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Software of the Month Club April 1997 CD-ROM DOS Master Program Guide - DOS Business - AIMS Contact Management 2.1 Amazing organizer Keep track of business contacts and important information. Enter a company as a contact and the employees as sub-contacts or individuals. Work with additional tools, including word processing, to-do lists, mail merging, labeling, scheduling and more. * Divided into four main areas: Browse, Field Entry, Option Box and Menu * Search features * Browse filters (Application by Trevor Dunsford, Adeptus Computer Solutions, Inc.) CTC SALES SYSTEM 2.4c For sale This point-of-sale system is perfect for antique shops, consignment shops and group sales. Enter the booth number and item description amounts, suggested price and sale price. View documents, balance totals, print reports, and add customer and sales information. * Process charge cards, checks and cash * Snapshot feature for quick report viewing * Layaway feature * Online help (Application by Tadd Stuart, Service On Systems) Day-Care Manager Child's play Organize daily management routines for day-care businesses. DCM provides weekly scheduling for children, current client balances and accounts receivable. Supports classes in larger day- care businesses. It even generates sign in and out sheets, and weekly schedules for quick reference. * Add up to 500 children * Supports mouse and keyboard (Application by Jeff Schmidt) THE DIABETIC DAILY LOG 2.7 Medical records Records daily health progress for diabetics -- from simple to detailed reports. Create and edit a daily log with glucose levels, testing times, insulin and medication schedules, weight, blood pressure, meals and comments. Check glucose test results over time. * Helps pinpoint possible problem areas * Records glucose test results * Tracks daily activities * Prints reports * Gives glucose range (Application by Kenneth Gannon) EASY RENTER 4.2 For rent Store and retrieve rental property information, and prepare management and property owner reports with this comprehensive system. Display and print rent history, and management and late fees for a single property, group of properties or for an entire organization. Choose from eight options, including databases, reports and online hints. * Print address labels * Look up renters' numbers * Password protection * Add comments to reports (Application by Clarence E. Riley, Hi-Tech Computer Services) FIXED ASSET PRO 2.60 Financial system This is a comprehensive fixed asset depreciation system for finances and taxes. Quickly calculate depreciation on multiple bases, automatically apply tax limits, perform projections and comparisons, and print various reports. Calculates early disposition deductions. * Annual activity reports * Input up to 50 assets * Choose from five book sets for each asset: Income Tax, AMT, Financial, State and Other (Application by HammerSoft) Infodex 2.19 Multipurpose database Organize important business information with this versatile database manager. Track names, addresses, equipment, computer software, books and more. Create, edit, import and delete databases. Add, delete, rearrange, lengthen and shorten fields. * Free-form layout * Search and browse functions * Easy push-button interface * Protected mode (Application by Stevenson Technical Services, Inc.) NETTFIT 7.1 Certified training Study for national certification as a personal fitness trainer or instructor through the National Education Testing and Training Fitness Institute (NETTFIT). Chapters cover anatomy and physiology, skeletal system, muscles and movement, flexibility, exercise principles and techniques, vitamins and nutrition, and testing and fitness assessments. It also includes information on sports nutrition, strength training, body building, exercise physiology, injuries and more. * Intuitive interface * Exercise program examples * Includes information on testing and certification (Application by NETTFIT) - Feature Program - OWL Personal Portfolio Manager 6.1 Investment organizer This portfolio management and technical analysis system is perfect for investors. Shows price movement analysis. Technical indicators include moving averages, on-balance volumes, polynomial trend lines, correlation analysis and more. Organize different types of investments into individual portfolios and generate reports on any combination of portfolios. Maintain more than 5,000 securities in more than 500 portfolios. * Gain and loss reports * Track interest and dividends * IRS-approved accounting methods * Easy-to-use mouse menu * Online help * Macro support * Secure Erase for