3.0. Depeche Mode BMP [DEP_MODE] wallpaper. Desktop [DSKTOP] 1.3 (Huy Cat; $15) wallpaper randomizer [DiaLogJW] 2.1 (John Wolfgang; $18) is a phone dialing program. Features include envelope printing, two address books, call logging with optional job codes, auto-redial, accepts non-numeric characters (eg: 800-2424-PSL), stop watch, password protection, notepad and more. Diskette Information Program 2.0 [DIP20] (Jim Richardson; $0) is a disk file catalog program. DiskSpace 0.5 [DSW050] (Bob Hayes; $5) graphically displays the amount of free space available on your hard disks. DiskWatcher 1.0a DEMO [DSKWATCH] (Backwoods Software; $40) allows a LAN administrator to monitor the availability of and space available on shared network drives. Demo limited to two drives. Distrib for Windows [WDISTRIB] (Ron Eaglin & Linda Dansereau; $26) a statistics program which fits univariate data to probability distributions. File Find 1.5 [FILEFND] (TARDIS DP Consultants; $5) will find files anywhere on your hard drive or network volume. [FireExit] lets you exit quickly from Windows, optionally doing a restart. Font Print 1.0 [FONTPR] (TARDIS DP Consultants; $8) will print books of all installed fonts on your computer. Font Monster Multimedia Upgrade [FM_MMSFX] (Leaping Lizards; $0) lets you add WAV files to Font Monster 3.1+ (#4886). [FontSee] 2.5, REEVEsoft; $15 lets you view and print fonts like many other utilities, but it also lets you call up an app, such as Word, and type one or more characters from a font being viewed into that app from FontSee. This is ideal when you need just one unusual character, such as a copyright symbol, from a font. Fractal Viewer [FRACVIEW] (Pocket-Sized Software; $5) is a fractal graphics program with zoom feature. Free Disk Space 3.20 [WFDS] (Mark Hamilton; $0) monitors and displays in numeric or graphical form the amount of free disk space on all (or specified) hard drives. FDS works in either DOS or Windows. [Harper] is a set of icons. [HexView] lets you view files in hexadecimal format. [HPLabel] 1.0 (Freestyle Software; $20) will read a floppy directory and print the listing on a label. HPLabel is designed for use with full sheets of labels such as for lasers and inkjet printers. Both 3.5" and 5.25" disks are supported. [IconView] lets you move through directories and view Icon files. [IndJones] is a set of sound clips in WAV format from Indiana Jones. InfoMap Lite 1.30 [IMLITE] (CoCo Systems, Ltd.; 44 Pounds Sterling) collect, visualize, organize and present information using a map-like interface. Item Scheduler 1.0 [SCHEDU] (Alan Sawyer; $10) tracks bill paying. [JJFlash] - Locate and launch icons by typing a portion of the name. Simple, elegant Windows utility. Makes Program manager a breeze. Can be called up from any Windows or DOS program with a single key. King's Corners [KINGCO] (Financial Systems Associates; $10) WIN31 solitaire game. [LoanCalc] 1.0 (Raymond C. Boggs; $18) loan amortization/analysis program. Logigram [LOGIGR] (Mavabe; $10) unusual puzzle game. Lunar-NT Demo [LUNWIN] (Dolphin; 290 pounds) enlarge screen up to 8x. [Magic] is the logo of the Orlando Magic basketball team in BMP format. Mario.Ico icon for Mario Bros. M-B-A-nalyst 3.0 [MBA] (CalcTech Inc.; $35) calculator that emulates Texas Instruments BA-II Plus. Memo-Ry [MEMO_RY] 1.0 (Jeffery Cooper; $5) on-screen freeform notes. MHG*ArcLib v1 [MHG10] (Marshall H. Goodman Software, Ltd.; $25) is a Windows front end for PKZIP/UNZIP. MIDIPlay [MIDIPY] (Dunware; $5) MIDI file player. The Missing Link 2.2 [TML22] (James Messer; $10) provides a listing of all file servers and reports an up/down status for each file server. Novell NetWare v2.15 through v3.11 file servers supported. [MsgIcon] lets you animated the icons (eg: question marks) in system message boxes in Windows programs. Myclock [MYCLOC] 9Whimsical Software; $199) displays time/date/logo. [NetSync] (David Warren; $25) allows workstations on a WFWG network to synchronize their clocks. [OEMClip] (Alberto R. Lopez Siemens; $0) lets you capture DOS screens which have ASCII graphics to Clipboard. Normally, ASCII graphics character are lost when you try to capture them in Windows, but OEMClip will translate those characters into Windows ANSI characters. A Windows font with ASCII characters is required. [Perry] is a 20-second WAV file of Aerosmith's "Chip Away at the Shone". [Plasma] is a screen blanking module. PM Switch 1.3 [PMSWITCH] (Jeffrey K. Morris) toggles Print Manager on/off. The Print Manager status is displayed in an icon. Source code is included. [Prank] ($0) causes a workman to drag a Windows desktop over a screen with a DOS prompt. Also included in the form of a screen blanking module. [Putdown] is a WAV clip with the ultimate non-obscene putdown. [Puzzle_8] (Pocket-Sized Software; $5) is a sliding puzzle game. Q'lope 1.2 [QLOPE] (Infodesign, Inc.; $8) prints envelopes in Windows. [Regen] is a screen blanking module. Resource Monitor [RESMON] graphically displays resource usage in an icon. [Ricochet] is a WAV file of a bullet ricocheting. RollPro 1.0 [ROLPRO] (Fred L. Freel; $?) is a program launcher. [RipBar] (Jonathan Carroll; $20) is an application launcher, drag and drop launcher, memory and resource tracker, and clock. RIPspace 1.0 [RIPSPA] (Jonathan Carroll; $10) analyzes drive usage/space by directory. S.S. Battleship for Windows 1.1a [SSBATL] (SimoneSystems; $20) is a multifeatured variation on the classic game of battleship. [Salam] is a 16-bit WAV file from Disney's Alladin saying "Ha-ha Salm and good evening my worthy friends." [Shatter] is a WAV file with the sound of breaking glass. SonoWave 1.0 [SONOWAV] (OsoSoft; $0) is a WAV file view/play utility. [SwatEm] (Jim Fox; $10) is a simple hand-eye coordination game for children. [Switch] (Jerry Petet; $0) is a button for toggling Screen Save off/on. TDS [JGSTDS] (John Galt Software,Inc; $1) change time/date stamp of files. Text View 1.02 [TXTVIEW] (Michael Fenemore) text file viewer. The To Do List 1.0 [TDL_DRS] (dRs Engineering; $8) helps organize your day. [TimeBar] (Peter Middlestorb; $0) is a time telling program that uses random phrases. [TTrax] (Superior Software Tools; $0) Windows calendar for tracking birthdays, holidays and appointments (with an alarm clock). Unicom 3.1a [UNICOM1] [UNICOM2] (Data Graphics; $69.95) multi-featured communications package for Windows. Voice Blaster Jr 2.2 [VBJR22] (Mark Cowan; $20) lets you select any combination of WAV and Midi files which VBJR will play in the background. No sound card required. Waffer Multimedia Digest [WMD0693] (Brad Barclay) is an electronic publication containing reviews and articles related to multimedia. WinAlyzer [WINALY] (Puffin Software; $15) helps clean cluttered Windows directory. Windows Access Menu 1.5 [WAM] (Ovidio Verono; $15) ProgMan replacement designed for teachers to restrict deletion and other functions. WinMenu 2.0 [WMENU2] (Ricky Freyre; $20) is a replacement for Program Manager that looks like a DOS menu system. WinMenu Network 2.0 [WMENUN] (Ricky Freyre; $20) is a network menu program for Windows. [Xlabel] 2.03 by Tenax Software Engineering. This is an easy-to-use laser label printing program for Windows. It can print from a file or screen input and can use pre-defined or user-defined label specifications. [Xmen] is a set of comic book icons. ZipCode Express 4.1 [ZEXP41] (WindowSupport; $80) is a zipcode searching program for Windows. DDE linking, soundex search, WFW macro, more. =====Home: ...games, home accounting/finance, eduation, astrology, collecting, diet, health, food & drinks, genealogy, home management, science/weather/maps, vehicle management, misc. -----August 1993 Games Additions Disk Blockade 1.9 [BLOCKAD] Board Games PC Solutions; $15 is a strategy board game