| Name | Extracted | Size | Date | Description |
| PWRCHESS.ZIP | Yes | 119168 | 12/3/1993 | PowerChess (Wild, W. and Heiss, H.; $35) is a powerful, full-featured chess program with excellent graphics. Features include save/restore games, board edit, opening move library, take back moves, print move sequences, play black or white, hints for learning game, set up checkmate puzzles, and the ability to adjust the computer's playing strength by varying its response time from 10 to 300,000 seconds. We experienced some oddities on our VGA system: the first time we ran it, the Hints and the Information screens were both blank. The next time we ran it, they displayed information, but both screens were the same. We had no problems with the actual play of the game, however. The author is no longer at the address listed in the documentation. |
| CHS_GEMS.ZIP | Yes | 223554 | 12/7/1993 | Chess Gems & Jewels (Pep-Cal Software; $15 each) Gems is a collection of 12 chess games from the world's best players that illustrate and teach Chess tactics. The Jewels section contains 12 lessons from the best short games of postal chess players. |
| CHSSCORR.ZIP | Yes | 85964 | 12/7/1993 | Chess Corresponder (Pep-Cal Software; $15 each) will keep track of all your postal chess games. It maintains a game board showing the up-to-the-minute position for an unlimited number of games. You can search on a number of different index keys. |
| CHSSNDXR.ZIP | Yes | 84529 | 12/7/1993 | Chess Indexer (Pep-Cal Software; $15 each) catalog chess games - yours or others of interest to you. You can enter up to seven search keys, such as the name of the opening variation, type of end-game, etc. |
| CHS_QUIZ.ZIP | Yes | 477975 | 11/19/1993 | Chess Quiz Series (Pep-Cal Software; $0) is a set of quizzes designed to help make learning the game of chess fun. Quizzes include an introduction to chess, the Sicilian defense, king pawn openings, queen pawn openings, and the English opening. |
| CHSSPERL.ZIP | Yes | 112980 | 11/20/1993 | Chess Pearls (Pep-Cal Software; $15) is a set of 12 lessons drawn from the best short games of the old masters of Chess. |
| CHESSEDT.ZIP | Yes | 84916 | 12/7/1993 | Chessedt (Wharry, Stephen; $10) will allow you to build a personal database of chess games, checking for notation errors as you go. You can store the chess games as files and bring them back into the program and examine them at any position in the game, which is especially useful for postal chess players. Besides printer output, the game and annotation can be output to a normal ASCII file that can then be imported into the text editor of your choice. You can build a table of openings and your success/failure with these openings. It will allow you to build a list based on openings, score, tournament, color, date, opponent, ratings, and more. In this list you may include as few as one and as many as every game you have ever played. The program will allow up to 100 moves and replies and up to 50 annotation strings per game. Now the tricky part - it took quite a bit of head banging to figure out how to enter moves. The documentation is sketchy on this and gives no examples. To move a pawn, just give the target square, such as "e4". To move a piece, first give the letter of the piece "in uppercase", then give the target square "in lowercase". Example: to move White's King's Bishop to Queen-Bishop-4, enter "Bc4". To capture with a Pawn, enter the starting "column" and the target " square". Example: "ed5". |
| CHESSAVE.ZIP | Yes | 93945 | 11/20/1993 | Chess Saver (Pep-Cal; $15) allows you to record and play back any game of importance to you. Each move can also be annotated with remarks. It precludes having to set up the chess board every time you want to replay a selected game. Also on the same disk: |
| CHSSTUTR.ZIP | Yes | 105311 | 11/20/1993 | Chess Tutor (Pep-Cal Software; $15) familiarizes you with many of the opening lines of chess. It is not a tutorial on those openings, just an overview. We recommend it for anyone just starting to study chess seriously. |
