Software of the Month Club 1996 May

home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search

/ Software of the Month Club 1996 May / Software of the Month Club 1996 May.iso / mac / ISO9660 / GUIDES / MAR96.TXT < prev next >

Wrap

Text File | 1996-02-20 | 61.0 KB | 1,488 lines | [TEXT/hscd]

Software of the Month Club March 1996 CD-ROM Master Program Guide DOS Business AMORTIZEIT! Easy-to-use amortization solution. BUSINESS CLOCK LINK v2.1 by BizMark Development Manage your work schedule with this computerized time clock. This program is perfect for managers who need real-time job reporting, clock-in animation, E-mail and ticker tape reports. You can also schedule breaks and lunches. There's a pop-up utility that allows employees to clock in from any networked computer. NOTE: The manager's password is "BOSS". CASH CONTROL Manage your bank accounts the fast and easy way with this great program. DR. FORM Dr. Form is an easy to use, comprehensive program, that will have you designing your own forms in very little time. EASY 1099 v1.0 by Clarence E. Riley Organize and file federal taxes for contractors. On occasion, businesses hire private contractors for services. The Federal Tax Laws require you file Form 1099 if you hire a contractor and pay $600 or more. This program makes it simple to comply with the Federal Tax Laws by keeping an electronic 1099 form for any contractor. You just update it as the year progresses -- then insert a blank 1099 form and print at the end of the year. EZ LABELS v3.0 by Greg Engler Print labels in a snap. Type in the name and address of contacts and the program automatically stores the information. Store different entries and print up to 100 labels in a single section. INTOUCH v5.4 by RAD Software Keep in touch with more than 100 address lists, with up to 10,000 people per list! The program also has a 1,000-line comment card for each person. InTouch prints mailing labels and address envelopes. It even offers dialing/modem support. MOTELMAX v2.60 by Ken Mashburn A complete hotel/motel management system! This comprehensive program includes modules for reservation, advance deposit, front desk, accounting, room inventory, point of sale, guest history, audit trail and general ledger. Room charges are assigned automatically according to rate tables you enter. Track travel agent commissions and export data to your favorite word processor, spreadsheet or database program. Print custom reservation and guest letters. It is very easy-to-use and all entries are verified. Other features include one key check-in and check-out, password protection, user access limits and full audit trails for complete verification of all account totals. This version manages up to 50 rooms. MYPEOPLE v4.1 by RAD Software Manage your employees with this collection of powerful and practical personnel management tools. Features include tracking basic information for up to 1,000 employees, maintenance of individual note cards, easy-to-upkeep time cards and statistical summaries. Overall, an excellent program designed to meet the personnel needs of small to medium sized businesses. NURSE AIDE CHARTING PROGRAM v1.0 by Fred Small, PC-DSD Software Company Charting resident care has never been easier! This program is uniquely designed to review and meet the needs of today's nurses. It handles admission data, daily charting and special skill reports. It tracks special needs of individual residents and tests nursing and CPR abilities. This is a must- have for any facility or training site. PC-FLORIST v2.0 by Schreck Software Keep track of product costs in your flower shop with PC-Florist. It calculates costs based on a desired gross profit percentage or dollar amount. Find total revenues and required selling prices. Edit the input cost to see the effect on the final costs and margins. PC-Florist is the right program for your flower shop. PC-FOOD II v7.1 by Schreck Software If you are in the food industry, you'll enjoy this food pricing and cost management system. Maintain a food list with ingredients and prices. When you update one price, the change is instantly updated on all lists. Maintain two selling prices for each menu item. One is a selling price based on a desired gross profit dollar amount. The second is based on a desired gross profit percentage -- selling price minus food cost. The price change feature alerts you to items which are outside your price specifications. Review the listing and decide if the price should be updated. A thorough and useful program. TOTAL TIME v1.2 by Scott Vangelder Monitor your employees' time with this handy program. It's an easy way to enter, convert and print reports of daily time totals -- plus a running total per week or per pay period by employee. It's an easy method of totaling existing time cards. DOS Children THE ANIMATED ALPHABET by Flix Productions Young children love to learn their letters with these colorful graphics and animations! As pictures appear on the screen, children must match the initial letter. A small animation plays after each correct answer. Great for kids in pre- school through the first grade. Animated Money A program for teaching coin recognition and math skills. U.S. and Canadian versions of the coins can be chosen. ANIMATED SHAPES by Flix Productions Learn to recognize colors and shapes with this entertaining and educational program. As shapes appear on the screen, they form clever animated shapes that are fun to watch. BABYDRAW by Spellbound Software Create your own masterpieces with this simple drawing program. Using your arrow keys, draw up, down, left, right and diagonally from two palettes of four colors each. Fill your shapes with color and draw circles, too. It even has sound effects! This creative program is great for very young children. Parents can learn more by pressing the F1 key and viewing a help screen and program documentation. DANNY'S FIRST PROGRAM v1.0 by All-American Kidware Co. This simple little program will keep kids coming back for more! Press a letter on the keyboard and corresponding images appear with songs and sounds. Watch as your kids try different keys and get different results. JOHN'S COMPUTER GAME by Flix Productions Introduce your children to the computer with this easy-to-use game. Kids learn about the keyboard, mouse, disk drive and monitor from 20 different animated sequences. They are sure to entertain and educate. KIDS TRIVIA by Software Creations Are your children whiz kids? They will be after mastering this game! Includes more than 100 trivia questions geared for children 10-years-old and older. The game is colorful and beautifully presented. MATHABLE v1.2 by Costas and Elias Efstathiou This Scrabble-style game really adds up. Answer math problems by choosing from seven available numbered tiles. The winner is the one who scores the highest number of points when all the tiles are gone. This game is fun and educational. MATH TEST by Jim Arnold Improve your child's skills in addition, subtraction, multiplication and division with this high-speed test. This program is a math drill where kids solve as many math problems as they can before time expires. It helps your child to think quickly and accurately. It even keeps a record of the high scores. Ms. Piggy Bank Six entertaining and effective activities teach children all about money. PC Allowance Teach kids the