similar to Othello. Each player takes turns placing his pieces on the board, but unlike Othello, your piece must be placed adjacent to both one of your pieces and one of your opponent's. The effects of such a placement differ from Othello as well. An interesting game. Cascade 1.9 [Cascade] Strategy Games PC Solutions; $15 is a strategy game played against the computer. A maze of letters is presented on the screen, scattered with balls and other objects. You take turns with the computer removing a letter, and the balls cascade down the gaps left. On reaching the bottom, they will enter your hopper and add a value to your score. Clue Detective Notebook 1.1 [CLUEBK] Games $0 prints detective notebooks for either the Clue or Master Clue games. They are redesigned to print two games per page and provide more room for notes. The lists are in Suspect, Room, Weapon order to conform to the Master Clue computer game play order. Double Deck Auction Pinochle 1.0 [DDAPNCL] Card Games Larry W. Nicholas; $20 matches you and a computer partner against another computer partnership in Pinochle. You will learn how to bid, meld, and win tricks. Great graphics. Requires EGA/VGA, color monitor, and a mouse. (Don't try running the game under Windows or DesqView.) EndLess Horror [HORROR] Arcade Games JMS Enterprises; $10 is a parody of the Street Fighter arcade type game. All the ozone has burned up and you must fight off Froggers. The evil Froggers were people at one time. Quote-Tris 1.0 [QUOTRIS] Word Games Philip Kapusta; $10 is a Tetris style word game. It combines famous quotations with the action of a Tetris arcade game. You put together a notable quote using random words that descend before time runs out. Requires hard disk and VGA. Silencer [SILENDF] Strategy Donald E. Foss; $10 is a military strategy game in which you'll battle with seven different creatures that vary in number, speed, and strength. There are 15 levels of competition and various skill levels. VGA required. XXIV [XXIV] Math/Tetris Mark Ambachtsheer; $10 is a math game with a Tetris style. Sets of three numbers fall and the object is to get numbers to multiply together to equal 24, horizontally or vertically. Three levels of difficulty keep you on your toes. -----Large Games: A number like "#20221" is a disk number from PsL's catalog. A category like "(GA-02)" is the category ID from PsL's catalog and is also a cross-reference to PsL's Reviews files in the \REVIEWS directory. DC Games 3.0 [DCGAMES1, DCGAMES2] Adventure Games #20221 (GA-02) DC Software; $45 allows you to create graphical adventure and role playing games. This system supports for up to 1000 worlds with 500 characters or objects per world; predefined scripts for a variety of character types and classes, object types and classes and world types; graphic files for CGA, EGA, VGA and TANDY screens; and a script programming language to modify just about every aspect of the game. Other features include Sound Blaster voice, music and textto-speech drivers; PCX graphics; execution of DOS programs under script control; and utilities to convert graphics, print reports, and create voice files. A sample adventure game with Sound Blaster files is included. Available on two 3.5" 1.44MB disks or PsL's August CD only. Galacta 1.1 [Galacta] Arcade Games #12377 (GA-03) Sean M. Puckett; $12 is a shoot-em-up space game like the old Galactica arcade game. Features include great 256-color VGA graphics, sound effects and joy stick support. Requires 286+ and 640K RAM. Helious I [Helious] Arcade Game #12375 (GA-03) Sean M. Puckett; $12 is a strategy arcade game. Features include nine levels of gameplay, beautiful graphics, and joystick support. The object is to move an air-filled ball around by releasing it's air in any of four directions, collecting all the blue gems and the team flag. You will encounter many other weird symbols along the way. When you finish a level, you're presented with a symbol. To win the game, you must match the nine symbols with each of the nine levels. Requires a 386 or better and 640K RAM. Moraff's Dungeons of the Unforgiven I 1.1 [UNFORGIV] #20222 [2 disks] (GA-01) Steve Moraff; $? is a dungeons and monsters game. You battle flying monsters, female warriors, and water creatures. It features realistic 3D imaging, built-in help, and support for Hercules to Super-VGA video. Requires a hard disk or high density floppy. Rescue Rover! [ROVER] Arcade Games #12364 (GA-03) Softdisk Publishing; $15 is an arcade style puzzler. You must solve intricate puzzles and concoct clever schemes to free your dog Rover from evil robots. Requires 640K RAM and EGA/VGA. Wall Pipe 1.0 [WALLPIPE] Strategy/Puzzle #12390 (GA-3A) William Soleau; $12 is a sequel to the Oilcap game. It pits you against the clock as you try to keep water flowing from a well by creating a series of pipe links to control its flow. Requires EGA/VGA and a mouse. -----Games Quick Looks: [Abuse] 1.1 (Dan M. Shaw; $19) generates colorful language from a database of thousands of phrases. Vocabulary is approximately PG-rated. [Amazing] 1.1 (Arthur Wells, Jr.; $12) is a game in which you must move your marker through mazes to the goal. The mazes are never the same. If you complete eight mazes, you move to a higher rank in which the game becomes more difficult. Easy Play Penta [PENTA] (Todd Johnson; $20) is an attractive, EGA version of Penta. Two or more human players are required you cannot play against the computer. [GridLock] 2.0 (Fred Lee; $25) The objective is to design a system of traffic controls that allow maximum traffic flow without getting blocked intersections or gridlock. The traffic system must be developed so that test cars drive their routes in the shortest amounts of time. Requires 512K, EGA/VGA, DOS 3.2+, and over 10 MHz. LottoMATIC 1.23 [LOTTOMAT] (CTech ASP; $25) is a general purpose lottery program. It is configurable for virtually any lottery. Three separate, user selectable quick-pick algorithms are included. You can store plays, track winning numbers, and play repeat numbers. It prints several reports. Word Search Creator 3.0 [WORDSRCH] (Owen Associates; $29) creates and prints word search puzzles. Words can be entered manually where ever you like, or the program can automatically place words for you. Puzzles can be saved to finish or edit later. Mouse support is included. EGA/VGA. X-Wing Manager 1.1 [XMANAGR] (Gregory M. Smith; $5) is a management utility for LucasArts' game X-Wing. It provides many more optional spacecraft and environments. You can view a listing of all pilots and revive any dead or missing pilots without loss of points, custom design your own fighters and save up to five modules. X-Wing Mission Design Kit 1.2 [XWINGDK] (Henry Chang; $7) allows you to design and construct X-Wing missions. All aspects of the mission are included, such as ships, space objects, and the mission briefing. -----Games Updates: (GA-01: #27693/3642) Moraff's World 7.0 [MORFWRLD] is a fantastic 3-D maze adventure game. NEW: textured 3D Super-VGA graphics. (GA-02: #0102) Adventure Game Toolkit 1.5 [AGT] (ASP) allows you to create and play your own text adventure games. (GA-03: #4902) [Starfire] 1.4 is an action-packed shoot-em-up space game. (GA-04: #3368) Bridge Calendar System [BRIDGE] allows you to store and play back bridge hands. NEW: Formerly "Bridge Tracker". It keeps track of bridge events, event locations, partners, and bidding system information. ($15) A text version of the program is on the CD. [BRIDGTXT]. (GA-04: #3394) Card Master, and CardMaster 2 [CARDMAS] is a collection of eight different card games. CM1 has Fantan, OhHell!, Funny Game, and Durok. CM2 includes Spades, Spite & Malice, German Whist, and Exacta. Excellent VGA graphics. Mouse required. (GA-04: #4655) EasyPlay Blackjack 