| DNC.ZIP | Yes | 108872 | 11/21/1993 | DNC 1.02 (Pawn Promotions, Inc.; $40) is an excellent system for recording chess games and analysis. You can enter comments and alternative lines of play. The moves are displayed on an attractive graphical on-screen chess board as you enter them. Descriptive or algebraic notation can be used. You can load a database and step through a game a move at a time, seeing the moves displayed and reading the analysis and alternative moves. You can also add your own alternative moves and analysis to the database at the same time. |
| DIACHES.ZIP | Yes | 109189 | 7/23/1992 | DiaChess 1.0 (TNT Software; $20) allows you to record and print complete chess games with a diagram for every move. It's a valuable teaching and study tool for serious players and ideal for printing a permanent record of tournament games. |
| TAKEN671.ZIP | Yes | 72454 | 9/15/1993 | TakeNote 6.7.1 [Katelansky, David; $10] is a study tool for chess. It allows you to enter multiple lines of play in one game and easily switch among various lines. You can also add notes and go through notes of the game without losing the original position. A tutorial is included. |
| TRANSLAT.ZIP | Yes | 90319 | 11/20/1993 | Chess Translator (Pep-Cal; $15) translates opening moves into both the descriptive and the algebraic equivalents as well as showing the moves on screen. The Pep-Cal chess programs use ASCII characters to display the board and pieces, so they do not look impressive, but they will work on any monitor. |
| CHEXO.ZIP | Yes | 85477 | 11/21/1993 | Chexo 1.0 (Soleau Software; $12) is a strategy board game similar to checkers except that you can only move a piece by jumping over another piece of yours or the opponent's. If you jump the opponent's, that piece is removed. The object is to remove all the opponent's pieces. Requires EGA/VGA and a mouse. |
| BATLSHIP.ZIP | Yes | 110162 | 11/20/1993 | BattleShip 2.3 (SimoneSystems Software; $15) is a computerized version of BattleShip with a twist. It features islands, mine sweeping, submerge submarine, moving spy ship, and more. Requires 286+ and mouse. |
| WARSHIPS.ZIP | Yes | 117919 | 11/20/1993 | Warships 2.5 (Tag Software; $15) is a computerized version of the game Battleship. You play against the computer, trying to sink its ships before it sinks yours. It features sound effects, nice EGA/VGA graphics, and mouse control. |
| APPLES.ZIP | Yes | 99924 | 11/20/1993 | Apples & Oranges (Expert Source Code, Inc.; $15) is the game of Othello using apples and oranges rather than the usual black and white pieces. Unfortunately, the program plays a rather weak game, but the graphics are unbeatable. So it's not that much fun to play, but it's great for showing off your video. Three levels of play are offered. Requires EGA or VGA, 355k RAM and a mouse. |
| BLOCKAD.ZIP | Yes | 15491 | 6/17/1993 | Blockade 1.9 (PC Solutions; $15) is a strategy board game similar to Othello. Each player takes turns placing his pieces on the board, but unlike Othello, your piece must be placed adjacent to both one of your pieces and one of your opponent's. The effects of such a placement differ from Othello as well. An interesting game. |
| FLIP_IT.ZIP | No | 33077 | 2/18/1993 | Flip-It 4.7 (PC Solutions; $15-$24) is an interesting variation of Reversi/Othello. You can select various grid patterns and sizes for the board. There is also an unusual play-to-lose mode. Function keys can provide help and rules or invoke an auto-play feature. |
| OTHL_EW.ZIP | No | 70660 | 2/24/1990 | Othello 6.2 (Waud, Earl; $20) is an good implementation of Othello for EGA or mono systems. It has seven levels of play; can be played by one or two players; has mouse support and a "boss screen". This is not the strongest Othello we've seen, but the user interface is above average and the program is strong enough to beat the non-expert. (The author is no longer at the address listed in the documentation.) |
| TRIBOLO.ZIP | Yes | 86630 | 12/9/1993 | Tribolo (Soleau, William; $12) pits you against two computer opponents in a game of three way Othello. The regular rules of Othello apply, but having three participants creates drastically different playing strategies. Tribolo has excellent EGA graphics and mouse support. |