basics of banking, handling money, and automating their allowance at the same time. SCRAMBLED RHYMES & CHOCOLATE MUSIC v1.0 by Stacy Rounding-Mueller Once upon a time_ This interactive story book tells five favorite nursery rhymes. Each plays a cute scrambled version; the correct rhyme follows. There are several animations on each story board _ more than 100 animations in all! This collection includes "Itsy, Bitsy Spider," "Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater," "Little Miss Muffit," "Humpty Dumpty" and "Mary Had a Little Lamb." Hint: Some items have more than one animation. Try to find the 50 airplanes hidden throughout the rhymes. DOS Desktop Publishing TN-IMAGE v2.16 by T. J. Nelson Master your art work with this powerful imaging program. View, edit and print PCX, IMG, TIFF, JPEG, BMP, GIF and TGA images at any depth between 1- and 32-bits per pixel. Edit, cut, paste, add text, adjust color intensity, change contrast and superimpose multiple images. Create drawings using lines, circles, splines and B,zier curves. This program is completely menu-driven with an extremely user-friendly graphical user interface. Originally designed for the scientific community, this powerful program appeals to desktop publishers. CLIP ART 101 CARS CLIP ART by Larry Carley Hit the road with this collection of high-quality original clip art images. Choose from cars, trucks and vans in 256-color PCX format. Illustrations include a Corvette, Thunderbird, Viper and the ever popular Volkswagen Bug. FONTS ARLINGTON NORMAL by Ken Kizer Add this font to your type library as one of your favorites. This bold serif headline face is deco- influenced and has some playful corners. Complete with upper case, lower case and numbers. (TrueType and Type 1) ASTROLOGY SYMBOLS by Ken Kizer You'll be seeing stars with this collection of astrology symbols. This sans serif astrological face has glyphs for planets, signs, aspects, asteroids and various celestial objects. These symbols provide an unusual touch to your publications. (TrueType and Type 1) BAMBI BOLD by Gerard E. Bernor This bold font has the feel of calligraphy with its precise and crafted letters. It is strong and visually appealing. (TrueType) FELIX by Ken Kizer This vertical sans-serif headline face has strong art deco influences. Includes upper and lower case letters and numbers. This is a very clean and precise font. (TrueType and Type 1) FREAK by Todd Dever, Big Things-Little Things This funky, hand-lettered font is great for promotions. It is best when used in sizes larger than 16 points, but looks even better when printed in giant sizes on posters. (TrueType) GALLERY by Gerard E. Bernor This interesting font evokes images of America in the 1920s. It provides a wonderful visual impact for your desktop publications. (TrueType) MARSEILLE NORMAL by Ken Kizer A slightly serifed face with a nouveau flavor and a 1920s French influence. Complete with upper case, lower case and numbers. This excellent quirky font gives an unusual flavor to your documents. (TrueType and Type 1) TQF FRUITFUL BLACK by Gerard E. Bernor This bold sans serif typeface is reminiscent of the classic Futura Condensed. With its plain attributes, it's a wonderful font to get your message across in any size. (TrueType) DOS Education DARWIN v1.6 by RAD Software Watch the development of a species over many generations in this excellent evolution simulator. Alter variables throughout the experiment, including environment, age of puberty, average life expectancy and the age at which menopause occurs. This fascinating program simplifies and clarifies a complex process. DRILL by Robert C. Feague Practice solving basic mathematical problems with this study tool. Work with basic addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Decide the speed of the drill and difficulty of the questions. Teachers or parents can monitor progress with a grade record. If the student passes with 90% or higher, they may either play a Space Invaders type game or print out a certificate. GERMAN CUCKOO CLOCK v1.1 by Paul R. Widergren This series of educational programs has a slightly different teaching style. Rather than the computer asking the questions and you answering, you ask the questions and the computer answers them. This collection contained an animated cuckoo clock to help learn time, a calendar and a converter to help familiarize you with German measurements. GERMAN WORD LADDER v3.12 by Paul R. Widergren Learn German easily with these three programs. Wortleiter teaches German vocabulary quickly using a fast-paced multiple choice format. Test your knowledge in Quiz. Gut So is a memory game. With a 7,200-word dictionary and 25 sample vocabulary files, this is an excellent educational program. KNOW IT ALL v1.0 by Software Avenue, Inc. See if you really know it all with this geography trivia challenge! See how many geography questions you can answer. When you've mastered them, use the program's customization features to add your own trivia questions. Complete with colorful graphics and an intuitive interface. MATHPLOT v3.6 by Phillip H. Sherwood Visualize mathematical functions quickly and easily with this excellent tool. Specify mathematical functions using ordinary algebraic expressions and immediately plot them. Specify four types of functions _ Cartesian, parametric Cartesian, polar and parametric polar. Plot up to four functions simultaneously. STRATEGIES TO REDUCE COLLEGE COSTS v2.0 by Sally Fesler Thinking about going to college? This text document explains the college financial aid system, how individual finances fit into the aid picture and ways to improve your chances of receiving financial assistance. The difference in public and private colleges assistance is also highlighted. As college costs continue to rise rapidly, you're sure to find this an invaluable resource. XYMATH by Charles Taylor This mathematic tool fits data into virtually any equation and select the best equation for data from thousands of equation forms. The program also plots, integrates and solves the roots of equations. Overall, it's a useful tool for math students. DOS Games CaddieHack Time to tee-up! Just like playing real golf. Cunning Football Dynamic, interactive, menu-driven football game. Capture the Flag Dash through woodlands, jump over streams and search for the opposing team's flag. Requires VGA. Chinese Checkers Two to six players race to see who can get the most marbles to the opposite side of the board first. CIRCA 7000 - ARMIES OF ARMAGEDDON by Boku Strategy Games Declare war in this strategic battle game! Play against a friend as you both try to win intense battles with your own troops, weapons and vehicles. Take turns moving your armies around a large, detailed field covered with rivers, swamps, forests, buildings, trip wires and land mines. Play in three phases. In the first phase, move your forces into strategic attack patterns. In the second, aim your weapons. In the third phase, fire! A great war game. CROSSWORD POWER v7.0 by WISCO Computing Create and print your own crossword puzzles. Printing options include printing the quizzes and answers. Enter your own words or choose from the four word lists provided. It's not only fun, it's educational. Hexxagon Hexxagon is an animated game of strategy. Your task is to take over as much of the game board as possible. Requires