PsL News & CD-ROM September 1993 Copyright 1993 Nelson Ford, PsL Distribution of all or part of this file except on PsL's Monthly CD is prohibited without the express written permission of Nelson Ford, PsL. 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 - Utilities for the AICPA ... MegaDisk Sets of utilities for DOS & Windows. - Goodbye to 5.25" Disks? ... Trade magazine predicts the "drive war is over". - First PsL CD Sells Out Quickly ... Word of mouth beats advertising. - Together Again ... Graphic viewer for PsL CD is fixed. - Letters ... readers ask questions, offer suggestions. - Retail Products ... Outstanding Printer Buy!! ... Pinball For Windows ... Translate It! For Spanish, German & French ... ... Fast, Inexpensive Texel CD-ROM Drive ... ... Fantastic Bundle: Alone In the Dark & Out of this World ... ... Ultrabots ... Quicktoons Cartoon Classics CD ... Betrayal at Krondor - Quick Looks Explained - Explained -----Utilities for the AICPA The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants asked PsL recently to put together a MegaDisk set of utilities for DOS and another for Windows for the AICPA to send to its members. Although long-time readers will recognize the following programs as having been recommended and offered in various sets by PsL in the past, we thought we would give newcomers a shot at them. The programs are also on the September PsL CD in the AICPA directory. --DOS Utilities: [WarpDrv] is an improvement over ANSI.SYS. [BCMove] is a file moving utility. [Kopy] is a better file copier than the DOS COPY command. [ZDir] is a colorful sorted directory lister. [CopyDisk] beats DOS's XCOPY. [VIEW] is a tiny file viewing utility. [DLT] is an enhanced file deletion utility. [FDForm] is a powerful disk formatting utility. [Edit] is a small, fast, full-screen text editor. [Fgrep] is a very fast text search utility. [CED] is a DOS command line editor, command recall, and DOS macro utility. [LCD] makes it easeir to change directories. The next two were our picks for 1992's Best New Utilities: [PocketD] adds over 120 functions to DOS in a small package. [MegaBack] is a fast, easy-to-use hard disk backup utility with many sophisticated features. Last but certainly not least are [PKZIP204], a popular utility for compressing files and Integrity Master [INTEGMAS], a virus protection program. --Windows 3 Utilities: [ChPaper] lets you browse through and change your wallpaper on command or at specified intervals. [FreeMem] displays free conventional and expanded memory. [HotSpot] lets you instantly start or disable the Windows 3.1 screen saver. File Find [FILEFND] will find files anywhere on your hard drive or network volume. [IcnMstr] is a powerful icon editor. [Launch] is a convenient desktop program launcher. [TrshMan] is a Mac-like trashcan for drag-and-drop deletion of files. [WinClok] is a multi-featured desktop alarm clock. Free Disk Space [WFDS] monitors and displays free disk space remaining on all (or specified) hard drives. [WinPost] lets you have multiple on-screen "post-it" type notes which can easily be hidden, saved and recalled. [WINProt] is a virus scanning program. [TypSmart] completes words you are typing based on your past typing. Byzans Task Manager [BYZ_TM] is a powerful replacement for the Windows 3.1 Task Manager. [Sysfon] lets you change the system font that Windows uses for window titles and menus. -----Goodbye to 5.25" Disks? Computer Retail Week reports: The disk drive war is over. Most software publishers see little reason to include 5.25-inch disks. Not one game on our April hits list [has 5.25-inch disks]. Some PsL customers have urged PsL to abandon low-density disks and have an all-MegaDisk library. It has been almost 10 years since new computers were equipped with 360k 5.25" disks. PsL recently lowered the price of 1.44MB 3.5" drives to $49.95. There would seem to be little reason to continue with 360k disks, yet we continue to get calls regularly from people who have 8088's with 360k drives. For people who just want to keep mailing lists or do home accounting or word processing, these systems still perform adequately. And the people using them still need programs for them, even if the latest video games have left them behind. We also hear from a lot of schools and other institutions who have been given old computers by businesses and who want educational programs and simple games for them. Then there are people who have newer machines with 1.2MB 5.25" drives, but no 3.5" drives. When the first 3.5" drives came out, we predicted that 5.25" drives would disappear in a couple of years. We were obviously way off in that prediction and now we hesitate to predict that they will ever disappear. -----First PsL CD Sells Out Quickly With only word of mouth advertising for our August CDROM, we did not expect much in the way of subscriptions and sales, yet they sold out in two weeks. Callers have been consistently excited about the concept and we appreciate all the comments, support, and advice we have received, particularly from sysops around the world. A typical response comes from Stephen Matthews: "You've outdone yourselves again! This is one bill I will ENJOY paying every month." We promised in advance that the first issue would have 300+ programs. Instead, it had well over 500. This issue has over 700 programs. If you are not getting the CD because you don't have a drive, check out the prices on the Mitusmi and Sydos drives on the front inside cover of this issue. If you just aren't sure about the CD, enter a subscription, get a copy and check it out. If you are not 200% satisfied, don't pay the invoice. Just send the CD back. We are confident that anyone who sees this CD will want to keep getting it every month. -----Together Again Together is a pop-up program that lets you view PCX files whose names appear on the screen, such as in a text file describing a program. On our first PsL Monthly CD (last month), we placed Together in a directory with several program screen shots so that you could see program screens while reading about the programs using the PSL_NEWS program on the CD. Everything worked fine during testing, but not on the CD. Together tries to write to the default drive, which it could not do with the CD. As soon as we discovered this, we called the author who immediately fixed the problem and emailed it to us. Unfortunatley, it did not arrive in time for last month's CD, but it is on the September CD. Before installing Together!, you must edit the TOGETHER.INI file to match your hardware. The TOGETHER.DOC file tells you how. You may read that file by typing VIEW TOGETHER.DOC at the DOS prompt. -----Letters --Software Innovative or Not? William B. Fankboner, La Quinta, CA: "According to the letter you sent me, my program Move It! was rejected for inclusion in your catalog because you "already have a lot of programs of the same type and do not feel it is a significant improvement. "This is absolute nonsense. There is no program [which] moves, removes, and copies directories with the ease and facility of Move It!. "It is dismaying that the self-appointed curators of shareware are so absorbed with the financial end of the shareware business that they ignore innovation. But of course it's a major inconvenience to try out new programs, and there's all that fuss and bother of re-editing the catalog." Nelson Ford, PsL: I am sorry if my letter offended you. It is meant to provide helpful feedback. My own experience as a programmer is that the great majority of vendors provide no feedback at all, whether they accept your program or not. The letter goes on to say: "If you feel that your program IS better than all the others, a chart comparing the features... would be a good selling point for your potential customers as well as for PsL." Just saying that a program is "easier" does not really give us a basis for comparison, since every programmer (including me) thinks THEIR program is easier and better than all the others. When talking about the cost and trouble of adding programs, you are pointing your finger at the wrong company, as our own "features comparison chart" of major vendors shows: PsL PC-SIG PBS RS # pages in last catalog 960 ? 51 63 # of programs in library 8000+ 4000? 2000+ 350 # new programs per month 500+ 50 30 90 Frequency of catalog/mag. mo. bi-mo. qtr. mo. (Number of pages in PC-SIG's catalog is unknown; also the # of current programs shown for PC-SIG is an educated guess. Other numbers are based on the most recent issues of vendors' catalogs/magazines.) Because PsL grew out of a hobby back in 1982, we have always done things that didn't make great economic sense, like carrying many times more programs than other vendors, and like giving away (practically) all the new programs we get each month for $20 (on CD) to our competitors, as well as to our customers (two of the three competitors in the chart subscribe). --Wants Windows Outliner Richard De Young, via CompuServe: "I know that WordPerfect, etc., all have outlining capabilities now, but they don't work as simply as the old PC Outline. Are there any similar programs for Windows? PsL: We haven't seen a shareware outliner for Windows 3, but maybe your question will light a fire under some programmer. --Suggestions for PsL Vince Heiker, Las Colinas, TX: "Here are some suggestions for improvements: "1. Put all FAX related utilities onto one disk or MegaDisk set." PsL: Will do. "2. Convert to 1.44MB floppies for all diskettes. Virtually everyone has 1.44MB 3.5" drives. Position PsL as a leader and force your competitors to respond or to become obsolete." PsL: We began offering 1.44MB MegaDisk sets at great savings years ago and so far, our competitors have neither responded nor become obsolete. One vendor who "guarantees" the lowest prices charges $16 for sets of 4 disks which cost $6.99 from PsL. "3. Provide your PsL Order Form as a program, automatically pricing orders based on diskette numbering, membership discounts, etc." PsL: The Windows version of our Reviews program was headed in that direction and we got side-tracked. We'll put this back on the to-do list. "4. Give more descriptions of the programs in the listing in the back of PsL News." PsL: It's a question of where to draw the line. Full descriptions of all the programs fill a 1000-page book. Even the one-liners we have in the Listing in PsL News now take up more pages than we would like. Now that the latest reviews of all the programs in PsL are on the CD-ROM each month, we are hoping that more people will keep up that way. "5. Start a separate category for WinNT." PsL: We have answered this type of question many times over the years: our categories are supply-driven. When we get enough of a particular type of program to justify a separate section, we split it off. Until we get enough programs, there is no point in having a section for them. "6. Some MegaDisks say [4 disks]. Is the cost $6.99 per disk or for the set? Is there a difference between [4] and [4 disks]?" PsL: It is $6.99 per MegaDisk number, as noted on the order form. The "[4 disks]" notation means that if you get the set on 360k disks, it will take 4 disks. Sometimes you will see something like "20220-20221 [2 MegaDisk Sets]". This means that you pay $6.99 per set for a total of $13.98. Sometimes we offer special prices on sets of 1.44MB disks. In those cases we will say "9 MegaDisk Set for $27" or "two 1.44MB disks for $9.99". When we have room, we normally say "[4 disks]". When we do not have room, we just say "[4]". --Galactix (#27747) Gary Evans, Arlington, TX: "When starting this program I get the message "not enough memory for intro". I have 4MB of RAM which is plenty. I also tried to register the program but my check was returned with no forward address for the authors." PsL: A limitation of DOS is that only 640k of your 4MB of RAM is available for most programs to run in. From that, you have to deduct the RAM used by drivers and TSRs. Run MEM or CHDKSK to see how much free RAM you have. This particular program requires over 600K of free RAM You may have to boot up with no Config.sys or Autoexec.bat to free up enough memory. --Disk Copy Fast (8/93 CD) The program does not currently support MicroSolutions backpack external floppy drives. --Program Not In Listing in PsL News Robert Pearson, author of Paramind, wanted to know why his program is not in the Listing in PsL News. The reason is that because of the large number of programs in PsL, we are unable to list every program. We have the complete write-ups of every program in PsL in the Reviews Disks files, which are also on our monthly CD-ROM. --Missing Authors The authors for the following programs are no longer at the addresses in their documentation: GetPM (Lawrence Faulkner), ByeBye (CBII Enterprises), Cunning Football (Cass Cunningham), TourTech (Gerry Landry), TF77 (Paul Giroux). -----Retail Products --Outstanding Printer Buy!! Long-time readers of PsL News know that we don't gush over products without good cause. Get ready for a real Texas Gusher! For a year-and-a-half, we have been struggling with WinJet 800 to get 800 dpi ("dot per inch") printing from an HP LaserJet. The most recent problem was that the WinPrint driver program was causing Windows 3.1 to lock up. We tried getting tech support, but this is one of those companies whose "tech support" consists of leaving you on hold long distance (on your nickle) until you go broke or otherwise give up. So we have been looking for another printer. The new HP LaserJets with 600 dpi resolution looked interesting, but did not exactly get rave reviews. Then we stumbled across the Samsung Finale 8000 laser printer. Its features start with an impressive 1200 dpi resolution (!!), print modes which include PostScript, HP LaserJet II & III ("PCL"), Epson FX, IBM ProPrinter, and HPGL/2 (plotter) emulations, an 8ppm 16mhz RISC processor, 6MB of RAM, and serial, parallel, and AppleTalk interfaces. Windows 3.1 drivers are included. Typefaces include 35 scalable PostScript fonts, a TrueType rasterizer, 14 bit-mapped HPLJ-II fonts, 8 scalable HPLJ-III fonts, and HPLJ compatible font card slots. Graphics can be printed in up to 256 shades of gray. Two paper cassettes allow you to put in extra paper or to have two different types of paper (eg: letterhead and plain paper) online and software selectable. The manual is very thorough, providing information (eg: character tables) about all the printing modes. When we asked several different knowledgable computerists what they thought a printer with these features would cost, everyone