-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Software Shopper Online August 1995 - BBSCON Edition "Your Shareware Source" SOFTWARE SHOPPER Contents: [] Editor's Notes: Things are heating up [] Shareware Reviews: Dragon's Bane: Mahjongg II, Fire & Ice, NetSpades and Vinyl Goddess From Mars [] Featured Selection: Our pick of what's new [] New Releases: New shareware programs [] New Versions: Updated shareware programs [] The Download Top 40: Jojo's list of the 40 most popular shareware, freeware and demo downloads across the Internet [] FormGen's Top 10: Hot sellers in shareware [] What Is Shareware?: A cheerful explanation of try-before-you-buy [] About the Catalog: A note on Software Shopper's database [] Online Order Form: Yes, you can order shareware titles from us! Entire contents copyright 1995 by Falsoft, Inc. Software Shopper and PCM -- The Premier Personal Computer Magazine -- are intended for the private use and pleasure of their subscribers, and reproduction by any means is prohibited. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Editor's Notes \|/ by Lauren Willoughby ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ THINGS ARE HEATING UP It's grueling summer here, and it seems software companies everywhere are taking a beat from the weather by stoking their "production furnaces" to top capacity. I've been FTP-ing software from around the globe, and it's getting so hard to keep up! Tons of new stuff pours in every day. Next month look for lots and lots of software we didn't have time to prepare for this issue! Summer is a great time for games. We're covering some great arcade and board games this month. Take a look at Dragon's Bane: Mahjongg II, the next generation in Mahjongg. And there's Entombed, an adventure game in the vein of Seventh Guest (gorgeous graphics). Fuzzy's World is for you if you ever wondered what it would be like to play golf in space. And then there's NetSpades, a multiplayer card game with hilarious chat features. It must be played to be believed! Last month I reviewed BananaCom, a great little DOS communications program -- perfect, in fact, for the person plugging in a modem for the first time, or for people who are "scared" of their modems. Obviously, that's not you -- or you wouldn't be reading this in your corner of cyberspace. If you're set up with all your scripts and stuff, BananaCom isn't for you. But let me tell you, it's the best program for new computer users. It's simple, streamlined, uncomplicated. So when friends and family return from Circuit City with that new Packard Bell and ask for your help in going online, do yourself a favor -- get them going with BananaCom, not Telix. Easier for them, less stressful for you. -=------------- -=*=- -=*=- -=*=- -------------=- Shareware Reviews ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> Dragon's Bane: Mahjongg II Tackling the Tiles >> Fire & Ice A Game That Really Goes to Extremes >> NetSpades v1.1 Trump and "Bonk" Other Players Over a Modem! >> Vinyl Goddess From Mars A Thong Bikini, a Lady and Lotsa Monsters -=*=- >> Dragon's Bane: Mahjongg II << Tackling the Tiles Nels Anderson's Mahjongg wasn't the first shareware program I discovered, but it was the first one that reeled me in, hook, line and sinker. How I loved it when I won and got to see the fireworks celebration! Probably every PC user on the planet is familiar with Mahjongg, so I won't belabor the points of the game. Namely, you tag and remove matching tiles from a stack until you remove them all -- if you can. A little bit of luck and a lot of strategy are involved. Anderson has updated his board-game classic with Mahjongg II. Actually, it's called Dragon's Bane: Mahjongg II, in honor of the "dragon," which is the term given by the Chinese to the traditional pyramid shape of the tile pile. If you liked the original Mahjongg game, you'll love this update. It has sound! It has animation! It has VGA support (actually, it requires the VGA graphics mode)! It has a medieval theme! It also has a voracious appetite for hard-disk space. While the original Mahjongg could fit on a 360K floppy disk, with room to spare, Mahjongg II gobbles up more than 2MB of disk space. That's to make room for the sounds and the animations that play whenever you succeed in matching tiles (and you can turn off sound and animation if you like, which is good, because they do slow down game play somewhat). Like the original Mahjongg, you can choose to load different tile sets. Several medieval-themed tile sets are provided (lots of knights, shields and axes), along with a Chinese tile set as a salute to the game's ancient origins. Also included is a tile editor that lets you create your own tiles or modify existing tile sets. This is fantastic! The editor includes line, circle, rectangle and fill tools -- and it's even fun to just doodle around in. Unlike the older Mahjongg, Mahjongg II lets you venture beyond the traditional "dragon"-style layout to many others. It even lets you design your *own* layout. Lots of other bonuses are built in: tournament modes, statistics (to keep you apprised of your success "battling the dragon") and a timed option. It was as much fun to discover and play Mahjongg II as it was the original game. Of course, user expectations regarding interface and game play are rather higher now -- but Anderson has risen to the challenge. Great game! Play it! Mahjongg II requires 640K of RAM, DOS 3.0 or higher, extended memory, and VGA. Registration is $16. | Software Shopper Ordering Information | | Dragon's Bane HD0144 1 Disk $8 | -=*=- >>>> Fire & Ice <<<< A Game That Really Goes to Extremes Life around here has been torrid and steamy. Hey! I'm talking about the weather! So it was an extreme pleasure to stumble across Fire & Ice, a hot (and cool!) platform-style arcade game from Streetwise software. When the game loaded I found myself in the Arctic circle, turned into a character named Cool Coyote. Not only does he live in an igloo, he can spontaneously generate and lob ice pellets at will. That's a handy talent for him to have, because throwing ice pellets is the only way he can defend himself against the bad buys (little Eskimos and Penguin-esque creatures). To kill a bad guy, you freeze him with an ice pellet (some enemies require more than one dose); then when he's frozen, you bounce on him to shatter him. (I know, that sounds kind of drastic -- but if the bad guys win, their leader, the evil Suten, will destroy the earth with fire.) Like other 2-D platform games, including the