VGA. FRAMED v1.1 by Machination You've been framed for murder! Prove your innocence in this excellent platform game. Solve puzzles to escape from prison and clear your name. You need creative thinking to regain your freedom. KNOW IT ALL v1.0 by Software Avenue, Inc. See if you really know it all with this geography trivia challenge! See how many geography questions you can answer. Complete with colorful graphics and an intuitive interface. ONTARGET v1.7 by RAD Software Practice your aim with this artillery skills game! Learn how to judge speeds and angles as you master the mechanics of targeting an artillery shell. Each battlefield contains several random obstacles, including mountains and wind. Games are played in sets of 10 rounds. Challenge a friend or compete against the computer. OPERATION: MIND CONTROL v1.O by Norm Cooley Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to stop a sinister mad doctor from controlling the world. Dr. Maniacal invented a mind-altering machine that enables him to control anyone he wishes. Destroy the machine and apprehend Dr. Maniacal. This excellent 3D action game has great texture mapping and cool sound effects. Pachisi Ancient race and chase game. Requires EGA/VGA. San-Diego-Poly Just like the original Monopoly, but uses San Diego landmarks and property instead. Requires EGA/VGA. Satori Solitaire game played on a board, with 60 different tiles. Requires EGA/VGA and a mouse. THE LIGHT: SHELBY'S ADDENDUM by C. A. McCarthy You'll need to be bright to survive this interactive text-based game. As Shelby, you must be logical, use your powers of reasoning and be observant -- all at once! This game helps point you in the right direction. Try to solve the puzzle of light! TOMMY'S TUT TUT TUT TUT by Tommy's Toys Tick-tack-toe players will enjoy this expansion of the classic game! Instead of getting three game pieces in a row, try four in a row -- or next to each other or in all four corners. Play on a 4x4 board. Great fun! ULTIMATE BASKETBALL v2.1 by Jim Moore Don't pass up this great stats-based basketball simulator. This game realistically emulates a professional basketball game based on the match ups of the players. Simply watch your favorite team replay its season -- or to actively coach your favorite team. A powerful and flexible game! YAHTSEA v1.0 Dean Software You'll be seeing spots with this Yahtzee-style dice game. Score the highest points by rolling a series of dice combinations, including three of a kind, straights and full houses. Play by yourself, compete against two other computer players or watch the computer challenge itself. DOS General Interest Better Diet Analyzer BDA tracks the caloric, protein, carbohydrate, fat, cholesterol and sodium contents of more than ,400 foods, including brand names and fast food restaurants. ChronoLog This award-winning program has all of the features found in the best Personal Information Managers - with an added bonus! ChronoLog has a wonderfully clear, clean interface. Cumberland Diary With the aid of Cumberland Diary, you can ensure that every important thought, emotion, and event of every day is at your beck and call. Nutri-Eaze A comprehensive nutrition reference system, this program gives you the nutritional scoop on 1000 food items. EDNA'S COOKBOOK Record, file, list, and print your favorite recipes. The electronic equivalent to a cookbook. RESUME MASTER DELUXE Create resumes and cover letters. PC DRUMMER v2.5 by Paul E. Orszula Give me a beat! Practice your music with this wonderful drum machine for your PC. Combine presampled digitized percussion sounds into patterns of various musical styles. This fantastic program will give you hours of fun while creating your own percussion arrangements. RECIPES Six megabytes of recipes for Edna's Cookbook. Requires a hard disk. Vitamins A complete reference on vitamins and minerals at your fingertips. With Vitamins, you can get a complete description of each vitamin and mineral, the role it plays in our health, natural food sources for it, optimum daily dosage, its benefits, and consequences of excessive use. Will KIT Create your own will. Valid in all 50 states. OS/2 Latest & Greatest ELECTRONIC TELLER v2.80a _ Part One of Two by Paul Caron Manage your money the smart way with this financial planner. Keep track of bank, credit and cash accounts in one handy home finance application! This program features password protection, a calendar, a calculator and a file converter for converting Quicken QIF files to Electronic Teller format. NOTE: Copy the contents of ETELLER on Disks One and Two to one folder in your hard drive and run INSTALL.CMD. MARSEILLE NORMAL by Ken Kizer A slightly serifed face with a nouveau flavor and a 1920s French influence. Complete with upper case, lower case and numbers. This excellent quirky font gives an unusual flavor to your documents. (TrueType and Type 1) EULER v4.07 by Rene Grothmann Crunch numbers fast, interactively and reliably with handy calculator. It handles real and complex numbers, vectors and matrices. It even produces 2D and 3D graphics. Work faster and easier using the OS/2 PM Clipboard. Don't settle for a simple calculator when you can use this fantastic program! MR. ED v1.04 by Matthias Pfersdorff This 32-bit text editor for OS/2 Presentation Manager is perfect for any text editing job. It supports writing source codes, including syntax highlights and compiler supports. This program takes advantage of OS/2 specialities, like drag 'n drop (files, fonts and colors), multiple threads and Clipboard data exchange. PM Remind v1.1 by Richard Hasty You won't forget another anniversary or birthday with this 32-bit reminder. Schedule several events and reminders in a day. Everything you add is stored in a text file that can be easily modified with any plain text editor. SPELLGUARD v1.1 by Robert Mahoney Protect your important documents against misspelled words with this interactive program _ it checks your spelling as you type! If a mistake is detected, it floats to the front of your screen. Choose the correct spelling from a list of the closest matched words from a dictionary of 56,000 words. Add your own words. This program works with systems that run both in OS/2 and DOS. WIRESAVE v1.0 by Ted Koresko Software Protect your monitor with this 3D animated screen saver. It animates 3D wireframe images by moving them in a scattered pattern. Choose from the five wireframe objects or from several animations, including Follow the Nose, Play Cat and Mouse and Synchronized Swimming. You can even create your own 3D objects using its editor. PMJPEG v1.73 by Norman and Ken Yee Enhance graphic images with this all-around image processing utility. Adjust image hue, saturation, gamma and RGB values. Features include generating WorkPlace Shell icons and producing desktop backround graphics. Other features include quick JPEG preview, batch conversion between image types, screen capture and slide show capabilities. View monochrome, gray scale, high color and true-color images. Supports JPEG, BMP, TIFF, PCX, GIF, TGA and IFF. THD PROSCAN v12.1 by PainSoft Finally _ a native OS/2 version of the popular Archive/File Processor! This utility checks and scans your archives automatically. New features include decompressing compressed executables using UNP v4.11 and adding definitions inside the archives. It includes THD TERM