1.00c [EZPLAY] is a blackjack game based on the house rules of most casinos. (GA-04: #4647) Moraff's Monster Bridge 2.0 [MBRIDGE] lets you play a rousing game of cards with creatures from the Moraff's World game series. (GA-05: #4648) Moraff's Morejongg 3.0 [MOREJONG] is a unique implementation of the ancient tile game Mah-jongg. (GA-08: #4687) Handicap Horse Racing [HORSE] is an animated horse-racing simulation. NEW: betting history, speed ratings can be entered directly, and phantom public bets for those who play by themselves. (GA-09: #4713) NeverLock [NEVERLOC] unlocks copy-protected programs. NEW: unprotects more games. (GA-11: #27677/3518) 1st&Goal Fantasy Football 3.05 (ASP) [1ST35] allows you to run a fantasy football league based on the NFL, NCAA, or the CFL. NEW: automatic stat updating. (GA-12: #27441/4487) Baseball Trivia 4.0 [BBTRIVIA] includes the categories Walk, Single, Double, Triple, Home Run, and Grand Slam. NEW: updated sporting information. (GA-12: #27441/4486) Sports Trivia 4.0 [SPORTS] includes the categories Football, Baseball, Basketball, Grab Bag, Genius, and Firsts. NEW: updated sporting information. =====Home - Other: CircumSpace 1.0 [CIRCUM10] Astronomy #12360 (MS-08) Mark A. Haney ASP; $15 is a space travel simulator. It displays the sky as seen from anywhere within several hundred light years of Earth. You can click to travel instantly to any of 7780 stars, or choose the warp mode to animate the journey quickly and smoothly. It teaches you which stars are neighbors and which are distant. Requires 512K and EGA/VGA. DC1 [DC1] Education Electronics #12374 (ED-12) Crescent Multimedia Systems; $8 is an introduction to DC electronics. It covers basic atomic makeup of the atom, and its function in the generation of electrical voltage and current. Concepts like electrostatic effects, polarity, current flow, ions, conductors and insulators are covered in depth. Basic batteries and voltage sources are also discussed. Requires VGA. LinguaPro/Spanish 2.11a [LINGUA] Education Language #12391 (ED-04) Schulenberg and Associates, Inc.; ASP; $45 is multi-faceted program for serious Spanish students. It offers an 18,000 word user-modifiable on-line dictionary, vocabulary flashcard system, and verb flashcard system that teaches verbs in all tenses and persons using complete sentences. LinguaPro can also be used for the construction of English vocabulary sets, or data files containing general question/answer information. Requires 460K RAM and 700K of disk space. Moraff's Mather 3.0 [MATHER] Math #12382 (ED-06) Steve Moraff; $? is a math drill targeted at ages 8 and older. Students can win money to buy prizes in the game by solving math problems within time limits. Addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division are covered. The game supports virtually all video types from Hercules to Super-VGA. It also includes mouse support, graphics, and Moraff's Entrap, a multi-level 3D maze game. HealthFreebies 3.0 [H_FREE30] Health #12366 (MS-04) Infolist; $20 is a listing of free health-related items. You can get magazines, diet guides, videos and more from top health organizations and associations in the U.S. Most sources have toll free numbers. Computer virus information and a cat care section are also included. Japanese I [JAPAN1, JAPAN2, JAPAN3, JAPAN4] Education Language #20223 (ED-04) [4 disks] Conrad Haller; $25 is a self study course for the Japanese language. It teaches you to speak, read and understand the basics of Japanese. It features over 3MB of digitized speech. Being able to hear a voice speak the language makes all the difference in the world in learning a language. You also see phrases spelled in English, in Japanese and phonetically. Requires 640K RAM and a hard disk or high density floppy and CGA or VGA. Because the program takes over 4MB of hard disk space, we have preinstalled it on the August PsL Monthly CD, as well as putting it on the CD in ZIP format. MarketSearch 3.2 [MRKTSRCH] Investment #12380 (AH-03) Data Management; $45 is a New York Stock Exchange analysis program. It includes Value Line analysis, Fortune 500 ranking, industry codes, industry descriptions, company name and symbol. Data includes 12 years on all companies. Personal Biorhythm 4.3 [PERSBIO] #12418 (MS-01) Morris L. Bower; $15 generates professional-looking biorhythm charts. It plots physical, emotional and intellectual highs and lows. It prints cover sheets, daily forecasts and comparisons. A database is included to store most frequently-used names. Smart-N-Easy Baby Planner 1.0 [BABY] #12361 (MS-10) Automated Systems; $30 helps the new mother and mother-to-be. It organizes medical bills, insurance claims, expenses, doctor appointments, prescription information, gifts and more. It prints expense reports, a list of questions to ask your doctor, a progress chart on weight gain, and checklists such as things you need to shop for. You can record activities, thoughts and ideas in the diary/journal. A database of baby names and meanings is provided. There is also a Tips and Tricks section with helpful hints and solutions, a month to month pregnancy guide, and a baby's first year guide. Requires 640K RAM and a hard drive. -----Quick Looks: ChordMagic 1.0 [CHRDMAGC] (Andrew J. Gryc; $20) lets you experiment with guitar chords. Hit a key and Chord Magic will tell you what chord you're playing. Connect 1.0 (Connect Soft/Publishing Co.; $10) provides a wealth of information for job seekers. Connect is relational database of the largest corporate and government employers. Employers may be selected by industry, size and or the total annual revenues. The type of products or services offered is described. Information may be added or deleted. You can address envelopes, make mailing labels, mail merge form letters or print reports. A note screen and database for personal addresses are included. Sample resumes and cover letters are provided. It supports 17 different U. S. cities including Atlanta, Boston, Dallas Fort Worth, Denver, Detroit, Florida, Minneapolis St. Paul, New York, Ohio, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Saint Louis, San Francisco, Seattle, Washington D. C., Canada, Houston, and Los Angeles. On the August CD, each city is in an individual ZIP file. To install a city, change to the \DOS\CONNECT directory, type GO, and follow the prompts. Easy Drill [EZDRILL] (Boomeria Softworks; $15) is a utility designed for calling on students for reviews, practice, and group selections. Students' names are randomly selected and shown on screen in large font. Previously entered questions can also be displayed for the students to answer. [Flag] (C. J. Cooney; $0) demonstrates the phenomena of persistence of vision. FundSearch [FUNDSRCH] (Data Management; $60) is a mutual funds analysis program. It allows you to graphically analyze 600 funds. You can graphically display over 200 funds on one screen and add your own notes to each fund for future reference. [GC] 1.06 (S. R. Sampson; $0) computes the Great Circle bearing and range. [Geod] 1.1 (Henry S. Aurand ASP; $12) is a geodetic line calculator. It calculates the shortest-distance line on an ellipsoidal earth and compares the results with three different spherical earth solutions. It also finds the distance and azimuths between two points as well as location of a point given the distance and azimuth from another. Requires 512K RAM. The Grocery Shopper 3.01 [GROCERY] (Clark Systems; $15) creates shopping lists in multiple formats and sorts the lists according to the order of your grocery store's aisles. HurrTrak 1993 4.0 [HURRTRK] (PC Weather Products; $45) is a professional hurricane tracking and analysis system. It features detailed VGA tracking charts. You can view the wind structure of a storm including