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- Mortgage Designer v1.2 for Windows provides the following over v1.1:
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- - Mortgage Master for Windows is now called Mortgage Designer. The
- name had to be changed because an earlier Mortgage Master (under DOS)
- was discovered.
- - Speeded up the calculations for yearly principal and interest by 100
- times. This doesn't matter much on 386/486 machines but helps a lot
- on slow 286s. This was accomplished by retaining previous results in
- global memory between multiple uses of the functions (uses another 20K
- of RAM).
- - Added a database for mortgages. You can now have a virtually unlimited
- number stored complete with descriptions. Any record can be specified
- as the startup default record for Mortgage Designer defaults! You can
- easily select between different standardized mortgages using this feature.
- - Mortgage Designer now supports quarterly and yearly payments. The main
- driver for additional repayment flexibility was mortgages from the
- Federal Land Bank where they are paid when the farmers sell their yearly
- crop. Also added additional logic to the amortization schedule display
- to allow paging of any term mortgage.
- - Standardized all the push buttons to the same size where possible. This
- makes Mortgage Designer a little easier to use since the user interface is
- the same throughout the program. Also standardized their order (help is
- always the right or lower button, OK/Done is next to it).
- - Expanded the default mortgage info dialog box to contain additional
- buttons for terms.
- - Added a dynamic loan lifetime P&I pie chart to the "What if?" dialog box
- and a short discussion in the help to discuss how you can save money using
- this new feature.
- - On the "What if?" Log to File function, added automatic calculations
- so that the log file will always contain good calculations. Before this
- you had to manually use the calculate function first then Log to File.
- - Expanded the built-in help (both additional pages and more per page).
- - Correct a rare condition where some of the freshly updated data on the
- "What if?" dialog box might not always be maintained through changes of
- the payment type (i.e. monthly to two week).
- - On the "Reports - Amortization Schedule...", moved the Interest a little
- to the right to prevent numbers displaying too close together for maximum
- principal/interest with minimum term calculations. File/print was fine.
- - Added a top line to amortization reports to allow them to be customized
- through the use of the new comment field. If the comment exists, it will
- be used as the top line for display/file/print amortization reports.
- - Added a "Yearly Tax Savings" estimate under the Tax Time area. Estimates
- are provided for default tax brackets 15%, 28%, and 33%. User configurable.
- - Expanded the program defaults area. It now contains only program specific
- information complete with additional help. The database area, under loan
- defaults, contains all loan specific information for multiple loans.
- - Expanded the keyboard interface for the amortization schedule display.
- Mortgage Designer now loads a keyboard accelerator table to allow you to use
- keyboard PgUp, PgDn, Esc, and F1 keys in addition to the normal menu picks.
- - Corrected a minor problem with the invoice and amortization table printing
- where they might not print correctly under very rare conditions.
- - Cleaned up the amortization schedule display to more closely follow the
- common user access (CUA) programming guidelines. Makes it easier to use!
- - Added principal, interest, taxes, and insurance (PITI) calculations. The
- percent or dollar figure for interest and taxes can be stored as defaults.
- - Minor bug fixes and corrections.
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- Mortgage Designer v1.21 for Windows provides the following over v1.20:
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- - Corrected a problem with the amortization schedule reports where Alt+N for
- next page could under rare conditions also call up the help screen.
- - Added a file called VENDORS.DOC to list additional sources for Mortgage
- Designer.
- - Other minor touchups to work better under the new Windows 3.1 upgrade.
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