for processing entire directories and THD PLUS for Bulletin Board System (BBS) updates. NOTE: Requires external archivers and a virus scanner. ZIP CONTROL v2.2.7 _ Part One of Two by RPF Software Provide point and click access to ZIP and UNZIP files with this 32- bit threaded OS/2 PM software program. Compress and decompress files easily using its graphic interface instead of typing in the usual commands and parameters. Unzip files automatically by dragging and dropping the compressed files on the program icon. ZIP files support OS/2's long file names and extended attributes. NOTE: Copy the contents of ZIPCNTRL on Disks Five and Six into one folder in your hard drive and run INSTALL.EXE. Requires ZIP.exe and UNZIP.exe. ZIP CONTROL v2.2.7 _ Part Two of Two by RPF Software This is the second part of Zip Control. Copy the contents of ZIPCNTRL on Disks Five and Six into one folder in your hard drive and run INSTALL.EXE. Requires ZIP.exe and UNZIP.exe. 101 CARS CLIP ART by Larry Carley Hit the road with this collection of high-quality original clip art images. Choose from cars, trucks and vans in 256-color PCX format. Illustrations include a Corvette, Thunderbird, Viper and the ever popular Volkswagen Bug. These images can be viewed and edited by any graphics programs, including PMJPEG v1.73 (included in this volume). Windows Business ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE v2.0 by Cribsheet Software Track your receivables with this state-of-the-art program. Print invoices and statements on standard 8.5 x 11 letterhead stock for use with window envelopes. Features include customer templates, undo commands, selective invoice displays and single-key accounts. Complete with on-line help and point-and-click capability. CLOCK-IN! WIRELESS v2.0 by Mission Critical Software Clock in and out with this time-clock for hourly staff. Use the program's background scanners or keyboard wedge scanners to clock in and out on a network work station. Post data to any ODBC database. Set up for background and pop-up operation so that time charges are accepted. DELEGATOR v1.00 by Madrigal Soft Tools, Inc. Coordinate employee work schedules with this delegation and performance tracking system. Track assignments, plan workloads, manage projects, review long-term performance and communicate priorities. This program improves any work team's productivity and lets you stay on top of immediate and long-term assignments. FEATURE PROGRAM EXECUTIVE DESK v5.0 by SoftPlus International Make the best use of your time with this personal information manager. It comes with a complete system of contacts, schedules, reminders, to-do lists, correspondences, follow-ups and more. Work in several different modes. DayView provides a quick view of your complete schedule. Time Planner provides monthly views of events, holidays and key diary items. The Archival List stores completed schedules for future reference. This schedule package is an effective management tool! LLOYD'S AIRPORT by Lloyds Travel Traveling? Learn about hundreds of airports with this handy traveling program. Information includes hub airports, location of airline clubs, transportation hints and more. Look up airports by name or by their standard abbreviation. Estimate travel time and frequent flyer miles by using the distance tool to calculate distance between two airports. NOTE: Requires Windows v3.1. PLASTIC BOOK v1.00 by PrimaSoft, Inc. Keep track of all kinds of plastic cards, including credit, bank, debit and library cards. Store data such as card type, number, code, limit, yearly fee, issuing institution and important phone numbers. Automatically sort data by field. Other functions include searching, modem dialing, printing, filtering and displaying summaries. Its book- like user interface makes this intuitive program easy-to-use. PROFILE v2.0 by JudSoft Computer Software Determine employee character qualities with this personality test. Choose words that best represent an employee from the multiple choices given. The program analyzes the answers and presents you with information about an employee's personality. It also lists strengths and weaknesses. Great for personnel or human resource departments. REMINDER v2.27 by Dirk Wriedt Never forget a birthday or an important appointment again! Track the exact number of days left to given events, taking leap years into account. Events may occur every year or only once. They may also stretch over several days. The date format is adjustable in this user- friendly program. TIMESHEET CALC v2.0 by Michael Brady Project your next paycheck and keep track of your hours with this time-calculating program. Quickly compute the hours you've worked by entering the time you clocked in and out. Your hours for that day and the whole week are displayed. NOTE: You don't need colons when entering data. VISUAL CALENDAR PLANNER v4.0 by Bok Nan Lo Keep track of your schedule with this innovative calendar. Set alarms for recurring events with multiple musical tunes. You have many options, including printing, multiple views, colors, fonts and documents. Access your calendar any time without running the program -- its unique wallpaper feature allows you to use your calendar on your desktop! WINBOND-E v5.2 by Bob Stech Evaluate the value of Series E bonds with this financial application. Project bond values up to 20 years and maintain a history of sold bonds. Several viewing options are available for current values and interests earned. It also provides up-to-date redemption tables issued by the Department of the Treasury. Import and export to ASCII text files for use in other applications, such as spreadsheets and word processors. NOTE: Requires VBRUN300.DLL (included in your Utility Collection). Windows Children CAMPAIGN MANAGER by Trillium Software Teach your kids the democratic system with this election simulator. Predict the outcome of upcoming elections, considering past elections, incumbency, economy and more. All elections from 1789-1992 are displayed in 3D graphs with popular and electoral votes for all major candidates. Includes a strategy game. NOTE: Requires VBRUN300.DLL (included in your Utility Collection). Feature Program FARNSWORTH FERRET'S FUN PACK FOR KIDS v1.20 by Dave Preller and Mike Kock,Elpin Systems A great collection of games for kids! The cartoon character, Farnsworth Ferret, guides your children with positive reinforcement through five games. Remember and repeat the sequence of animal pictures and sounds in Copy Cat. Kid Match is a Concentration-type game -- match pairs of numbers and symbols. Build a word as fast as possible using scrambled letters in Kid Scramble. In Math Invaders, save your galactic bases by blasting attacking arithmetic equations out of the sky. Create your own masterpieces in Kid Paint. This collection of programs is run from a graphical shell that allows children to easily select the game of their choice. NOTE: Requires a sound card. Mad Minute Rush v1.0 by Andrew Van Kirk Hurry! This program tests your memory in addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Answer as many math problems as you can in 60 seconds. Good luck! MONSTER MATH by Dart Consulting Dive! Dive! Increase your child's multiplication skills with this program. Your child is placed in command of a submarine. Destroy all correct answers without being attacked by a vicious