| Name | Extracted | Size | Date | Description |
| ADULATE.ZIP | Yes | 14019 | 5/17/1994 | Adulate 1.8 (Cobb, Larry T.; $?) is a random adulation generator. The phrases range from mildly amusing to outrageous. |
| 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. |
| BACKTALK.ZIP | Yes | 9113 | 5/17/1994 | BackTalk (Trimble, Timothy; $0) displays an innocent A> prompt on the screen, then tells the user to go away because it's sleeping and tired. |
| CLAUDE.ZIP | Yes | 85412 | 5/17/1994 | Claude 1.1 (McLaughlin, Brian; $5) 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. |
| 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. command they enter is disregarded with a curt reply. |
| DRAIN.ZIP | Yes | 25035 | 5/17/1994 | Drain (Aspinwall, Jim; $0) this joke produces a "system error" stating that water has been detected in drive C and the cleanup is in progress. |
| DRIP.ZIP | Yes | 2786 | 5/17/1994 | Drip 2.00 (Masters, G.; $0) 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. |
| FBIJOKE.ZIP | Yes | 47827 | 5/17/1994 | FBI Joke (Tyler, T.; $10) is a joke program to make your friends think you can tap into an FBI computer and scan people's records. |
| BB_FUN.ZIP | Yes | 52992 | 5/17/1994 | Bytebrothers Fun (the Bytebrothers; $0) 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. |
| HELPME.ZIP | Yes | 6931 | 5/17/1994 | HelpMe 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. |
| KABOOM.ZIP | Yes | 19945 | 5/17/1994 | Kaboom (Leithauser, David; $0) uses digitized speech and sound effects to have a little fun with you. |
| KAOSKEY.ZIP | Yes | 5298 | 5/17/1994 | KaosKeys 1.0 (Maland, Philip; $0) is a simple TSR joke program that will cause keystrokes to be randomly capitalized. |
| 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. |
| PARASCN.ZIP | Yes | 24185 | 5/17/1994 | ParaScan 3.0 (Byte Brothers; $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. |
| SHAKEIT.ZIP | Yes | 15649 | 5/17/1994 | ShakeIt (Julius, Tab; $0) 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. 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 get this program. |
| SNOOP.ZIP | Yes | 37981 | 5/17/1994 | Snoop 1.0 (Cohn, Andrew M.; $10) offers up a wide variety of screens to fool, inform, entertain and annoy your fellow employees. Requires DOS 3.1+. |
| VOLAPUK.ZIP | Yes | 63176 | 5/17/1994 | Volapuk-Debugger 491b (Gustafsson, Roger; $?) 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". |
| WPFAKE.ZIP | Yes | 15070 | 5/17/1994 | WPFake (Sewell, David; $0) 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. |
| COMEDY1.ZIP | Yes | 249102 | 5/17/1994 | Joke Talk 1.3 (Creative Educational Software, Inc.; $30) is a comedy package loaded with jokes, gags, sound effects, The Candid Camera Show, Name That Tune game, voice impersonations and more. A real human's voice speaks through the computer's speaker. You can play back any of the jokes, songs and sound effects, and create your own custom joke files. |
| COMEDY2.ZIP | Yes | 224037 | 5/17/1994 | See above. |
| CURSES.ZIP | Yes | 158678 | 1/12/1994 | Curses! 2.3 (R. K. West Consulting ASP; $10) is an "insult generator" that can be changed into a compliment generator. An editor lets you control the programs vocabulary. The program can be used to generate descriptive phrases on any subject. Requires 360k RAM, and a hard disk is recommended. |
| DOS_JOKE.ZIP | Yes | 129581 | 11/19/1993 | DOS-Joke (Creative Educational Software, Inc.; $15) displays a fake DOS prompt and responds with rude remarks through the PC's speaker when anything is entered. If nothing is entered, it will blurt out comments periodically anyway. |
| IBG.ZIP | Yes | 11167 | 5/17/1994 | Instant Buzzword Generator (Lancaster, Bob; $0) will help you come up with such impressive phrases as: "User-Friendly Desktop Utility", "Integrated Artificial intelligence Techniques", "Advanced Recursive Analysis", and of course, "Comprehensive On-Line Infostructure". Think of how glib and impressive your new-found vocabulary will seem! |
| INQMIND.ZIP | Yes | 13214 | 5/17/1994 | Inquiring Minds selects random phrases from the text file to produce headlines such as one might see on "National Inquirer". This is an interesting program, and the text file can be completely altered to your taste to produce anthing from poems to snappy comebacks. Included is the original source code in C. |
| WHABUSE.ZIP | Yes | 29843 | 5/17/1994 | WhAbuse (Howell, W; $0) displays random humorous and abusive messages. C source is included. |