suspected that the price was low, but nobody could bring themselves to guess below $2500. The Finale, as described, is just $1850 (plus $20 S&H in the continental U.S.) and has a 2-year warranty. At 1200 dpi, you get the highest quality printing available for a PC today. PostScript capability and 6MB of RAM are high-priced options on most computers. We think that this is the hardware buy of the year. --Pinball For Windows #30394 $29 Sierra's Pinball For Windows is like all Sierra games: lots of entertaining graphics and sounds. There are eight different playing fields and themes based on other popular Sierra games, such as Leisure Suit Larry . Our favorite was the layout called "Draxon 2" . Its black holes and gravity fields created bizarre effects not possible on real pinball games. If you are a pinball purist or don't like Windows games, stick with Tristan, which is still the most realistic pinball simulation, but if you just want to have a fun and flashy game to pop up while you are in Windows, this is it. Comes on 1.44MB 3.5" disks. --Translate It! For Spanish, German & French $59 Per Language Timeworks has another sure hit with this series of language translation programs for English-Spanish (#30395), English-German (#30397), and English-French (#30396). Each program lets you translate text files in either direction. Each comes with a very large 250,000 word dictionary, as well as a user-modifiable dictionary. The programs do not simply do word substitution; they perform full-sentence idiomatic translations. Different tranlations of a word are based on parts of speech. You can choose whole-document translation, or an on-screen, interactive mode. You can even translate documents as you create them with the built-in text editor. Translate-It! is also compatible with all major word processors. This is a real help for us at PsL where we often get FAXes in German, French, etc., with nobody available to translate them. Although Translate-It! does not do a perfect job (90-95% accuracy is claimed), it does well enough to let us figure out what is being said. Timeworks is so sure of this product that they offer a 60-day money-back satisfaction guarantee. --Fast, Inexpensive Texel CD-ROM Drive #30398 $449 + $7 S&H The Texel DM3024 drive has a 265ms access time and 300kb throughput, making it one of the fastest drives around. It is not quite as fast as the Toshiba 3401, but the Toshiba costs 33% more. At $449 for the internal drive, SCSI interface card, drivers, and cables, you get a lot of performance for your money. And to sweeten the deal even further, we will throw in the current PsL Monthly CD. --Fantastic Game Bundle is a Bargain, Too! #30391 $39.95 Out of This World and Alone in the Dark are two exciting graphical adventure games with scrolling 3-D graphics, excellent sound effects and music. In ...World, you are hurtled thorugh space and time by a nuclear experiment gone wrong. You are faced with alien monsters and deadly earthquakes. In ...Dark, inspired by the work of H.P. Lovecraft, you explore Derceto, a huge mansion that becomes a nightmare world of the macarbe and the monstrous. Both of these programs have terrific 3-D graphics that are constantly scrolling, panning, and changing perspectives, more like the scenes in a movie than in a video game. We have a limited number of these bundles that let you get both programs for less than $20 each. --Ultrabots #30393 $34.95 This is an incredible arcade game where giant 60-ton robots battle it out for the domination of the Earth. You can train in the Humanoid Warrior, Scorpion, or Scout robots, each with special offensive and defensive weapons. The game features fully interactive simulation-style cockpits, beautiful 256-color ray-traced graphics, computer generated maps and visual displays, realistic digitized sound effects, a SoundBlaster/Roland musical score, and much more. All in all, this is a futuristic feast for the eyes and ears! Requires a 386/16 or better machine, VGA, mouse, 1meg RAM, hard drive, and a high density 3.5" floppy drive. --Quicktoons Cartoon Classics CD #30399 $19.95 This disk contains public domain color and black-and-white cartoons starring Betty Boop, Porky Pig, Daffy Duck, and others. Both Windows 3.1 and Macintosh versions are included. You can easily incorporate these cartoons into your multimedia presentations, or just sit back and enjoy the whacky entertainment on your desktop. --Betrayal at Krondor #30392 #34.95 Digitized actors and scenery take up 15MB of hard disk space for this program, but you will think it is worth it when you get wrapped up in this fantasy role-playing game set in ancient, mystical times. The program also requires a 386SX or better, DOS-5+, 2MB RAM, and VGA. Greats sounds and 3-D graphics bring this game to life. Comes on seven 1.44MB 3.5" disks. -----Quick Looks Explained PsL receives a lot of programs which we do not add to our permanent collection for various reasons, although the programs may be of excellent quality. These programs are written up as "Quick Looks" in PsL News and are included on PsL's Monthly CD. Some of the types of programs that will be classified as Quick Looks include programs of a type already in PsL such as text editors, periodical programs with a limited life span such as magazines-on-disk, demo programs, extreme niche programs, and files too large to justify distributing on diskettes. ----- Explained Throughout the program reviews, you will see PCX file names in angled brackets. These are for use by TOGETHER! so that you can see screen shots of programs when reading the PsL News on CD. For more information, see TOGETHER.DOC in the \SCREENS directory. To view this file, change to the \SCREENS directory and type \VIEW TOGETHER.DOC =====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. -----September 1993 Additions Disk #1 Column Printer 2.0 [COLPRTR] Printer Utility Thomas M. Roddy; $10 prints newspaper style columns of text. It prints up to three columns printers. Included is a word wrap program which can reformat text files into specific line widths. ColorDOS. v1.52 [COLRDOS] DOS Utility KroTek Electronics; $11 is a 1k TSR that changes text colors when you change drives. It also displays each directory in your DOS prompt path a different color. Comic 1.0 [COMIC] Quote Generator John Owen; $7 displays a different funny remark each day. Put it in your AUTOEXEC.BAT to start each morning with a grin. ComPack 4.5 [COMPACK] Archive Utility Prominence Computer Services; $25-$40 saves disk space by compressing EXE and COM files while still leaving them executable. It produces faster and smaller EXE and COM files than EXEPACK, LZEXE, and PKLITE. This program has been around a while in Italy, but has just made it to PsL in the U.S. CronTab 2.21 [CRONTAB] System Control Thomas G. Harold; $0 runs programs based on the date. Execution can be periodic such as daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly with or without a specified offset such as the third day of the month. Execution can also be day-specific such as every Monday, Wednesday, Friday, or on the 15th of each month. Crypt [CRYPT] File Encryption $0 is a very quick and easy file encryption program. You simply enter CRYPT SOMEKEY FILE2 to either encrypt or decrypt a file. "SOMEKEY" is whatever key or password you want to use. "FILE1" is the name of the file to encrypt/decrypt and "FILE2" is the name of the output file. C source code is included. DOS Quiz Manager 1.23 [DQM] Education Steve Mount; $10 allows you to customize a DOS quiz to test students or job applicants on their knowledge of DOS. Test on DOS 5 specifically or ask advanced DOS questions. It also has password security, and the ability to save and print test resutlts. GrowP 2.0 [GROWP] TSR Utility Tessler's Nifty Tools; $0 is a 2k TSR which visually indicates in the DOS prompt how many copies of COMMAND.COM are invoked in the current chain. It is easy to shell to DOS from a program and later forget that you are shelled. With GrowP, you won't forget. Star Program [STARS] Video: Graphics Data Management; $10 is a graphic display program similar to Windows' star field screen saver. -----September 1993 Additions Disk #2 Cache Test 5.0a [CACHTST] System Testing George Spafford; $10 tests the effectiveness of your disk caching software. It checks sequential write and read, random write and read, random update, and DOS directory services times. Delimit 1.0 [DELIMIT] File Conversion Roy G Grosbach; $15 converts fixed format files into DELIMITed files, that databases and spreadsheets can read quickly. The program filters the file, choosing selected fields, eliminating headers from reports, or selecting only summary lines from reports or you can also choose selected fields from fixed-format files easily. EasyDOS. 1.0 [EDOS] File Manager Jeff Brown; $10 is a DOS shell that allows you to easily move around directories and see what is in them. From the file lists, the following functions are allowed: execute, view (ASCII/Hex), copy, delete, hide, move, rename, make read-only, encrypt/decrypt, and print. FreeGraf. [FREEGRF] DOS Utility BV Engineering; $0 quickly displays the amount and percentage of free space used and remaining, along with a graph of the same. Injure. 1.0 [INJURE] Health/Fitness $0 describes common forms of typing-related injuries, preventative measures, and what to do if you do injure yourself in this way. Includes information on alternative keyboards, furniture, and software that can help. ScrnCap. [SCRNCAP] Video Capture V-Soft; $20 is a 9k TSR which captures all or part of text screens to a printer or to a text file. TurboBat 3.16 and TurboTXT 1.11 [TRBOBAT] Foley Hi-Tech Systems, ASP; $19 allows you to compile regular DOS batch files into COM programs. TurboTXT 1.11 has been added which allows you to convert text files into self-displaying COM files. Unp 3.1 [UNP] Archive Utility Ben Castricum; $5 allows you to expand executable (COM and EXE) files which have been compressed with PKZip, LZEXE, et al. Update 1.1 [UPDATE] File Updating John Lindinger; $0 makes it easy to update files on a hard disk. Update searches a specified path for a file matching the filespec. It compares its file date to the new one to see if the one that was found needs to be updated. Universal Vocabulary Drill 1.0 [UVDRILL] Languages Mike Nichols; $15 can be used to drill on vocabulary words (for SAT, ACT, etc.) as well as on foreign languages. Sample files in English, German and Spanish are provided. -----September 1993 Additions Disk #3 ARJit. [ARJIT] Archiving Garry J. Vass; $0 compresses all the files in the current directory into an ARJ file. Requires ARJ.EXE (disk #3122) C++ source code include. ARJWalk. [ARJWALK] Archiving Garry J. Vass; $0 goes from directory to directory looking for things to "ARJ" enabling you to free up disk space fast without having to delete files. C++ source included. ChkSys v1.0 [CHKSYS] Batch File Utilities Tay-Jee Software, ASP sets errorlevel to indicate the presence of specified system elements: ANSI, Append, Assign, Doskey, Files setting, Graftabl, Himem, Keyb, NLSfunc, Print, Share, and Windows. DiaChess 1.0 [DIACHES] Games: Chess TNT Software; $20 allows you to record and print complete chess games with a diagram for every move. It's a valuable teaching and study tool for serious players and ideal for printing a permanent record of tournament games. DOS 6 Quiz [DOS6QIZ] Education Steve Mount; $15 test the user's knowledge and ability to use the features of DOS 6 through a series of 20 questions/tasks. For users who are well-versed in DOS 6.0 and its new features, DOS 6 Quiz will let you know just how good you really are. EatMem. 1.1 [EATMEM] DOS Utilities George A. Theall; $0 is a simple utility to limit memory availability in order to discover the minimum memory requirements of programs. HDDInfo 1.0 [HDDINFO] Hard Disk Utilities Markus Klama; $10 helps to identify technical data for MFM, RLL, ESDI and IDE hard drives. This is useful if you are working on a strange system or if CMOS gets blown away. (Note: Do not use on SCSI drives.) -----September 1993 Additions Disk #4 Little Black Book. 5.7 [LBB] Address Book Vic Baron ASP; $25 is an address book and telephone dialer. It can be installed as a 5K TSR or be run from the command line. You can import/export files, supports international dialing and address formats. and has the ability to print pocket sized personal directory. PSEdit. 3.1 [PSEDIT] Hex Editor Gary C. Crider; $24 is a full screen editor for binary/hex or text files. Rainbow. 