octopus. Great for students in first through fourth grades. SHERLOCK FOR WINDOWS v3.0b by Everett Kaser Elementary, Watson. In this ultimate game of deduction, you start with 36 images in different locations. It's up to you to figure out the clues and put the images in their correct places. This game requires keen deductions and logic. Will you be the next Sherlock? NOTE: Requires Windows in 256-color mode. THE GREAT PAPER AIRPLANE v1.0h by KittyHawk Software, Inc. You'll fly high with this aeronautical program. Learn the basic theory of flight and what is required to make original and high-performance paper airplanes. This program uses full interactive 3D animation to show how to fold extraordinary paper airplanes. Its unique features include fold control lessons, color printing of decorated airplane designs, and animated tutorials on the history of flight and paper folding. THE PHOTOROBOT v1.20 by PSG-HomeCraft Software Kids can create faces for story illustrations, school projects, Halloween masks, posters and more! No art experience or drawing skills are needed to make quality images. Choose from a variety of facial features, including noses, eyes, lips and hair. Anyone can create characters that reflect various personalities -- from happy to sad. WEEKLY SPELLER v1.10 by Ronald Swerdfeger Encourage children to practice weekly spelling lists with this educational program. Quickly input spelling lists for spelling practice. Printed reports allow parents or teachers to monitor progress. Optional password protection can be enabled on the spelling list editor. Makes spelling lessons fun for children and adults. BANGFIRE FOR LETTERS v1.0 by Roger L. Jack Kids can quickly master the alphabet with this easy-to-learn, arcade- style game. Even if your child knows the alphabet, this program improves their recognition speed. It adapts to your child's skill with five difficulty levels. Complete with colorful animation, 16-bit sound and quick help. It even has an online guide for parents. NOTE: Requires Windowsr 95 with a mouse. A sound card is optional, but strongly recommended. Windows Desktop Publishing CLIPWATCH v2.0 by Blind Mellon Software Add muscle to your clipboard with this powerful editor. Copy as many as 18 text blocks to your clipboard! Use the internal editor to drag 'n drop the text from one document to another. If you find yourself cutting and pasting too much when preparing your publications, this is an ideal solution. E-MEDIA by Techno-Marketing, Inc. Create and distribute books, catalogs, training programs and more -- all on disk! With the trend toward electronic documents, you need a tool like this to help you prepare professional documents. Create fully customizable electronic documents for maximum visual impact with its simple interface and powerful features. FINANCIAL FREEDOM DESIGNER ENVELOPES v2.1b by M & R Technologies Create your own envelope and letterhead stationery with this powerful design tool. Select from the many sample layouts. Choose layouts that look like they were designed in expensive print shops! This is an excellent program for home and business. LANDSCAPE EXPLORER v3.5 by WoolleySoft The ultimate landscape creation package available! Create your own landscapes or manipulate existing ones. Add unique geographic features, including valleys, peaks and plateaus. Create animations or stills for printed and electronic publications. LEONARD'S SKETCH v0.1 by Bok Technologies, Inc. Design anything from a basic flier to a complex floor plan. This comprehensive object-oriented program combines the basic features of a simple desktop publishing program and a CAD drawing package. It offers many drawing tools, including shading gradients, line tools and sizes. The sky is the limit! FEATURE PROGRAM WORD EXPRESS v1.1 by MicroVision Development, Inc. This award-winning program packs the punch of professional word processors, but without beating up your hard drive. This program integrates word processing with desktop publishing! It adds true page layout capabilities. Work with more than 20 text-editing features, including scalable fonts, paragraph and character styles, columns, headers and footers, search and replace, spell check, thesaurus and context sensitive help. Add shades, borders and colors. Mix pictures, tables and text. Create your own flyers, newsletters, calendars and business cards. CLIP ART 101 CARS CLIP ART by Larry Carley Hit the road with this collection of high-quality original clip art images. Choose from cars, trucks and vans in 256-color PCX format. Illustrations include a Corvette, Thunderbird, Viper and the ever popular Volkswagon Bug. WINDOWSr 95 FEATURE PAINTSHOP PRO v.3.12 32-BIT by Jasc, Inc. This is the ultimate image editor. Its array of options include filtering, masking and color depth altering. Supports more than 30 file formats! Now you can take advantage of the new Windowsr 95 32-bit environment. The added horsepower of a 32-bit system increases your productivity and creativity. NOTE: Requires Windowsr95. FONTS FREAK by Todd Dever, Big Things-Little Things This funky, hand-lettered font is great for promotions. It is best when used in sizes larger than 16 points, but looks even better when printed in giant sizes on posters. (TrueType) RANSOM GROUP ANTIQUE by Kevin Willis Antique, mottled styling makes this font a perfect choice for creating old-looking documents, historic packages, classic signage and map lettering. This font comes in bold and plain with full character sets. (TrueType) TQF FRUITFUL BLACK by Gerard E. Bernor This bold, sans serif typeface is reminiscent of the classic Futura Condensed. With its plain attributes, it's a wonderful font that'll get your message across no matter what the size of your type. (TrueType) Windows Education BOOK CATALOG FOR WINDOWS v4.1 by PrimaSoft, Inc. Catalog your library of books and magazines with this detailed program. Work with an unlimited number of entries. Complete with searching, printing and more. A similar format to a regular catalog makes the program very easy-to-use and intuitive. CABRIO v2.02 by Digital Workshop A fully-configured and versatile conversion calculator. Quickly calculate thousands of conversions on a wide range of measurements and values. A simple tool bar lets you select from currency, distance, time, science and technology, weight, speed, area, volume and more. Choose the units you want to convert and type the figure into the area provided. DRAFT CHOICE FOR WINDOWS v2.0 by Trius The award winning DOS CAD package is now available for Windows! This comprehensive drawing program includes multiple attach points, 128 layers, B,zier curves, complex and spline curves, warp, multiple undos, and parallel and perpendicular modes. Supports DXF, PCX and WPG file formats. Learn the complexity of drafting with this fantastic program! SATCON v1.1 by James Bair Keep up to date with changes in the SAT scoring system. Accurately compare your current scores with the entrance requirements of many schools. Converts between pre-1995 scores and the new scores. Also converts verbal and math scores as well as PSAT scores. Use the conversion features by typing in your scores or using the scroll bar. NOTE: Requires VBRUN300.DLL (included in your Utility Collection). SCHOLASTIC SURVIVAL KIT by PrimaSoft, Inc. Organize your daily school schedule with this handy program. Includes