| ZAPPO.ZIP | Yes | 5293 | 5/17/1994 | Zappo (Green, Phil; $0) is a 1k TSR that turns your keyboard into a grenade/phaser/machine-gun sound generator. We were prepared not to like this, but it's actually kinda fun. If someone trots into your office and gives you a hard time, "arm" your phasers by pressing the ScrollLock key and being firing away. Different weapon sounds are generated by different keys. |
| BOSS_SW.ZIP | Yes | 11875 | 5/17/1994 | Boss_SW (Graham, Keith P.; $0) is a TSR which switches to a phony spreadsheet when the boss is looking. You can switch back and forth from even graphics games. Includes MASM source. The source is very comprehensive. |
| HAW.ZIP | Yes | 99385 | 1/11/1994 | Hard at Work 1.3 (R. K. West Consulting ASP; $0) is one of the best "look busy" programs yet. (These are programs that make your computer look like you are "Hard at Work" when you are really asleep with your eyes open.) Reading a romance novel when the boss walks in? Just tell him that you are waiting for the computer to finish one of the many different tasks the program can emulate. One screen looks like Norton's hard disk defragger. Another looks like Lotus 1-2-3 crunching numbers, and so on. |
| HOTLOT.ZIP | Yes | 17201 | 5/17/1994 | HotLot is a resident utility that will pop a realistic looking 1-2-3 template onto your screen without your having to leave the (game) program you are running. you play gin with a friend over the phone. You can also play against the computer. |
| LINEWAR.ZIP | Yes | 89136 | 5/17/1994 | Linewars (Aalto, Patrick; $24) is a fun shoot-em-up game for one player or for two players on two computers connected by an RS-232 cable or by modems. The purpose of the game is to defeat your opponent with each of you maneuvering a high-speed spaceship. Linewars will work on CGA, but the graphics are much more impressive on EGA compatible video. |
| TELECRD.ZIP | Yes | 68108 | 5/17/1994 | TeleCards 1.0 (Kohler, Kevin T.; $20) allows you to play card games over the telephone. Three games are included: Crazy Eights, Cribbage, and Gin Rummy. Requires a modem or a direct link with a NUL modem. |
| GEMINI.ZIP | Yes | 44292 | 11/20/1993 | Gemini 9$0) is a two-PC game played over a telephone modem. |
| WRTHY_OP.ZIP | Yes | 95496 | 11/20/1993 | Worthy Opponent (Future Ideas Today Inc.; $15-$20) is a set of strategy games you play against an opponent over a modem. Games included are Snake Pit (eat your opponent's tail and you grow larger), an Othello-like game, checkers, and Cannonball (fire cannons at moving trains). Message capabilities allow you to taunt and jeer at your opponent in the true spirit of athletic competition. |
| ATCSIM.ZIP | Yes | 104628 | 11/20/1993 | Air Traffic Control Simulation (Leung, Francis Yan Keung; $20) gives you the job of air traffic controller. Features include support for CGA 320 x 200 x 4 colors mode, 6 levels, command to take up heading, command line parameter to specify graphics mode and card, variable wind effects, a "Hall of Fame" with the top 10 scores, and 4 types of emergency situations. It allows you to change speed in demo state, and break out of (to abort) an approach. |
| ATCGAME.ZIP | Yes | 50566 | 10/21/1993 | ATC-Game 1.0 (Eddy Van de Winckel, reg. fee: $40) is an Air Traffic Control simulation. You are in charge of the terminal area of a medium sized international airport. It is your job to vector the departing traffic to the appropriate airway and the arriving traffic to the appropriate runway, maintaining sufficient separation between aircrafts. |
| DULLES.ZIP | Yes | 82629 | 11/23/1993 | Dulles Tower (McKeown, John; $any) is an Air Traffic Control simulator that provides a realistic representation of the responsibilities incurred while working in a real airport control tower. This does not have a lot of slick graphics that might appeal to the casual game player; we suspect that you have to really be into aviation to appreciate this program. an air combat game that puts you in the cockpit of a piston engined aircraft. It features scrolling 3-D graphics similar to Flight Simulator. In addition to the normal flying and shooting scenarios, you may have to land the plane to plant bombs in enemy territory; land on an airstrip suspended at 20,000 feet, or fly through a narrow corridor to shoot at a generator orb. If you fly past the mission you did yesterday, you will see the burning wreckage. It has realistic flight model based on physics of aerodynamic flight. The plane can sideslip, high speed stall, or fall backwards. Due to the realistic landing model, landing a heavily damaged plane can be exciting. Mastering the flight controls may take a little time. Requires 12Mhz or faster, VGA color monitor, and 520K memory. A hard disk and joystick are recommended. |