1.0 [RAINBOW] Editor Utility David A. Hattel; $29.95 is a utility that will colorize your editor. It is meant to highlight reserved words and make your comments stand out in different colors. You can even have flashing text for those comments that must not be missed. TT2BMP [TT2BMP] Printing Utility Alexander Walter; $20 is a DOS-based program to convert TrueType fonts to LaserJet bitmap fonts so older DOS-based programs can still use the latest printer fonts. Requires a graphics display and a print file generated by a Windows 3.1 application using TrueType fonts. -----September 1993 Additions Disk #5 Ex 1.22 [EX] (J. Andrzej Wrotniak; $30) is a scientific calculator which supports logs, variables, and complex expressions. Other features include plotting, integration, differentiation, summation, and root finding. EZView 5.1 [EZVIEW] (Charles Hill; $20) is a file viewing utility. Features include changing drives and directories, files up to 16MB, hex/text, text search, view contents of archives. Tommy's Insults [INSULT] (Tommy's Toys; $5) generates random insults. [RandXX] 2.0 (Chuck Steenburgh ASP; $20-$30) is a random errorlevel generator for testing batch files or for creating random (temporary) file names. [Reformat] 1.2 (Timothy C. Barmann; $10) will reformat the lines in a text file to any specified length. [Sift] 1.0 (Tay-Jee Software, ASP) is a DOS filter than improves on MORE, FIND and SORT. Golf Score Board [SGOLF] (Bob Howe; $0) keeps track of golf scores for one or more players. It calculates handicaps and averages at different courses. It shows your best and worst games, your problem holes, and your best and worst scores on each course. [Writex] 2.5 (Chuck Steenburgh ASP; $20-$30) lets you have control over the positioning and color of text messages in batch files. [Zerofile] (P. Below; 0$) searches a directory for files of zero length so that you can delete them if you wish. Music: ------ [Born] is a ROL version of the song from Columbia Pictures' "Born Free" by John Barry. Sound card required. [Cats] contains several versions of the popular song "Cat's in the Cradle" by Harry and Sandy Chapin. Patriotic [PATRIOT] is a collection of 10 patriotic song files in .CM1 format. Songs include Star Spangled Banner, Dixie, La Marseillaise, Grand Old Flag, Battle Hymn of the Republic and more. [Seattle] (Barry Robinson; $0) is a CMF file that plays the theme song for the 60's TV show "Here Comes The Brides". Yesterday [YESTRDY] is the Lennon/McCartney song in ROL & CMF format. -----September 1993 General Updates Disk #1: (AB-06) QuickTax 1.03 [QUIKTAX] maintains up-to-date information on your total expected tax liability for the year. (CM-02) PortaCall 2.0 [PCALL] calls you whenever a new message is on your answering machine. Modem required. (CM-02) [Otto] 1.5 ASP ($30) lets you automate communications. New: an option for running scripts within batch files, new hot key capability and a print screen function. (GA-05) TakeNote 6.5 [TAKENOT] is a study tool for chess. (GA-12) A Clues Solution 2.0 [ACLUSL] combines the strategies of Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy, and Trivial Pursuit. (MS-10) Complete Martial Artist 2.0 [CMA] (Dave Smith; $0) is a thorough guide to martial arts. -----September 1993 General Updates Disk #2: (P1-01) LabelMate 1.6 [LBLMATE] lets you add a Print Shop graphic to a label with up to five lines of text. (P2-02) [LJVGA] 2.0 ($10-$50) is a 6.5K TSR that allows you to print any VGA or Super VGA screen to an HP LaserJet or compatible printer. (PG-04) [EMSIF] 2.42 (James W. Birdsall; $5) is an interface to most common EMS functions. (U1-01) [DirX] 1.10 searches for executable files that have been compressed by AXE, DIET, EXEPACK, ICE, LEXEM, LZEXE, PKLITE, SCRNCH, SHRINK and TINYPROG. (U1-01) [DirXC] 1.10 provides a simple means of showing which files have and have not been compressed with an executable file compressor. (U1-01) EXEMaster 2.9 [EXEMSTR] displays information about EXE and COM files, including archiver used, whether it is for DOS or Windows, whether it is a compiled batch file or self-displaying text file and more. -----September 1993 General Updates Disk #3: (U1-03) Fdate 7.3b [FDATESF] lets you do date/time arithmetic in batch files. (U1-03) [Sounder] 3.1 produces from 1-3 random tones for use in batch files. (U1-06) [DLT] 1.6 is an enhanced file deletion utility. (U1-09) HardTrack 1.1 [HARDTRK] (ASP) keeps track of and reports on new, modified, and missing files on your hard disk or network drive. (U2-02) MenuMedia 1.1 [MENUMED] is a quick & easy DOS menu application. (U2-03) [EXC] 2.6 is a simple but powerful script processor for automating DOS applications. (U2-04) Resq 3.2 [RESQ32] (Mike Yarus; $10) is a utility which allows recovery of text otherwise lost in the computer. NEW: searches XMS and EMS memory as well as low RAM. (U2-05) [HiVIDEO] 2.03 (ASP) expands DOS RAM by 96k. -----September 1993 General Updates Disk #4: (U2-07) [ConCopy] 1.50 captures to a disk file all the text going to the screen. (U2-03) Playback 2.3 [PLAYBAC] ($35) ASP captures keystrokes and lets you play them back in a variety of ways. (Quick Look update): [DFat] 2.4 (Bob Eyer; $25) reports file fragmentation in directory format. Monthly Additions Disks Selected =====Windows Programs: ...applications, desktop utilities, games, graphics/icons/fonts/wallpaper, Program Manager & File Manager replacements, programming, utilities. -----September 1993 Windows Additions Disk #1 Autos [AUTOS] Video Utilities is a whimsical animated screen saver module for Windows 3.1. Two animated cars roll about the screen honking at each other. A sound card is required to hear the digitized sound effects. Constitution [CONSTI] History/Government Arbor Verde Press; $5 contains the U.S. Constitution compiled as a Windows Help file. It includes a Quick Reference Guide, Hypertext Jumps, and over 200 search terms and phrases. It displays strikeout text for section superceded or amended with hypertext jumps to the appropriate amendments. MixCase 1.40 [MIXCASE] Word Processing Utilities Ivory Tower Software; $35 converts all-caps documents to more readable mixed case. It works with any text file or any Windows clipboard text. A customizable capitalization dictionary is included. VBRUN200 is required. NoteIt 1.0 [NOTEIT] Desktop Notes Tardis DP Consultants; $3 allows you to quickly jot down any type of free-form information. Saved notes are automatically date and time stamped, and are saved in an ASCII log for later viewing or printing. This is a very handy little electronic scratch pad. Requires VBRUN300. RightOn 2.0 [RIGHTON] Mouse Utilities Steve McCarthy; $15 allows you to program the right and middle mouse buttons to send virtually any keystroke to the window the mouse is in. Features include the ability to send simulated left mouse double clicks, independent left and right mouse button configuration, and the ability to send keystroke combinations of the Shift/ Alt/Control keys. Requires WIN31. Terminator 1.0 [TRMNAT] Desktop Tools Micro-Bytes\Wordware; $0 is a quick exit utility for Windows. It positions a "hot spot" in the lower right hand corner of your desktop. Clicking on this spot produces four buttons that allow you to exit Windows, restart Windows, cancel, or exit Terminator. VBRUN200 is required. WavFX [WAVFX] Sound Utilities Sawbuck Software; $10 provides instant access to your favorite sound files. Multiple groups of WAV files can be created by simply dragging and dropping a file onto one of six buttons. Icons can also be assigned to each individual button. Requires Windows 3.1. WingDate 2.0 [WINGDAT] Desktop Tools Silverwing Systems; $0 is a simple desktop reminder system. It provides a quick visual reminder of upcoming important events. A list of events is displayed in Month/Day order with the current date or next most significant date highlighted. Requires VBRUN200. WordFind 1.0 [WF] Word Games Steven T. Esemplare; $5-$10 is a Windows implementation of the classic wordfind puzzles. You use the mouse to draw a circle around a word, and words are automatically removed from the list when you locate them. Five puzzles are provided, including Christmas, Casino Lingo, Outer Space, Music, and MacGyver. An on-screen timer displays the elapsed time. YACC 1.0 [YACC] Clipboard Utilities Ben Saladino; $5 (Yet Another Clipboard Collector) remembers up to 1000 characters of the text that you copy or cut to the Windows Clipboard. It stores the text in a list box, and to recall information you simply click on an item and copy it back to the clipboard. This is an invaluable tool if you do a lot of cutting and pasting. -----September 1993 Windows Additions Disk #2 CindyBob [CINBOB] Fonts Thomas E. Harvey; $0 is a "thick-and-thin" semi-serif TrueType font. This condensed font works in text or display sizes, and is kerned and hinted. Font Off 1.0 [FOFF] Font Utilities Tardis DP Consultants; $15 helps you manage large amounts of TrueType fonts. It allows you to remove those rarely-used fonts from your system and store them on floppies or other media. You can then easily reload selected fonts when they are needed. This is an excellent way to free up valuable hard disk space. Requires VBRUN300. Macro Manager 1.5 [MACQ] Keyboard Utilities John Ruzicka; $25 lets you program any number of keystrokes into a two-key macro. You simply use a combination of the slash key (/) followed by any of the 26 letter keys. This can save you lots of time if you have to type in repetitive information. VBRUN300 is required. SysClock 2.1 [SYSCLK] Desktop Clocks Green Lantern Software; $0 is a powerful, multi-function clock. Its small display shows the date/time and free system resources. Other features include multiple alarms, file launching, system info display, exit/restart Windows options, and a file finding utility. Requires VBRUN300. TakeOne 1.03 [TAKEONE] Board Games Jimmy Kavanaugh; 5 Pounds IR 2s an interesting variation of peg solitaire. The object is to remove all the markers but one from the board by jumping over other markers either horizontally or vertically. You can play a standard game starting with only one free square, or design your own patterns. Other features include Dead Balls which must be captured with the final move, Watch Balls that cannot be moved until there are only two markers left, instant replay of games at three different speeds, and more. Text Jumper 1.2 [TXTJUMP] Word for Windows Tools Total System Solutions; $15 enables you to easily create hypertext-like documents in Word for Windows. This allows users to point and click a highlighted word to jump to any part of a document. This is an excellent way to automate references and have on-screen definitions of difficult words. -----September 1993 Windows Additions Disk #3 Correct! 1.01 [CORR] Education G.S. Sinclair; $0 is a multiple-choice quiz program for Windows 3.1. It allows you to create a quiz on any subject, and will encode it, play it back, and keep score. Features include an option to display the correct answer, an on-screen timer, several sample quizzes, and more. Capture 1.0 [CAPTUR] Video Utilities Mark Mazurik; $5 is a handy screen capture utility. It allows you to capture an area of the screen and save it to a BMP file. You can also capture an icon-sized image and save it as a Windows icon. A zoom option allows you to view a file up to 400 times its original size. CFL_1993 [CFL93W] Sports Thomas C. Kerr; $32 allows you to predict, track, and update Canadian Football League games. The 1993 weekly CFL game schedule is included. Estimates of the offensive/defensive scoring strengths of each team is also included. (An NFL version is on disk #4460.) Russian Notepad [RUSSPAD] Desktop Tools Bill Tavolga; $0 is a simple English/Russian editor. A special TrueType font is included that allows you to toggle between fonts. A Russian keyboard layout display is also provided. VBRUN200 is required. SmilerShell 1.0 [SSHELL] Command Line Utilities Bardon Data Systems; $10 is a powerful replacement for Program Managers Run dialog. It allows you to type in commands to run DOS programs, Windows applications, or even DOS internal commands. A command line editor lets you retrieve previous commands, and commands may be saved for later playback. Other features include a fast directory change utility, the ability to assign commands to function keys, a clock/free memory/resource display, and much more. WinLock 3.06 [WINLOCK] Security TeraVision; $21 helps protect your Windows and LAN environment from unauthorized use. It can lock Windows and require a password at startup, on demand, or after a user-defined time period. When locked, all keyboard and mouse activity is restricted. Intruders are greeted with a flashing red screen, an audible alarm, and deterrent messages. Other features include screen saver compatibility and an on-screen record of unauthorized password attempts. -----September 1993 Visual Basic Disk AVI Viewer [AVIWIN] VB3: Multimedia Dustin Callaway; $0 demonstrates how to play AVI files through a custom window rather than the default AVI playback window. The program allows for positioning and sizing of the playback window by simply placing a picture box on your VB form. Source code and executable are included. BmpLst [BMPLST] VB: Custom Controls James Shields; $20 provides a list box that displays a bitmap and a line of text for each item in the list. Support is provided for bitmap, metafile, and icon picture formats. Labeldll [LABLDLL] VB: Dlls and Utilities Stephen C. Guimond; $0 contains a DLL that will allow you to read, write, and delete DOS volume labels. It will also allow you to get file and disk information such as total disk space, available disk space, file date, file time, and size of file. A conversion routine to get plain English dates and times out of those returned by the DLL is also provided. Commented Pascal source code is included. [Nugrd3] VB3: Update $0 contains an updated version of the GRID.VBX control that shipped with VB3. This circumvents a problem causing an error "invalid file format" when the setting of the HelpContextID was changed from the default value. [Pic2ic] VB: Graphics Matt Hart; $0 is a project that shows how to make an .ICO compatible bitmap on a picture control. It extracts an icon from a file, then copies the mask image used as an icon/drag icon. Setup [SETUP] VB3: Update Microsoft Visual Basic for Windows 3.0. Setupwiz [SETUPW] VB3: Update contains revision 1.00.544 of SETUPWIZ.EXE for Visual Basic 3.0. Vbcal [VBCAL] VB: Tools Chris Mower; $0 is a calendar module for VB3. It provides a pop-up calendar for users to enter a date. VBCalendar 1.0 [CALEND] VB: Tools Wessex Systems; 5 Pounds Sterling is a handy pop-up calendar. This example requires Visual Basic 3's DLLs and VBX files to be present. VB2list [VB2LIST] VB: Tools Chris Barlow; $0 a Word for Windows 2.0 template that will read Visual Basic MAK files and locate all FRM and BAS files. Then it will read these files and create an outline and table of contents of all Subs and Functions. [Vbmsdn] VB:Database contains a sample application of a custom database. The SQL statement is included. VideoSoft Custom Controls 2.2a [VCC] VB: Custom Controls VideoSoft; $45 is a set of three VB custom controls. The 3D Elastic control automatically resizes forms or other controls. IndexTab allows you to group controls by subject using a familiar notebook metaphor. Awksome allows you to quickly scan and parse text files. VolDLL [VOLDLL] VB: DOS Access Stephen C. Guimond; $0 is a DLL which lets you read, write, and delete DOS volume labels as well as get disk space info and file date/time/size. WinMon 1.1 [WINMON] General Tools David Burki; $25 allows Windows programmers to display debugging information in a list box. The API to display information uses the same variable argument list format as the standard C printf() function. The set of APIs allow the behavior of the list to be controlled by the application being debugged. Winmmsys.txt [MMSYS] VB: General Help/Info Microsoft Corp.; $0 is a text file containing the Windows 3.1 Multimedia API Declarations. -----September 1993 Windows Updates Disk #1: (WI-01) Network Email 2.67 [N_EMAIL] freeware electronic mail package. Now requires VBRUN200. (WI-01) WinFly 1.0b [WINFLY] helps keep track of your frequent flyer miles. (WI-02) Big Number Cruncher 1.05 [BNCRNCH] calculator for numbers up to 45 digits. Requires VBRUN300. (WI-02) PopCal 3.0 [POPCAL] small calendar display. (WI-02) Quickdex 1.07 [QDEX] unique Cardfile replacement. NEW: sound support, improved help, and allows Mac Quickdex