six separate modules: Course, Terminology, Reference, Reminder, Phone and Note Books. All are very intuitive and come with comprehensive examples. Not only will this kit help your organization, but will also familiarize you with the computer (the tool of your future job). THE COLLEGE FINDER'S SCHOLARSHIP SEARCH v6.11 by The College Finders Find the scholarships that you qualify for with this handy search program. Answer a series of questions about yourself and then print out a completed questionnaire. When you are finished, you will have an opportunity to view the available scholarships from a database of more than 10,000 scholarships. Work with the program's many features in your search for scholarships. The Federal and State Addresses feature contains the names and addresses of the government agencies that help students receive money from programs like the Pell Grant and Stafford Loans. Contact these agencies for more information on scholarships offered in your state. Federal Programs is a worksheet that asks basic questions to see if you qualify for the major federal financial aid programs. College Search finds which colleges are best for you with information on more than 3,200 American colleges and universities. College Capsules gives you a brief synopsis of virtually every American college and university. Career Information includes the names of the organization that provide students with information on the most popular 220 area of studies WORD HOUND v1.0 by JudSoft Software Find hidden words in this elaborate puzzle game. Select from three difficulty levels. You can even create your own world lists and puzzles. Time yourself with the built-in stopwatch. NOTE: Requires VBRUN300.DLL (included in your Utility Collection). WORD SEARCH CONSTRUCTION KIT v2.0 by Insight Software Solutions Make word puzzles in fun shapes! Choose from more than 25 predefined puzzle shapes, including circles, apples and hearts _ you can even create your own shapes! Options include upper/lower case, grid, answer key, font selection, metafiles and more! Put more flare and pizzazz into your puzzles.. Windows Games CRYPTOGRAPHER v1.0 by Forger-Me-Not Shareware, Inc. Can you solve these word puzzles? Decode a series of letters to reveal a hidden quotation. You don't have much time to think since each game is timed. The game also informs you where your score places in the population percentage. NOTE: Requires VBRUN200.DLL (included in your Utility Collection). DANIEL'S CHECKER CHALLENGE v2.2 John Godshall Sharpen your skills with this game of checkers. Checker Challenge pits you against the computer in this classic board game. Features include undo, restart and auto play, which automatically moves your pieces. Change the computer's difficulty level to give yourself an edge -- or a challenge! NOTE: Please use small fonts when playing this game. FEATURE PROGRAM PASSAGE PLUS v1.0c by Gekko Software You won't get stuck between a rock and a hard place with this puzzle game. Place stones next to those with the same design or same color. Images including sail boats, bikes, helicopters and trains. You can even use the bombs to clear some stones. Learn the game in a helpful Training Mode. This game has stunning graphics and great musical scores. RINGER KING v1.5 by TC Consulting Throw a ringer with this classic version of the outdoor game of horseshoes. You'll need to time your throws right to get the shoe around the stake. Get a double ringer for more points. Challenge a friend or compete against the computer. NOTE: Please use small fonts when playing the game. TWO-HANDED SPADES v1.0 by Greg DeBacker Play Spades with only two players! Challenge the computer in this two-handed version of the classic card game -- there are no partners to save you or throw the hand away. Simply beat the computer's hand by playing a higher card. You can even play someone else through a modem or null modem cable. NOTE: Requires VBRUN300.DLL (included in your Utility Collection). Multi-player mode requires a modem or null modem cable. sZ by MasterWorks Software Think and react fast in this challenging matching game. Destroy a series of objects by matching them to an identical object. This game is quite deceptive and is not geared for young children. WINPAC v1.5 by Tyler Dauwalder This classic game combines the action of a popular game with new rendered graphics. Chomp all the dots to clear the level, but watch out for the ghosts. Play solo or go chomping with a friend. Complete with fully rendered graphics and great stereo sound. Create your own game fields with the level editor. NOTE: Requires VBRUN300.DLL (included in your Utility Collection). WINDOWS 95 SPECIAL FEATURE PARADISE SOLITAIRE v1.11 by Digital Paradise Corporation One of the best solitaire collections for Windowsr 95! Choose from eight games, including Klondike, Dutchess and Beleaguered Castle. Complete with six backgrounds and eight different card sets. This game has a commercial-quality feel and is a must-have for solitaire lovers. NOTE: Requires Windowsr 95. YZ LITE v1.2 by D.Floyd Dean Software You'll be seeing spots with this Yahtzee-style dice game. Score the highest points by rolling a series of dice combinations, including three of a kind, straights and full houses. An extensive help feature gives you hints as you play. Windows Latest & Greatest CAMPAIGN MANAGER by Trillium Software Learn about the democratic system with this election simulator. Predict the outcome of upcoming elections, considering past elections, incumbency, economy and more. All elections from 1789-1992 are displayed in 3D graphs with popular and electoral vote for all major candidates. Includes a strategy game. NOTE: Requires VBRUN300.DLL (included in your Utility Collection). THE COLLEGE FINDER'S SCHOLARSHIP SEARCH v6.11 by The College Finders Find the scholarships that you qualify for with this handy search program. Answer a series of questions about yourself and then print out a completed questionnaire. When you are finished, you will have an opportunity to view the available scholarships from a database of more than 10,000 scholarships. Work with the program's many features in your search for scholarships. The Federal and State Addresses feature contains the names and addresses of the government agencies that help students receive money from programs like the Pell Grant and Stafford Loans. Contact these agencies for more information on scholarships offered in your state. Federal Programs is a worksheet that asks basic questions to see if you qualify for the major federal financial aid programs. College Search finds which colleges are best for you with information on more than 3,200 American colleges and universities. College Capsules gives you a brief synopsis of virtually every American college and university. Career Information includes the names of the organization that provide students with information on the most popular 220 area of studies. EXECUTIVE DESK v5.0 by SoftPlus International Make the best use of your time with this personal information manager. It comes with a complete system of contacts, schedules, reminders, to-do lists, correspondences, follow-ups and more. Work in several different modes. DayView provides a quick view of your complete schedule. Time Planner provides monthly views of events, holidays and key diary items. The Archival List stores