Name | Extracted | Size | Date | Description |
ADULATE.ZIP | Yes | 14019 | 5/17/1994 | Adulate 1.8 is a random adulation generator. The phrases range from mildly amusing to outrageous. (Larry T. Cobb) (Reg.Fee: $?) |
AO.ZIP | Yes | 2265 | 5/25/1994 | AO 1.0 is a 1K TSR that animates all the lower-case "o"s on the screen. Assembly source code is included. (George II Gesslein) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
APRIL.ZIP | Yes | 2877 | 5/17/1994 | April is a program for April Fool's Day. It displays a C> prompt until a key is; pressed, then it displays a warning message that the system has detected that the picture tube in your monitor is upside down, whereupon it `fixes' the problem by inverting the display. (Reg.Fee: $0) |
BACKTALK.ZIP | Yes | 9113 | 5/17/1994 | BackTalk displays an innocent A> prompt on the screen, then tells the user to go away because it's sleeping and tired. (Timothy Trimble) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
BB_FUN.ZIP | Yes | 52992 | 5/17/1994 | Bytebrothers Fun This is a collection of pointless, tasteless programs (that a lot of people seem to like): an obscene sorted directory lister; a funny headline generator; a "spoofy virus checker". We have archived them all into one set so as to offend as few people as possible as quickly as possible. (Bytebrothers) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
BUGRES.ZIP | Yes | 3763 | 5/17/1994 | BugRes sends bugs crawling across your screen. The bugs will then munch every character on the screen they can find until there is nothing left. (Skip Gilbrech) (Reg.Fee: $?) |
CLAUDE.ZIP | Yes | 85412 | 5/17/1994 | Claude 1.1 lets you carry on a conversation with your computer. We were going to classify this as Artificial Intelligence, but it is short on Intelligence (rarely responds directly to your questions) and long on Artificial (it generates random comments). Young computer novices might enjoy it, however. (Brian McLaughlin) (Reg.Fee: $5) |
CPROMPT.ZIP | Yes | 7848 | 5/17/1994 | CPrompt This gag file is one that you can add to a friend's (or enemies) AUTOEXEC.BAT. It simulates a C:\> prompt, however any command they enter is disregarded with a curt reply. (Reg.Fee: $0) |
DRAIN.ZIP | Yes | 25035 | 5/17/1994 | Drain this joke produces a "system error" stating that water has been detected in drive C and the cleanup is in progress. (Jim Aspinwall) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
DRIP.ZIP | Yes | 2786 | 5/17/1994 | Drip 2.00 When text is on the screen, Drip will cause one of the characters to `drip' down the screen, either completely off the bottom of the screen or until it hits another character. (G. Masters) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
FBIJOKE.ZIP | Yes | 47827 | 5/17/1994 | FBI Joke is a joke program to make your friends think you can tap into an FBI computer and scan people's records. (T. Tyler) (Reg.Fee: $10) |
HELPME.ZIP | Yes | 6931 | 5/17/1994 | HelpMe is digitized speech crying "Help! I'm trapped in this computer. Help!" Excellent sound, but only on an 8088. At faster speeds, the pitch of the voice rises to Chipmunk level. (Reg.Fee: $0) |
JOKEMSTR.ZIP | Yes | 69018 | 3/4/1994 | JokeMaster One contains 200 funny stories. Categories include A Little Learning, Between the Sexes, Trade Secrets, Not Like Us, Matters Medical, Vocal Variety, Artistic Licence, The Professions, Traveller's Tales, and Miscellaneous. (Neal Dubrey) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
KABOOM.ZIP | Yes | 19945 | 5/17/1994 | Kaboom uses digitized speech and sound effects to have a little fun with you. (David Leithauser) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
KAOSKEY.ZIP | Yes | 5298 | 5/17/1994 | KaosKeys 1.0 is a simple TSR joke program that will cause keystrokes to be randomly capitalized. (Philip Maland) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
LAUGH.ZIP | Yes | 26120 | 5/17/1994 | Laugh is a digitized laugh box. The quality is about as good as can be expected on a PC. |
MEGAD.ZIP | Yes | 26278 | 5/17/1994 | MegaDoom-III 3.0 If you have ever tried an adventure (slash) role-playing game and thought they were too long and boring, try this one. We won't say any more, other than to express surprise that the author would identify himself. (grin) (Timothy Campbell) (Reg.Fee: $20) |
MONSTER.ZIP | Yes | 77771 | 12/5/1993 | Monster Load this TSR into a friend's computer. When the Cookie Monster gets hungry, he will ask for a cookie (using digitized speech). The user must type the word "cookie" to put the cookie monster back to sleep and regain use of the computer. Assembler source code and speech digitizing info are included. (Tom Holroyd) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
O.ZIP | Yes | 3419 | 3/25/1994 | The Animated O 1.0 is a 1k TSR which will animate all of the lower case letter o's on your screen, just for grins. (Kenneth J. Macke) (Reg.Fee: $8) |
PARASCN.ZIP | Yes | 24185 | 5/17/1994 | ParaScan 3.0 Warning: all you people who think silly stuff (especially, stuff being silly about *viruses*) doesn't belong on a computer, skip to the next program. The rest of you are in for a pretty good laugh. (Bytebrothers) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
ROLL.ZIP | Yes | 15774 | 5/18/1994 | Roll is a program designed to simulate video trouble by rolling the screen up and down, like the vertical hold was messed up. It makes a great gag to add to a friend's autoexec.bat file. (George Kerber) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
SHAKEIT.ZIP | Yes | 15649 | 5/17/1994 | ShakeIt is a fun little 18k TSR program that causes the screen to shake after a user-defined number of keystrokes. The user (or should we say perpetrator?) can also specify a number of keystrokes that the effect should last, so the unsuspecting victim will be typing along, get the shakes, and then have them mysteriously quit. (Tab Julius) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
SNAFU.ZIP | Yes | 46034 | 5/17/1994 | Snafu 2.0 is a practical joke that may be too much for some people's sensitivities in this day of virus panic. If you are offended by the sight of screaming, fainting co-workers, don't run this program. (Ken Dowst) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
SNOOP.ZIP | Yes | 37981 | 5/17/1994 | Snoop 1.0 offers up a wide variety of screens to fool, inform, entertain and annoy your fellow employees. Requires DOS 3.1+. (Andrew M. Cohn) (Reg.Fee: $10) |
START1.ZIP | Yes | 117178 | 11/1/1993 | Stupid Joke Screen 1.0 displays Dumb Blond jokes. (MicroSolved) (Reg.Fee: $10) |
VOLAPUK.ZIP | Yes | 63176 | 5/17/1994 | Volapuk-Debugger 491b is a combination "look-busy" and practical joke program. As a look-busy, you can run this program and go to sleep sitting up at your desk, confident in the knowledge that your video display will make people think you are hard at work. Or put it on a friend's computer when he goes for coffee and watch his reaction when he sees "bugs in DOS" being "patched". (Roger Gustafsson) (Reg.Fee: $?) |
WPFAKE.ZIP | Yes | 15070 | 5/17/1994 | WPFake is a practical joke program that appears to be WordPerfect 5.1, but no matter what the victim types, the text that prints to screen is text you have selected beforehand. (David Sewell) (Reg.Fee: $0) |