classified documents (Application by Otto-Williams, Ltd.) - DOS Children's - BABYKEYS 2.3 Child's play This program lets young kids play on the computer without affecting your system. When they press keys, sounds and music play, and graphics appear on the screen. * Thirty-three musical notes * Seven sounds * Eight melodies * Six graphical routines (Application by Multi Computing) Buckets Word association game This sorting game has a wide range of difficulty -- from child's play to diabolical. Each puzzle includes a set of words and two or three buckets. Figure which words go with each other and place them in a bucket. * Hint features * Set time limit * Keep score (Application by Joel Wallman) F. GODMOM 5.0 Enchanting mazes Help your Fairy Godmother free others in this puzzle game. With her magic wand of transformation, she must solve the puzzles on each level. Avoid killer crabs and dangerous dimensional implosions. * Fifty levels * Toggle sound on and off * Help menu (Application by John Blackwell, Soggybread Software) - Feature Program - Kinder Carton 4.0 Educational collection A great collection of phonic, math and logic activities for young kids. Choose from 27 programs, including Letter Matching, Letter Sequencing, Alphabet Book, I Spy, Rhyming Words, Three-Letter Words, Amazing Words, Word Race and more. Math and logic activities include Lasso Count, Ordinal Numbers, and Manipulative Add and Subtract. * Change difficulty levels * Colorful VGA graphics * Numbers range from zero to 100. (Application by KidStuff Software; Requires a mouse driver and 2.5MB of hard disk space) Sounds Like A... 4.0 Listen closely Four fantastic games! Match sounds to pictures in the first activity, music to pictures in the second. In the third, match pictures to sounds. The fourth game is a collection of sound manipulation tools. * Choose from 18 songs, including children's, Bible and Christmas songs * Hear 18 sounds, like a horse, dog, alarm clock, rooster and more. (Application by KidStuff Software; Requires a sound card and a DOS mouse driver) Strategist Checkers Hop, skip and a jump Match your wits against the computer in this classic checkers game. Remove all of the computer's pieces from the board before it removes yours. * Restart option * Score points * Track pieces (Application by Arthur Crump, AGCrump; Requires a DOS mouse driver) Talking Number Machine 4.0 Bionic numbers Recognize, speak and write numbers with this educational program. Choose from four activities by clicking on the Number Machine's handle, smokestack, yellow panel or number pad. Activities including reading and solving word problems and learning to count. * Help features * To exit, click on the stop sign (Application by, KidStuff Software; Requires a DOS mouse driver) Talking Time Tutor 4.0 What time is it? Learn to tell time with this animated clock. Set the analog clock to match a digital watch, spoken and written times, and more. Each analog clock has its own animation routine. A bear on the screen tells time-related jokes! * High-quality digitized speech * Change colors * Three skill levels (Application by, KidStuff Software; Requires a DOS mouse driver) - DOS Desktop Publishing - CDROMINF 1.2 Peripheral data This DOS command-line program displays information about installed CD-ROM drives or MSCDEX drivers, and any CD- ROMs loaded in the drive. * Supports IDE and SCSI CD-ROM drives * Detects ATAPI drivers under DOS (Application by Jim Mclaughlin) -Feature Program - Gview 2.5s Image manipulation View and manipulate image files with this comprehensive program. Searches and displays JPG, GIF, BMP, PCX, TIFF and TGA files. Modification options include copying, moving, printing, deleting, resizing, renaming and more * Slide show option * Fade, sound and color functions (Application by James Sherwood, Spider Software) Listpics 1.2 View images Organize and view multiple image files with this Web software package. It creates an HTML file (called PICLIST.HTM) with a list of all graphic files in your current directory, sorted alphabetically. Load this file into a Web browser to view all the graphics. * Handles a large number of graphics * Ideal for viewing animated GIFs (Application by Kevin Solway) MAND 1.3 Fun with fractals Create stunning images of Mandel-brot factal sets. These amazing images retain their complexity and detail at any level of magnification! * Three VGA modes * Save options * Print features (Application by Gregory Kwok) Parse 2.5 Text utility Analyze important documents with this utility system. Scans text files for letter, word and sentence count. * Reports the average number of letters per word and