completed schedules for future reference. This schedule package is an effective mangement tool! FARNSWORTH FERRET'S FUN PACK FOR KIDS v1.20 by Dave Preller and Mike Kock, Elpin Systems A great collection of games for kids! The cartoon character, Farnsworth Ferret, guides your children with positive reinforcement through five games. Remember and repeat the sequence of animal pictures and sounds in Copy Cat. Kid Match is a Concentration-type game _ match pairs of numbers and symbols. Build a word as fast as possible using scrambled letters in Kid Scramble. In Math Invaders, save your galactic bases by blasting attacking arithmetic equations out of the sky. Create your own masterpieces in Kid Paint. This collection of programs is run from a graphical shell that allows children to easily select the game of their choice. NOTE: Requires a sound card. FREAK by Todd Dever, Big Things-Little Things This funky, hand-lettered font is great for promotions. It is best when used in sizes larger than 16 points, but looks even better when printed on posters in giant sizes. (TrueType) FULL MOTION v2.0 Galt Technology Protect your monitor with this an extremely popular screen saver. Play your favorite video files up to full screen with this AVI/MOV video saver. NOTE: This program requires Video for Windows RunTime, and AVI or QuickTime video files. RINGER KING v1.5 by TC Consulting Throw a ringer with this classic version of the outdoor game of horseshoes. You'll need to time your throws right to get the shoe around the stake. Get a double ringer for more points. Challenge a friend or compete against the computer. sZ by MasterWorks Software Think and react fast in this challenging matching game. Destroy a series of objects by matching them to identical objects. This game is quite deceptive and is not geared for young children. VISUAL CALENDAR PLANNER v4.0 by Bok Nan Lo Keep track of your schedule with this innovative calendar. Set alarms for recurring events with multiple musical tunes. You have many options, including printing, multiple views, colors, fonts and documents. Access your calendar any time without running the program _ its unique wallpaper feature allows you to use your calendar on your desktop! WEEKLY SPELLER v1.10 by Ronald Swerdfeger Encourage children to practice weekly spelling lists with this educational program. Quickly input spelling lists for spelling practice. Printed reports allow parents or teachers to monitor progress. Optional password protection can be enabled on the spelling list editor. Makes spelling lessons fun for children and adults. Feature Program WORD EXPRESS v1.1 by MicroVision Development, Inc. This award-winning program packs the punch of professional word processors, but without beating up your hard drive. This program integrates word processing with desktop publishing! It adds true page layout capabilities for all those things that aren't in conventional word processors. Work with more than 20 text-editing features, include scalable fonts, paragraph and character styles, columns, headers and footers, search and replace, spell check, thesaurus and context sensitive help. Add shades, borders and colors. Mix pictures, tables and text. Create your own flyers, newsletters, calendars and business cards. WORD HOUND v1.0 by JudSoft Software Find hidden words in this elaborate puzzle game. Select from three difficulty levels. You can even create your own word lists and puzzles. Time yourself with the built-in stopwatch. NOTE: Requires VBRUN300.DLL (included in your Utility Collection). WINDOWSr 95 PAINTSHOP PRO v3.12 32-Bit by Jasc, Inc. This is the ultimate image editor! Its array of options include filtering, masking and color depth altering. Supports more than 30 file formats! Now you can take advantage of the new Windowsr 95 32-bit environment. The added horsepower of a 32-bit system increases your productivity and creativity. NOTE: Requires Windowsr 95 Software Research Institute -WINDOWS/FINANCE- Financial Freedom Organize your finances and understand them, and get complete control over your cash. Financier Plus Financier Plus is a financial advisor, loan amortization, text editor. HiFinance The do-all financial organizer/calculator. Money Smith Financial Calculator Offers a fresh approach to complex calculations. -WINDOWS/HEALTH & PERSONAL- Automotive Maintenance Reminds you when it's time to service your automobile. Requires Visual Basic Run-Time. Diet Disk and Weight Control Offers tools to help you lose weight. Requires Visual Basic Run-Time. Fat and Cholesterol Counter Helps you to calculate and monitor the amount of fat, cholesterol, sodium and calories in your diet. First Name Almanac First name analysis software which gives local origin, root, and meaning. From Scratch From Scratch includes nutritional information, complete searches, toolbar interface, and more. OmniDay for Windows Document your thoughts and memoirs in your own personal diary. Nutrisoft Healthy Heart Analyze calories, proteins, fats, saturated fat, cholesterol, and carbohydrates quickly and easily. The Birthday Chronicle Software to prepare newspaper front page describing events that occurred on your birthday. Travel Bag Ever planned a trip and needed some quick information on airlines, hotels or car rental 800 numbers? Travel Bag is packed full of the most widely used 800 numbers in the travel industry - names like American Airlines, Delta, United, Holiday Inn, Ramada, Budget, Hertz - too many to list! Recipe Maker Helps you with grocery shopping, meal planning and recipe organization. Windows Gourmet A powerful but easy to use recipe database/cookbook. Automatically adjusts ingredients to account for different yields and generates a shopping list for all recipes in a meal. Windows Shopper Windows Shopper is a comprehensive set of tools which make it easier to manage that sizable portion of your family's budget represented by groceries and household maintenance items. - WINDOWS/CHILDREN'S FINANCE - Cash for Kids An easy way for your child to learn to manage money wisely. Ages 5- 3. For Microsoft Windows 3.0 or later. Chores & Rewards Teach your child responsibility and accountability! Develop a system for defining, tracking and reconciling chores, good deeds and misconduct. Use money as your award/point system, teaching your child basic banking. Requires MS Windows V3.0x - WINDOWS/GAMES - Triple Yahoo Roll the dice and try to get the highest scores. Program requires Windows v3. and Visual Basic Run-Time v2.0. World Empire III for Windows Based on the award winning DOS game, World Empire III offers real world countries for your conquering pleasure. If you like strategy games you'll love this game! Desktop Publishing Utilities EnVision Publisher by Software Vision Why spend hundreds of dollars or more for desktop publishing software when EnVision is such an excellent program! This is a true WYSIWYG, full-featured desktop publishing application! Now you can design letterheads, resumes, flyers, newsletters, invoices, greetings cards and just about anything else, right at your computer! The clean interface is structured with pull-down menus, icons and buttons everything you need! Scalable fonts, kerning, importing PCX images, easy column manipulation, drawing capabilities, text editor and the list goes on! You'll love this one! Font Monster by Leaping Lizards The