| FSPRO.ZIP | Yes | 188430 | 12/7/1993 | FS-Pro (Lincoln, Joe; $2) will help track and edit all of the different MODES that can be created using the Microsoft Flight Simulator III program. Since you cannot write any files that can be immediately imported by Flight Simulator, you keep a list of small files that is called ADVENTURES which have the same name as the MODE except for a different DOS extension. With this series, FSPRO becomes your main menu to access other modules, such as the Airport Directory included on this disk. |
| MIRAMAR.ZIP | Yes | 82770 | 11/20/1993 | Miramar (Cochran, Marc; $10) is a fully operational Jet Combat Simulator. It does not have scenery (unless you end up at the bottom of the ocean). Instead, it is oriented towards instrument flying and dogfighting. There is no doc file. Be sure to have NumLock and CapsLock on before you start. Don't touch the keyboard until the first screen full of text comes up, then enter I for Instructions. Even then, all it tells you is what keys to use. The farthest we were able to get the plane off the aircraft carrier was the bottom of the ocean. |
| ANIM_MEM.ZIP | No | 248372 | 3/25/1993 | Animated Memory Game 1.0 (Guthery, Tom IV; $6) tests your memory skills. When you match the correct pairs of pictures from memory, you are "rewarded" with animated graphics. There are several levels of difficulty. This program was written by an artist with over 15 years' experience in the field of classical animation. Requires 640K, EGA or VGA, and a hard drive. |
| BRNDEAD.ZIP | Yes | 48276 | 5/17/1994 | BRAINdead2 1.0 (Donat, Michael ASP; $10-$15) is a Concentration type game with excellent EGA/VGA graphics. |
| CONCV1.ZIP | Yes | 126121 | 8/11/1993 | Concentration 1.0 (SNR Software; $10) the game of Concentration using playing cards. Turn up two jokers, and you lose! players memory and concentration skills as you try to match pictures with pictures or words with pictures. It has five levels of difficulty and excellent graphics Concentration type game with some twists. You play against the computer in 31 stages from four levels of difficulty. You can choose to have to match two, three or four pictures. |
| MATCHEM.ZIP | Yes | 102129 | 11/20/1993 | Match'em (Hardy, Charles A.; $15) is "concentration" type memory game. The object is to match two pictures hidden in an 8 x 8 grid of squares. You select the squares by clicking on them with a mouse. You may play against the computer or a friend. The EGA graphics are attractively done. |
| MON_MEM.ZIP | Yes | 94969 | 5/17/1994 | Moraff's Monster Memory 1.1 (MoraffWare; $0) is a memory/matching game that uses pictures of monsters that inhabit the Moraff's World game series. |
| SIMNSAY.ZIP | Yes | 37737 | 5/17/1994 | Simon Says vol.I (Johnson, Todd A.; $0) is based on the electronic memory game Simon. There are 3 different levels, and a repeat mode is available if you make it past a certain sequence. A mouse or the keyboard may be used. |
| TILEMTCH.ZIP | Yes | 218718 | 11/21/1993 | Tile Match 1.0 (Anderson, Nels ASP; $17) is a memory game in which you match pairs from a set of colorful tiles. You can make your own tiles with the provided tile editor. Several options are available, including background scenes and 48 solitaire variants with different playing and scoring rules. Tile Match can be played with up to four players, or against the computer. A mouse is recommended. Requires EGA/VGA. Concentration-type game with excellent 256 color graphics. Four different sets of pictures are included. It requires a 286 or 386 and VGA. Mouse is optional. |
| WHATISIT.ZIP | Yes | 350687 | 11/20/1993 | What Is It (Compass Systems; $24) is a "Concentration" type game for up to four players. The objective is to try to uncover Hi-Res EGA images by matching similar game tiles, asking questions about the hidden picture or spinning the chance wheel. Requires a minimum of 512K (640K is recommended) and EGA. Only two pictures come with the program, but even after playing with those, the program can be used as just a straight "Concentration" (match the tiles) game. |
| ZIMON.ZIP | Yes | 78856 | 5/17/1994 | Zimon 1.02 (MorganSoft; $15) is a Simon clone and two different solitaire games. A mouse and color display are highly recommended. |
| 3B_JUGGL.ZIP | Yes | 91133 | 12/5/1993 | 3 Ball Juggler (First Magnitude; $15) uses EGA/VGA graphics and accompanying text to teach how to juggle. The program starts with a single toss and leads you on to advanced techniques and tricks. The display can be slowed down for closer study. A juggling game is included. |