popular Commander Keen series and Jazz Jackrabbit, Fire & Ice has great animation and graphics, and it gives you hidden objects to find and use. Lots of jumping, running, shooting and grabbing. My favorite things to do in a game! Fire & Ice also has moving platforms -- and puppies! If a puppy is around, it'll follow Cool Coyote and launch ice pellets whenever the Cool man does. (Talk about hero worship!) There's lots of humor in this game, from the puppies, to the crane that takes away the sun and puts the moon in place, to the nice clouds that shower down "snow bombs" when you hit them with an ice pellet. There are supposed to be some "Scottish" levels in this shareware version, but I haven't encountered them yet -- the game starts in "Ice" mode, and I haven't gotten too far along. (I think it's a subconscious desire to beat the heat. I'm taking a dive to stay cool!) I like this game; I find myself playing it more and more as the thermometer courts the 100-degree mark. You'll need EGA or VGA, and a hard drive, to play. Registration is $29.95. | Software Shopper Ordering Information | | Fire & Ice HD0146 1 Disk $8 | -=*=- >>>> NetSpades v1.1 <<<< Trump and "Bonk" Other Players Over a Modem! Tell me, the last time you and your pals got together for a friendly game of cards, did somebody scream? Push someone else out of his or her chair? Give everybody lots of cheerful hugs? Turn into an alien? Hmmm. These bizarre "things" seem to happen around me with great frequency: when I'm on the computer -- usually when visiting BBS chat rooms. People are always screaming, rolling on the floor laughing, or getting bonked. on the head. Things like that are happening now more than ever since I've installed NetSpades from Synthetic Reality. And I *LOVE* it! NetSpades is the classic four-player card game done up in Windows -- but with the full chat treatment. Not only can you play a challenging game of Spades, you can also trade insults (or warm hugs) with up to three other human players over a modem or network. (If you can't find four humans to warm the seats, "robots" will fill in.) The programmer, Dan J. Samuel, has obviously spent a lot of time in chat rooms. It shows in the beautiful interface that lets you make a face or bonk somebody with a single mouse click. Yes, NetSpades is a chatter's delight. A toolbar at the top of the screen gives you 14 buttons you can use to express yourself. Seven buttons feature yellow smileys, but only one of them is smiling! The others wear sad, angry, rude, malicious, drunk and coy expressions. When you feel yourself breaking into the appropriate mood, press the button, and you'll see the change reflected in your picture onscreen -- a little cartoon representative of you next to your cards. If that weren't enough, you can click the Face Editor button to custom-configure each picture from among hundreds of possible combinations. (You can turn yourself into an alien when you're angry, if you like.) The other seven buttons store action phrases; you can put a phrase "at the ready" any time simply by clicking its button. To put a phrase in action, just place your mouse cursor over someone else's "face" and do a right click. The action is typed into the scrolling chat box at the right of the cards. With human opponents, the commentary can get quite lively. When you're playing solo, you'll have to settle for bonking the robots. The seven default action phrases include such things as: [] hair stands on end as emits a piercing scream! [] and help from the floor, after attack. [] gives a warm and cheerful hug. The represent names of the people playing the game! That's cool. If you click on the Action Editor button, you can type in your own custom phrases. Sound effects! We must talk about the sound effects! This program stocks .WAV files aplenty. Each action or event in NetSpades is accompanied by a humorous sound, whether it's a snick, a crash or a springy boing. When you change your expression, you hear it. (Try being angry just to hear the anguished yell. ) When you deliver an action phrase, you hear a sound effect too. The game play lives up to the excellence of the chat features. Try solo play and you'll see that the "robots" play a tough game. Here's a refresher on the rules of Spades for those who have forgotten how to play or never learned: The deck is dealt out to four players so that each holds 13 cards. On a play, someone leads with a card. Everyone else must play a card of the same suit. Say that someone leads with an ace of hearts; the others lay down a 10, 9 and 6 of hearts. The person who played the ace "takes the trick" -- earning 1 point. The high card wins the point, and aces are high. If one doesn't have a card of that suit, he or she may play a card of another suit. If he or she lays down a *spade* on, say, a pile of hearts, he/she "takes the trick" (earns 1 point), because spades are trumps. Even a lowly 2 of spades can take an ace of hearts -- or clubs or diamonds too, for that matter. But a higher spade always beats a lower spade. Let's back up to the point just after the cards are dealt: that's the bidding time. Bidding takes place before any cards are played. "Bidding" just means to estimate the number of tricks you think you can take, looking at your hand. You can bid from 0 (Nil) to 13 (though it's highly unlikely that you'll take all 13 tricks). The more spades, aces and high cards you have in your hand, the more optimistic you can be. Bidding is important, because scoring depends on it. Say you bid 5 tricks, and you win 5 tricks. Lucky you -- you get 50 points! Yep, that's 10 points for each trick won. What if you bid 5 tricks but win 6? You'd get 51 points, not 60, because "overbid" points count as 1. Woe be to you if you don't match your bid. If you bid 5 but take less than 5 tricks, you *lose* 50 points. (NetSpades' computer opponents, and most human opponents too, do everything in their power to try to keep you from meeting your bid.) It's not unusual to see players in negative-point situations. Game play proceeds until somebody wins 300 points. A lot of strategy goes into winning Spades -- knowing when to play high cards, when to hold off trumps. NetSpades makes things interesting by letting you adjust the rules with "Nil" and "Overtricking" clauses. If you bid 0, or Nil, and manage to meet that, you'll win 100 points! (Of course, everyone else will throw out their low cards to try and make you take a trick.) The Overtricking rule counts the number of tricks you win over your bid. When you rack up 10 "overtricks," you're docked 100 points. NetSpades also gives you the option of playing two-on-two; you and your partner bid as a team (but without being able to discuss your cards, unfortunately). I can't recommend NetSpades highly enough. It's a great game of cards all by itself. When you add in the chat features, the sound effects and the unpredictability of other players, it becomes a delightful circus. It won't take you long to use up the 10 hours of evaluation time you're allotted in this shareware version. After 10 hours, you must register ($22.95) to receive your activation code in order to get back. | Software Shopper Ordering Information | | NetSpades HD0147 1 Disk $8 | -=*=- >>>> Vinyl Goddess From Mars <<<< A Thong Bikini, a Lady and Lotsa Monsters The game Vinyl Goddess From Mars has been sitting in my IN box for quite a while. Something about the disk label, with the picture of the scantily clad woman holding a knife in a provocative manner, put me off. But on a recent expedition through the depths of software awaiting my attention, I picked up the disk again and actually read the letter from Union Logic (the publisher) this time. Then my sense of humor got the better of me. Describing Vinyl Goddess From Mars as a "sexy" platform game, the publishers gave it this scenario: "While en-route to the esteemed intergalactic B movie festival, the Vinyl Goddess crash-lands on a strange planet. Help Vinyl recover enough storage capsules to fix her ship and reach the festival in time." So, a platform game. Here I was envisioning all sorts of lewd cyber- orgies, and it's a platform game (I *love* platform games!) -- with a sense of humor. When I loaded it up and began to play, I found that Vinyl Goddess From Mars looks and plays a lot like Epic MegaGames' Jill of the Jungle. It's pure platform action: running, jumping and shooting. (Oops! Make that "knife throwing" instead of "shooting.") Yep, and it also adds elements of vine-climbing, ducking, trampoline hopping, bad- guy-fighting, moving-platform timing, hidden-area finding and goodie/health-device-grabbing. The 256-color graphics are spectacular. The animation, which Union Logic states is at 70 frames per second, is about the smoothest I've seen. The interface really clicks. You'll get caught up in the action as you jump around looking for your red storage capsules -- and having to fight off the green pod creatures and other meanies that fire energy- sapping globs at you. To play you'll need a 386DX or better CPU, 640K of RAM, a hard drive and VGA. To hear the digitized sound effects, you'll need a Sound Blaster or compatible. Joysticks and GamePads are supported. (Yes, I get the reference to Leather Goddesses of Phobos. But since I haven't played that game, I can't compare them for you. Sorry.) | Software Shopper Ordering Information | | Vinyl Goddess From Mars HD0153 1 Disk $8 | -=------------- -=*=- -=*=- -=*=- -------------=- Featured Selection ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Our pick of the best of what's new in shareware. We're offering these programs at half off our normal distribution costs until August 31, 1995. Want the whole bunch? We'll send them to you for $12 -- that's an additional $6 savings. Dragon's Bane: Mah Jongg II Medieval Mah Jongg -- lotsa fun! Mah Jongg, that popular solitaire tile game from Nels Anderson, has just moved to its second generation -- and acquired a medieval theme with tile sets of knights, dragons and castles. Other tile sets are provided, and with the included tile editor you can design your own tiles! Mah Jongg II also has a layout editor and extensive record-keeping (for those who like statistics). It supports both VGA and Super VGA (VESA 1.2 and others supported); mouse and Sound Blaster are optional. Requires: 640K, VGA (SVGA recom.), hard drive SS ID#: HD0144 SS Dist. Cost: [NOT $8] BUT $4 Fire & Ice Hot (and cool!) platform arcade game Holding out for a hero? The good guys are, after the evil Suten threatens to destroy the earth with his favorite element -- fire. The hero turns out to be Cool Coyote, who lives up to his name, residing in a polar igloo. Directing Cool Coyote, you tool around icy levels, freezing little bad guys with your snowballs -- and then bouncing on them to shatter them. There are hidden objects to find, amazing graphics, cute music and sound effects, and lots of fun. Fire & Ice is a platform game, which means it's two-dimensional, like Commander Keen and Mario Bros. Requires: EGA/VGA and a hard drive SS ID#: HD0146 SS Dist. Cost: [NOT $8] BUT $4 NetRemote v6.0 Remote access and control program! NetRemote is a remote access and control program. It lets you take control of a second PC over a phone line (or a LAN connection), which means you can run that PC's programs, control it with your keyboard and mouse, view its display on your screen -- and treat the drives on the remote system as virtual drives you can access as you do your own. As a "remote control" user, you can access data, print reports, or observe the operations of another PC user (great if you want to provide support to others from the comfort of your own chair). Features include drag-and-drop file transfer; remote reboot; dial-back connections; bidirectional drive mapping; support for up to 24-bit color and resolutions up to 1280-by-1024; and network support for IPX/SPX and NetBIOS. Includes both Remote and Host software. (The Remote software requires Windows; the Host software operates within DOS or Windows.) Requires: 386+ CPU, Windows 3.1, 2MB RAM, modem SS ID#: HD0139 SS Dist. Cost: [NOT $12] BUT $6 NetSpades v1.1 Spades! Alone or with friends via modem It's the classic card game for four: you can play alone, letting the computer fill out the other chairs -- or you can play online, over a modem or network against other people! This game is really slick, fun, and funny. The programmer, Dan Samuel, gives you lots of "smiley"-type toolbar buttons you can click to "bonk," insult or otherwise communicate with your opponents. You can also type your own comments; a scrolling chat line at the right of the screen keeps up with the chatter and the bids. You also get your own onscreen representative -- whose look you can change at will to reveal your emotional state (laughing, snarling, and everything in between). You may have so much fun playing with the interface that you'll forget the game for a while. But do play! The computer opponents are challenging, and you can adjust rules regarding overbidding and nil bids. Everything about this program shines, from