Software of the Month Club New Member XXII CD-ROM Program Guide - DOS Latest & Greatest - AmortizeIt! 2.1 Plan loan payments effortlessly Determine all loan variables with this comprehensive analyzer and calculator. It calculates unknown figures and gives you many "what if" scenarios, including principal amounts, interest rates, loan duration and payment amounts. Supports accelerated biweekly payments, tax consequences, accrued interests, custom payments, discount mortgages, miscellaneous fees, random payments, fiscal year totals and more. * Choose from six calculators: loan, refinance, remaining balance, accelerated payment, interest due and balloon payment * Create and print complete amortization schedules * Import and export dBase files (Application by Pine Grove Software) Amy's Fun-2-3 Adventure 3.0 Fun with numbers An adorable puppy named Amy guides young children through four entertaining number-learning journeys. Complete with support for mouse and sound card (highly recommended). Perfect for children 2- to 5-years-old. Choose from: * Amy's Doghouse: Number recognition and counting skills * Match Machine: Logical comparisons * Music Magic: Children play their own songs or play the provided eight songs, including "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star," "London Bridges," "Three Blind Mice" and "Mary Had A Little Lamb" * Cookie Castle: Count using fingers to further reinforce counting skills (Application by Devasoft) Anna's Language Tutor 3.0 Learn to speak several languages This user-definable language teaching tool is flexible and adaptable. Use it to create language lessons for teaching any language. Choose from a variety of methods, including readings, drills, translations, games, verb helpers and a phrase builder. For each dialect, it teaches nouns, verbs, adjectives, common words and their pronunciation. Additional information includes who speaks the language, their country's geography and history. * Customizable drills and translations options, like time, number of questions and what topics are covered * Supports add-on modules * Drills set up in Concentration-style and multiple-choice questions * 3 language modules included - German, Italian and Spanish (Application by Abavagada Software) 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 7MB of hard disk space) Cyril Cyberpunk 1.30 Hoverboard action 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. Full of unbelievable graphics, smooth animations and heart-pounding music! * Single player action * 3 levels * 4 difficulty settings * save up to 10 games (Application by Reality Studios; Requires 9MB of hard disk space) Draft Choice 2.15 Create your own blueprints Engineers and architects will love this amazing Computer Aided Drafting (CAD) package. Design your own gears and machines. Plan your own home or office complex. This comprehensive package included many features, like: * 256 layers * Bezier, complex and spline curves * Macro utility * Multiple attach points * Multi-level undos * View your designs from several angles (Application by Trius, Inc.) Envision Publisher 2.04 Full-featured DTP package Design letterheads, resumes, flyers, newsletters, invoices, greeting cards, brochures, books and more with this comprehensive desktop publishing system. It has an amazing graphical user interface (GUI) with pull-down menus, icons and buttons. * True WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) * Scalable fonts from 4 points to 144 points * Draw lines, rectangles, circles, ellipses, polygons, polylines and Bezier curves * Type options include fill, color, style, leading, kerning and rotation (Application by Software Vision Corporation: Requires DOS mouse driver installed) PC-Proof 3.4 Say what? Improve your writing skills with this professional grammar checker. Checks for several errors, including dropped words, subject-verb agreement, misused articles and more. It provides explanations and suggestions for encountered errors. * Compatible with WordPerfect, Word, Works, WinWord, ProWrite, PC-Write, WordStart, Windows Write and ASCII * Reports the approximate education level of the grammar based on the Gunning Fog Index * Loaded as a Terminate and Stay Resident (TSR) so you can use it within any program (Application by Intellect Systems) Sea Graphics Viewer 1.2c Fast image viewer Review your clip art collection quickly and easily with this amazing viewer. You can even convert file formats. Index your images into catalogs. Perfect for Super VGA and up. * Full graphical interface * Supports JPG, TGA, BMP, RLE, TIFF, PCX, GIF, LBM (IFF), WPG, ICO, BBM, PPC, PNM, PNG, FLI and FLC * Quickly browse through multiple images with the small preview box feature * Slide show capability * Mouse panning through large pictures (Application by H. De Laat, B.Wakkee and R. Gortzen; Requires DOS mouse driver installed) Veradesk 1.5 Six amazing business applications These incredible programs include everything from inventory to personal information managers. Each program comes with a graphical interface, point-and-click options and password features. Choose from: * Veralite: create invoices and purchase orders * Filebox: file manager * Veracash: expense and accounting manager * Veradate: track appointments * Verabook: records your contacts * Verastat: generates statistical reports (Application by Clay Reid; Requires a DOS mouse driver) War Diary Battle simulation This strategy game is based on actual events from the 16th Century. You play the role of a Korean general, organizing a series of war campaigns to defeat the Japanese invasion. Chop lumber, harvest crops and trade for money and other resources in order to survive. Your objective is defeating your opponent's army by massing your own soldiers and equipping them with bows and arrows, and swords. * Save games * Elaborate all-terrain map * Great graphics with rendered scenes * Watch your men work and fight (Published by The Game Factory; Requires 8MB of RAM and a DOS mouse driver) Wonder Word 1.3 Go bananas Expand your vocabulary as Zipper, the monkey, guides you through this fun and challenging program. It's filled with great VGA graphics, MIDI sounds and digitized effects. * Three difficulty settings * Save and load your progress * Hint feature * Includes more than 150 clues (Application by Software Avenue, Inc.; Requires a sound card) Word Games at Camelot 1.3 In quest of words A wonderful program for teaching adjectives. As a knight seeking to join King Arthur's Round Table, you must prove your vocabulary knowledge. Includes nine sets of words lists, five difficulty levels, colorful graphics and entertaining gameplay. * Three game levels * Keeps progress record * Multiple-choice questions * Supports sound cards for music and sound effects (Application by Adventure LearningWare)