Software of the Month Club February 1997 CD-ROM Program Guide - Software Research Institute - - Business - 401Kalculator by Mark E. Busha It's never too late to plan for retirement. Track your 401k savings investments with this program. Enter your starting investment, yearly contribution, expected interest rate, return percentage and the number of years before retirement and the program does the work. It figures the projected plan value in current and inflated dollars. NOTE: Requires VBRUN300.DLL (included in your Utility Collection). Account Pro Accounting 4.08 by AccSoft Effectively plan and control your finances with this accounting program. It's extremely user-friendly with fast processing and easy on-screen accessibility of all reports. Great for businesses, clubs and private use. Oasis 4.3 by Otto-Williams, Ltd. OWL Automated Sales and Invoicing System (OASIS) is a complete sales management system. It handles your invoicing, automated billing, customer correspondence, mailing lists, and sales tracking by customer and product. Print invoices and bills on plain paper or on your letterhead. Ressched 1.1c by Madrigal Soft Tools, Inc. The ultimate project management system! Organize everything including people, equipment and facilities. Features schedule groupings, event repeating, flexible conflict verifying, drop listing for routine booking information and more. Sophisticated, and easy-to- use. Winbond 6.1 by Bob Stech This financial program evaluates Series EE bond values. Several viewing options are available for current values and interest earned. It 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. This is a perfect compliment for Winbond-E v6.1, included in this volume. NOTE: Requires VBRUN300.DLL (included in your Utility Collection). Winbond-E 6.1 by Bob Stech Evaluate the Series E bond values with this financial application. Project bond values up to 20 years and maintain a history of bonds sold. Several viewing options are available for current values and interest 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. Use this program with WinBond v6.1, included in this volume. NOTE: Requires VBRUN300.DLL (included in your Utility Collection). - Children's - Coloring Book 2.2 Colorful program Kids can create their own artistic masterpieces with this coloring book. Choose from ten pictures, including a clown and a United States map. * Simple controls * Undo your last 30 colors * Print pictures (Application by Russell Holloway) Jigsaws Galore 1.1 by Gray Design Associates The ultimate jigsaw puzzle game! This version comes with 10 puzzles with up to 4,000 pieces. Sorts pieces by color and shape. Change piece size on the fly -- no need to scroll. Select difficulty level and number of pieces. You can even make your own puzzles. Label That Diagram - Skeleton 1.0 The leg bone's connected to the How many bones in the human body can you identify? When names are displayed, you must click on the correct part of the skeleton to score points. * No points lost for incorrect answers * Timed play * Highest score wins (Application by Richard T. Carmen; Requires a sound card and 256-color) Spiro Math 1.0 Math with a twist - literally Spirograms flash across your screen when you successfully answer these challenging math problems. A number appears in the center of a square and four other numbers appear in the corners. Use addition and subtraction to make the corner numbers equal the center number. * Practice addition and subtraction * Choose from 299 problems * Create your own spirograms (Application by Ultimate Software) - Desktop Publishing - Graphic Workshop 1.1w by Alchemy Mindworks Manipulate bitmapped graphics with this excellent, menu-driven graphics program. Convert, view and print files. Reverse, scale, move, copy, sharpen and soften the file image. Adjust the brightness, alter the contrast and balance the colors. You can use the half-toning and dithering utilities to convert full-color photographs into superb black- and-white clip art. It handles most of the popular file formats. Leonard's Sketch 0.1 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! - Clip Art - Bright Ideas Clip Art a Software of the Month Club exclusive A beetle, and elephant and a child on stilts - all this and more! This original clip art collection is from the individuals of our Bright Ideasr staff. These images are guaranteed to please! Nineteen high quality PCX pictures. For more information about how to receive even more original Bright Ideasr clip art, along with fantastic fonts, original backgrounds and useful desktop publishing tricks, call Customer Service at (619) 930-7302. Triangle Clip Art Vol 1 by Cengiz Akinli Playing children, a rocket, a caduceus and an old-fashioned hat box are just a few of the images in this exciting collection! You get a total of 60 wonderful black-and-white TIFF images with a variety of objects and people. US And Canada Clip Art by Albert K. Hon Add these sketches of the 50 states, 10 provinces and two territories of the USA and Canada to your collection. These PCX map sketches are perfect for presentations, reports and geography projects. - Fonts - Arwen Regular by Keystrokes A wonderful art deco font reminiscent of the 1920s. The clean lines and delicate symmetrical balance makes rich and interesting layouts. This font adds an airy, visually appealing look to any document. (TrueType) Burrito Regular by Keystrokes Add pizzazz to your design work with this distinctly southwestern font. (TrueType) Fox Regular by Keystrokes A wonderful font with the look and feel of bold pen strokes. It's sure to add impact to your publications. (TrueType) Majistir by Tony Lynch Take advantage of this wonderful sans serif font family, complete with normal, bold, italic, and bold italic styles. It comes with a full character set. With interesting curves and sweeps, this font is a valuable addition to your collection. (TrueType) Orianne by Tony Lynch Reminiscent of Adobe's Futura, this outstanding sans serif font family has a complete character set. Choose from normal, bold, italic and bold italic. (TrueType) Stiletto by Tony Lynch Elegant and charming. Thin ascenders give this font family charm. Work with a full character set in normal, bold, italic, and bold italic. (TrueType) - Education - Dictionary for Windows by Lapot'Soft, Ltd. You'll soon be understanding German with this comprehensive