location of deadly eye wall. Over 200 pre-defined coastal state city locations are included, along with many storm tracks for many well-known storms. [Jobs] 2.0 (R.J. Kovach & Associates; $25) is a database system for managing a change of jobs. It will organize and keep track of network contacts, target companies, executive search firms, temporary placement firms, direct mail, telephone logs and job hunting expenses. Reports are included for printing of data. This program runs on dBase III Plus and Foxpro 2.0+. [Maytag] (Grant Warkentin; $0) is a quote of the day type program. It displays random message at the bottom of your screen. Over 3800 quotes included. [Movies] (The Unlearning Foundation; $0) is a database of over 25,000 movies and videos. You can search on titles, category, or main actor, but there are no reviews and the price fields don't seem to have valid data in them. Because 14MB of disk space is required, we have dearchived the files onto the PsL August CD, in addition to providing the files in ZIP format, so that you do not have to install it on your hard disk. OrthoLittera 1.0 [ORTHOLIT] (Mundo Computacional; DEMO) teaches Spanish spelling rules. All documentation is in Spanish. [Plague] 1.1s (JMS Enterprises; $20) is a biological simulation. It graphically illustrates how disease can be transmitted between dynamic populations under a variety of user-controlled conditions. Requires EGA and a mouse. What Vehicle History? 2.2o [WHAT_VEH] (Angel Babudro; $69) is vehicle service history tracking and reporting system. It tracks one or a fleet of cars, trucks, tractors, big rigs, heavy equipment, mechanics, departments, cost of parts, labor, etc. -----Updates: (AH-01 #12190) Financial Wizard 5.33 (ASP) [FINWIZ] is an investment and loan analysis program. (AH-03: #12225) FundInvestor 4.3 [FUNDINV] automates access to mutual funds using automated service telephones. (AH-03: #20220) Owl Portfolio Manager. NEW: 2nd disk: Price Loader [OWL_PL] updates prices using current or historical price quotes captured from on-line services. (ED-02: #4169) Constitutional Common Law Library 2.0 [COMMNLAW] contains full text of the Bill of Rights of all 50 states, U. S. Constitution, Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, Northwest Ordinance and more. (ED-02: #1964) Flags of Every Nation 1993 [FLAGS] displays flags of all the independent nations of the world. NEW: former Yugoslav and Soviet republics. (ED-06: #27736/3164) [Formula1] 1.2 is a complete algebra tutorial for high school and college levels. (ED-07: #12290) Show 'N Spell 1.0 [SHOSPELL] is a graphic spelling bee. (ED-11: #27165/2212) Quiz-Maker 3.1 [QUIZMAKR] is a set of programs: one to create quizzes and tests, and the other to administer them to students interactively. (ED-11: #27474/2550) TutorialWriter 3.1 [TWRITER] is an educator's toolkit for Computer Aided Instruction/Testing. (MS-02: #3241) [E_Bible] teaches you how to create electronic books for people to read on their computers. ($0) (MS-02: #4987) $ell Your Know-How 2.1 [SELLYOUR] details how to make money with your computer by selling your expertise as shareware. (MS-03: #27281/3932) Book Librarian 1.52 (ASP) [BOOKLIB] will help organize and keep track of a library of books. (MS-03: #27223/1528) [VideoCat] 7.3 (ASP) catalogs video tapes. (MS-03: #3751) Video Librarian 3.53 (ASP) [VIDEOLIB] will help organize and keep track of your video library. ($39) (MS-05: #27218/2158) Meal Master 7.07 [MEALMSTR] is a menu-driven program for managing recipes. (MS-07: #4428) Around the House 1.4 (ASP) [HOUSE] is an information manager for the home. ($29) (MS-07: #27360/3107) HouseHold Register 3.11 (ASP) [HOUSEHLD] is an home-inventory program. (MS-08: #20041 [2 disks]) [MapIt] 1.2 (ASP) is a world map program with interesting features. NEW: HP-GL/2 file/printer support, direct PCX color file creation of part or all of the screen, dynamically plotted great circle routes showing shortest distance between two points anywhere on earth as you move your mouse, dynamically plotted range circles (curves on a flat map), and a report of the area falling within a radius. ($49) (MS-08: #4334) [Merlin] 1.5f is a comprehensive hurricane/tropical storm tracking tool for the 1993 hurricane season. NEW: display info in an endless loop (for TV broadcasts, etc.). (MS-08: #27226/0142) [World29] 2.9g (ASP) is a computerized globe and hurricane tracking program. (MS-10: #20113 [4 disks]) Data-Plane Aviation Software [DATAPLN1, DATAPLN2, DATAPLN3, DATAPLN4] is a comprehensive flight planning package. (MS-10: #4971) Freebies 4.0 [FREEB40] is a sample database of companies with toll free numbers where you can obtain free magazines, game demos, videos and more. ($20) (MS-10: #4193) Pack Tracker 3.0 (ASP) [PKTR30] records info for Cub Scouts. (MS-10: #27524/2819) Smart-N-Easy Wedding Planner 3.0 [WEDDING] is a complete wedding planner. ($30) (MS-10: #27702/4105) Troop Tracker 3.0 (ASP) [TRTR30] records information on scouts and scouters of a troop and recalls it in various reports. NEW: a patrol roster report. =====Business: ...accounting/finance, business applications, time management, communications, networking, database, mailing list managers, spreadsheets Envelopes Plus 4.03 [ENV403] Mailing #12370 (ML-01) Philip Kapusta; $16 prints envelopes and labels. You can store addresses and more. It dials phone numbers, and prints bulk rate stamps, large memo fields, and Rolodex cards. Other features include a calculator, state abbreviations lookup table, data exporting, U.S.P.S. postal addressing standards, and Canadian prompts. FSLogin 1.2 [FSLogin] Networking #12362 (CM-04) Confirm ASP; $135 is a full screen login utility for Novel networks. It enhances login to a server by providing a full-screen Novell style menu. It does extensive checking of accounting and security exceptions and reports to the user in a clear and understandable way. Shareware Tracker 3.0 [SHARETRK] #20225 [2 disks]) BlueCollar Software ASP; $29 is a business system for shareware authors. It keeps track of registered users, submissions, revenue and expenses, updates, tech support, and subscription sales. Shareware Tracker has an appointment calendar, a module to track important names and addresses, and a pop-up calculator. It mail-merges letters and labels. Pre-defined or user-defined reports can be viewed on screen or printed. Requires a hard drive. Shoe Box 2.1 [SHOEBOX] Free-Form Databases #12385 (DB-02) Frederick L. Coombs, Inc.; $32 is an all purpose database program. You can keep track of information on anything such as birthdays, credit cards, and home or business inventory. Any information put into this program can be displayed, changed or printed at will. TimeClock I 2.3s [TIMECLKI] Time Tracking #12369 (BZ-02) Faught Data Systems, Inc. ASP; $80 is an employee time clock program. It logs employees in and out and tabulates their hours automatically at end of each pay period. Entries can be made from the keyboard or a barcode scanner. It can also log employee hours by project. TimeClock is LAN-ready and has a bulletin board feature that allows you to post messages to employees. Employees can use the on-screen timecard to see their hours. A status board shows who is in or out. The program also computes overtime and premium time, prints payroll and job cost reports, tracks sick leave, vacations and holidays and can round off to the nearest tenth or quarter of an hour. -----Quick Looks: Buddy and Slip [BUDDY] (Gordon C. Everstine; $25) is a financial management system for school PTAs and other small organizations with budgets under $1 million. SLIP helps treasurers prepare bank deposit slips. Business Base 1.1 [BUSBASE] (CQ Research Corp.; $30) is a business information management system. Features include