Software of the Month Club April 1997 CD-ROM Program Guide - 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)