import/export. -----September 1993 Windows Updates Disk #2: (WI-02) SOT-Calc 2.01 [SOTCALC] feature-filled desktop calculator. ($30) (WI-02) StarBar 3.1.2 [STARBAR] Star Trek inspired desktop clock. (WI-04) BattleGrid 2.0 [BATGRID] battleship-like board game. (WI-04) Block Breaker 3.10E [BLOK_BR] colorful breakout-type game. New: Windows 3.1 sound and MIDI support. (WI-04) Bow and Arrow 1.0 [B_ARROW] - test your hand-eye coordinate by shoot arrows at balloons. -----September 1993 Windows Updates Disk #3: (WI-04) NFL-1993 for Windows [NFL_WIN] tracks football games. (WI-04) Windows Yacht 2.21 [YACHT] Yahtzee-like dice game. (WI-04) Wordstalk 1.1 [WRDSTOK] (Frank Bielsik; $15) Windows version of the word game Boggle. (WI-04) Yacht-Z 2.21 [YTZ] Windows version of the classic dice game. (WI-05) mDraw 0.6 [MDRAW] object oriented drawing package. ($15) (WI-06) Private Cryptographer 1.03 [PRICRYP] helps safeguard sensitive files. Requires VBRUN300. -----September 1993 Windows Updates Disk #4: (WI-06) Trash Manager 2.0a [TRSHMAN] drag and drop file deletion. ($29) (WI-08) Cvdmkd [CVDMKD] helps convert older QB code to VB. (WI-08) Inicon 2.0 [INICON] custom control dealing with INI files. (WI-08) MemWatch [MEMWTCH]-system resource monitor. Requires VBRUN200. (WI-08) PerCnt 2.0 [PERCNT] paints a percentage bar on your form. (WI-08) Pprtr 3.0 [PPRTR] DLL for printer functions. (WI-08) Stadll [STADLL] TPW code for % complete status box. (WI-09) PrintSwitch 1.3a [PRSWIT] lets you easily change Windows default printer. Requires VBRUN200. -----September 1993 Windows Updates Disk #5: (WI-09) Second Copy 4.0 [SCOP40] backup files in the background. NEW: ability to store multiple copy profiles, improved help, automated install. (WI-09) Uninstall for Windows 1.5 [UN4WIN] helps remove Windows-based applications from your system. (WI-09) WinCommand 1.10b [WN_CMD] DOS-like command prompt. -----Large Windows Programs Basketball Stats 1.1 [BBSTAT] Sports #20244 [2 disks] MOJO Software; $25 keeps track of youth and school basketball team statistics. Averages are automatically calculated after you input the new figures after each game. It also keeps track of player names and telephone numbers. All data may be sorted and printed. VBRUN300 is included. (A baseball version is available on disk #12240, and a football version on disk #12405.) Cross Words Deluxe 1.0 [CWD] Word Games #12474 (WI-04) Strategic Solutions ASP; $20 is an electronic crossword puzzle book for Windows. Features include clue assistance, answer peek, and auto-save of work in progress. The 25 puzzles included can be solved on screen or printed. Double Match 1.0 [DBM10] Misc. Games #12475 (WI-04) Dan Puraty; $12 is a colorful animated game of Concentration for Windows 3.1. Up to four players take turns matching pictures to reveal parts of a hidden phrase. You can play against computer opponents with intelligence levels from dumb to expert. Other features include amusing sound effects, top 10 score recording, hidden bonus squares, and more. A sound card is recommended. VBRUN200 is included on this disk. Ecneuqes 1.1 [ECNEUQ] Card Games #12476 (WI-04) Matthew L. Smith; $10 is an unusual combination board/card game. The object of the game is to place chips on the playing board matching the corresponding card played from your hand. The first player with two rows of five chips wins the game. Features include game save/recall, multimedia sound support, two levels of play difficulty, and more. Requires VBRUN300. Get The Girl! [GTG] Adventure Games #20245 [2 disks] (WI-04) JAB Software; $20 is an adult oriented role-playing game for Windows. The goal of your character is to successfully answer a series of questions by a beautiful girl in hopes of going out with her. When a question is asked, you must choose from a menu of possible answers. If she likes your response, you are allowed more questions. The 256-color pictures, digitized voices/sound effects, and MIDI soundtrack are very well done. Requires WIN31 and VBRUN200. A sound card is highly recommended. Windows Coloring Book 1.0 [WCB10A, WCB10B] Kids Stuff #20246 [2 disks] (WI-04) Kinderware; $30 allows children to use over 400 colors and patterns to color pictures on the computer. Up to ten different users can choose their own icon and save their creations for later viewing or continued coloring. The simple mouse-based controls are suitable for ages 3 and up, and an easy mode can be selected to remove potentially complicated menu commands. Pictures may be printed in black and white or color. This is an excellent tool for teaching eye-hand coordination while encouraging individual artistic expression. Requires Windows 3.0+, VGA, 4 meg RAM, hard drive, and a mouse. VBRUN200 is included on these disks. WinFish 1.0 [WINFISH] Sports Games #20247 (WI-04) 2 Guys Software; $19 is an incredible multimedia fishing simulator. You can select your own rod, reel, and bait depending on which type of fish youre angling for. The fish finder helps you locate a spot containing fish. When a strike occurs, youll have to be quick to set the hook or youll be telling stories about the one that got away. This game features beautiful 256-color animations and realistic digitized audio clips. Requires WIN31, 3meg RAM, and VGA. Available on 3.5" 1.44mb MegaDisk and CD only. WinGO! [WINGO] Misc. Games #12479 (WI-04) Bob Dolan; $10-$15 is a fun and challenging game of Bingo for Windows. It allows you to play against several different levels of computer opponents. Other features include multi-card games, high score listing, speed control, and more. VBRUN200 is included on this disk. Aerobicalc 1.0 [AEROBIC] Health/Fitness #12480 (WI-01) Bruce Powel Douglass; $0 an aerobic calculator that computes aerobic points, caloric expenditure, and average speed for a variety of activities. Supported physical activities include running, cycling, swimming, and walking. ArcDIB 2.12 [ARCDIB] Graphics Utilities #20248 Better Maps; $28 is a powerful tool for storing and organizing graphical images and multimedia files. You can create catalogs of compressed images, video clips, and sound clips. Files can easily be extracted from these catalogs, saving huge amounts of disk space. Support is provided for PCX, BMP, GIF, TIF, WMF, WPG, FAX, DCX, and TARGA images. Other features include image conversion, the ability to record and attach sound files to images, OLE support, thumbnail preview, image manipulation functions, a scrollable note field for each image, and much more. Available on 3.5" 1.44mb MegaDisk and CD only. The Bill Drawer 1.0 Home Accounting #20249 (WI-01) MelissaSoft Systems; $15-$30 helps you pay your bills in a timely manner. It organizes your bills by their due date and lets you review, select, and write checks for only the bills you desire. Features include support for recurring bills, monthly and yearly statistical reports, full check register with supporting detail, full account reconciliation functions, and much more. Available on 3.5" 1.44mb MegaDisk and CD only. [CDBase] CD/Multimedia #12481 (WI-01) MicroWerks; $25 will catalog your CD's, songs, performers, time, etc. The program also includes a CD player so that you can play your favorite songs as well. ChartTamer 2.0 [CTAMR2] Graphics Applications #20250 [2 disks] (WI-05) Software Excellence by Design; $30 lets you easily create presentation quality 3-D Bar, Pie, Area, and line charts. You have total control of colors and fill patterns, and you can add any bitmapped image as a background to your chart. A powerful "What If" command lets you change any data point by simply clicking on it. Other features include the ability to import ASCII data files, clipboard support, and much more. Requires VBRUN200. Clock-IN! 1.2 [CLOCKIN1, CLOCKIN2] Business Apps #20251 [2 MegaDisks] (WI-01) Mission Critical Software; $499 is a comprehensive time and attendance package for businesses. It provides an executive In/Out board, professional timeslips with integrated spreadsheets, and employee time and attendance charging. Other features include integral bar coding, 30 common charge databases, automatic E-Mail triggers with employee/productivity exceptions, picture and bar code ID card printing, Human Resource management, multimedia support, network compatibility, and much more. Requires WIN31 and a hard disk. This professionally done program is available on two 1.44mb MegaDisks for the special disk fee of $9.99. The Flashcards System for Windows 1.0 [FSW] Education: Math #20252(WI-03) You and Me Products; $29 helps teach elementary mathematical concepts to children from kindergarten through the 3rd grade. The Mathplay section contains a number line display, addition/subtraction/multiplication tables, and an apple counting game. The Flashcards program provides problems for the child to answer. Parent/Teacher controls allow you to customize problems for each child. Requires WIN31, VGA, and a hard disk. Available on 3.5 1.44mb MegaDisk and CD only. GrabIt Pro 3.1 [GRABPRO] Screen Capture Utilities #12483 (WI-05) Software Excellence by Design; $35 allows you to quickly capture screens in Windows 3.1. The program runs as an icon and can capture an entire window, client area, the Desktop, or a user-selected area. Up to 400 images can be captured and viewed before being saved or copied to the clipboard. Screens can be saved in monochrome, 16-color, and 256-color bitmaps. Images may also be stored in space-saving RLE format. ISI Volume Viewer/Editor 0.8 [ISIVE] Multimedia Utilities #12484 (WI-07) Imagery Studios, Inc.; $39 lets you create your own computerized "volumes" containing up to 20 pages of bitmaps and wave files. This is a powerful tool for making a digital scrapbook, computerized family album, or high quality business presentations. Requires WIN31 and VBRUN300. IXFWIN 1.0 [IXFWIN] Windows Programming Tools #12502 (WI-08) Orange Software; $88 turns C or C++ code into a cross referencing database. It lets you interactively search and browse through programs. This can help programmers better understand their source code and enable them to reuse their software. JSSi Garden 1.1A [JSSIGAR] Home Applications #12485 (WI-01) JSSi; $20 is a garden management package for Windows. It allows you to draw the layout of your garden, showing where everything is located. Information on each crop can contain a generic name, specific name, number of units, a comment field, and specific dates. All data may be viewed in tabular format, sorted, and printed. VBRUN300 is included on this disk. Kana Guess 1.0 [KANAG] Education: Languages #12486 (WI-03) Blaine Leckett; $5 is a Concentration-type game for learning Japanese Kana. Features include a practice mode, optional timer, context-sensitive help, and more. Requires VBRUN200. Labels by Design 1.0 [LBD] Printing Utilities #12487 (WI-09) John A. Spicer; $20 is a unique address label printing program for Windows 3.1. It can use PrintMaster, Print Shop, and New Print Shop graphics as well as TrueType fonts. Graphics can also be imported from the clipboard or captured directly from the screen. This is designed for dot-matrix printers, and can print single labels or up to 9999 labels at a time. A preview function allows you to view graphic files before importing, and a sample graphic library is included. (See section DP-01 for disks containing additional graphics.) Letterhead Pro for WordStar for Windows [LPWSW] Word Processing #12488 (WI-01) CPI Software; $35 contains seven templates, six logos, and a watermark for WordStar for Windows. Other versions are available for different word processors: #12144 for WordPerfect for Windows, #12242 for Word for Windows, and #12243 for Ami Pro for Windows. MWCC Object Library 1.0 [MWCC] Pascal for Windows #12489 (WI-08) Microworks; $0 provides a comprehensive set of 3-dimensional windows, dialogs and custom controls to use in application development. You can easily implement an enhanced Borland look, an enhanced Microsoft 3D look, or use the librarys own custom 3D style. Example code for several applications is included. Requires PKUNZIP (on #1705) to extract files. Newton 1.0 [NEWTON] Astronomy #12490 (WI-03) Paul Keet; $10 is a planetary/solar system construction kit for Windows. 3.1. It allows you to experiment with things like binary and trinary stars, the sling shot effect, retrograde motions, energy transfer in near collisions, and a whole lot more. This is a fairly technical program, and should be used in conjunction with any good book on physics, astronomy, or space science. Nutri-Base Jr. 1.0a [NBJR] Health #12503 (WI-01) Munchware; $15 is a nutritional database and analysis program. A list of all the food items consumed during the day can be quickly compiled, and the resulting daily totals of each nutrient can be displayed. The program automatically analyzes the nutrient information and calculates what percentage of total calories comes from carbohydrates, protein, fat, and from saturated fat. A Nutrition Reference section is included to provide you with basic information about each nutrient. RE 2.0 [RE20B] Virtual Desktop #12491 (WI-02) Christopher Mes; $0 is a combination utility which offers four virtual desktops, four quick-launch buttons, time, date and resource displays and more. Includes VBRUN300. RetireA for Windows [RETIRA] Financial Applications #12492 (WI-01) Tom McGrath; $15 is a powerful retirement planning tool. You simply input income and expenses, and the program produces line charts, bar graphs, and other reports indicating the monthly cash flow situation over a selected 30 year time period. SkyMap 1.3 [SKYMAP_1, SKYMAP_2, SKYMAP_3] Astronomy #20253 [3 disks] Christopher A. Marriott ASP; 15-50 Pounds Sterling is a powerful astronomy package for Windows 3.1. It can display a map of the sky as seen from any point on Earth for any date between 4000 BC and 8000 AD. A database of more than 15,000 stars down to magnitude 7 is provided. Detailed information about stars, planets, constellations, and deep sky objects can be obtained by clicking on an item with the right mouse button. Other features include the ability to link GIF or BMP graphic files to objects, color and black-and-white printing, and much more. A 386+ is recommended. Statkeeper 1.3 [STATKEEP] Sports #12494 (WI-04) William G. Shipley; $25 records golf scores and course information. You can generate statistics including averages for par 3's, 4's and 5's and number of birdies, pars, and bogies. You can also calculate 18 hole and 9 hole handicaps based on 1993 USGA rules. VBRUN200.DLL included. SuperBar 2.0a [SPRBAR20] Menu Utilities #12495 (WI-06) William J. Wood ASP; $24 lets you easily create customized toolbars that can be added to any Windows application. Each toolbar can contain several buttons, each assigned to an application menu command or a recorded macro. Toolbars can be Icon Only, Text Only, or Icon and Text, and may be placed in a variety of positions. This is a powerful productivity enhancer that places often-used commands a single mouse click away. An integrated icon manager is included that allows creating, editing, and deleting of custom icons. VideoBASE 1.0 [VBASE] Home Applications #12496 (WI-01) Dale W. Eckert; $35 allows you to catalog your video tape collection. An unlimited number of databases may be created, and each database may have up to 2500 entries. You can track a movies title, year of production, running time, rating, category, and personal comments. You can also print a list of all movies, or a list of movies in a specific category. VBRUN200 is included on this disk. Visual FEDIT Custom Control 2.5 [FEDIT] VB: Custom Controls #12497 (WI-8a) Computer Mindware Corp.; $159 a superclass of the EDIT control that provides the developer with all facilities needed to ensure that the data received by a program is correct. Features include full support for VBX format 2.0 and 1.0, masked input for 5 data styles, clipboard support, 19 date and time manipulation procedures, over 60 API functions, and more. WinComic 2.01a [WCOMIC] Home/Hobbies #12498 (WI-01) Logicorp, Inc.; $15 is a database program for serious comic book collectors. It lets you easily catalog your collection with information on publisher, grade, buy/sell price, and much more. Personal notes and a scanned image of the cover may be attached to a record. A variety of reports can be generated including a "want list" and financial records. WinScribe 1.0 [WSSW] Church/Religion #20254 [2 disks] (WI-01) L. E. Brown, Jr.; $55 is a comprehensive resource management tool for Pastors, academic theologians and Bible College or Seminary students. It allows tracking of books, journal and periodical readings, sermon manuscripts, illustrations, and filing cabinet folders. Special indexing and high speed search capabilities make it easy for you to find any word or combination of words, no matter where you originally filed it. Requires VBRUN200. WizManager 1.1 [WINMGR11] File Management #12505 (WI-06) Mijenix; $40 a powerful add-on for Windows 3.1 File Manager. It provides a buttonbar interface, a command line box for DOS commands, a system and disk information display, and customized launch menus. It will also allow you to print the contents of a directory or print a directory tree. Other features include a task manager, exit/restart/reboot options, and much more. Word Treasure 1.0 [WTWIN] Education #20255 [2 disks] (WI-03) Charles D. Simmons; $10 provides an interesting way to improve your vocabulary. It is designed to display a new word each time you turn on your computer. An optional timer allows a new word to be popped up at a given time interval during the day. Over 500 words are included, providing pronunciation, meaning, and usage. You can also add your own words. An optional hangman game will test your new-found knowledge. Both Windows and DOS versions are included. =====Home: ...games, home accounting/finance, eduation, astrology, collecting, diet, health, food & drinks, genealogy, home management, science/weather/maps, vehicle management, misc. -----Games -----September 1993 Games Additions Disk Crossword Construction Kit. 1.2 [CCK] Crossword Puzzles Kijin Jung; $19 creates a 15x15, diagonally symmetrical crossword puzzle. It outputs the grid and solution as EPS files for a professional appearance. Clues can be saved separately as text files, which you may format as you desire. Chess Replay 3 [CHESSRP] Chess Chessrpl Software; $20 allows you to store chess games on disk and have the PC display them on screen move-by-move. Sample games are included. Requires VGA. HE 1.1 [HE_V11] Card Games Austin E. Bryant; $40 is a computerized version of Texas Hold 'Em. It does not have graphics as fancy as some games, but it is an excellent program for training to play in the real world. Protec Pinball [PROTEC] Pinball Game Wilfried Lottermoser; 35 German Marks is a pinball game. The intro screens are in German, but there is a README file in English with instructions, and that's all you really need to play pinball. The action was a little too fast on a 486-66, but was still playable. GinRummy 4.2 [GINRUM] Card Games David Teach; $any lets you play Gin against the computer. Features include selectable gin, game and knock scores, optional Oklahoma rules, game difficulty, and more. -----Games - Large Programs 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. 3D-Cribbage [CRIBBAGE] Card Games #20233 [2 disks] Mark R. Juneau; $25 is the classic card game of cribbage. You play against the computer. It features a self-scoring cribbage board. Requires VGA. Executioners [EXECUTE] Arcade Games #20234 (GA-03) [2 disks] Bloodlust Software; $35 is an intense fighting game for 1 or 2 players. It features a total of eight fighting moves, and machine guns, and a variety of strange super-villians. It also features music and digitized sounds effects. Requires VGA and 386+ with at least 1 meg of expanded memory. Major Stryker 1.4 [STRYKER] Arcade Games #20235 (GA-03) Apogee Software; $34 is a shoot-em-up space combat game. You pilot a high-powered space ship through space stations, lava caves and alien cities. Features include triple-parallax scrolling, EGA/VGA highspeed animated graphics, Ad Lib and Sound Blaster support, cinematic sequences, joystick support, a demo mode, and the ability to save/restore up to 10 games. Available on 3.5" 1.44mb MegaDisk and CD only. Monster Bash 2.1 [BASH] Graphical Adventure Games #20236 (GA-01) Apogee Software; $39 is a horror adventure game with gruesome graphics. Johnny Dash must save his dog from the underworld of Count Chuck. The program features 8 megs compressed animated and scrolling EGA/VGA graphics, digitized sound and voice effects, Ad Lib and SoundBlaster support, uniquely animated monsters, opening and closing animated/cinematic sequences, joystick support, three skill levels, save/restore up to 10 games, built in hints, and many secret places and bonuses. Requires a 286 or faster. Available on 3.5" 1.44mb MegaDisk and CD only. Scud Atak2 1.0 [SCUDATK] Arcade Games #12439 David Peterson; $10 is a missile-attack type game. Although this is an update, we are giving it a fresh write-up because it is such a massive improvment over the old version. The original had excellent graphics, but was too simple (only one missile at a time) and poor sound. This version still has excellent graphics and has added a synthesizer music soundtrack and digitized sound effects and speech (with sound cards), and joystick and mouse support. With the multiple missiles and aircraft, this is now a very challenging and enjoyable game. (Included on the CD with special permission of the author.) Space Chase I: City Under Siege [STORM1] #20237 (GA-03) Safari Software Productions; $19-$34 Jason Storm battles the forces of evil for control of a vast city. Features 10 levels of play, excellent EGA/VGA graphics, and original Adlib/SB music tracks. Requires 286-16+, 530K RAM (580K and sound card for music), EGA/VGA and 2MB of disk space. Preinstalled in DOS\STORM on the CD. Patience Abroad 1.0 [ABROAD] Card Games #12438 (GA-04) CoCoWare/David A. Cowles ASP; $10 contains nine foreign Solitaire card games and puzzles. Games include The Great Wall, Monte Carlo, Four Kingdoms, Sir Tommy, Russian Patience, Beleaguered Castle, and more. No graphics required. Games Quick Looks: ------------------ CAD's LottoTexas Software 1.2 [LOTTOTX] (CAD Computing; $15) graphs, analyzes, and displays past winning Texas lottery numbers. It will generate number picks for you. This demo version will not save new data. [FLotto] v4.0 (PC Light, ASP; $20) is a lotto program for any Pick 3, 4, 5, 6, & 7 lottery game. It offers wheeling for up to 50 numbers. It does random and filtered quick picks. It calculates odds and keeps track of winning numbers. Global War 3.0 [GLOBEWAR] (Rockland Software Productions; $20) is a Risktype war game. Features include bitmapped graphics, digital and FM sound, navy, air, carriers, airborne, bases, supply rules, nukes, reenforecements, multi-attack, and more. Roulette 40-Number [ROUL40] (Dale A. Nichols; $0) is a simple, ASCII-based version of roulette, of interest primarily to those without graphics. Universal Hint System 1.5 [UHS] (Jason Strautman; $10-$15) is a set of hint files for 58 different games. These games are mainly adventures including most Sierra and Dynamix adventures: Alone In The Dark, Goblins, Indy 3 and 4, Monkey Island 1 and 2, Spellcasting 101 through 301, and more. CFP Toy Box 3.05 [TOYBOXS] (Steve Schustack; $20) is a collection of toys for children. The toys enable one to create colorful drawings, play and replay music by making the PC's keys act like the keys of a piano, listen to computer generated music, see the time and date, and even take a trip to another universe. [YahWho] (Keith Greer; $0) is a computerized version of Yahtzee. BP7-TV source code is included. Games Updates: -------------- (GA-02: #20016/3640) [HUMBUG] 4.5 is a hilarious all-text adventure game with a decidedly English twist. ($20) (GA-03: #20165) [Oxyd] 3.9 is an incredible arcade/puzzle game. (GA-03: #3097) [QUATRIS] II+ 1.0-S2 is a top-notch Tetris-like game featuring an impressive 3D graphical user interface, bombs, robots, extended shapes, and numerous other advanced features. ($25) (GA-04: #27078/1599) Blackjack! 2.40d [BLACKJAC] ASP is a completely accurate simulation of the game Blackjack or 21. (GA-04: #27280) The Big Games Package [TEGL1, TEGL2, TEGL3, TEGL4] (TEGL Systems Corp.; $35) is a set of games for EGA/VGA. The following were updated this month: Mille Bornes, Mahjong Solitaire, Klondike Solitaire, and Big2. (GA-04: #27672/1973) Patience 10 4.0 [PATENC40] (ASP) is a program with ten distinctly different versions of solitaire selectable from a menu. (GA-05: #0884) Mah Jongg 4.1 ASP [MAHJONGG] is a solitaire game played with Chinese tiles. (GA-05: #4648) Moraff's Morejongg 3.0 [MOREJONG] is a unique implementation of the ancient tile game Mah-jongg. (GA-07: #4633) Pro Football Edge! 93 2.0 [PFE] is a NFL handicapping program for NFL Winners and Over/Unders. (GA-08: #27288/1879) Pro Football Linemaker 3.0 [PFL] predicts the results of football games. NEW: statistics from 1992-1993's football season. (GA-09: #27079/1522) Bowl-101 12.2 [BOWL101] (ASP) is a bowling league management program. (GA-11: #27677/2709) Fantasy Football Assistant 2.1 [FFA] helps fantasy football league commissioners automate record keeping involved with running a league. NEW: divisions for 8 team leagues, 22-player team rosters, support for team quarterbacks and kickers, enter and report transactions and team owner information, customizable point values for the performance and distance scoring methods, importing, and an NFL roster list. -----Home, Misc. Anytime/Suntime 1.2 [ANYTIME] Time Tables #12441 (MS-08) RejTech; $5-$7 Anytime shows the current time for up to 11 cities world-wide. Suntime shows sunrise/sunset times, as well as other information, for a city selected from a database of over 1300 cities. Bond-Tech's Bond Calculator 1.0 [BONDCALC] Investment #12442 (AH-03) Bond-Tech, Inc.; $52 computes statistics for notes, bonds, money markets, odd coupons, and more. Computations include price, yield, yield equivalents, modified duration, convexity, horizon returns, dollar extensions, and more. LaserMax for Managing Your Money 1.25 [LMYM] Check Making #12443 (AH-01) LaserMax Software, Inc.; $49 prints MYM checks using a HP PCL Laserjet compatible printer. Checks are printed on blank check stock for a fraction of the cost of preprinted checks. Signatures and logos can be printed on checks. It is compatible with both the HP and CHEQsys MICR encoding systems and comes with the Elfing MICR soft font. LaserMax for Pacioli v1.25 [LPACIOLI] Home Accounting #12444 (AH-01) LaserMax Software, Inc.; $49 produces complete checks using blank check stock and any HP LaserJet+ compatible printer, Pacioli 2000. Seven types of checks can be printed including Pacioli and Quicken Laser styles. This package includes the Elfring MICR soft font, support for the HP MICR system, and laser generated signatures and logos. -----Quick Looks --Quick Looks, Home, Miscellaneous: [CDMusic] (Wolf Kurtz; $0) reads info from music CDs, lets you enter disc and track names, and saves it in Paradox-compatible data files. Requires CD-ROM drive and a Paradox compatible database. C source included. Cubmate Lite 1.2 [CUBMAT12] (Kevin Coleman; $35) keeps track of cub scout packs/dens. Features include nine pages per scout, adult leader tracking, mail merge, several reports, book inventory module, pack/den inventory and financial modules, permission slips and more. G-ScoutMate 1.1 [GSMATE11] (Kevin Coleman; $35) keeps track of girl scout troops. Features include 22 pages per scout, adult leader tracking, mail merge, several reports, book inventory module, troop inventory and financial modules, new try-its, permission slips and more. Label Master and Catalog 1.0 [LMASTER] (Lenn Gutierrez; $23) is an audio tape label printer and catalog. It categorizes and prints tape labels on Epson Fx, Lx or compatible printer. Available on 3.5" 1.44mb MegaDisk and CD only. Scoutmate 3.2 [SCOUT32] (Kevin Coleman; $35) keeps track of boy scout troops. Features include nine pages per scout, adult leader tracking, mail merge, several reports, merit badge book inventory module, troop inventory and financial modules, permission slips, merit badge counselor module and more. [ESPTest] 1.0 (Phil Mosier ASP; $40) is an extrasensory perception test. It records your attempts to guess cards using clairvoyance, or precognition. Pascal source code is included. Personal Possessions 1.0 [POSSESS] (Relative Software Innovations; $20) is a collection of programs to organize your personal property. It keeps track of audio, video, and home inventory. Multiple sort and print options are included. TripFinder [TRIPFIND] (Lynn Cathay; $20) contains a database of vacation/travel packages which can be accessed by selected criteria. (See screen shot.) Information is provided for cruise, tour and resort categories. Requires 4+MB of disk space, 640K RAM. (Preinstalled: \DOS\TRIP) X10 Direct Control 1.3 [X10DC] (David Huras; $20) sends commands