average number of words per sentence * Lists common words (Application by Gregory Kwok) - Clip Art - Bright Ideas Images a Software of the Month Club exclusive! This month's collection contains ten color and black-and-white images, including flowers, a bat and a plane. For information about how to receive even more original Bright Ideas images, along with fantastic fonts, original backgrounds, 3D models and useful desktop publishing tips and tricks, call Customer Service at 1-888-636-SOMC (7662). (Images by Bright Ideas; PCX) Site Backgrounds Galore Web images Spice up your Web site with these backgrounds. Choose from 100 backgrounds in GIF format. These small, colorful images include clouds, cells, dirt, chocolate, party mix and shirt fuzz. (Images by Shay Fulton; GIF) - Fonts - Bernhardt Stark lines Add punch to your designs with this powerful small caps font. Great for advertisements and newsletters. (Font by Scriptorium Font Library; TrueType) Lachesis Elegant serif This incredible serif font works great for headlines and body text. Perfect at any size! (Font by Scriptorium Font Library; TrueType) Mandragora Drop caps Create amazing designs with this intricate drop cap font. Each upper-case letter is accented with winding branches. (Font by Scriptorium Font Library; TrueType) - DOS Education - Bacterial Identification Program 2.0 Biological system Learn to recognize microorganisms using phenotypic identification procedures. Input the results from bacterial tests by putting a + (positive test result) or a - (negative test result) next to each test, and the program searches through its database for an accurate match. The tests include acid and gas production, urease activity, fermentation of mannitol and more. This is a perfect aid for students studying microbiology. * Includes an encyclopedia of bacteria * More than 400 bacteria in the database * Choose from 61 tests (Application by Murat AYDIN; Requires SORT.EXE in your path environment) BASIC MATHEMATICS SERIES: TRIGONOMETRY 3.0 Math tutorial Understand the basics of trigonometry with this helpful program. Covers triangles, circles, the Pythagorean theorem, associate laws and more. * Build your own triangles * Contains a brief overview of geometry (Application by J. Zimmerman) Coeli Electric Planisphere 3.79 Seeing stars This real-time star chart combines practical ephemerides with a planetarium. View the heavens from any place or time with advanced star and constellation search. Readouts include rise, set and transit times, apparent and absolute magnitudes, astronomical twilight, distance, coordinates, phase and more. Click on a star or light to see information about it, including name, distance, rising and setting. * Case sensitive controls * Point and click interface * Online help * Press K to turn on sunshine/moonshine (Application by Roger Hughes, Swimming Elk Software; Requires mouse and VESA drivers) DragMax Jr. Pedal to the metal Check what your car - or dream car - can do in a 1/4 mile race. Input information about the engine specifications, weather, weight of vehicle, driver size, transmission type, speed, ratio and efficiency. DragMax calculates and displays your vehicle's performance. * Choose from five body types * More than 40 configurations, from motorcycles to dragster * View animations (Application by Larry Meaux, Meaux Racing Heads) - Feature Program - Grow'Em 4.0 Green thumb Learn everything you need to know about growing your own garden. This program teaches you how to propagate plants from seeds and cuttings, by layering and more. It covers each technique in depth by carefully listing instructions, giving helpful tips and showing examples. It also gives detailed information on other important topics, like growth media, composting and lighting. * Includes more than 300 plant species and 1,000 entries * Includes VGA and SuperVGA versions (Application by Paul Postuma; Requires a VESA-compatible video card and a DOS mouse driver) MATH WIZARD Math Tutor 1.0 123s Learn addition, subtraction, multiplication and division with this math tutor. You get two chances to answer each question. It keeps a score of how many questions are answered correctly. Helps build a solid foundation in numbers. * For home and school * Three help features - for teachers, parents and children * Toggle sound on and off (Application by Enterplex Software) THE MATH ZAPPER 1.5 Beginning math This is a great program for practicing math. The number range for multiplication problems is 2 to 20. The range for division, addition and subtraction problems is 2 to 400. Go back to the menu or quit at any time. * Choose Random for a test on