ultimate TrueType and Type 1 font utility! Whether you're a font novice or a font nerd, this is a must-have! If you've got font troubles, then you haven't got Font Monster. It's acclaimed by thousands of DTP professionals world-wide. Find out why! Requires MS Windows v3.1. Image Gallery by Alchemy Mindworks Organize your images the easy way! This handy tool helps you track large collections of bitmapped image files. It's a visual database which catalogs files. Add comments and key words to each entry and you've got it made! Graphic Workshop by Alchemy Mindworks What do you want to do with your graphics? How about convert, print, view, dither, transform, flip, rotate, scale, crop, color adjust, catalog or just plain old special effects? What format do you use? Graphic Workshop handles MacPaint, IMG, PCX, GIF, JPEG, TIFF, WPG, MSP, IFF/LBM, BMP, RLE, Halo CUT, Targa, ART, HRZ, EXE, TXT and EPS files. Whew! What a mouthful. This one does it all! ThumbsPlus by Cerious Software Everything at your fingertips! Create thumbnail catalogs of all your clip art, wall paper and electronic art. Supports just about every image format you can imagine! This one's hot! Utilities General Interest LIST by Vernon D. Buerg Tired of using the TYPE command to display your text and document files? LIST gives you more then just text viewing capabilities. It supports searching, printing, copy and paste to file, archive and hex viewing modes, filters, EGA/VGA display toggle and much more! MEG by Jim Tolliver These large, clear pie charts and 3-D bar graphs make it simple to track drive space and memory. These easy to read displays work with your hard disk, network, floppy and CD-ROM drives. Also checks the CPU speed. VGA required. PKZIP by Pkware, Inc. Need to squeeze some free space on your hard disk? Do you have file(s) too large to copy onto floppies or transfer via modem? With Pkware's suite of compression tools it's easy to create your own .ZIP or self-extracting archive. (Self-extracting files do not require PKUNZIP to decompress.) Also provides for backup switches. QuikMenu by NeoSoft Corp. What a great icon-based graphical menu and desktop for DOS! This powerful utility and file management does it all! It launches all DOS based software! It comes with a phone database and dialer, password protection, screen saver, wallpaper and supports Hercules, mono, CGA, EGA and VGA displays. SHEZ by California Software Design If you like using compression tools and are tired of memorizing command switches then check out SHEZ! This gives you a front-end to ZIP, LHA, ZOO, ARC, ARJ, SQZ, PAK, UC2 and HAP file compression packages. OS/2 Warp! Utilities Clock by Rick Papo This program provides an analog or digital clock for your OS/2 desktop. It also monitors the system load, either as a percentage of CPU usage, or as a count of active tasks. The clock's border changes color from green to yellow to red as the system load increases. You can set these threshold values. Source code is provided. Run the installation file ENGLISH.CMD. PMJPEG by Norman Yee PMJPEG is a shareware image viewer with image processing and conversion capabilities for OS/2 2.x. PMJPEG is a port of WinJPEG to OS/2 2.x. It is a native 32-bit PM application. With it, you can display JPEG, TIFF, GIF, Targa, PCX, Windows BMP, OS/2 BMP or PPM images. You can export images to JPEG, TIFF, GIF, Targa, PCX, Windows BMP, OS/2 BMP or PPM formats, or compress files in GIF, TIFF, Targa or PPM files to JPEG File Interchange Format. This image viewer can generate OS/2 desktop-background bitmaps that use the system colors. Its display functions include the ability to display images in monochrome, 16 color, 256 color, high-color, or true-color display modes, display an image in full screen mode, color to gray-scale conversion or image negative conversion. When printing, you can opt to print an image with scaling, chose the best proportional fit on the page, or fit for full page. Red/green/blue and hue/saturation/ brightness can be adjusted, and it allows for contrast enhancement and gamma correction. Images can be cropped, rotated, flipped (horizontally and vertically), resized, copied to or from the clipboard. With its slide show features you can display selected files in forward, reverse, or random order with a cycle option, perform image buffering in a cyclic slideshow or start a slideshow from the command line. You can capture windows, client areas of windows, or portions of the entire desktop. RoboSave by R. R. Kurtz & J. G. Knauth Quickly and easily back up your OS/2 2.x Desktop with RoboSave, including a limited number of user-specified files. If problems occur later, you can easily restore any saved information. Because it's easy to save, you'll find frequent backups are easy to perform. The OS/2 2.x Desktop consists of control information for such things as folders, program objects, printer objects and shadows. It also contains data about user-modified colors, fonts, titles, window positions, associations and other important information. You may have invested a significant amount of time in adjusting the Desktop to your preferences. RoboSave provides a good way to protect that investment. Utilities Windows DLLMAN by Barry Press Have you ever installed a Windows application and then tried to uninstall it? Trying to figure out which .DLL files the program used can be a real hassle, till now. This program shows you the relationships between EXE and DLL files. Drag And File by Canyon Software Streamline and simplify file management! You've got control over directory and file finding capabilities! It's all here file and graphic viewing, directory tree, drag-and-drop file move, copy and delete and other features too numerous to mention! Customize the program to meet your needs, your work style and your experience. This one's for you! InWatch by Rick Green Keep an eye on your important system files (AUTOEXEC.BAT, CONFIG.SYS, WIN.INI, SYSTEM.INI). InWatch copies them, then monitors them for changes. You will be alerted if any changes occur. With InWatch, you've got peace of mind. Memory Watcher by Martin Roskelly Monitor system resources while working in Windows! Don't let your resources run dangerously low! While loaded, Memory Watcher is a great early warning system! Requires Visual Basic Run-Time v3.0 and THREED.VBX files. PKZIP by Pkware, Inc. Need to squeeze some free space on your hard disk? Do you have file(s) too large to copy onto floppies or transfer via modem? With Pkware's suite of compression tools it's easy to create your own .ZIP or self-extracting archives. (Self-extracting files do not require PKUNZIP to decompress.) Also provides for backup switches. Trash Manager by CheckBox Software Delete files and directories the safe way. Trash Manager creates a trash-can on your desktop. Have fun associating various WAV sounds with different events and choosing from assorted icons. Visual Basic Run-Times by Microsoft 'Club' members occasionally receive fantastic MS Windows applications written in Visual Basic. This set of .DLL files insure that these exciting new applications run properly. Includes Visual Basics's VBRUN100/200/300.DLL files. WinZip by Nico Mak Computing, Inc. Now you can use the popular Pkware file compression without ever leaving Windows! Drag and drop your files into WinZip. Voila! They are now compressed. It's that easy!