to the X10 CP290 controller. It features a point and click DOS character interface. It also supports a ON/OFF/DIM for multiple unit codes, self-test, set base house code, set time and x10.dat file format. --Quick Looks, Financial: CheckStar III [CHKSTR] (Salim Sindhi & Bob Simpson; $20) is a check management program that tracks fixed and estimated expenses. The Living Assistant - Financial Module 0.5 [TLA_FM] (Custom Computer Systems; $20) is a checkbook, savings, and budget management program. It can handle multiple accounts for multiple people. Money & Banks 1.4 [M&B140] (RCCO Research Associates; $28) is a personal banking manager. It keeps records for personal, professional or business banking. Stock Analyst 1.0 [STOCKANA] (Visionary Software ASP; $60) is a stock analysis program. Features include buy/sell analysis of stocks, line, bar, p&f charts, room for up to 1,500 stocks with 32,000 prices each, and more. We found the program's input to be cumbersome and to have poor error recovery/trapping, but the graphs and analysis are worth a look. --Quick Looks, Education: PC Storybooks 2.0 [PCSTORY] (Rebecca Thomas; $20) are short graphical stories intended to introduce pre-schoolers to computers. Graphics are CGA and not very fancy, but should still be of interest to young children. -----Updates --Home Updates: (AH-01: #12190) Financial Wizard 5.4 [FINWIZ] is an investment and loan analysis program. (AH-01: #4950) Lasermax For Quicken 1.25 [LMQ] is for printing your own checks for use with Quicken. (ED-06: #4953) Skill-Oriented Algebra [SOA] generates printed algebra exercises and tests for elementary to junior high students. (ED-11: #12029) Total Recall 3.02 [TTLRCALL] lets you create computerized study programs. NEW: DOS 6.0 support. (MS-01: #4719) Personal Numerologist 2.11S [PNUMER] produces professional looking, in-depth personality reports based on a name and birth date. (MS-02: #12445) Murphy's Law [MURPHY] displays one of Murphy's laws or some other clever quote each time you boot up. NEW: additional text files including quotes of wisdom, aphorisms and unusually stupid pronouncements by famous intelligent people. C source is included. (MS-07: #4428) Around the House 1.43 [HOUSE] (ASP) is an information manager for the home. (MS-07: #20033/4335) [SMART10] 1.9 ASP is an X10/CP290 home control system. (MS-08: #27228/2491) [Whist] 3.0 calculates and prints weather histograms. (MS-09: #27230/3020) Vehicle Record System Plus 2.0 [VRS] is a comprehensive vehicle management system for homes and businesses. ($70) =====Business: ...accounting/finance, business applications, time management, communications, networking, database, mailing list managers, spreadsheets Analytic Hierarchy Process 3.01 [AHP] Decision Analysis #12446 (BZ-06) Armada Systems; $99 uses a proven analytical method to aid in decision and problem analysis. It helps quantify subjective or intangible factors. Applications include location planning, strategic planning, cost/benefit analysis, recruiting, employee evaluation, resource allocation, product evaluation, sales forecasting, taste testing, problem analysis, and market research. Business StartManager 2.0 [BPIM20] PIM #12447 John Linnabury; $39.95 is a personal information manager with a very attractive graphical interface. From a menu bar, you can pop up a phone book, calendar, infobase, to-do list, reminder, journal, daily planner and more. Marketing Letter Sender 6.0 [MLS] Marketing #20238 (BZ-06) [2 disks] Paul Sax ASP; $99 is a system for sending and tracking sales and marketing letters. It keeps track of appointments, callbacks, revenues/expenses, and collections. Features include Rolodex and label printing, phone dialing, proposal and invoice generator and mail merging with Wordstar, Word and WordPerfect. Requires 10MB or more of disk space. -----Quick Looks: --Quick Looks, Accounting/Finance: Account Pro [ACCT_PRO] (W.R. Aus der Au) is a double-entry accounting program. Features: user-definable accounting periods, budgets, forecasts, passwords. Gist Plus(+) 1.01 [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. This is an update to a previous Quick Look. [SGL] 1.3 (I. J. Smith; $35) is a small business double entry general ledger program. It features auto-look up tables, cash disbursements, cash receipts, general journal modules, up to 999,999 accounts with sample files included, grouping of accounts for subsidiary or other income/cost centers, and reports that can be viewed on screen, sent to a file or printer. Requires 512K and a hard disk. [ProBill] S1.0 (Dimestore Software; $69.95) is a complete billing & accounts receivable system for services and products. Features include full A/R tracking with aging and extensive reporting. [Transact] 5.7E (Data-Labs; $?) is an inventory record keeping system designed just for small-businesses. It includes point of entry, point of sale invoices, inventory control, and mailing label manager. Accounts receivables includes aged billing. It is fully integrated and provides a slick customer/service order tracking system. [TRAXX] 1.1 (F$OFT; $95 [2 disks]) is a Point of Sale program. Workers Compensation 2.0 [WORKCOMP] (International Business Saveware; $30) helps companies budget, monitor, forecast and lower their Workers Compensation and Liability premiums. WARNING: The program must be un-ZIP-ed from the CD to a HD floppy and installed from there. The installation program modifies your CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files without warning and REBOOTS YOUR MACHINE. If you are in a multi-window environment, you will lose any unsaved data in the other windows. --Quick Looks, Information Management: ChronoLog 1.1 [CHRONOLG] (ComputerEase Business Systems ASP; $35) is a personal information resource manager. Features include easy event entry, reminding, resource utilization matrix, conflict-checking, keyword and string searching, export/import, printing of appointment schedules and calendars, phone book with autodial, calculator, to-do list, DOS directory, and perpetual calendar. Past events form endless logbook. Requires 500K hard drive and a Hayes modem for autodial. CalMinder 3.0 [CALMINDR] (Jeff Joseph Brown; $20) is a calendar-reminder program. Contact Tracking System 2.3 [CTS] (Gordon Fuller; $25) is an extensive program for keeping track of business contacts. Req. 3+MB of disk space. Executive Address Book 3.1 [EXADB3] (American Digital Corp.; $45). Features: two-sided page printing; pages fit over 20 different pocket secretaries; maintains Rolodex; many other features. Hardware/Software Information Manager 1.3 [HSIM13] (Dean Davis; $29) keeps track of all information related to your hardware and software. This makes it easy to keep track of what software is licensed to a system, hardware serial numbers, warranty periods, where to get tech support and repairs, etc. Little Lists 1.0 [LITLIST] (Elvis DeKoj, ASP; $18) is a simple database program. A list of any kind can be created without any prior knowledge of programming or database systems. It supports dBase III-compatible files and allows you to view and manipulate database files created by other programs. Requires 512K RAM and a hard disk. [MyBASE] 2.1 (Armada Systems; $25) is a multi-purpose database package. It can be used in DOS or Windows to view, edit, sort, search, group, filter, replace, copy/paste, merge, print, fax or export data in various ways. It creates, reads, and writes standard dBASE III files. Other features include online help, password access, programmable merge utility, automatic swap and run of external programs, telephone dialer, data entry validation, quick index, view setup, and more. Requires 640K RAM, 1MB disk space. Public Address 3.07A [PA307A] (Chris M. Davies, ASP; $20) is a full-featured address manager. It prints labels, envelopes, lists, phone books, merge files. Task Master 1.0 [TASKMA] (A.A. Morell, ASP; $35) is a versatile To-Do list and project manager. Time Frame 2.1 [TF21] (R.K. Ludington, ASP; $25.00) is a user-friendly personal information and contact manager. --Quick Looks, Communications: [GIFLINK] 1.12 (White River Software; $30-$35) is a download protocol which allows you to view GIF files on BBSs while they are being transmitted. VGA required. LDSTAT For Telix [LDSTAT] (Gregory E. Shultz Sr.; $10) analyzes long-distance calls and charges based on the Telix log file. Telix required (#20095). MyComm 2.01 [MYCMM2] (Ken Dorshimer; $25) is a good, basic telecommunications program. What it lacks in exotic features, it makes up for in ease of use. --Quick Looks, Other Business Apps: [911HELP] 1.1b (RAD Software; $99) is an emergency dispatching and record keeping program. It is intended for small and medium size law enforcement and emergency response agencies. Requires a hard disk. Bulk Mail Sorting Program 1.0 [BULKSORT] (Gerri Hesselberg; $20) sorts your mailing list by five-digit ZIP Code in proper order for third class (bulk) mailing. This program is current with the postal regulations as of June 14, 1993. Requires dBase compatible program. [EZParts] 1.5 (Simple Software; $15) is a demo version (limited to 15 records) of an inventory program. Inventory Interface 6.2 [II62] (Data Interface; $135) is an inventory management system. It features modules for bill of materials, point of sale, accounts receivable and purchase order systems. It offers a comprehensive and efficient way for assessing the required quantities of raw materials, spares, products, time and or services. The WYSIWYG interface allows you to customize reports while browsing data on the screen. Labels, PO's, invoices and packing lists can be customized to print on blank paper or reprinted forms. Multi-page PO's, invoices and packing lists are supported. Requires 540K memory, hard drive, and DOS 3.3+. (2 disks.) Super Barber 3.3 [BARBRD] (Christian Gotschim; $499.95) organizes and plans statistical data for businesses. Super Macro Library for Lotus 1-2-3 3.4 [SUPERMAC] (ASP) is an update to a collection of macros for Lotus 1-2-3. VideoSoft 1.0 [VIDEOSFT] (H. Radford; $199.99) is an application for running video store daily operations. -----Updates: --Business Updates: (AB-02: #27805 [2 disks]) [ICP] 9.0 is a full featured inventory control program. (AB-02: #27625 [3 disks]) Retail Solution 2.2 [RETAIL] is a point-of-sale, retail inventory and customer tracking program. (AB-04: #27449/3071) Painless Payroll 5.6 [PAYROLL] is an excellent payroll program. NEW: QTD and YTD figures, Medicare added to W2 printing for 1992, revised 1992 tax tables, and 1993 withholdings. (BZ-02: #27618 [3 disks]) PC/Bill 3.4 [PCBILL] is a time and billing system for professionals who bill by hourly rates or dollar amounts for specific services. (BZ-02: #27118 [2 disks]) Service Plus 6.0 [SERVICE] is a service-call tracking system. (BZ-08: #20225) Shareware Tracker 3.01 (ASP) [SHARETRK] is a business system for shareware authors. (BZ-04: #4990) Executive Address Book 3.01 [EXECADDR] maintains and prints professional address books and Rolodex information. (BZ-04: #27017 [2 disks]) In-Control 6.0 [INCONTRL] is a salesman's prospect tracking, calendar and revenue/expense/time tracking/billing program. (BZ-05: #4470) Dyna-Quote 3.0 [DYNAQUOT] is a complete sales quotation program. NEW: Formerly Quotation Faster. ($25) (BZ-05: #27127) ProDev*Quote 4.5 [PDQUOTE] ASP aids you in preparing quotations from a large inventory for stock items, sub-assemblies, processes, special one-of-a-kind items, etc. NEW: increased compatibility for DOS 6.0. ($70) Available on 3.5" 1.44mb MegaDisk and CD only. (BZ-06: #27649/1960) Decision Analysis System 2.45 [DAS] is a set of two programs for evaluating alternatives. (BZ-07: #27132/1779) [URAR] 4.3.6 is the Uniform Residential Appraisal Report processor for FHA, VA, and Conventional loan appraisal reports. (BZ-08: #4154) Home Sales System 3.21 [HSS] ASP automates the ordering process for Avon agents. --Communications Updates: (CM-02: #27143 [3 disks] [COM_AND] 2.91 (ASP) is a full-powered communications program that has accessory applications to be used with it. (CM-02: #27149/2258) [DSZ] external protocols which allow most communications programs to use the ZModem, YModem, or XModem protocol to transfer files. Updated the DSZEXE version of the program which is sometimes faster than the COM version. Now supports IRQ9-IRQ15 5-393 X/YMODEM. (CM-02: #4234) Modem Doctor 5.2s [MODEMDOC] is a professional diag nostic tool for testing modem and serial ports. (CM-02: #3910) Private Secretary 1.01 [PRIVATE] (Unique Software ASP; $25) manages an auto FAX/modem/answering machine on one line. (For merly named Total Ctl.) (CM-02: #27421) [Telemate] 4.11 is a communications program that is powerful, but easy to use. Available on 3.5" 1.44mb MegaDisk and CD only. --Database & Other Updates: (DB-02: #27305/3083) [BIBL] 8.44a keeps track of books and articles. (DB-03: #27025 [4 disks]) [PC_File] 7.0 (ASP) is a very popular relational database manager. NEW: multiple views per database, exporting to DBF format, and spell checking. (SS-01: #27057/3253) [ALITE] 1.20r ASP is a powerful spreadsheet program with graphics, yet requires only 150K of RAM. (WP-01: #27070 [4 disks]) PC Write 4.1 [PC_WRITE] is a powerful word processing program. NEW: graphics support, envelope printing, customizable status line, stress indicator, and more. The stress indicator is an interesting idea. It measures the amount of stress accumulated on the hands/wrists and displays it as a percentage of the maximum allowed. Users can ease off when the stress rate gets too high. Registration: $69. =====Words & Graphics ...Desktop publishing, graphics, printer fonts and utilities, word processing programs and editors, word processing tools. FontEdit 2.1 [FONTEDIT] Laser Printers #12450 (P2-02) Alexander Walter; $30 is font editor for HP LaserJet printers. It allows you to view and edit any HP LaserJet bit-mapped soft font. It supports portrait or landscape, fixed or proportional, and can convert among them. It handles 110 point (VGA), 80 point (EGA), 88 point (Herc and AT&T), or 44 point (CGA). You can sculpt individual pixels, or use the many built-in special effects and area shapes. It imports PrintShop icon graphics and characters from black and white PCX, TIF, or other soft fonts. A handwriting font is included. Letterhead Pro For WordStar 7+ [LPW] WordStar #12449 (WU-07) CPI Software; $? contains 16 sample letterheads, 6 logos, and a watermark. Each letterhead and the watermark has a macro that installs it into any WordStar document when the macro is activated. These