all four sets * Help feature (Application by Jim Zimmerman) Teacher's Quiz Maker 1.2 This is only a test Generate student tests in a snap. Choose from three formats: fill- in, multiple choice, and true or false. Tests are provided in a wide variety of subjects and grade levels. Sample questions are intended for grades five through nine. View the questions on screen or print them out. * Saves up to 30 quizzes * Includes ten question databases * Password protection (Application by William Jimerson; The password is quiz) UCALC for DOS 3.2 Adds up This graphing scientific calculator is perfect for both simple arithmetic and intricate scientific calculations. It features many built-in functions, operators, numerical notations and modes. It supports user-defined functions and variables. Evaluate expressions, solve and plot equations and perform numerical integrations and summations. * Load as a TSR (Terminate and Stay Resident), taking less than 6K of main memory * Line editor available for performing multiple calculations (Application by Dan Corbier) YOURDAY Happy birthday What happened on your birthday, your favorite day or even today? Check out current events that happened today, or select a particular date. All you have to do is enter the month and day, then view the list of events! Great for teachers and students. * View in HTML or text format * Saves the last view (Application by Greg Duncan) - DOS Games - Attila 2.5 Worldwide conquest Conquer the world in this Risk-style strategy game. Build your armies, transfer troops, invade countries and more. * One player against up to four computer players * Earn extra armies * Blitzkrieg mode for fast play (Application by Lueder Osmers) - Feature Program - Crazy Drake 1.01 Wacky game Jump, climb, run, swing and shoot your way through this arcade adventure. As Prince Drake, you must retrieve the Sacred Golden Egg from Dr. FoulBrain and stop him from taking over LoonVille. Each level contains bonus items, evil henchmen, challenging obstacles and more. * Three huge levels * Save and load up to seven games * Shows thumbnails of each saved game * Supports 16-bit stereo sounds and parallaxing background graphics (Application by One Reality and Neurotech Software; Requires 8MB of RAM and 6MB of hard disk space) DemBonz 3.2s Dominoes This double-six dominoes game imitates Mah Jongg. Play your dominoes to score points and block other players from scoring, while trying to be the first to play all your pieces. * Compete against one to three computer players * For one player (Application by Barrie Sargent) FASTMAZE 4.1 Puzzling Generate and solve three-dimensional mazes. Determine the number of columns, tilt and more. The more mazes you solve, the harder they get. * Two different styles -- square and hex * Backtrack your moves * Only one solution per maze (Application by James L. Dean) LORDS OF DOOM PART 1 -- The Black God 1.42 Save the world Become a hero by defeating the powerful evil demi-god in this fantasy role-playing game. Move around, talk to strangers, rest, eat, drink, and fight off ghosts, goblins, bats and other monsters. * Choose from six characters * Change your character's strengths, abilities and more * Pick up items (Application by Bartek Dzik, DzikoSoft) Puzzler 2.0 Game hints Have problems with jumbled words or crossword puzzles? Solve them quickly with Puzzler. Input jumbled letters and it unjumbles the words for you. It finds sentences associated with letters and gives solutions according to a pattern. * Choose from jumble, pattern and anagram options * It's fast -- even with long words (Application by Acropolis Software) Solder Runner Battle your computer Travel into the computer's cyber-structure to hunt and kill enemy invaders that are after your system's CPU. Find colored chips to access other areas, collect batteries to fire energy pulses, gather data disks for extra points and accumulate positrons for more energy while avoiding viruses. * Automap feature * View rooms with the Editor * Save feature (Application by John Reder) Strategist Checkers Hop, skip and a jump Match your wits against the computer in this classic checkers game. Remove all of the computer's pieces from the board before it removes yours. * Restart option * Score points * Track pieces (Application by Arthur Crump, AGCrump; Requires a DOS mouse driver) TERROID Galactic adventure Armed with twin lasers and a powerful cannon, you must save your people from the clutches of the Xrimians in this side- scrolling shoot 'em up. Blast your way through enemy spaceships, cannon turrets, missile posts and armored tanks. Pick up protective shields, bombs, weapon