calculator, calendar, notepad, inventory maintenance, appointment scheduling, contact management, telemarketing, expense tracking, purchase order tracking, printed sales invoices, mailing labels, reports and more. Cash Control 1.0 [CC_PS] (Pipedream Software ASP; $17-$25) is a personal or small business checkbook program. Features include split accounts, budget help, check printing, password security, checkbook balancing, and more. [CISREF] 1.11 (JNGoodale ASP; $15) is a CIS forum catalog viewer. [CLog] (C. Welge; $0) calculates your communication surcharges while accessing CompuServe. [dbLite] 1.1g (Michael J. Seither; $10) is a simple, quick and easy personal database program. [Doc_Proc] 1.3 (CONNECT/Soft Publishing Co.; $13) is an on-line document retrieval system for a Local Area Network. The program accesses an on line news file that is updated by the administrator. Electronic Diary [EDIARY] (Patrick J. Naughton; œ20) is an appointment scheduling program. [Forecast] (Bob Walker) is a powerful automated forecasting template for Excel. Gist Plus(+) 1.0 [GISTPLS] (Robert F. Keber Jr.; $99) is a customer billing program which provides all the income information that most accountants require from a small business. It prints customer statements, labels, invoices, and address/phone directories. It also contains pop-up inventory, packing lists, auto-rebill, support for partial payments, and printed copies of proposals, bids and estimates. [GSZ] (Omen Technology Inc.; $30) implements the ZMODEM file transfer protocol. Mailing List Manager [MAILMAN] (Phil DeGeorge; $30) allows for an unlimited number of mailing lists with an unlimited number of entries each. [Oasis] 1.3 (Otto-Williams Ltd.; $59) is complete sales management system. It includes invoicing, automated billing, customer correspondence, mailing list management, and product sales tracking. OWL Basic Bookkeeping 1.1. [OWLBB] (Otto-Williams Ltd.; $39) is book keeping program that's equally suited for small businesses and individuals. It includes expense, income, profit and general ledger reports. [PREME] 4.6 (Oak Hill Software; $99) is a professional real estate management program. [RoboMail] 1.0 (3 disks) (Parsons Consulting; $40) is a QWK off-line mail reader. It manages off-line mail activities and allows you to read and reply to messages downloaded from any BBS using the QWK/REP format for mail transfer. Features include DESQview, OS/2 and Windows awareness, internal editor, spell checker, tagline management, ASCII file viewing,integrated address book with notepad, tutorial system, filter list, built-in ANSI art and music capabilities, sophisticated message addressing capabilities, and more. Requires 1.5MB disk space and 520K memory. Rz and Sz [RZSZ] (Omen Technology Inc.; $15-$20) are Unix programs designed to support dial-in XMODEM, YMODEM, and ZMODEM transfers via the controlling TTY port. Schooner 1.0 [SCH100] (2 disks) (Jonathan Cook; $40) is a database programming language similar to dBase III, but easier to use. PCX graphics support is included. Service Tracker 1.0 [SRVTRACK] (Clark Systems; $29) is a comprehensive billing and tracking system for small service businesses. [SoftShop] 3.1 (Computer SoftShop; $20) is a menu shell for creating, viewing and printing ASCII information files. These files can be used for sending to people who request information from you, such as a product and service listing. StarSearcher 1.11 [STARSRCH] (Coston Development Corp.; $35) is an easy to use contact management system designed for the professional entertainer. The database has a list of 500 industry contacts. StarSearcher provides appointment calendars, booking schedules, and a simple text editor with mail merge capability from the contacts database. StartManager 9.1 [STARTMAN] (John Linnabury; $30) is a powerful personal information manager. It has a calendar, to-do list, phone book, reminder, journal and more. Tele-Trak [TELETRAK] (Bruce Nicklin; $30) is an easy to use Rolodex type program. Terminate 0.99B [TERMINAT] (Bo Bendtsen; $?) is a terminal package. Time and Mail Coordinator 1.4a [TMC14] (Specific Applications Software, ASP; $28) is a daily schedule and appointment program. Features include calendar with monthly notes, phone/address directory, phone dialer, shortcut keys, screen saver, mail labels, export function, and more. What Job Summary? 1.2e [WHAT_JOB] (Angel Babudro; $65) is a job tracking system for contractors of all types. It tracks status of the jobs bid dates, bid amount, billed-to-date, and cost-to-date. It also provides reports for the banker and bonding company as well as to help analyze your work load. Who-U-Know 2.1 (WR Software ASP; $30) [WUK21] is an address book, personal information manager, date reminder, and mailing list. Features include unlimited phone numbers for each name, auto-dialing, mailing labels, Rolodex cards, unlimited notes, envelope printing, variable size address books, calendars, date/time scheduling, duplicate search, text search, export, import, mail merge, two-sided printing, user defined fields, unlimited names, and more. Requires 640K and a hard disk. -----Business Updates: (AB-01: #27005 [4 disks]) Painless Accounting 6.1 (ASP) [PAINLESS] is an extensive accounting package. NEW: historical reports; hidden password, job costing, P.O. freight, billing freight, multiple product price level, salesman commissions, Canadian GST tax, USA/Canadian/Australian address formats, mouse support, SAA/CUA compatible menus, Foxpro 2.0 support, estimates for billing module, Fifo, Lifo and Average cost support, menus that allow the addition of custom reports, dBase style dot prompt for direct executing of XBase commands, built in data file editor, built in calculator, and macro support for automation of repetitive tasks. (AB-02: #27805 [2 disks]) [ICP] 9.0 (Spirit7 Software ASP; $65) is a full featured inventory control program. (AB-02: #20218 [2 disks]) Invoice Store 3.0 [INV_STOR] is an invoicing and Point-Of-Sale system for novice users. NEW: more Canadian tax features, printed packing slips and customer statements, salesman report for invoice or payment sales, appointment schedular, to-do list, mailing labels, letter writing, custom report writer, customer price list, custom shipping method support, custom terms support, barcode scanner support, unlimited number of items on invoice, old invoices can be edited, reports can be sent to a file, state and federal sales tax support, mouse support, unlimited number of tenders, modem dialing, FAX number field, voiding of payments, returns, taxable and non-taxable inventory items, hotkeys, and more. (AB-02: #4307) Mail Order System 1.07 [MAILOSYS] (Formerly Mail Order Manager) is an order entry program that combines invoicing, inventory control, and commission tracking. (BZ-03: #3985) [Taskman] 4.2 helps keep track of tasks and projects. ($35) (BZ-03: #27016/1784) Task Master 2.4c (ASP) [TASKMSTR] is an all-purpose project tracking program. (BZ-08: #4467) Attendance Manager 1.51 [ATTNDMAN] is a child care center and school attendance and accounts receivables program. (BZ-08: #27557/3615) Photography Equipment Database 4.0 [PHOTO_EQ] keeps track of all your photo equipment, vendors and money spent. (BZ-08: #27871 [2 disks]) Public Access 1.9 [PUB_ACCS] (ASP) is a time/use/billing program for libraries or businesses, which rent computer time. (CM-02: #27149/2258) [DSZ] 5.29.93 contains external protocols which allow most communications programs to use the ZModem, YModem, or XModem protocols to transfer files. (CM-02: #27149 [2 disks]) [ZCOMM] 18.05 is a very advanced comm program. (DB-01: #20169/2203) Data Master 3.1 (ASP) [DATAMSTR] allows you to cre ate, modify, and browse dBase III databases. (ML-01: #27206/1167) Doctor Data File 6.05b [DDFILE65] is general purpose database manager as well as a mailing list manager. NEW: bulk labels and reports for 2nd class and 3rd class mailings. Barcodes can be printed on a laser printer in landscape mode. ($54) (ML-01: #27209/1793) Label Master 5.1c (ASP) [LABELMST] is a very powerful yet easy to use mail list manager. (ML-01: #2817) Labels Plus! 3.1 [LABLPLUS] prints envelopes, shipping, address labels, and post cards from an address data file. ($20) (ML-01: #4986) Parcel Shipping Program 4.1 [PSP41] (ASP) is a menu-driven system for automating UPS record-keeping. (ML-01: #4945) What Mailing List 2.1u [WHATMAIL] is an easy-to-use mailing list manager. (GR-02: #7189/1630) Draft Choice 2.0c [DRAFT_CH] Trius, Inc. ASP; $55 is a unique object-oriented drawing program. (SS-01: #27057/0836) Instacalc 4.0 [INSTACAL] is a 15K pop-up spreadsheet program. NEW: more graphic options, printer drivers for Epson and LaserJet compatible printers, ability to size graph printouts and create 3D bar charts, area charts, ribbon graphs and more. =====Words & Graphics ...Desktop publishing, graphics, printer fonts and utilities, word processing programs and editors, word processing tools. WP BookLet System 2.1 [WPBOOKLT] For WordPerfect #12363 (WP-06) Alex D. Ogden; $15 is a macro package for producing booklets with WordPerfect 5.1. It keeps track of up to 16 different booklet paper definitions on each of 10 different printers at the same time. Eight paper sizes are supported. It supports the use of page numbers including having page one someplace other than at the start of the document. -----Quick Looks: Calvin 2.2 [CALVIN] (Paul Voijta; $0) is a text editor [LifePix] 1.7 (PC Solutions; $15) is a fractal picture generator. LPT-Buff [LPTBUFF] (Charles Martin ASP; $5) turns up to 64k of RAM into a print buffer. It does NOT use EMS/XMS. Set Printer 3.1 [SETPRIN] (Castle Oaks Computer Services; $10) sets several printer options through software instead of through front panel or dip switches. Word Counter 2.01a [WORDCNT] (Raymond Rodgers; $0) counts the number of words in a text file. PC Greetings 2.0 [PCGREET] (Micro Madness Software; $20) is a 3D animated Birthday card. It opens up and displays a personal message. When the card closes, the scene on the card expands to full screen and becomes a colorful birthday display with marquee-effect Happy Birthday logo, 14 different colored floating balloons, a personal slice of cake with flaming candle, and PC speaker sound. [Together] 3.0 (Joe Colucciello; $30) is a TSR (11k) which lets you pop up graphics (PCX) files when reading text files. Text and graphics can be displayed together in a number of different formats, including overlay. All that is required is to put the name of the PCX file in the text, then press Together's hot key. Together scans the screen for the names of PCX files in your specified directory. If more than one PCX file name is on the screen, you can use the cursor to pick which to display. It even works with a simple directory listing. With the author's permission, we have placed screen dumps of a number of this month's programs in a directory (SCREENS) on the CD along with a dearchived copy of Together. To try out the program, read TOGETHER.DOC, configure the INI file as instructed, and load TOGETHER before running PsL's description files. When you see the name of a PCX file in PsL's descriptions, press Together's hot key (CtrlAlt-T). NOTE: Together may do swapping to disk. If so, you may have to copy Together to your hard disk before loading it since it cannot swap/write to a CD-ROM. -----Updates: (DP-02: #20045 [2 disks]) EnVision Publisher 1.54 (ASP) [ENVISION] is a full-featured, WYSIWYG desktop publishing program. (GR-01: #27039) [Fractint] 18.0 generates Mandelbrot and Julia set fractal images with code written specifically for 386's. NEW: 19 more fractal types, multi-image GIF support, XGA detection, area calculation mode and more. Available on 3.5" 1.44 MB MegaDisk and CD only. (GR-01: #20188) PixArt Animated Greetings [PIXART1, PIXART2, PIXART3] is a set of three animated Birthday messages. Now available on 5.25" disks. (This is 2 MegaDisks sets) (P1-02: #12393) MicroText 4.5 [MICROTXT] is an extensive file printing program. (P2-02: #2823) LaserMan 5.0 (ASP) [LASERMAN] prints unformatted ASCII files on a laser printer in different styles. ($40) On a new second disk is a collection of Gothic soft fonts for use with LaserMan [LMFONT1, LMFONT2, LMFONT3] . Font sets are included for HPLJ+, HPLJ-II, and HP DeskJet printers. The DeskJet printer requires an additional memory cartridge to support soft font downloading. (P2-03: #12371) DeskJet Survival Kit, 2.0 [INKJET] gives thorough instructions on how to refill your HP Deskjet ink cartridges. NEW: a TSR address grabber for printing envelopes. (registration fee: $14) (WP-01: #3266) [Boxer] 5.0b (ASP) is a full-featured text editor. (WP-01: #1933) [VDE] Video Display Editor 1.7 is a fast, powerful text editor. NEW: integrated spelling checker. (WP-02: #27087/2594) [Bingo] Text Editor 3.1 (ASP) is a fast programmer's editor. NEW: a text recognition system, multi-level undo, and XMS/EMS virtual memory support. (WP-03: #20047 [2 disks]) [Orpheus] 1.6 is an easy-to-use hypertext authoring system. NEW: link to forms to get user input, store graphics and more in efficient library files. (WU-01: #27781 [2 disks]) [Do_Spell] 3.71d is a spelling checker. (WU-01: #27372 [3 disks]) JORJ [JORJ_A] is a 58,000-word dictionary on a disk. NEW: versions for using conventional memory or EMS/XMS. (The EMS/XMS version has the file name of [JORJ_O].) (WU-05: #27273 [2 disks]) Grab Plus 6.5 [GRABPLUS] (ASP) is an automatic envelope addressing utility and address database. =====Programming ...A.I., assembler, Basic, Forth, Pascal, other languages, screen generating, graphics, general programming tools. (For Windows 3 specific programming, see the Windows section.) -----August 1993 Programming Disk Printq [Printq] TV: Printing Pat Reilly; $0 shows how to allow a Turbo Vision application to perform quasi-background printing. Bulk Disk Copier [BDC] C: DOS Access MicroGenesis Software; $0 is C source for reading a floppy image to a hard disk and copying it back to as many floppies as you wish. It also formats blank floppies. The source code is an excellent tutorial on lowlevel disk access under DOS. ShowBox [ShowBox] C: Message Box Chuck Baker is source for a text-based message box. TSort [TSort] C++: Sorting $0 is a set of three sort routines implemented as templated C++ functions. A bsearch is also included. Dates [DATES_AG] C: Date Routines Al Gifford; $0 is source for almost anything you could want to do concerning dates, including generating a calendar. LZW For Pascal 1.0 [LZW4P] TP: Archiving MarshallSoft Computing, Inc.; $38 is a Lempel-Ziv-Welch data compression library for Turbo Pascal. SoundFX 486 [SFX486] General: Sound Effects David Smith; $17 is a sound effects library for 486 Systems. There are 70 sounds included, plus a demo program which can play each of the sound effects. Source View. 3.0i [SRCVIEW] Programmer's Editor Michael W. Chen (ASP); $30 is a text editor for programmers. Features include wild card file opening, execution interface, run-time file access, inter-file find/replace, split windows, and more. WSP 1.50 [WSP] Programming Utility Wakiti Koichi Wada compares an old and updated file and creates a COM program which will make the changes to the user's old file. You can send the user just the COM file instead of a full set of new files. AAL for BASIC 1.1 [AABAS] QB4: Routines Tom Hanlin; $8 Affordable Alternative Library for QuickBasic 4.x is a collection has over 75 BIOS and DOS-related routines and functions written entirely in assembler. [Animat] shows how to do animation in