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- When I left you last month we were examining some
- great commercial demonstration versions in the
- Atari ST Library. I will continue that overview
- this month, but first we have to take care of
- business -- you know, tax business. My scan of the
- Library for tax-related files came up a little
- short. There are a few templates for 1040 forms,
- but most are out of date. Newer versions will have
- been uploaded by the time you read this, but what
- to do in the meantime? How about examining a
- complete tax preparation program, TAX WIZARD II+
- from A&D Software?
-
- I sent GE Mail to Rod McDonald [ST-INFORMER] at A&D
- and recently received an updated press release.
- Since I don't use the program myself (I live in
- Canada) I relied on recommendations from owners of
- it in the Bulletin Board. It seems that TAX WIZARD
- II+ has some serious fans who have already been
- clamoring for this year's update! Nothing like
- word-of-mouth to gauge a program's value.
-
- TAX WIZARD II+ runs on ST and TT computers in ST
- MED/HI and TT MED/HI resolutions and touts a number
- of powerful functions as well as configurability.
- It supports over 30 tax forms using an interactive
- GEM interface. According to Rod, "If you are self
- employed, or have capital gains, investment income,
- dividends, interest payments, or other financial
- interests, home office expenses, etc., the program
- can handle those forms' chores." Among those
- supported are 1040 and 1040A along with Schedules
- A, B, C, D, E , EIC, F, R, SE, and Forms 1116,
- 2106, 2441, 3800, 3903, 4562, 6198, 6251, 8582,
- 8829, and the new 8829 home office expense form.
- "The current selection suits most private and sole
- proprietor business returns filed under the present
- federal tax system," he continues, "but
- unfortunately, there is no support for state return
- filings."
-
- Lots more information is available directly from
- A&D or by GE Mail to ST-INFORMER. Tax Wizard II+,
- from A&D Software is priced at $49.95 (plus $2.90)
- for new purchasers, or $39.95 (Plus $2.90) for
- prior registered owners. Providing the registration
- card from last year's package is sufficient to
- claim the discount. Contact A&D Software, 909 NW
- Starlite Place, Grants Pass, OR 97526, (503)
- 476-0071 for support or questions, or place orders
- at 1-800-800-2563.
-
- Back to Demos
-
- Moving away from business applications to a
- category of must-have items, I urge you to check
- out these life-saving programs from the Atari ST
- Software Library which ensure that your computing
- time will not be spent moaning lost data!
-
- 28568 UVK58DMO.ZIP -- Demonstration version of UVK
- (Ultimate Virus Killer). It's pretty much fully
- functional, and will let you get a handle on just
- how good this utility is. The demo is from the UK
- distribution company, but UVK is available in North
- America from Oregon Research. The program has
- recently been updated to version 5.9 and can repair
- boot sectors on MANY commercial games!
-
- 25511 EDGEDEMO.LZH -- This is a demonstration
- version of Oregon Research's new offering, Diamond
- Edge, the most advanced set of disk management
- tools available for your Atari ST. It offers disk
- and data recovery, complete undelete, file
- validation and disk diagnostics, data protection,
- disk optimization, bad sector mapping, hard disk
- partitioning, disk information archival editing and
- restoration, and much more.
-
- 22978 DBIIDEMO.LZH -- This contains the demo
- version of Oregon Research Associates' hard disk
- backup and restore program called Diamond Back II.
- It is extremely fast, flexible and totally
- reliable. V2.42 also has Diamond Super faST
- compression routines to make backups even faster!
- Never lose data again! This program takes the pain
- out of doing backups.
-
- That wraps it up for this month. I hope you enjoyed
- this peek at some really useful programs. See you
- on GEnie in the Atari ST RoundTable!
-