the humorous sound effects to the quality of writing in the help file. Requires: Windows 3.1 SS ID#: HD0147 SS Dist. Cost: [NOT $8] BUT $4 -=------------- -=*=- -=*=- -=*=- -------------=- New Releases ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Animated Memory Game v3.0 Match the squares to see the action Test your noggin in this "Concentration"-like game, which uses 30 sequences to test memory skills. By turning over and matching hidden pictures in pairs, you win the game and get to watch animated rewards. Supports keyboard and mouse play. Requires: EGA and a hard drive SS ID#: AU9506 SS Dist. Cost: $6 Author's Fee: $ 6.00 Animated VGA Memory Game v1.0 Match the pictures, watch the morphs A "Concentration"-type game in which you turn over hidden pictures, two at a time, looking for a match. When the pictures match, they animate, accompanied by neat sound effects. Pencils explode, locks morph into keys, and mice "walk away" from their computers. Neat game! You'll want a sound card to hear the effects; most sound systems are supported. Requires: VGA, a hard drive SS ID#: HD0152 SS Dist. Cost: $8 Author's Fee: $ 10.00 BARCODE-BLOBS Turn bar codes into .PCX files! BARCODE-BLOBS lets you generate 14 different kinds of bar codes -- and then turn them into .PCX graphics images (in high-quality 300x300 dpi) for use in word processors, desktop publishers, database managers or other applications. Supported label formats include UPC A, UPC E, EAN/IAN 8 & 13, Interleaved 2 of 5, POSTNET and more. Requires: 512K, DOS 2.0+, floppy drive SS ID#: AU9503 SS Dist. Cost: $6 Author's Fee: $ 50.00 Delrina WinComm LITE A terrific telecom program! A "lite" version of the commercial program Delrina WinComm PRO, this program packs the telecommunications basics you're looking for -- easy connection to BBSs and online services; the ability to upload and download files using the most popular file-transfer protocols; and a selection of terminal fonts for best screen fit. The program lets you assign icons to your favorite online services -- logging on is as simple as double-clicking. Preconfigured icons are provided for services like Delphi, BIX, GEnie, CompuServe, AT&T Mail, Dow Jones, and the Delrina BBS. If you upgrade to WinComm PRO (for only $49.95, a great deal!), you get added capability, including script features and a button bar. Requires: Windows 3.1 and a modem SS ID#: HD0143 SS Dist. Cost: $5 Author's Fee: $ 49.95 Dragon's Bane: Mah Jongg II Medieval Mah Jongg -- lotsa fun! Mah Jongg, that popular solitaire tile game from Nels Anderson, has just moved to its second generation -- and acquired a medieval theme with tile sets of knights, dragons and castles. Other tile sets are provided, and with the included tile editor you can design your own tiles! Mah Jongg II also has a layout editor and extensive record-keeping (for those who like statistics). It supports both VGA and Super VGA (VESA 1.2 and others supported); mouse and Sound Blaster are optional. Requires: 640K, VGA (SVGA recom.), hard drive SS ID#: HD0144 SS Dist. Cost: $8 Author's Fee: $ 16.00 Entombed v1.7 Solve the puzzle of the ancient tomb You play the role of an archaeologist who becomes trapped in an ancient tomb in this 3-D puzzle adventure game. Alone you must navigate your way through deadly traps, intricate puzzles and involved mazes as you try to escape from your harsh captor before it claims another victim. What became of the race that created this vast underground metropolis, and what is its purpose? Time travel, perhaps? Features breathtaking ray-traced graphics. From Impulse Software. Requires: 386+ CPU, Win. 3.1, 2MB RAM, 512K SVGA SS ID#: HD0140 SS Dist. Cost: $8 Author's Fee: $ 39.95 Fire & Ice Hot (and cool!) platform arcade game Holding out for a hero? The good guys are, after the evil Suten threatens to destroy the earth with his favorite element -- fire. The hero turns out to be Cool Coyote, who lives up to his name, residing in a polar igloo. Directing Cool Coyote, you tool around icy levels, freezing little bad guys with your snowballs -- and then bouncing on them to shatter them. There are hidden objects to find, amazing graphics, cute music and sound effects, and lots of fun. Fire & Ice is a platform game, which means it's two-dimensional, like Commander Keen and Mario Bros. Requires: EGA/VGA and a hard drive SS ID#: HD0146 SS Dist. Cost: $8 Author's Fee: $ 29.95 Fuzzy's World v1.00s Putt-putt in space! Really! It's wild! It's zany! It's . . . space golf? That's right! If you're a fan of putt-putt, you can't miss this game, where gravity is skewed and graphics are great. The artists were definitely inspired by The Jetsons cartoon. The sound track is cool too (though you'll need a sound board, like the Sound Blaster, to hear it). A mouse is required for aiming and swinging. From Pixel Painters. Requires: 33MHz 386+ CPU, 4MB RAM, VGA, mouse SS ID#: HD0141 SS Dist. Cost: $12 Author's Fee: $ 27.95 Graph Crazy v1.1 Quick graphs for school or business When you need to print a graph fast, this is your program. Graph Crazy can churn out 11 graph types based on your data. It includes neat Windows goodies, such as a Graph Wizard, a toolbar, balloon tool tip help, and spreadsheet-like data-entry. Graph types supported include 3-D pie, 2-D bar, 3-D bar, Gannt, line, polar, scatter, line/log and more -- and each kind of graph has many sub-options you can select. Graphs can be saved as .BMP or .WMF files, or be sent to other Windows programs directly via the Clipboard. Requires: Windows 3.1 SS ID#: HD0148 SS Dist. Cost: $6 Author's Fee: $ 19.95 Home Stretch v2.1 Horse racing and wagering Home Stretch for Windows bills itself as "the most realistic (and fun) horse racing and wagering simulation available." It includes realistic odds, bet types (win, place, show, quinella, exacta), race-track sounds, horse graphics, printed reports and past performance data (which you can use to make intelligent bets). Supports up to four human and computer players. Can you beat the computer handicapper? Requires: a Windows 3.0 or 3.1 system SS ID#: HD0142 SS Dist. Cost: $6 Author's Fee: $ 20.00 Netcenter's Guide to the Internet HTM files ready for your hotlist A list of 3000 sites on the World Wide Web. Just load the main .HTM file (ROADMAP.HTM) into your Web browser, and it'll take you on a direct route to sites broken down by categories. Actors (Drew Barrymore, Quentin Tarantino), Federal (White House, Dept. of Energy), Internet Navigation (Internet Town Hall, Worldwide Yellow Pages), Museums (Baseball Hall of Fame) and many more sites are on the itinerary. Requires: a World Wide Web browser program SS ID#: SE9501 SS Dist. Cost: $6 Author's Fee: $ 49.00 NetRemote v6.0 Remote access and control program! NetRemote is a remote access and control program. It lets you take control of a second PC over a phone line (or a LAN connection), which means you can run that PC's programs, control it with your keyboard and mouse, view its display on your screen -- and treat the drives on the remote system as virtual drives you can access as you do your own. As a "remote control" user, you can access data, print reports, or observe the operations of another PC user (great if you want to provide support to others from the comfort of your own chair). Features include drag-and-drop file transfer; remote reboot; dial-back connections; bidirectional drive mapping; support for up to 24-bit color and resolutions up to 1280-by-1024; and network support for IPX/SPX and NetBIOS. Includes both Remote and Host software. (The Remote software requires Windows; the Host software operates within DOS or Windows.) Requires: 386+ CPU, Windows 3.1, 2MB RAM, modem SS ID#: HD0139 SS Dist. Cost: $12 Author's Fee: $ 49.00 NetSpades v1.1 Spades! Alone or with friends via modem It's the classic card game for four: you can play alone, letting the computer fill out the other chairs -- or you can play online, over a modem or network against other people! This game is really slick, fun, and funny. The programmer, Dan Samuel, gives you lots of "smiley"-type toolbar buttons you can click to "bonk," insult or otherwise communicate with your opponents. You can also type your own comments; a scrolling chat line at the right of the screen keeps up with the chatter and the bids. You also get your own onscreen representative -- whose look you can change at will to reveal your emotional state (laughing, snarling, and everything in between). You may have so much fun playing with the interface that you'll forget the game for a while. But do play! The computer opponents are challenging, and you can adjust rules regarding overbidding and nil bids. Everything about this program shines, from the humorous sound effects to the quality of writing in the help file. Requires: Windows 3.1 SS ID#: HD0147 SS Dist. Cost: $8 Author's Fee: $ 22.95 Outer Ridge "Asteroids"-style game -- in 3-D! Imagine the old Asteroids arcade game with colorful, rendered space rocks that spin realistically and whiz by at breakneck speeds. Imagine that you're at the helm of a spaceship in the middle of all this frantic activity, and your job is to shoot them! When you shoot the big asteroids, they break up into smaller 'roids. When you shoot the smaller rocks, they pulverize into harmless dust. This Asteroids game is in 3-D, though. You're really in the center of things, with a full range of motion. Watch for approaching asteroids -- and spaceships -- on your radar screens, and use your thrusters to get closer to targets, or to get out of the path of a big rock! Requires: 386+, 4MB RAM, VGA, hard drive SS ID#: HD0145 SS Dist. Cost: $8 Author's Fee: $ 25.00 PCStat v2.7 Pro stats program even novices can use A statistical report program providing basic descriptive statistics and histograms, PCStat is particularly useful in showing comparisons such as before-and-after situations or one process versus another. It has a pull-down-menu user interface similar to Lotus 1-2-3, with online, context-sensitive documentation. It accepts data from Lotus 1-2-3, manual key-in or prepared Dbase, ASCII and DIF-compatible files. Requires: 640K RAM, 720K+ disk space SS ID#: AU9504 SS Dist. Cost: $6 Author's Fee: $ 32.95 Personal Tennis Coach Practice, analyze, focus, practice Use your home computer and this program to analyze your game and help focus you on the areas that need improvement. Use it to record vital statistics on each playing session, your playing strategy, your opponent's, and thoughts on the next workout. Includes phone-book and scheduling modules to help you line up practice opponents. Requires: 256K RAM and a floppy disk SS ID#: AU9502 SS Dist. Cost: $6 Author's Fee: $ 12.00 PhotoPat v1.5 From bitmaps to "color-by-number" sheets PhotoPat is a truly unique image-processing program. It takes bitmap images (even scanned photos) and converts them into color-by-number type patterns. User-definable palettes match up the pieces (yes, crayon palettes are included). Applications for PhotoPat include color-by-number designs, sign-making and stained-glass designs. Requires: Windows 3.1, 5MB RAM SS ID#: HD0149 SS Dist. Cost: $8 Author's Fee: $ 25.00 RISS Icon Pak v1.5 2001 icons for Windows, plus viewer Tired of the same old Windows icons? Add some zip and zing with this collection of 2001 different icons. They're conveniently arranged into separate DLL libraries (categories include applications, games, people and utilities). RISS Icon Pak comes with a viewer utility and an easy setup program, which automates installation. Requires: Windows 3.1 SS ID#: HD0150 SS Dist. Cost: $8 Author's Fee: $ 16.95 Super Speed v1.1 A VGA race game for 1 to 4 players An overhead-view racing game for up to four players. Challenge your friends or compete against the computer as you control your careening little car around hairpin curves. Occasionally objects will appear on the track that you can pick up for points or extra speed. Players can control their racers via the keyboard or joysticks. Great graphics and animation! Supports sound cards. Requires: 386+ CPU, VGA SS ID#: AU9501 SS Dist. Cost: $6 Author's Fee: $ 15.00 Tek Illustrator v3.16 For technical drafting in Windows Powerful, fast and easy to use, Tek Illustrator makes a great Windows-based program for drafting and drawing technical illustrations. It features a full set of drawing and construction tools, including hatching, symbol management, dimensioning, .BMP trace display, WMF import/export, font support (TrueType and PostScript), DXF filters, an extensive help system, and more. Requires: Windows 3.1, 7MB free disk space SS ID#: HD0151 SS Dist. Cost: $10 Author's Fee: $129.00 Vinyl Goddess From Mars A sexy platform game Think you'd like to play a platform game that stars a goddess in a thong bikini? Then you'd like this game. Here's the story: The Vinyl Goddess, star of intergalactic B movies, has crash-landed on a strange planet. The force of the crash scattered her storage capsules far and wide, and she must track them down if she is to reach the intergalactic B movie festival on time. Lots of