power-ups and energy pods dropped by destroyed ships. * Three difficulty settings * Two levels * Supports sound cards and joysticks (Application by DIGITAL Nightmares) TwinBloc Arcade action Can you survive this arcade game? Your character is ill-prepared and poorly armored, but you must still fight off everything the Razzerians can drop, kick and throw at you. Blast through their defenses and traverse the Time Block levels. They'll tantalize you with pictures from your home planet, hurl you through space and dazzle you with bizarre patterns. Good luck! * For one or two players * Five levels for one player * Four levels for two players * Sound card, mouse and joystick support (Application by Webfoot Technologies; Music requires expanded memory) - DOS Latest & Greatest - AIMS Contact Management 2.1 Amazing organizer Keep track of business contacts and important information. Enter a company as a contact and the employees as sub-contacts or individuals. Work with additional tools, including word processing, to-do lists, mail merging, labeling, scheduling and more. * Divided into four main areas: Browse, Field Entry, Option Box and Menu * Search features * Browse filters (Application by Trevor Dunsford, Adeptus Computer Solutions, Inc.) Buckets Word association game This sorting game has a wide range of difficulty - from child's play to diabolical. Each puzzle includes a set of words and two or three buckets. Figure which words go with each other and place them in a bucket. * Hint features * Set time limit * Keep score (Application by Joel Wallman) Coeli Electric Planisphere 3.79 Seeing stars This real-time star chart combines practical ephemerides with a planetarium. View the heavens from any place and time with advanced star and constellation search. Readouts include rise, set and transit times, apparent and absolute magnitudes, astronomical twilight, distance, coordinates, phase and more. Click on a star to see information about it, including name, distance, rising and setting. * Case sensitive controls * Point and click interface * Online help (Application by Roger Hughes, Swimming Elk Software; Requires mouse and VESA drivers) - Feature Program - Crazy Drake 1.01 Wacky game Jump, climb, run, swing and shoot your way through this arcade adventure. As Prince Drake, you must retrieve the Sacred Golden Egg from Dr. FoulBrain and stop him from taking over LoonVille. Each level contains bonus items, evil henchmen, challenging obstacles and more. * Three huge levels * Save and load up to seven games * Shows thumbnails of each saved game * Supports 16-bit stereo sounds and parallaxing background graphics (Application by One Reality and Neurotech Software; Requires 8MB of RAM and 6MB of hard disk space) Day-Care Manager Child's play Organize daily management routines for day-care businesses. DCM provides weekly scheduling for children, current client balances and accounts receivable. Supports classes in larger day- care businesses. It even generates sign in and out sheets, and weekly schedules for quick reference. * Add up to 500 children * Supports mouse and keyboard (Application by Jeff Schmidt) Grow'Em 4.0 Green thumb Learn everything you need to know about growing your own garden. This program teaches you how to propagate plants from seeds and cuttings, by layering and more. It covers each technique in depth by carefully listing instructions, giving helpful tips and showing examples. It also gives detailed information on other important topics, like growth media, composting and lighting. * Includes more than 300 plant species and 1,000 entries * Includes VGA and SuperVGA versions (Application by Paul Postuma; Requires a VESA-compatible video card and a DOS mouse driver) Gview 2.5 Image manipulation View and manipulate image files with this comprehensive program. Searches for and displays JPG, GIF, BMP, PCX, TIFF and TGA files. Modification options include copying, moving, printing, deleting, resizing, renaming and more * Slide show option * Fade, sound and color functions (Application by James Sherwood, Spider Software) Kinder Carton 4.0 Educational collection A great collection of phonic, math and logic activities for young kids. Choose from 27 programs, including Letter Matching, Letter Sequencing, Alphabet Book, I Spy, Rhyming Words, Three-Letter Words, Amazing Words, Word Race and more. Math and logic activities include Lasso Count, Ordinal Numbers, and Manipulative Add and Subtract. * Change difficulty levels * Colorful VGA graphics * Numbers range from zero to 100. (Application by KidStuff Software; Requires a mouse driver and 2.5MB hard disk space) OWL Personal Portfolio