| ALFIE.ZIP | Yes | 16019 | 5/17/1994 | Alfie 1.0 (Baser, Barbara L.; $8) generates fill-in-the-blanks party games similar to the popular Mad Libs commercial product. Party guests are prompted for various nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, etc, which are then plugged into a basic story line with amusing results. The story framework can be created by you or you can use one of the two on the disk. unusual game that lets you experience Nature from a very different perspective. First, you can select an animal you would like to become. Then you try to cross the forest collecting as many Energy Tokens as possible by capturing your prey while avoiding your predators and by outsmarting competitors for food. To be successful at this game you must quickly decide who is your prey and who are your predators. Animal Quest has excellent graphics, three difficulty levels, mouse support, sound card support, and extensive information on each animal and plant. This is a very realistic simulation of food chain ecology, based on factual animal relationships. Requires EGA/VGA and 512K. |
| BADLIBS.ZIP | Yes | 226718 | 12/5/1993 | BadLibs (Jarrett, Eric; $8) is an interactive text story-maker that is similar to the word game played on paper. It's a great party game, too. |
| BUGRES.ZIP | Yes | 3763 | 5/17/1994 | BugRes (Gilbrech, Skip; $?) sends bugs crawling across your screen. The bugs will then munch every character on the screen they can find until there is nothing left. |
| BUGSALI.ZIP | Yes | 53689 | 5/17/1994 | Bugs Alive (Acinom Software; $10) is an evolution simulation program with the challenge of a game, yet at the same time, teaches about the processes that drive natural selection. It challenges the user of the program to set up an environment and then to explain how and why things change. Interesting EGA color graphics. |
| DRMYSTIC.ZIP | Yes | 96925 | 11/23/1993 | Dr. Mystic (Campbell, George; $10) is a talking oracle. You ask questions and the good Doctor speaks his wisdom to you. Actually, the answers are completely random and may not match the question at all - this is no Eliza. The fun is listening to the very clear, digitized speech through your PC's speaker. This may not work on some portables, such as the Sharp and Compaq. (Note: Do not try to run PLAY.ZIP; it is used by the program and is not meant to be run by the user.) |
| FREUD.ZIP | Yes | 126572 | 12/5/1993 | Dr. Freud (Patterson, Charles; $10) gives a personality profile of the user based on questions and answers done in a conversational manner. It can also be used as a party game or by an individual just for fun. Requires BASIC. |
| MEGAD.ZIP | Yes | 26278 | 5/17/1994 | MegaDoom-III 3.0 (Pinnacle Software; $20) If you have ever tried an adventure (slash) role-playing game and thought they were too long and boring, try this one. |
| MIRRORS.ZIP | Yes | 48877 | 5/17/1994 | Mirror Maze 2.0 (Edson, Dave; $20) is an interesting and unusual game in which a beam of light is moving through a maze (a grid of squares, actually). Mirrors are angled across many of the intersections, and your job is to move the mirrors to guide the light so as to hit all the points in the maze while avoiding the nasties. Your time to accomplish this is limited. EGA/VGA required. |
| MONSTER.ZIP | Yes | 27693 | 5/17/1994 | Monster (Holroyd, Tom; $0) 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. |
| OLYMPIAD.ZIP | Yes | 101135 | 11/23/1993 | Olympiad (Rankin, Pat and Day, Don; $15) is a database of Olympic Games data from 1896 through 1984. Each data entry includes the year, event, winner of the gold, winner's country and score, whether the event was for men, women, or couples, and whether the event was a summer or winter game. |
| RHSLIFE.ZIP | Yes | 89761 | 8/8/1993 | RHSLife is an implementation of the well known "Game of Life". Requires 1MB RAM, VGA. |
| SHELLS.ZIP | Yes | 37949 | 5/17/1994 | SHELLS (Zenka, Jan; $10) helps improve you powers of perception by playing the ol' shell game. The object is to remember which shell has the object after being juggled around. You control the speed of the juggling and scoring is given on your correct answers. This program was sent to us from Czechoslovakia, where the author says Shells is a popular game. |
| ULT_LIFE.ZIP | Yes | 80780 | 12/3/1993 | UltraLife (CA Software; $25) is the game of Life, first invented by John Conway. It features a "universe" of up to 64,000 by 64,000 cells. |