examples may be utilized to design your own letterhead, logo or watermark. Requires WordStar 7.0+ BCM Borders, Corners & Frames II [BCMGRAPH] Clip Art #20239 [3 disks] (DP-01) BCM Graphics; $15 is a set of 45 PCX graphics. It includes borders, corners and frames. It includes a selection for just about any type of card, newsletter, invitation, or announcement. It has full length borders, and 1/2 size borders for your cards, memos, small notes, theater programs, etc. (Preinstalled: \DOS\BCM_BCF2) CD Toons 1992: In the Beginning [CDTOONS] Clip Art #20240 (DP-01) [5 disks] Cooper Designs; $20 is a collection of 139+ cartoon-type drawings in PCX format. Preinstalled in the \DOS\CDTOONS directory of the CD, as well as including the ZIP file. Graphics Galore [GGLABEL] Clip Art #20241 (DP-01) [2 disks] Jim Cooper; $15 contains nearly 200 images of animals, children, men and women in PCX format. These are small drawings sized for use with graphical label printing programs like Avery Label Pro and for other applications where small images are appropriate. Hatcher 1.sw [HATCHER] AutoCad Utilities #12454 (GR-02) Morris E. Sharp; $7 is a collection of 100 AutoCAD hatch patterns. It contains fun-to-use patterns for drawings such as greeting cards and several patterns to be used in professional drawings. TRANS4 1.1 [TRANS4] Graphics Displays #12455 Lyn Ratcliff; $0 is an interactive graphics demonstration program which displays a number of different colorful, animated 4-dimensional wireframe objects. It can be used as a screen blanker or as a graphics show. You can modify existing figures or create your own. PCX-Demo Disk 1.0 [PCXDEMO] Clip-Art and Fonts #12456 (DP-01) Speyside Software Enterprises; $? is a collection of over 80 pieces of clipart in PCX format. It includes images of nature, machines, people, air, and objects. Together 3.0a Graphics 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. See the article in NEWS & VIEWS for update info. Also see TOGETHER.DOC in the \SCREENS directory for information about how to see screen shots in the PsL News files. -----Quick Looks: FW-Text 4.50 [FWT45X] (Frank Wolpers, Germany; $45) is a word processing program. Error messages and some prompts are in German. The "perfect" Editor v3.05 [PE305] (Just Excellent Software, ASP; $29-49$) is a text editor with global search & replace across 40 windows or files and over 160 other functions. Drag-and-drop blocks with mouse or keyboard. Edit binary files in HEX, Reg expn's, {} match and much more. Pop-Label 2.1 [PL21] (Robert F. Keber Jr.; $18) is a small, fast program for creating and printing labels. [SetUpPrn] (MG Software; $10) is a printer setup program. [CaddView] 1.01 (Monumental Computer Applications, Inc.; $30-$60) is a file viewer and management program. It features built in VESA mode graphic routines which will display DWG, GCD and CMP drawing and component files which were created with Generic CADD Level 3, CADD5 and CADD6. This is a limited version of the program. Karl's Graphic Portfolio [KGP] (Karl Weller; $0) contains VGA animations and stills. These graphics were created by raytracing, scanning, and video capture. Available on 3.5" 1.44mb disk and CD only. [NeoShow] 2.0 (OSCS Software Development, Inc.; $40) combines PCX and GIF images into effective presentations. You can use it to group presen tations, self running exhibits, sales tracts, and more. A variety of screen wipes, fades and dissolves allows the you to create smooth transitions. It supports 2, 16, 256 color files at up to 1024x768, and SoundBlaster compatible cards. Requires DOS 3.1+, EGA/VGA/SVGA, mouse, hard disk and 640K+ RAM. NeoShow PRO 2.0 [NSHOPRO] (OSCS Software Development, Inc.; $95) combines PCX and GIF images into effective presentations. This program incorporates the same features as NeoShow in addition to a sound recorder and a runtime license that lets you produce and distribute EXE stand alone shows. Requires DOS 3.1+, EGA/VGA/SVGA, mouse, hard disk, and 640K+ RAM. Text-Show 5.0 [TSHOW5] (PC West; $75) is a dazzling presentation software system operating in the DOS text mode. Features include dozens of screen fades/transitions, custom fonts, support for Sound Blaster VOC/FM files, special screen effects, conditional branching, user input and more. A screen capture utility is included. -----Updates: (DP-02: #4778) [IMGFun] 1.01 ASP is an image compression and enhancement utility. (DP-02: #2478) [PIXCAT] 2.7 will print a catalog of all pictures in a NewsMaster, PrintMaster, Print Shop, or New Print Shop graphics library in as few pages as possible. (GR-02: #20062 [2 disks]) [NEOPAINT] 2.1 is an image editing program. It reads and writes PCX, GIF, and TIFF formats and converts between differing formats and resolutions. (DP-02: #2478) [PIXCAT] 2.7 will print a catalog of all pictures in a NewsMaster, PrintMaster, Print Shop, or New Print Shop graphics library in as few pages as possible. NEW: support for HP LaserJet printers and compatibles. (P1-02) PrintPlus 6.6 [PRNTPLUS] (ASP) is a full-featured file printing utility. (P2-02: #2642) softJet II 2.3B [SJII] lets you preview output intended for the printer which is in HPLJ's PCL format. (WP-06: #12363) WP BookLet System 2.3 [WPBOOKLT] is a macro package for producing booklets with WordPerfect 5.1. =====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 C-Blaster 1.0 [CBLASTR] C++: Sounds Pop Software; $35 lets you add AdLib/Sound Blaster compatible sounds and music to your apps. You can load SB Instrument files. SB-Pro stereo is supported. COBGEN [COBGEN] C++: Tools Au Software; $25 produces compiler-ready header and OBJ files. [FIOLib] Fortran David Cook; $0 is a set of routines for reading a Microsoft Fortran unformatted file. [RandIO] C: Files Ed Mulroy; $0 is C source code illustrating the use and access of random access files. TLC 1.0 [TLC] C Tom Lowery; $0 creates a formatted listing, optionally with a cross-reference, from a given set of C source files. RGB ColorMixer 1.0 [COLORMX] Tools Adam Dutson; $0 takes the guesswork out of using the red, green, and blue arguments of the setrgbpalette() function. ListView [LISTVW] TV C++ $0 is source code for a derived TListViewer for Turbo Vision. Instalr. 1.0 [INSTALR] Installation Utility Howard Rosenberg; $0 is an easy to use installation program that you can set up with a word processor. It can install onto both network and local drives and will only install adequate disk space is available. CPrint 2.17 [CPRN_CS] Tools Cactus Software; $20 prints source code for most languages on LaserJets with comments highlighted. Source Application Manager [SAM2] Tools Olivier Mogenot; $0 is a programming environment that can be used with different languages so that you do not have to deal with different interfaces/editors for each. BTP [BTP] TP7: Btrieve John C. Leon; $25 is a Btrieve unit for TP7. GIFPas [GIFPAS] TP: Graphics Sean Wenzel; $0 this unit decodes GIF images in 256 colors at nearly any resolution. Overlays in XMS 1.2 [OVERXMS] TP: Overlays Wilbert van Leijen; $0 allows you to add XMS support to overlaying in TP. SpoolAQ [SPOOLAQ] TP August Quint; $0 shows how to output data to a printer in the background of the application. Pascal source code and a demo are included. Printer Watch [PRNWATCH] Asm: Printing $0 is ASM code that shows how to write a TSR that monitors printer activity, allowing you to make character/control substitutions, etc. QMath 1.0 [QMath10] Asm: Math Roger Moser; $0 is a set of fast 64-bit signed integer arithmetic routines in assembler. TruErr [TRUERR] BASIC: Tools Thomas Kiehl; $35 gives you the true error line in your compiled PDS or VBDOS programs instead of addresses pointing to the error handler. -----Large Programming Disks C Tutor 2.4 [TUTC] C #12457 (PG-04) Gordon J. Dodrill; $15 is a series of 14 lessons teaching ANSI-C programming. It is intended for those with very little programming experience. C++ Tutorial 2.20 [TUTCPP] C #12458 (PG-04) Gordon J. Dodrill; $15 is a series of 14 lessons teaching C++ programming. It is intended for a person with a working knowledge of C. Careful attention is given to a full description of Object Oriented Programming and how to use it. dBTalk 1.01 [DBTALK] Other Languages #20242 [2 disks] Dele Olajide; $0 is an Object-Oriented Development tool for developing GUI based applications machines with VGA graphics. It provides tools to design screens, icons, fonts, bitmap, vector graphics objects and other resources. It uses a memory scalable run-time engine which interprets Clipper code blocks. It provides a resource compiler which converts source code into code blocks and combines the array of code blocks, a run-time engine and all other resources into an EXE file for execu- tion. It has built-in classes for supporting DBF, Lotus 1-2-3 WK1, and WordPerfect files. Sample application is included. Help Development Kit 7.0 [HDK] General Tools #12460 Ron Loewy; $40 creates help files for the Windows Help engine, DESQview/X, QuickHelp, THelp, TVHC, and PopHelp. This is a blessing for those unwilling to tackle the complexities of the Windows RTF formatting. It is a must-have for programmers working in multiple platforms. Input files are easily created with a text editor and a few simple commands. The only major drawback at this time is that font colors and sizes are not selectable in this version. The author says: "next month". Keyed Access File System 2.0 [KAFS] C: File/Sort #12461 (PG-04) Dimestore Software; $45 is a complete file system and sort package for C programmers. This package provides everything necessary for creating utility and application software in C. The file system and sort utility can be used independently of each other. They are designed for speed, ease of implementation, and compactness of code. SPX 1.0 [SPX] TP: Games #20243 Scott D. Ramsay; $30 allows TP programmers to write games in 320x200x256 VGA mode. This library covers animation, sound, text, and various input devices. It also includes parallax scrolling, tile-map scrolling, displaying sprites in layers, 3D perspective, automatic implementation of 386 specific code, eight real-time clocks, tilemap maker, font-editor, three complete games, and seven examples with TP source. (On 1.44MB MegaDisk or CD only.) Turbo Pascal Tutor 2.6 [TUTPAS] Turbo Pascal #12462 (PG-04) Gordon J. Dodrill; $15 is a series of 16 lessons teaching Turbo Pascal programming to beginners. Careful attention is given to a full description of Object Oriented Programming and how to use it. -----Quick Looks: CoderZine issue 1 [CDZ001] (Richard Grossman; $0) is a newsletter about and for programmers. CoderZine Issue 2 [CDZ002] (Richard Grossman; $0) Network DDE Examples [NDDE] (Glen Swindell; $0) shows how to implement NDDE in Borland Pascal 7.0. There are examples for both a server and a client. [NoICE] (John Hartman; $25) is a debugger for 8-bit processors. Object Engine 0.9 [OBJENG] (Dr. Mark Brittingham; $0) is a C++ class library that encapsulates the core functionality of the Paradox Engine database library. QB_List [QB_LIST] (Don West; $0) prints QB code listings with a margins, headers, page numbers, and more. QBWARE/Net 1.0 [QBWNET] (AJM Software; $49) is a set of routines which allow you to develop QuickBasic programs which can run in IPX/SP and NetBios environments. ResTool-Collection [RESTOOL] (Stefan Boether) is a set of files related to Turbo-Vision's Resourefile-Handling. Resstr Lets you compile ascii files into a resource. Resinfo Gives you a short overview of the items within a resource file. Respack packs the resourcefile. Resvers An interactive TV program to edit a TV object within a resource file. Resmover a TV program that let's you cut, paste, delete, rename resourcefile-items. Resc A compiler for StringTables and Menus that stored in a Windows like RC file. Reslink merge several resource files into one. [RGBPLD] (R. G. Brown $0) is a low cost PLD programmer. It contains the schematics and software needed to run the programmer. Programming Arcade Games [MS_ARCAD] (David Conger; $15+) is a tutorial on programming object oriented arcade games in Turbo C. Sound Edit [SE] (T. Roden; $0) is a graphical, mouse-driven speaker-sound editor. Programmers can use it to add PC speaker sounds to their programs. -----Updates: (PG-02: #3462) [ASMLIB] 3.7 is a collection of 120 subroutines for assembly language programmers. (PG-03: #20093 [2 disks] BASIC Wizard's Library 2.0 [BASWIZ] is a set of routines written in BASIC and assembly language for use with the Quick BASIC and BASCOM compilers. NEW: bit shifts and rotates, integer VAL, and trig functions to the math extension unit. Added a high-resolution (millisecond) timer unit with delays, countdowns, and sound support, including a play replacement. (PG-03 #12194) PowerBASIC Wizard's Library 1.7 [PBWIZ] is a library of 325+ routines for PowerBASIC 3.0. NEW: joystick support, telecomm handling, and SoundBlaster support, several utilities to help manage libraries, and a demo which shows how to use the XMS routines for array storage. This version also of PBWiz requires PowerBasic 3.0. (PG-03: #27408/2892) Windows R-E-Z (PDS) 6.1 [PWEZ] is a window man agement system for BASIC 7.