QuickBasic. Quick Copy 1.0 [QCOPY] (S. Roepenack; $0) allows you to copy files from within your QB programs. -----Large Programming Disks Demo Workshop 1.1 [DEMOWRK] Demo's #12379 P2 Enterprises ASP; $65 creates demo and tutorial programs. It uses actual screens recorded during execution of the program being presented. The recording can be edited with the presentation editor like editing a movie. You can cut and resequence scenes, add pop-up menus, special effects, text windows and more. It creates an EXE file as output. TVTools [TVTools] TurboVision #12374 (PG-04) Marc Stern; $0 is a library of general-purpose tools for TurboVision. This package includes high-level functions and new objects. It also contains a lot of non-TV functions such as string and date routines. Source code included. Yilmaz Disassembler 1.1 [YILMAZ] Disassemblers #12392 (PG-02) Yilmaz Towfeek; $25 is an interactive disassembler. It teaches assembly language by allowing the user to be a part of the disassembling process. You can disassemble in different modes such as visibility of machine codes, visibility of data labels and using different data format. Requires 400K free memory. -----Quick Looks: Bug Tracker 1.13 [BUGTRAKR] (Asa Dean; $20) keeps a record of computer program bugs. It allows you to document, sort and track the progress of fixes to bugs and implementations of enhancements. Screen*It 1.0.5 [SCREENIT] (Oasys; $25) is a data entry screen painter for C/C++. You can create data entry screens with field edits, pop-up help, pick lists, boxes, and colors without writing a single line of code. -----Updates: (PG-02: #3754) Assembly Wizard's Library 1.6 [ASMWIZ] is a collection of over 150 routines for programming in assembly language. (PG-03: #4804) [AngelLib] 1.9c is a library of MS Basic PDS 7.1 routines for developing business applications. NEW: full linker library included and more routines. (PG-04: #4692) Personal Comm. Library for C 3.5 [PCL4C] is an async comm library for MSC or Turbo C. NEW: Added an ASCII file transfer protocol to the example terminal program and support for PC/4 and PC/8 multiport DigiBoard. (PG-06: #12384) Personal Comm. Library for Pascal, 3.3 [PCL4P] is an async comm library designed for Turbo Pascal 4+. Same features as above. (PG-06: #3251) P-Robots 3.1 (ASP) [P_ROBO31] is a game based on computer programming in PASCAL. NEW: optional integrated development environment to create, edit and test robots. (PG-06 #4278) Pascal Wizard's Library 1.4 [PASWIZ] is a library for Turbo Pascal and Quick Pascal that provides high-powered math routines, new string support, mouse management, music and BCD math. (PG-06: #27055/1501) Qwik 7.1 [QWIK71] is a high performance screen writing utility for TP4 programmers. NEW: vertical writing routines, detection of i486 cpu and of Pentium cpu. (PG-07: #27237/0556) [FIFTH] 2.7 (Software Construction Company; $50) is a programming environment, consisting of a compiler, a text editor, a dictionary editor, and an interactive environment. (PG-08: #12130) ARIS Version Tracking System 1.3 [AVTS] is a low cost version control/configuration management system. =====Utilities See Monthly Additions Disks for new small utilities. DiaLog 2.11 [DiaLog] Desktop Programs #12365 (U2-01) Wolfgang John; $18 is a phone dialer, logger and more. It logs the date, time, name, number, minutes, job code, city, state, company, and purpose. It features a stopwatch, two address books, calculator, alarm clock, editor, and screen saver. It also prints envelopes. GuardSet 2.0 [GuardSet] Security #12376 Gerald DePyper; $30-$64 allows you to create disk security systems. You can create encryption/ decryption programs to control access to files and directories on your computer's disk. -----Utilities Quick Looks: [4Cat] 1.2 (Earl R. Davidson; $10) is a disk and file catalogue. It keeps track of files stored on disks. 4DOS descriptions are utilized, if present. You can search a database by filename, disk label, or 4DOS file description. It also tracks free disk space. [ChainSaw] 5.3 (Ted Davis; $0) is a command line driven directory pruner. It can be used for many tasks, from cleaning out the \temp directory of files, subdirectories, or both, to wiping an entire disk during reconfiguration for a new user. C++ source code is included. [CMCopy] (Charles F. Martin ASP; $5) copies a floppy disk image to a hard disk and makes any number of copies from it. Options include disk formatting and verifying. [DFat] 2.2 (Bob Eyer; $25) reports file fragmentation in directory format. [DiskMate] 2.32 (Key Software Services; $26) is a floppy disk cataloger. It can print disk sleeve labels (any number of files) get sorted reports, list files in PKZip files and supports 4DOS descriptions. DOS Prompt Clock 1.0 [DPCLOCK] (Chris Dunford; $0) is an on-screen clock. It displays only when you're at the DOS prompt. ezPopMaker 2.0 [EZPOP] (Ernest Hunter ASP; $25) is a TSR that allows you to create other TSR pop-up menu programs without programming. File Selector 1.01 [FILESEL] (Tomohumi Kodama; $35) is a file/directory manager and DOS menu program. It lets you copy, move, delete, or rename files and directories; create archives or extract files by invoking an archive program automatically; find specified files in a whole disk/drive and view or delete them or change to the directory where the files are and more. English and Japanese modes are included. Font Loader [FLOAD] (Ned Crigler; $0) is a font set loader for VGA monitors. It changes the default IBM font set to either roman or script sets. [ForMenu] 3.1 (Jeff Camino; $10) is a menu-driven program for formatting disks. [Graffix] 1.1 (Andromeda Software; $40) is a TSR that captures a graphics screen directly to disk in either GIF or PCX format. All EGA, VGA, and SVGA 16and 256-color modes are supported. Text-mode screens can also be captured as ASCII files. Group Folder [GFOLDER] allows you to create visible subsections within a folder giving you more control over the organization of the contents. The grouping of related objects helps you locate the object you want more quickly. Hot Operator [HOTOPER] (Joey Robichaux ASP; $93) is a multi-user, unat tended production job scheduler. You can run nightly production based on time or interval, even check for successful completion and reschedule if necessary. Menu-Wizard 4.0 [MENUWIZ] (Silvasoft, ASP; $15) is a DOS menu shell. It features mouse support, automatic and manual screen saver, pop-up calculator, calendar, file viewer and editor along with an ASCII table. Password loading of menu entries and keyboard locking is supported with the ability to disable menu options. MODR-ASPI [MODRASPI] (Micro Staff; $15) is a package of ASPI 3.5" MO disk drive device driver modules and utilities. [OakTree] (Louis F. Sander; $0) makes a directory tree diagram that is designed to help you organize your hard disk. [PopPhone] 2.05 (Russell Hildreth; $25) is a 6-12K TSR pop-up phone and address book. [Q387] 3.4 DEMO (QuickWare; $25) is a math accelerator and emulator. It allows you to run applications which require a math coprocessor and pro grams which require a math chip. Demo: only runs for 20 minutes. -----Utilities Updates: (U1-02: #3951) Integrity Master 1.51a (ASP) [I_M151] is an anti-virus and data integrity system. NEW identifies over 75 new viruses by name and characteristic, support for Stacker, DoubleSpace, SuperStore and Bernoulli system files. (U1-04: #27060/1939) [DiskDupe] 4.07 is a fast disk duplication program. NEW: IBM PS/2 compatibility and code and buffer CRC checks. (U1-06: #27476 [2 disks]) LSort 3.41 [LS341] will sort and merge ASCII dBase files. NEW: binary and packed decimal fields supported. (U1-07: #27338 [2 disks]) [CatDisk] 7.02 (ASP) catalogs files, including contents of subdirectories