running, jumping and shooting. The game features 70-frames-per-second smooth scrolling, a rock soundtrack and digital sound effects for Sound Blaster and compatible sound cards. Requires: 386DX+ CPU, 640K, hard drive, VGA SS ID#: HD0153 SS Dist. Cost: $8 Author's Fee: $ 29.95 WinClip v3.5 View, print catalogs of BMPs, GIFs, PCXs A handy little program that lets you quickly view your .GIF, .BMP and .PCX clip-art files -- and print catalog thumbnails of them. With the AutoZoom feature, you can view all images at a certain level of magnification. To view an image, click on its name once in the file list. If you double-click on its name, the image loads automatically into an image editor (you can specify your editor of choice). Features a new 1-inch-wide catalog thumbnail printout for neater pages. Requires: Windows 3.1, 2MB of RAM SS ID#: AU9505 SS Dist. Cost: $6 Author's Fee: $ 20.00 -=------------- -=*=- -=*=- -=*=- -------------=- New Versions ~~~~~~~~~~~~ CAD/DRAW v2.00e Powerful computer-aided design If you need to draw blueprints, plans or elevations in Windows, try CAD/DRAW. It features numerous drawing tools, multiple layers (up to 256) and color support. It also has associative dimensioning, library management, user-defined hatchings, context-sensitive help and more. Commands are available by menu, keyboard command or icons. Requires: Windows 3.1 SS ID#: HD0038 SS Dist. Cost: $8 Author's Fee: $ 59.95 Catalog-On-A-Disk v4.01 An electronic sales tool! Tired of "printing" catalogs? Why not just "copy" them? If you have something to sell, and you know your audience is composed of computer users, give this program a try. It lets you distribute your catalogs and price lists on disk. Users can browse, search for products, and interactively tag items of interest; when they're finished tagging, they can press a few keys to have the program total up their purchases and even print the order form with precalculated taxes and shipping. ASP author. Requires: 640K, DOS 3.0+, 500K disk space SS ID#: JY1007 SS Dist. Cost: $6 Author's Fee: $ 55.00 Home Plan v2.7 Draw/print floor plans and elevations Got an idea for your dream house, or do you want to create floorplan printouts to use for reference in your next renovation project? Home Plan can help you put your plans to paper. It's for drawing, editing, saving and printing house plans (elevations as well as floorplans). It supports metric as well as U.S. measurements; can draw variable-width walls; show studs and joists; offers predrawn furniture and appliances; and supports wide-carriage printers. ASP author. Requires: VGA, printer (HP LaserJet or dot-matrix) SS ID#: FE9305 SS Dist. Cost: $6 Author's Fee: $ 24.00 Paint Shop Pro v3.01 Powerful Windows paint/image editor! Want the best multipurpose Windows graphics utility? Look no further than Paint Shop Pro, which lets you display, convert, alter, scan, print, and generally fiddle with images. It supports more than 30 file formats, including .PCX, .TIF, .GIF, .BMP, .WPG, JPEG, Targa, Kodak Photo CD and the new PNG. It offers TWAIN scanner support and more than 20 powerful image filters (for special effects): it also includes a Kai's Power Tools filter, and it offers plug-in support for other Adobe-compatible filters. Its multidocument interface lets you view several files at the same time. New in Version 3.x are the paint tools! Where before Paint Shop Pro was a great image editor, now it's a terrific image editor and paint program, giving you even more power in fine-tuning your images. You get eight types of paintbrushes (including crayon, charcoal and pen). New in Version 3.01 is support for transparent .GIFs -- great for putting up Web sites. We recommend this program highly. In fact, we use it daily to prepare graphic images in all Falsoft publications. (Formerly SS ID# JN9169.) Requires: Windows 3.1+ SS ID#: HD0109 SS Dist. Cost: $10 Author's Fee: $ 69.00 SmartDraw v1.03 5-STAR drawing/flowcharting program! SmartDraw is the best drawing program we've seen for doing charts, diagrams, flowcharts, maps and miscellaneous business graphics. With this drag-and-drop program, users can pull shapes (rectangles, pyramids, circles, arrows and more) onto the drawing board, resize them, and connect them with different styles of lines -- and the shapes stay connected even if you move them, because the lines stretch. Text and graphics can be inserted into the shapes, or placed above and below. You get a built-in library of shapes, clip art ("smart" drawings, which can act as shapes), and a set of design styles. SmartDraw works a lot like Visio, but it's even easier to use! It also works with Microsoft Office programs and other programs as an OLE server. Requires: Windows 3.1, 386+ CPU, 1MB+ RAM, VGA SS ID#: HD0071 SS Dist. Cost: $8 Author's Fee: $ 35.00 Top Draw v2.01 Powerful object-oriented drawing program Interested in "drawing" programs like CorelDRAW and Micrografx Designer but don't want to pay an arm and a leg? Check out Top Draw, an award-winning shareware competitor that offers powerful object-oriented drawing features. It can do Bezier curves, gradient fills, text-on-a-path, textures and more! Because it's a vector-based drawing program, its images are resolution-independent and can be scaled large or small without any of the jaggies you get with bitmap images from paint programs. Use Top Draw to create logos, diagrams and other elements for sharp illustration and desktop-publishing work. You'll love it! Requires: a 386+ CPU, 2MB RAM and Windows 3.1 SS ID#: HD0020 SS Dist. Cost: $8 Author's Fee: $ 49.95 -=------------- -=*=- -=*=- -=*=- -------------=- The Download Top 40 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The following Top 40 contains the best download PC games in the world. The list includes demo versions, shareware versions and freeware games. Vote for a game in this chart if you think other people should download it. This list is prepared by Jurgen "Jojo" Appelo and reprinted by permission. To see how commercial games rate, look for The Internet Top 100 in the FIRST section of PCM Online. ======================================================================== Download Top 40 Edition 135 - Week 31 - July 31, 1995 ======================================================================== TW LW NW Title Developer/Publisher(s) Cat ID Points ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1 ( 1) 5 Nethack 3.1 {F} DevTeam RP [1186] 283 2 ( 2) 5 Descent {S} Parallax/Interplay AC [1644] 136 3 ( 4)^ 5 Stars! {S} Star Crossed ST [1662] 105 4 ( 3) 5 