+. (PG-03: #27408/2368) Windows R-E-Z 6.1 [QWEZ] is a window management system for QB4+. (PG-03: #4880) Windows R-E-Z VBDOS 6.1 [VWEZ] is a window management system for VBDOS. (PG-04: #12343) [CPort] 2.0 is a C language interrupt-driven serial communication library. (PG-04: #27691/2240) [CTASK] 2.2d is a set of routines that allow C programs to execute functions in parallel. NEW: more debug support, make files for BC++ Huge model are included as a sample, and typecasts were added in several modules to allow compilation in C++ native mode. (PG-04: #4869) PSK: Programmers Survival Kit 1.3 [PSK] is a C library for creating database applications. NEW: expanded the string toolbox, security mechanism for encrypting/decrypting files, and mouse support. (PG-04: #12463) TSR Toolkit 1.4 [TSRTOO14] is a toolkit for writing TSRs which need DOS access. NEW: Source code library has improved and an XMS API allowing TSR access to extended memory was added. (PG-06: #1658) [PULL] 7.0 ASP is a set high performance pull-down menu utilities for TP5. (PG-06: #1662) [WNDW] 7.0a is a set of high performance window utilities for TP. NEW: 27 new WUTIL routines, transparent shadows, and virtual cursor now updates in any write-to mode. (PG-08: #12464) [EXEC], 3.3a is source code in several different programming languages to allow swapping of your program to EMS to free memory for other programs to run. NEW: XMS support, the ability to process BAT files and to handle redirection, and more error codes. (PG-08: #27850/4197) First Impression 2.6 [IMPRES] ASP is a toolkit for creating an easy to use installation program. =====Utilities See Monthly Additions Disks for new small utilities. Diskmate 2.33 [DISKMATE] Disk File Catalog Program #12465 Key Software Services; $22 is a disk file catalog program. Each disk read can be assigned a Box number as well as a disk number and volume label. This allows you to store your disks in boxes and easily locate a particular disk. Disk and file descriptions can be easily entered and edited. The contents of archive files are automatically read and can be displayed on screen at the press of a key. Disk directory labels can be previewed on screen and printed. Diskmate requires 1MB of disk space. DOSview 1.5 [DOSVIEW] DOS Shell #12504 Skip Bremer; $40 is a 3k shell for DOS which displays two directory windows at the top of the screen while giving you a DOS prompt at the bottom. The left window displays whichever directory you specify while the right window changes automatically as you change drives and directories at the prompt. The window display may be toggled off for a full-screen view of DOS. Function keys let you view, edit, copy, delete, and rename files. A menu can be brought up for other functions. Although the program was designed for networks, it works well on a single system and is ideal for anyone who does a lot of work with files in DOS. HiMove 2.2 [HiMove] Memory Management #12466 (U2-05) Softwaretechnik ASP; $45 is an upper memory manager for a 286 NEAT CHIPSet, a 386SX NEATsx CHIPSet or a AT/386 CHIPSet. It helps achieve more free conventional DOS memory. The program uses the shadow RAM of these chipsets to load device drivers and TSRs into unused areas of the upper memory area. Magic Desk 3.0 [MDESK] DOS Menu/Shell Programs #12467 (U2-02) Virtual Magic Software ASP; $33 is a Windows-style graphical interface menu for DOS. It uses standard Windows icons to represent your programs. Features include multiple levels of nested menu pages that can hold thousands of programs, password protection for programs and pages, hotkeys, variable program parameters, file pick-lists, built-in icon editor, built-in screen saver, usage log, and PCX background images. Magic Desk can run any COM, EXE, or BAT file, or any DOS command, and it does not remain in memory while running other programs. Requires EGA/VGA, 512K RAM and a hard disk. Ultra Toolbox 5.0 [ULTRA] Batch File Utilities #12468 Dave Smith; $10 contains 200+ functions, primarily for use in batch files. Functions are related to keyboard, video, disks, files, and DOS. For example, there are functions to count words in a file, to detect archive type, to print the screen, and to make sounds. -----Quick Looks: Boot'r 1.0 [BOOTR] (Stevenson Technical Services, Inc.; $35) is a multiple configuration manager, allowing you to easily boot your system up with different drivers and TSR's installed. ChkDrv 2.0 [CHKDRVCS] (Chuck Steenburgh & Tay-Jee Software ASP; $0) checks the disk drive status. It displays a list of available drive letters and returns total number of drives via errorlevel. It checks for a specific drive's validity and returns status via screen message and errorlevel. [CPQV] (Wm. Potvin II; $0) sets/clears the reverse video mode on Compaq LTE Lite/25 notebook computers. [Condor] 3.0 (Larry Mears; $15) is an ANSI.SYS replacement that lets you have hi-res graphics using ANSI characters. A Condor-compatible drawing program is included. [Diff_CS] 1.01 (Softwaretechnik, ASP; $20) is a file comparison utility. It displays two text files side by side. Common and different sections are clearly marked. Tab size and comparison options are configurable. FCMerge 1.0 [FCMG10] (Mike Albert; $25) merges two sets of changes to an ASCII file into a single file. FxRepeat 3.01 [FXREP3] (DataChip) automates virus scanning with F-Prot (disk #3675) at specified date/time intervals. [GLEDIT] 2.4 (Gary C. Crider; $16) lets you globally search and replace a string of characters in all selected files a directory. GLEDIT prompts you before changing each line that may require modification. [GuardSet] (Gerald J. DePyper; $64) is a hard disk security program which attempts to restrict access to parts of your system by encrypting specified directory names. PsL Note: File managers such as Qfiler can still change into and copy files from these directories. [JSDDuper] 2.1 (Johnathan Mark Smith; $15) will read a data file and make a new file without any duplicate records on it. [JSFIELD] 1.1 (Johnathan Mark Smith; $25) extracts data from a file via field definitions. LookDisk 1.51 [LDV151] (Vincenzo Iuorno; $15) is a menu-driven program for searching for files and text in files. LxREPEAT v3.02 [LXREP3] automates virus scanning with Intel's LPScan. My Little Realm's DizzE v1.0 [MLRDIZ] (John L. Salisbury, ASP; $10) is an editor for FILE_ID.DIZ files. It checks for the hyphen that BBSs require in the first two lines and for too many lines. MDModes 2.0 [MDMOD2] (John Owen; $27) is a collection of seven video utilities for testing video, changing modes, changing number of lines of text and more. (Note: the testing utility did not work on one of our systems with an ATI card.) PiGAS Security 1.01 [PIGAS] (Pigas Inc. ASP; $25) protects the information written on a disk against unauthorized access. Files and directories selected to be protected become unavailable for the unauthorized user. [Replica] (Pete Petrakis; $20) is a disk copy utility. It will create an image of a diskette into memory or onto your hard disk and make as many disk copies as you want at about 20-25 seconds per 360k. [RGBLogic] (RGB; $0) are the plans for a high speed 16-channel logic analyzer you can build for about $250. [StarDate] (Triad Unique Solutions; $25) keeps your system time properly adjusted, optionally calling the U.S. Naval Observatory for the correct time. QIC_BAT 1.0 [QB10] (Douglas R. East; $20) is a batch file generator for CMS tape backup units. Features include multi-drive backups, tag file generator, mouse support, schedular support, group-drive feature, batch file verification reports and more. Switcher 1.00 [SW100] (Instinct Software; $25) is a task-swapping program that allows you to have several programs loaded at once so that you can move between them without quitting one program to load another. It also has cutand-paste, screen blanking, and an on-screen clock. VGA-Copy-Pro [VGACOPY] (Thomas Moenkemeier; $40) fast onepass diskcopy and formatter for up to 2.88mg including special formats like 1.74MB. Requires EGA/VGA and mouse. -----Quick Looks, Desktop Tools: DOS Prompt Clock 1.01 [DPCLOCK] (Chris Dunford; $0) is an on-screen clock. It displays only when you're at the DOS prompt. (Update) [RemindMe] (Cato Graphics; $29) reminds you of upcoming events, birthdays, meetings, etc. Requires a hard disk and 640K RAM. Home-Phone-Book 2.5 [HPB] (Thomas E. Bonitz; $20) is a phone book program. Features include birthday fields, phone dialing, first names of both husband and wife, address label printing, and several types of printouts. [WYWA] 1.0 (Sheldon L. Sobel; $29) is the PC version of "While You Were Away" message pad. Messages are encrypted to insure privacy. Other fea tures include sign-out notice modified with password, auto-run at boot time if notice is active, built-in screen saver, two passwords with three levels of access, and more. -----Updates: (U1-01: #3122) [ARJ] 2.41 is an archiving utility. NEW: ARJSFXJR supports directory specification, file overwriting, and extraction of only new files. (U1-01: #27472/2030) [SHEZ] 9.1 ASP is a shell program to make viewing and working with archive files user friendly. NEW: ARJ 2.41 support, the ability to create and remove complete directory trees, and more. (U1-01: #4991) Zip'r 4.0 [ZIPR] uses existing compression programs to compress directories, sub-directories, and the files they contain into one smaller, compressed file on a hard drive. (U1-02: #27397 [3 disks]) McAfee Anti-Virus 9.16V105 [MCAFEE] NEW: detection of 100 new viruses. NetShield, an anti-virus NLM for use on NetWare/386 3.11. (U1-04: #27060/1939) [DiskDupe] 4.08 is a fast disk duplication program. (U1-04: #27060/1559) FormatMaster 5.4 [FRMTMSTR] is a full-featured floppy diskette format utility. (U1-07: #27338/2741) Intelicat 1.89b [INTELCAT] is a very slick looking and fast disk cataloging program. NEW: file filtering. (U1-07: #2497) Software Susie II 1.2 [SUSIE] will keep track of all your computer software. Registration fee: $25. (U1-08: #3861) Double Directory 1.4 [DBLDIR] ASP will copy, delete, rename and view files; make and remove directories and shell and run programs. (U1-08: #12213) Quick Directory 1.2 [QUICKDIR] (ASP) is an archive, file and directory manager. (U1-08: #3191) Stereo Shell 4.1 [STEREO] ASP is a double-directory listing file management program. NEW: 4DOS on-line file description display, password security, and direct printing from the viewer to LPT1, LPT2, or LPT3. (U1-09: #12376) [GuardSet] 2.0 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. (U1-09: #20215 [2 disks]) [MakeLoad] 1.31 saves hard disk space by storing less frequently used programs on floppies and automatically installing them when needed. (U1-09: #3865) Stowaway 2.2 ASP [STOWAY] is a hard disk backup utility with integrated catalog program for keeping track of backed-up files. (U1-11: #12469) [AutoRead] 2.0, is a file viewing utility for large files. NEW: file buffering and promote/demote levels. Registration: $30. (U2-01: #27378/2375) [MEMTOOL] 3.1 is set of pop-up desktop tools. (U2-03: #12113) DOS Phantom 2.8c [PHANTOM] (ASP) is a task automation utility. (U2-04: #1206) [VMIX] 386 2.87 ASP is a multi-tasking system for advanced users. NEW: support for network or communications drivers that use interrupt request line #7 and support for SCSI disk drives. (U2-08: #4685) [INIMAINT] 2.1b makes it easy to display and manage INI files. =====Special Interest ...religion, engineering, music, statistics & math, electronic publishing -----Statistics & Math: [Matrix] Stats #12470 John Kennedy; $0 is designed to teach row operations on matrices. It can be used to find complete solutions to systems of linear equations, to find determinants and inverses of matrices, to solve standard and non-standard Linear Programming problems, and more. WL Plot 2.31 [WLPLT231] Statistics And Math #12471 (ST-01) Wesley B. Loewer; $25 plots Algebraic or RPN functions in cartesian, parametric, and polar modes with linear or log scales. It graphs rotated conic sections, integrals, 1st and 2nd derivatives, non-function relations, bifurcations, recursive relations and best fit curves. -----Quick Looks, Statistics & Math: Arbitrary Precision RPN Calculator [APCALC] (Jason Olasky; $0) is a line oriented calculator with virtual stack and memory registers, and financial and date functions. Mathomatic Demo [MATHDEMO] (George Gesslein II; $50) is a limited version of an algebraic equation solver. It has a crude user interface by today's standards, but it does solve equations. -----Statistics & Math Updates: (ST-01: #27384/1852) [MATHPLOT] 3.2 ASP is a set of graphics programs to help scientists and engineers analyze data. ($20) (ST-01: #27387/2894) MultiVariate Statistical Package 2.1 [MVSP] calculates principal components, principal coordinates, correspondence, and cluster analyses, as well as a variety of distance, similarity, and diversity indices. NEW: detrended correspondence analysis, built-in dendrogram production, improved printer support, and data import and export. (ST-01: #4031) [NONLIN] 2.4 ASP fits linear, multivariate, polynomial, and general nonlinear equation to data. -----Church, Religion ---Quick Looks: [Attend] 4.06 (L. W. Kirkland; $?) is a church tithe and attendance program. It keeps track of attendance, personal data, tithe and offering, occupations, and membership-ministry. Requires 640K of RAM and a hard drive with 2 meg of free space. ---Updates: (CH-03: #12472) Bible Mixer 2.1 [BIBLMIX] tests your Bible knowledge by challenging you to unscramble mixed-up words from the Bible. NEW: Word Mixer 1.1, which increases vocabulary for ages 8 and up and Spanish -----Music See Monthly Additions Disks for new music files. ---Quick Looks: [ModShell] (Wendell Martin; $0) creates a list of MOD files to be used by MOD players which lack file list menus but which accept ASCII file lists to play. ---Updates: (MU-01: #3046) Blaster Master 5.7 [BLASTER] is a tool kit for working with raw, uncompressed Sound Blaster VOC files. NEW: drivers for the Aria chipset cards in SB mode, SBP and SB16 volume mixer, undo last edit function and the ability to convert stereo files to mono and new VOC format to the old format. -----Electronic Publishing: BOOK-E 1.05 [BOOKE105] (Relative Software Innovations; $30) is an electronic book maker. It creates stand-alone EXE's from ASCII text files. [DPA-17] is the volume 2, number 7 issue of "Digital Publishing Association News". OCR EGA Magazine [OCR104] (ECP Communications) is the Online Computer Resources EGA Magazine Volume 1 Issue 4. It contains informative news for all computer users. The Poets Corner #17, Issue 71 [PCJULY93] is a monthly publication by Kevin Keyser of collected poems. Rutgers University Press Books on Disk [RUPSAMP] contains extracts from six books published by Rutgers University Press. They are: "Cocaine on the Brain", focusing on the effects of cocaine; "Owning Scientific and Technical Information", about new intellectual property rights issues; "Discovering the Mid-Atlantic Tours"; "Jersey Troopers: A fifty year history of the New Jersey Police"; "Quicksand and Passing", two novellas; and "A Model for National Health Care: The History of Kaiser Permanent" Silicon Times Report #9.28 [STReport] is an electronic computer publication with general computer news and press releases. Z*Net Online Magazine Issue #40 [ZPC40] (Ron Kovacs; $0) is an electronically published news magazine that includes reviews of new products and articles dealing with computer issues. Z*Net Online Magazine Issue #41 [ZPC41] (Ron Kovacs; $0) [PSL_9308] is the text of the August 1993 issue of PsL News and describes the 500+ programs on PsL's first monthly CD. ---Updates: (MS-02: #4705) Elizabethan Cryptography [ELIZBETH] is a discussion of whether Bacon wrote the works attributed to Shakespeare. (WU-05) [GRFBook] 3.6 (EFD Systems; $30) is an electronic hypertext publishing system that supports integrated text and PCX files.