Manager 6.1 Investment organizer This portfolio management and technical analysis system is perfect for investors. Shows price movement analysis. Technical indicators include moving averages, on-balance volumes, polynomial trend lines, correlation analysis and more. Organize different types of investments into individual portfolios and generate reports on any combination of portfolios. Maintain more than 5,000 securities in more than 500 portfolios. * Gain and loss reports * Track interest and dividends * IRS-approved accounting methods * Easy-to-use mouse menu * Online help * Macro support * Secure Erase for classified documents (Application by Otto-Williams, Ltd.) Teacher's Quiz Maker 1.2 This is only a test Generate student tests in a snap. Choose from three formats: fill- in, multiple choice, and true or false. Tests are available in a wide variety of subjects and grade levels. Sample questions are intended for grades five through nine. View the questions on screen or print them out. * Saves up to 30 quizzes * Includes ten question databases * Password protection (Application by William Jimerson; The password is quiz) TERROID Galactic adventure Armed with twin lasers and a powerful cannon, you must save your people from the clutches of the Xrimians in this side- scrolling shoot 'em up. Blast your way through enemy spaceships, cannon turrets, missile posts and armored tanks. Pick up protective shields, bombs, weapon power-ups and energy pods dropped by destroyed ships. * Three difficulty settings * Two levels * Supports sound cards and joysticks (Application by DIGITAL Nightmares) TwinBloc Arcade action Can you survive this arcade game? Your character is ill-prepared and poorly armored, but you must still fight off everything the Razzerians can drop, kick and throw at you. Blast through their defenses and traverse the Time Block levels. They'll tantalize you with pictures from your home planet, hurl you through space and dazzle you with bizarre patterns. * For one or two players * Five levels for one player * Four levels for two players * Sound card, mouse and joystick support (Application by Webfoot Technologies; Music requires expanded memory) - DOS Software Research Institute - - Business - ALTERIS SHAREWARE by NovaTek Corp. Organize your point-of-sales material with this user-friendly business program. Use this program like a cash register. Create and print invoices _ record each sale and purchase. Keep track of sales people, vendors, customers and inventories. Records sales commissions and customer discounts. It even makes labels. EZ-FORMS DATABASE v4.04f by EZX Corporation This comprehensive program combines data management with full form processing. As you fill in the included business forms, the information is automatically stored in a database. Compatible with most dBase file formats. - Education - GRAPHMATICA v3.50 by kSoft, Inc. This equation plotter is easy to use. It supports six types of graphs, like polar, parametric and inequalities. Features include unlimited screen graphs, equations lists, flexible grid labeling and grid resizing. Export to PCX files. Complete with online help and demos. - Games - ANT RUN v3.0 by Soleau Software This game is no picnic. Help an ant get through his ant hill. Rotate pathways, create tunnels and remove obstacles while avoiding dead ends. Gain extra points for bonus tunnels and faster times. Quick thinking and fast reflexes are required to keep the ant scurrying through the passageways. CYRIL CYBERPUNK by Reality Studios Stop an invading race of mutant teddy bears and save Earth in this adventure. With your awesome hoverboard and trusty pellet gun, jump and shoot your way through evil aliens. Arm yourself with powerful weapons, including anti-personnel mines, smart bombs and laser pistols. Pick up other helpful items, like hover boost, ammo and food. There are six levels to fight through and four difficulty settings. Full of unbelievable graphics, smooth animations and heart-pounding music! MICE MAZE v1.2 by Soleau Software Feel like a rat trapped in a maze? You will after playing this wild and crazy game. Your friend, the Red Mouse, is trapped somewhere in a puzzle maze. Find him before the cats find you. Earn points and eat slices of cheese to stay alive. Squarex V1.2 by Soleau Software Don't lose your marbles in this exciting maze game. Guide your marble through a maze, capturing the square grids as you travel through each one. Capture four grids on a maze to go to the next level. The action increases with each stage. Watch out there are red and green marbles trying to stop you! This is pure arcade action at its best.