Software of the Month Club New Member XXII CD-ROM Program Guide - DOS Software Research Institute - - Business - Money Explorer 4.01 Financial advisor Consider all your options before making important business decisions. Analyze credit card loan terms, find the loan principles, calculate savings account interest and more. * Onscreen help * Ten interrelated functions * Full loan amortization schedules (Application by Richard Notturno) MyPeople 4.1 The perfect Human Resources organizer Organize your staff with this personnel management program for small to medium-size businesses. Record employee history and personal information. Keep track of employee work hours, including vacation time, sick leave and paid holidays. You can even establish a seniority list with pay rates. * Track up to 1,000 employees * Hold up to 1,000-line comment cards for each employee * Payroll summaries * Provides group and statistical summaries (Application by RAD Software) Payroll Calculator 1997 Payday Streamline your payroll system with this comprehensive program. Establish tax-exempt fields, marital status, allowances and more. Print reports, including year-to-date totals, employee, unemployment, disability and tax. * IRS forms, including W-2 and SSA * Departmental costs (Application by HJP Associates) QuickRef Project Assistant 1.0 Project management Organize your projects with this management system. Record time, money, to do items, notes, status and more. Provides multiple report configurations. * Password protection * Archive finished projects * Support network access (Application by WaverlyStreet) - Children's - Lil' Picasso Coloring book This is a great painting and drawing program for young artists. Kids can create their own images or color the pre-drawn pictures. * Tools include Lines, Boxes, Circles and Free Form * Choose from hundreds of colors and patterns (Application by Philip P. Kapusta) Math Assault I: Word Problems 2.3 Educational adventure This action game has an educational twist. Free the citizens of Greecia from Apathy's control. Shoot monsters, find magic potions and collect bonus points. Improve your health and restore weapons by solving word problems. Word problems start with basic addition and subtraction and evolve into complex math equations, including multiplication and division. * Twelve levels * For one or two players * Perfect for second through seventh graders * Hint options * Pop up calculator (Application by Veenetronics Corporation; Requires 5MB of hard drive space) Teaching Tiles 1.00 Matching game Increase your memorization skills with this Concentration-style game. Uncover one tile and try to find its matching answer. Teaches colors, letters and math. * Six skill levels * Customize colors * Point 'n click interface (Application by Philip P. Kapusta) Unicorn Quest 2.2 Typing adventure Practice your typing skills with this fun game. Increase your typing speed while searching for a missing unicorn. The program has three modes: Letters, Words and Sentences. * Choose from beginning, advanced and expert levels * Typing certificates * One- and two-handed typing (Application by Sufficiently Advanced Technology) - Desktop Publishing - Ani Mate Pro 1.4b Fun with animation This paint and animation program has everything you need for imaging, viewing and animating. Packed with 70 tools, including Morph, Blend, Turn, Roll and Rotate. Supports anti-alias, Bezier curves, unlimited clipboards, scratch pads and more. Create movies from still photographs. * Reads and writes PCX files * Preview options * Online help * Includes demos (Application by Rick Sobie; Requires a DOS mouse driver and 4MB of hard disk space) Bcad 2.2 3D illustrations Create technical images in two and three dimensions with this AutoCAD-style system. Draw, copy, move, mirror, rotate and more. * Pattern library * Great renderings * Easy-to-use mouse interface * Online help (Application by ProPro Group) PEP: Picture Editing Package! 1.8 Artistic flair PEP: Picture Editing Package! is for non-artists who need diagrams, illustrations and high-quality drawings. Create logos, banners, forms, certificates, presentations, slide shows, flow charts, floor plans and more. Features include multiple windows, zoom options, WYSIWYG displays, background printing, infinite undeletes, scalable fonts, decorative ornaments, rulers, grids, snaps, powerful menu driven commands and complete on- line documentation. * Introductory slide show * Online help * Supports all DOS systems (Application by Trionum, Inc.) Virtual Potter 3D 1.0 Multidimensional Create simple 2D and 3D objects with this plotter. Rotate and view your objects from any angle. * Up to 13 plotting points * Includes samples (Application by J. Warga) - Clip Art - Dinosaur Clip Art 1.0 Prehistoric images Travel back to the time of the dinosaur age with these six images. Includes a Tyrannosaurus Rex, Stegosaurus and Iguanodon. Each image is in color and black-and-white. (Images by M & M Software; BMP) Site Backgrounds Galore! #1 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 - FlowChart Organizational diagrams Easily create flow charts with this series of arrows, lines and objects. The lowercase includes arrows and lines - the uppercase has objects. Perfect for business, school and home. (Font by Kenneth Hirst; TrueType) Scramble 1.0 Triple letter score This Scrabble-style font features letters in squares. Each square also contains a small number in the lower right hand corner. Capital letters only. (Font by Simon Daykin; TrueType) - Education - CrossWord Master 1.1 WsorCdsor atrMse Solve word puzzles with this anagram program. Enter scrambled letters, and it gives you a list of possible words. * Special options for Crossword games * Scramble words (Application by Occam Software) 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) A Musical Tutorial 1.3 Music to your ears Learn to recognize musical notations by sight and by ear with this comprehensive music tutorial. Covers note association and sight reading. Includes major, minor, harmonic, dominant sevenths and melodic scales. * Games promote learning * Print options * Play classical music (uses internal speaker) * Toggle sound on and off (Application by Ronald Swerdfeger) WeatherCaster Gold 2.0 Sunny and clear This is an advanced weather forecaster, database and analysis program. Enter wind speed and direction, pressure, clouds, and temperature to obtain your forecast. Keep weather records and track storms. * Add, edit and print daily and hourly data * Monthly and yearly summaries * Unique pie charts * Weather conversions (Application by Compulink) Write Kanji 1.01 From the far East Learn kanji, a Japanese language. Write characters, memorize definitions, learn compound characters and more. * Five lessons * Includes 75 of the most frequently used kanji characters * Full graphical interface with built-in character recognition (Application by Awareness Productions; Requires a DOS mouse driver) - Games - Cosmic Ambush Alien adventure Try to survive 31 levels of constant alien onslaught! Fire at will, though sometimes firing isn't the best strategy for staying alive. Collect icons to gain weapons, smart bombs, shields, extra lives, more firepower and faster bullets. * Great graphics * Fast action * Keyboard and joystick support (Application by Anders Lindskold) Escape From Delirium 1.0 Jungle quest Can you survive this interactive adventure? Your plane crashes in the Philippine jungle and you must work to stay alive. Search the plane for clues, pick up items, explore the jungle, talk to people and more. * View what you are carrying with the Inventory box * Choose from six commands: Talk, Pick Up, Drop, Move, Look At and Use Item * Save feature * One player action (Application by Walter Koch; Requires a DOS mouse driver and EMM386 memory manager) Formula 2000 Start your engines! Put the pedal to the metal in this multi-directional racing game. Race against four computer-controlled cars in four laps. You can restart the race if you're not up to speed, but it will cost you a point. * Three difficulty levels * Adjust volume * Smooth video option (Application by Spark Developments) Quiver 1.02 Shoot 'em up Recover stolen orbs from vermin aliens in this time-traveling adventure. Shoot all the creatures, collect weapons, jump, find medical kits and more. This is a fast-paced, Doom-style, arcade adventure! * 3D action * Eight weapons, including Blaster, Spike and Fajita Maker * Auto map feature * Save and load games * Adjust volume levels (Application by ESD Games; Requires 13MB hard drive space and 6MB of RAM; 486+ recommended)