Terminal Velocity {S} Termin. R./3D Realms AC [1646] 83 5 ( 6)^ 5 Doom {S} Id AC [1645] 73 6 ( 5) 5 Angband {F} Robert Alan Koeneke RP [1255] 71 7 ( 7) 5 Heretic {S} Raven/Id AC [1648] 60 8 ( 11)^ 5 Minesweeper {F} {W} Microsoft ST [1184] 48 9 ( 10)^ 5 VGA Planets {S} Tim Wisseman ST [1651] 37 10 ( 12)^ 2 Xquest {F} Atomjack AC [1482] 36 11 ( 20)^ 3 Full Throttle {D} LucasArts AD [1689] 36 12 ( 34)^ 5 FreeCell {F} {W} Microsoft ST [1660] 35 13 ( 9) 5 Virtual Pool {S} Celeris/Interplay SP [1655] 31 14 ( 15)^ 5 Rise of the Triad: The Hunt B. {S} Apogee AC [1668] 31 15 ( 8) 5 One Must Fall: 2097 {S} Epic AC [1647] 30 16 ( 18)^ 5 Sherlock {S} Everett Kaser ST [1654] 30 17 ( 19)^ 5 Roids {S} {O} Leonard Guy AC [1670] 28 18 ( 14) 5 Jazz Jackrabbit {S} Epic AC [1652] 25 19 ( 26)^ 5 Scorched Earth {S} Wendell Hicken AC [1673] 22 20 ( 36)^ 4 Curses {F} Graham Nelson AD [1396] 21 21 ( 17) 5 3D-Lemmings {D} Dime. Cr./Eclipse/Psygnos. AC [1619] 19 22 ( 24)^ 5 Raptor: Call of the Shadows {S} Cy./Apogee AC [1665] 19 23 ( 16) 5 Cyberdogs {F} Ronny Wester AC [1542] 17 24 ( 13) 5 Wacky Wheels {S} Beavis/Apogee AC [1649] 16 25 ( 22) 5 Slicks 'n' Slide {S} Timo Kauppinen SP [1659] 16 26 ( 28)^ 4 Barren Realms Elite {S} M. Patel/Solar Rea.ST [1683] 16 27 ( 30)^ 4 Mordor {S} {W} MakeItSo RP [1681] 15 28 ( 32)^ 3 Ragnarok {F} Norsehelm RP [1243] 15 29 ( 25) 5 Wolfenstein 3D {S} Id/Apogee AC [1658] 13 30 ( 21) 5 Epic Pinball {S} Epic AC [1650] 12 31 ( 29) 5 Oxyd {S} Dongleware PU [1671] 10 32 ( 35)^ 5 Duke Nukem 2 {S} Apogee AC [1677] 10 33 ( -)^ 1 Fade to Black {D} Delphine/Electronic Arts AC [1693] 10 34 ( 33) 4 Alphaman {S} Jeff Olson RP [1680] 9 35 ( 38)^ 2 Nahlakh {S} Tom Proudfoot RP [1692] 9 36 ( -)^ 1 Witchaven {D} Capstone/Intracorp RP [1694] 8 37 ( -)^ 1 Solitaire {F} {W} Microsoft ST [1214] 7 38 ( 23) 5 Asteroids {F} {W} Microsoft AC [1653] 5 39 ( -)^ 1 Hi-Octane {D} Bullfrog/Electronic Arts AC [1695] 5 40 ( -)^ 1 MechWarrior 2: The Clans {D} Activision AC [1696] 5 ======================================================================== | TW : This Week | The Internet PC Games Charts are compiled using | | LW : Last Week | votes sent by gamers from all over the world. | | NW : No. of Weeks | The latest charts are published every Monday on | | - : New Entry | Usenet in the comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.* newsgroups.| | ^ : Climbing |--------------------------------------------------| | * : Bullet | If you send your votes, do it like this: | | AC : Action | > 5 Dark Invader [1435] | | AD : Adventure | > 4 Mysterious Forces 2 [1322] | | PU : Puzzle | > 5 Super Fighter [1502] | | RP : Role-Playing | > 2 Magic of Zuul 4 [] | | SI : Simulation | > 4 The Lost Tycoon [] | | SP : Sports |--------------------------------------------------| | ST : Strategy | (c) 1995 all rights reserved | Jojo Productions | | {F}: Freeware Ver.| The Internet PC Games Charts | Balderikstraat 16 | | {D}: Demo Version | are published for the gaming | 3032 HC Rotterdam | | {S}: Shareware Ver| community. Distribution of | The Netherlands | | {R}: Registered V.| these charts is granted only | jojo@xs4all.nl | | {C}: CD-ROM Only | by written permission. | | | {W}: Windows Only |--------------------------------------------------| | {O}: OS/2 Only | On the WorldWideWeb: http://www.xs4all.nl/~jojo | ======================================================================== -=------------- -=*=- -=*=- -=*=- -------------=- FormGen's Top 10 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ July 1995 These figures are from June 1995. The lists are compiled from unit sales of evaluation disks by leading shareware vendors around the world. The lists are produced monthly by Dorinda MacLean and distributed by FormGen Corp. The symbols next to "Rank" indicate whether the title is growing more popular or losing ground: ^ = up from last month v = down from last month - = no change -=*=- APPLICATIONS TOP 10 Rank|Months| Title (Author) | Description ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1 ^ 4 Quikmenu (NeoSoft) DOS menu with Windows look 2 v 8 wInformant (Neocom Microspec.) Windows uninstaller/utils 3 v 7 Snooper (J. Vias) PC system analyzer 4 ^ 2 WinPak (Rhode Island Soft Sys.) Screen savers for Windows 5 ^ 2 Home Plan (C. Herndon) Floor plan designer 6 ^ 2 Phantom Screen (NeoSoft) Screen-blanking utility 7 v 4 Paint Shop Pro (JASC) Windows paint/image editor 8 ^ 2 ProtoCAD 3D (TRIUS, Inc.) 3-D CAD program 9 ^ 1 Envision Publisher (Soft. Vision) Desktop Publisher for DOS 10 ^ 1 Draft Choice (TRIUS, Inc.) Desktop CAD program -=*=- ENTERTAINMENT TOP 10 Rank|Months| Title (Author) | Description ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1 - 7 Rise of the Triad (Apogee) 3-D VR combat game 2 - 18 DOOM (id Software) 3-D VR combat game 3 ^ 2 Terminal Velocity (3D Realms) 3-D VR flight combat game 4 ^ 8 One Must Fall (Epic Megagames) Arcade one-on-one combat 5 ^ 3 Heretic (Raven/id Software) 3-D VR combat game 6 ^ 3 Descent (Parallax/Interplay) 3-D VR combat game 7 v 5 Wacky Wheels (Beavis Soft/Apogee) Action Racing Simulation 8 ^ 15 Raptor (Cygnus/Apogee) Arcade shoot-'em-up 9 v 19 Epic Pinball (Epic Megagames) Video pinball game 10 v 9 Jazz Jackrabbit (Epic Megagames) Platform arcade game -=*=- EDUCATION TOP 10 Rank|Months| Title (Author) | Description ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1 - 3 Beginners Guide to Internet Tutor for Internet (Suarez Associates) 2 - 10 Big Dummy's Guide to Internet Tutor for Internet (Electronic Frontier) 3 ^ 35 PC-Fastype (Trendtech) Typing Tutor 4 - 35 Word Rescue (K. Crowther/Apogee) Arcade reading game 5 ^ 4 News of the Past (F. Bonebrake) Historical reference 6 v 29 Math Rescue (K. Crowther/Apogee) Arcade math game 7 ^ 3 College Funding Finder (Theberge) Financial aid resource 8 v 9 Adventure Math (Epic MegaGames) Math game 9 - 6 Pre-School Pack (V. Watson) Preschool learning game 10 - 5 Amy's First Primer (Motes Educ.) Preschool learning game -=------------- -=*=- -=*=- -=*=- -------------=- What Is Shareware? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ WHAT IS SHAREWARE? HOW DOES IT WORK? Shareware operates on the "try before you buy" system. Authors allow their programs to be copied and passed around, among friends, over BBS systems or through services such as Software Shopper. If you find a shareware program is of value to you and you intend to keep and use it, then you must register the program with the author (pay a fee -- the amount varies). Registration gives you various benefits, depending on the author. (Common benefits include printed manuals, newer versions and support if you happen to run into problems.) The fee also helps motivate authors to improve their programs and develop new ones. No part of the money collected by Software Shopper, or any other service, goes to the program authors. Those charges are strictly copying, handling and shipping fees, and they are non-refundable. The author gets paid only when you send in your registration fee. We supply all copies of shareware programs on both 5-1/4- and 3-1/2- inch disks, although there is an extra charge of 75 cents per disk for 3-1/2-inch (720K) format. There is no extra charge for 3-1/2-inch 1.44MB (high- density disks). Programs are separated into subdirectories on a disk when we make up special orders for you (most of our orders are special orders). A short instruction sheet is packaged with the disk, but your disk label tells you the name of the subdirectories. Generally, our orders are processed within 24 business hours of receipt. Due to volume, we may run a day or so behind from time to time. Our business hours are generally 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. We disclaim any damage that any of the software in Software Shopper may cause and cannot guarantee that any particular system follows sound business practices. Our sole liability, in any event, consists of a refund of the copying and distribution charge we make for providing software to you. We invite and solicit your comments and suggestions about Software Shopper and the shareware which we make available through it. Our shareware library contains many more programs than appears in this issue of Software Shopper. If you have a specific need, please contact us on our Customer Assistance line, (502) 228-4492. We will do everything we can to try to help. Falsoft, Inc. is an approved vendor and associate member of the Association of Shareware Professionals (ASP). ASP wants to make sure that the shareware principle works for you. If you are unable to resolve a shareware-related problem with an ASP member by contacting the member directly, ASP may be able to help. The ASP Ombudsman can help you resolve a dispute or problem with an ASP member, but does not provide technical support for members' products. Please write to the ASP Ombudsman at 545 Graver Road, Muskeg, MI 49442, or send a CompuServe message via CompuServe Mail to ASP Ombudsman 70007, 3536. -=------------- -=*=- -=*=- -=*=- -------------=- About the Catalog ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The rest of Software Shopper Online is our database or "catalog" -- the majority of the shareware programs in our archives, which are neither new nor updated this month. While you'll see more than a thousand programs listed in the database, please keep in mind that more is coming! We're still in the process of converting records, so future issues will be more complete. If your favorite shareware title is missing from the database now, it will probably soon be added. Also, a note about how the database is structured. There really is a method to the madness! We divided the database into 32 sections (usually 32): 16 broad categories for DOS and the same 16 broad categories for Windows. (Categories include Business, Education, Games, Utilities, etc.) Each rather generic category is in turn broken down into smaller subcategories -- for example, "Business" is broken down into Accounting, Contact Management, Personal Finance and others. When you read the database, it will look like each category starts out nicely in alphabetical order -- but then does several A-Z cycles! The reason for this is that the subcategories are also in alphabetical order. Yes, we COULD have separated the database into distinct subcategory files, but your SysOps would have wanted to murder us for making them deal with hundreds of files instead of the slightly unwieldy 32! 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Our shipping address is: Software Shopper, The Falsoft Building, 9509 U.S. Highway 42, Prospect, KY 40059. We've got to tell you about our new high-density line. Many shareware vendors are still putting out titles on low-density floppy disks only, but we're proud to have launched our "HD" line: which means we can competitively distribute titles like DOOM, Raptor, GeoPublish and NeoBook Pro on high-density disks (complete with nifty, laser-printed labels). So, large programs don't upset us! We do request that, when you send us large programs, you break them into chunks that would also fit on 1.2MB floppy disks. But if you can't, that's OK -- we'll just insert a note asking readers to order the program on 1.44MB disks only. -=------------- -=*=- -=*=- -=*=- -------------=- Online Order Form ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ If you would like to order shareware from Software Shopper, please capture or log the following order form to a file, then print it using a monospaced font. 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OR you can send an electronic version of this form (which you've customized by typing in your selections), along with your credit-card information, to orders@delphi.com. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | SOFTWARE SHOPPER ONLINE - Shareware Order Form - August 1995 | |----------------------------------------------------------------------| |PROGRAM ID NUMBER| PROGRAM NAME |COPY FEE| |----------------------------------------------------------------------| |-----------------|-------------------------------------------|--------| |-----------------|-------------------------------------------|--------| |-----------------|-------------------------------------------|--------| |-----------------|-------------------------------------------|--------| |-----------------|-------------------------------------------|--------| |-----------------|-------------------------------------------|--------| |-----------------|-------------------------------------------|--------| |-----------------|-------------------------------------------|--------| |-----------------|-------------------------------------------|--------| |-----------------|-------------------------------------------|--------| |-----------------|-------------------------------------------|--------| |-----------------|-------------------------------------------|--------| | Are you interested in programs from our Featured Selection? | | | (Special prices good until August 31, 1995) | | | [] YES! 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