| TEGL1.ZIP | Yes | 154359 | 7/26/1993 | The Big Games Package (TEGL Systems Corporation; $35) is a set of five different games for EGA/VGA: Monopoly, Mahjong Solitaire, Klondike Solitaire, Mille Bornes and Big2. |
| TEGL2.ZIP | Yes | 125649 | 7/26/1993 | NO DESCRIPTION FOUND |
| TEGL3.ZIP | Yes | 180345 | 7/26/1993 | NO DESCRIPTION FOUND |
| TEGL4.ZIP | Yes | 189259 | 7/26/1993 | NO DESCRIPTION FOUND |
| PCGAMMON.ZIP | Yes | 129316 | 11/21/1993 | PC-Gammon IV 1.1 (Repstad Computer Consultants ASP; $25) is the best shareware backgammon game to date. (We called to register as soon as we finished reviewing it!) It plays a very good game, but really shines when it comes to the user interface. In addition, you can save and restore games, write a log of all moves to disk, and customize set-up positions. Other features include three user-selectable playing strengths, three levels of AutoMove, and modem play. unique implementation of the ancient tile game Mahjongg. It contains tile sets with monsters from the Moraff's World games, letters of the alphabet, three letter words, and traditional oriental tiles. You can customize the colors of the tiles and background, and virtually all video types from Hercules to Super-VGA are supported. Mouse is optional. game of solitaire played with tiles, based on the ancient Chinese game of Mah-Jong. Features include multiple tile sets, a built-in tile set editor, background patterns and GIF pictures, optional music and sounds, and much more. Layouts are provided with anywhere from 4 to 168 tiles, and the program can read and use tile sets created for Nels Anderson's Mahjongg. The slick user interface supports both mouse and keyboard input. EGA/VGA is required. |
| CCHECK21.ZIP | Yes | 206892 | 12/5/1993 | Chinese Checkers 2.1 (ImagiSOFT, Inc., ASP; $20) is a colorful game based on the old traditional played by kids and adults. The graphics and play of the game are excellent. If you have the inverted-T cursor pad on your machine, you will need to turn off NumLock and use the number pad to play the game, as the 1-3-7-9 keys are needed for diagonal moves. Requires EGA/VGA and a mouse. |
| DOMINO.ZIP | Yes | 63066 | 8/26/1993 | Domino 4.2 (Ball, B. J.; $15) is an excellent implementation of a two-person, single-spinner game of dominos that you play against the computer. Graphics are required. |
| MEGAPOLY.ZIP | Yes | 57231 | 11/23/1993 | Megagopoly (Visual Data Communications Corp.; $18) is an investment strategy game. The object is to reach financial independence. The game simulates an investment environment in which a player may test his skills by interacting with economic parameters, standard financial algorithms and portfolio analysis. Save/Retrieve game options are available. (The author can no longer be reached at the address provided in the documentation.) |
| REDHOOK1.ZIP | No | 188713 | 2/16/1993 | Redhook's Revenge 1.0 (ImagiSOFT, Inc. ASP; $23) You will sail the seas as a bloodthirsty pirate in this fantastic animated board game. You roll the dice to see whether you will fight a city, discover treasure, get lost in a storm, answer a trivia question, and much more. It combines the elements of classic board games like Risk, Trivial Pursuit, and Life with beautiful graphics/animation and entertaining theme music and sound effects. Up to three people can play, and the player with the most gold at the end of the voyage wins. Games can be saved, and two of the scurvy bucaneers can be controlled by the computer. Old Redhook himself pops up on occasion with some endearingly salty pirate sayings. Requires 640K and VGA. An AdLib or Sound Blaster compatible board is required to hear music. |
| REDHOOK2.ZIP | No | 209411 | 2/16/1993 | See xxx |
| SCOOT.ZIP | Yes | 153735 | 12/5/1993 | Scoot-A-Long (Zimmerman, Ray; $25) is a simple board game along the lines of Parchesi. The first player to get all four game pieces to home position, wins. Requires EGA/VGA, a hard disk and 512K RAM. |
| SCRABFAQ.ZIP | Yes | 21164 | 10/6/1993 | Everything You'd Ever Wanna Know About Scrabble 1.0 (Steven Alexander, reg. fee: $0) is a collection of facts about the game of Scrabble. It includes information about tourney rules for U.S. and Canada, tips on playing a better game and lists of Scrabble-related books, periodicals, and software. |