and archives. (U1-08: #27062/3541) [CM_Filer] 5.36b (ASP) is a powerful file manager with a double directory display. NEW: options added to print file facility. (U1-08: #3030) Directory Freedom 4.61 (ASP) [DIRFREE] is a fast and com pact directory manager with advanced user-defined functions such as SmartViewers. NEW: PKZIP 2.0x support in archive viewer. ($25) (U1-08: #27251/1444) File-Man 4.25 (ASP) [FILEMAN] is a menu-driven file manager. ($40) (U1-09: #12179 [2 disks]) [MakeLoad] 1.3 saves hard disk space by storing less frequently used programs on floppies and automatically installing them when needed. NEW: program tutor and installation has been improved. (U1-10: #4033) [PocketD] 3.0 (ASP) is a file utility with over 120 options. NEW: 4DOS and OS/2 support, scans self-extracting archives, virus protected, directory and archive browser, menu builder, 37K front-end with 60 menus. (U2-02: #12223) [IconDOS] 1.5 is an application launcher for DOS similar to Window's Program Manager, complete with icons and wallpaper. NEW: pulldown menu, pop-up calculator, and pop-up calendar. (U2-05: #12389) [BootSys], 2.0 (Hans Salvisberg ASP; $44) makes it easy to reconfigure your system's CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT. New supports DOS 6, allows up to 20 items per menu, allows renaming files from within of CONFIG.SYS, supports DR DOS. (U2-05: #1203) [Burn_In] 4.5 allows extensive testing of new computers. (U2-05: #12378) [DOSMax] 2.1 maximizes the use of low memory for DOS. NEW: support for 386MAX and DOS 6.0/DRDOS 6.0. (U2-05: #4895) HyperDisk SpeedKit 4.6 [SPEEDKIT] is a set of system speed up utilities. NEW: supports DoubleSpace. (U2-05: #12372) [RighTime] 2.54, is a 3K TSR which corrects a CMOS type clock error up to about 5.5 minutes per day. NEW: Provides true 0.01 second DOS clock resolution, system date/time security by preventing unauthorized changes, automatic daylight/standard time change, logging of all time-related activity, more. Works well with TimeSet, below. ($40) (U2-05: #1090) [TimeSet] 7.21 resets your computer clock by calling atomic clocks of either the U.S. Naval Observatory or the National Institute of Standards and Technology. NEW: accesses atomic clock-based telephone time services in Sweden, Austria, Italy and the USNO and NIST in the U.S.A. Also adds an auto dial utility, automatic reconfiguration when the time season changes between daylight savings time and standard time, the ability to save data on your computer clock to a disk file each time you call a time service, and custom serial port configuration making it usable with serial ports up to COM8 and nonstandard IRQs and port addresses. (U2-07: #4350) [Explosiv] 3.0 contains screen savers for both DOS and Windows. NEW: turns GIF images into screen saver displays, network compatibility. (U2-07: #12294) Screen Thief 1.01 (ASP) [SCRNTHF] captures screens, including some which other programs cannot. (U2-08: #4685) [INIMaint] 2.1a makes it easy to display and manage INI files. =====Special Interest ...religion, engineering, music, statistics & math, electronic publishing Sunday School Colors 3.7 [SUNDAY] Bible Games #12387 (CH-03) Randall Alaimo ASP; $15 is Bible-based coloring game for kids. Sounds can be heard through the speaker or sound cards. Seven high-resolution pictures are included. Requires EGA/VGA, hard disk and a mouse. Sound Effects 6 [SOUNDFX6] Sounds #20224 [2 disks] (MU-03) David Smith and William Cravener; $15 is a collection of 75+ sounds for batch files or fun. It includes phasers, stunguns, jets, fires, phones, speech, programmer's library, and ability to replace the speaker's beep. -----Quick Looks: Bible-Timeline 2.18 [BIBLE] (Cascoly Software ASP; $30) is an historical timelines program that allows you to trace patterns across different eras and cultures. It covers the period 2000 BC through the first centuries of the Christian Church. It will be useful for sermon research, Bible, history and art students, teachers, or anyone interested in exploring historical relations or cultural events. You can modify or expand any of the datasets. It includes a special gamemaker function and which randomly creates and presents questions of various kinds from datasets. This program contains datasets for GENESIS, KINGS, and ROME. Mathomatic 4.8 [MATHOMAT] (LIMITED VERSION) (George Gesslein II; $50) is a powerful symbolic math program. It can automatically solve, simplify, and combine algebraic equations. It also does calculus operations and graphing. Requires 640K and EGA/VGA. Statistical Shrinkage Regression 9305 [RXRG93] (Bob Obenchain ASP; $25) performs maximum likelihood estimation of ridge regression models. [Wave_BS] ("Brain Synchronization") creates user-specified VOC files to play on a sound card which promise to synchronize your brain wave patterns into any desired state. -----Updates: (CH-01: #20167/4472) KJVocabulary 1.04 [KJV104] helps readers understand the meaning of archaic Bible words. ($10) (CH-02: #27021 [2 disks]) ProDev*Member 2.0a (ASP) [PDMEMBER] is a church membership and giving system. (CH-03: #20168/2201) Scripture Quest 5.0 [SQ500] tests one's knowledge of the Bible. NEW: printed quizzes, referenced answers and a top ten chart. (EN-01: #2272) [Electrc9] 9.2 is designed to perform most common electrical contracting calculations. (MU-03: #4098) Guitar Teacher 1.44 [GUITART] displays chord structure for all the major, minor, seventh, major seventh, minor seventh, suspended fourth, and seventh suspended fourth. (ST-01: #27329 [3 disks]) KS Probability & Statistics 2.1 [KSPROB] is a set of stats programs. NEW: a chart of probability distributions, a table summarizing the distributions, and KSPSIM, which simulates samples from probability distributions. (ST-01: #4031) [NonLin] 2.3 (ASP) fits linear, multivariate, polynomial, and general nonlinear equation to data. (ST-01: #20145 [2 disks]) Simstat 2.1c [SIMSTAT] is a menu driven statistical program. SIM2NL 1.0 [SIM2NL] integrates Nonlin 2.3 into Simstat. -----Electronic Publishing Starting with PsL's first CD, Electronic Publishing literature will be made available from PsL strictly on our monthly CD, due in large part to the fact that much of it is time sensitive. Programs for creating your own electronic publications will be included in the DOS\ELEC-PUB directory, but the best ones will also be in the Word Processing Hypertext section of PsL Check the Windows section for Windows-based publications. Credit Report Repair Kit [CREDIT] (North Atlanta Publishing; $39) contains strategies and techniques for rebuilding your credit report. Digital Publishing Association News [DPAN] Vol. 2, No. 6. (Ron Albright) electronic magazine. How the Mind Works and How to Make It Work Better [HOWMIND] (David Leithauser; $10) tells you how to free yourself from negative emotions and conditioning. GIF, PCX, and EXE pictures files are included. Pacific Edge [EDGE9305] (Pacific Edge Publishing; $20 for 6 issues) is an electronic magazine with articles on a variety of current topics. The viewer does not work well under Windows and may have conflicts if you have programs in high memory. Poets Corner Vol. 7 #6 [POETRY] (Kevin Keyser) is a series of three short poems. RECY4$.ASC [RECYCLE] (Kenneth Cross; $0) is a text file that teaches how to recycle toner cartridges for laser printers. Ruby's Pearls Vol. 21.[RUBY21] is a collection of fictional short stories to be read on-line. Smoke and Mirrors June 1993 [SMOKE] (Lucia Chambers; $0) is an electronic magazine of short stories, poetry and articles from Pen and Brush. [SoftPoem] (Robert Kendall; $0) is a work of interactive video poetry. Text is brought to life with graphics and animation, although the graphics did not seem right to us. Requires 640K RAM, a hard disk and EGA/VGA.