translator. This German-English, English-German dictionary shows you exact translations between the two languages. Simply type in a word and the program finds the definition - either in German or English. This is an excellent educational aid for students studying this popular European language. LessonPlanz 2.0 by Unicorn Software Limited Plan classroom lessons easily with this teachers' aid. Organize each lesson into five areas: methods, goals, objectives, materials and evaluations. Also include lesson title, class name and size, lesson number and dates. Print part or all of each lesson. It even prints folder labels so you can file your lessons. Graphmatica 1.50a by Keith Hertzer Generate graphs and charts with this easy-to-use and powerful equation plotter. Supports six types of graphs, including polar, parametric and inequalities. Work with up to 25 graphs at once. Copy charts to the clipboard (bitmap and WMF). Includes online help and demo files. Great for algebra through college calculus. Molecular Weight Calculator 3.13 Chemistry system Calculate the molecular weight and percent composition of up to seven compounds simultaneously. It recognizes user-definable abbreviations and all isotopes. * Percent Solver - find the value of x in compounds satisfy user specified percent composition requirements * Mole/mass converter (Application by Matthew Monroe; For Windows 3.1) - Games - Battlestar for Windows 1.4 You sank my battleship! This Battleship-style game blasts off into a sci-fi adventure. Find the alien fleet hidden in a three-dimensional grid, instead of the traditional two. * Choose three difficulty levels * Monitor your progress with the scanner log * Multiple undos * Change scanning axis * Keyboard shortcuts (Application by Gregory Braun) Boxes III Tetris-style game Eliminate colored crates by maneuvering and dropping boxes on them. Watch out for falling stones! It's not as easy as it looks. A fun, challenging and addictive puzzle game. * Eight difficulty levels * Amazing sound effects * Customize bonus features, like bombs and ghosts * Set game speed (Application by DynoTech Software; Requires 256-colors) Noisy Video Poker/Blackjack 4.1 Place your bets Why do they call it noisy? If you have a Sound Card, you'll quickly find out! Play regular Poker and Blackjack with a variety of sounds and special effects. The sounds are always cheerful, even when you loose. * Beautiful card designs * Fast play (Application by Ultimate Software; Requires VBRUN300.DLL, included in your Utility Collection, Sound Card recommended) Penny's Arcade for Windows 95 Ready? Aim. Fire! Hurry! step right up and win a prize. Hit the target in this challenging shooting arcade. * 3D rifle that can be aimed from any location on the screen. * Multiple Targets * Practice mode (Application by WinGames, Inc.) Trigger Happy 1.0 Jungle warfare Win the war in this game of jungle warfare. Try to stay alive as you seek and destroy your enemy. This is a colorful, top-down action game! * Choose from four weapons, including shotgun, machine gun, flame thrower and rocket launcher * Beware of traps and obstacles * Includes three game maps (Application by Derek Yu, Blackeye Software) - Special Interest - Alarm 1.8 by Jeff Parker Use this alarm system to set an unlimited number of alarms and attach reminder notes. Schedule alarms to recur at defined intervals. The install program places its icon in your startup group. You also get a snooze interval function. Alarm uses Windows multimedia capabilities to play customizable sounds (WAV, MID and AVI) for alarms, and it can also launch programs. NOTE: Requires Windows 32s, Windows NT or Windows" 95. Automile 2.2 On the road again Record important information from your business travels. Log miles, expenses and maintenance. Great for business reporting and tax returns. * Record mileage in the Trip log * Organize gas and oil costs in the Expense log * Track repairs with the Maintenance log * Open one or all logs at once (Application by Mission Software Solutions, Billy T. Hale) Awave 3.1 Amazing sound system This is the ultimate sound editing system! Editing features support fade, reverse, amplitude, stereo and more. This program converts a large number of formats -- it imports more than 120 audio formats and exports 35 formats. * Command-line editing * Loads and strips audio tracks from video files * Vast MIDI capabilities NOTE: While this program works best with Windows 95, it supports Windows 3.11 if Win32s 1.3 is installed. (Application by FMJ-Software; Requires a sound card) Button WAVs for Windows! Listen close This collection of 32 WAV files features a male voice. Assign phrases to print, save, help and other system commands. Incorporate with Female Computer WAV Collections, included in this Volume. * Professional recordings * Use in multimedia projects * Use them with Awave 3.1, included in this Volume. (Application by Ted Tatman; Requires a sound card and an audio player to assign sounds using the Windows Sounds Control Panel) Excuses Excuses Excuses! 1.0a So, what's yours? This program was designed for those times when you need a good excuse to get off the phone. If you're stuck on the phone with someone who won't hang up or shut up, you can find the perfect reason to terminate the call! * Create excuse sets and associate them with sounds * Three excuse sets with four sounds per set (Application by Graphical Bytes, Inc.) Female Computer WAV Collections! Listen closer Assign sounds to system commands with this collection of more than 20 WAV audio files. Integrate with a male's voice from Button WAVs for Windows!, included in this Volume. * Enhance multimedia projects * Use them with Awave 3.1, included on this Volume (Application by Ted Tatman; Requires a sound card and an audio player to assign sounds using the Windows Sounds control panel) FlexED 1.7 Comprehensive HTML editor Create amazing Web pages with this extensive HTML editor. This system supports many of the standards found in the newest browsers. * Custom HTML Tool Bar * Viewer * Tutorial * Extensive Browser * Image, Frame and Table Wizards (Application by InfoFlex Pty, Ltd.) GIFWeb 1.7 by Informatik, Inc. Convert image files to transparent GIFs for your Web pages. Just click on a color and it saves the index as a transparent color. Converts GIF, bitmap, JPEG and TIF files and supports dithered color backgrounds.