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The 1995 Fall/Winter Catalog


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Hobbes OS/2 – the largest collection of OS/2 material.
• winner of OS/2 Magazine’s editor’s only
choice award 1994 $ 95
• hundreds of powerful tools for OS/2 29
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QRZ! Ham Radio – experience the excitement of
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$ 95
• find any callsign in two seconds
• listings of 935,764 callsigns and names 29
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• hundreds of product updates and only
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• an easy-to-use interface 29
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Top Productivity Tools Windows Images

Contents

Contents
CICA for Windows pg 4 Gifs Galore pg 30
CICA for Windows...... pg 4 Science Library............. pg 19 NewT for Windows NT pg 7 Travel Adventure pg 30
Get the world’s best collection of A specialized collection of Butterfly for Windows pg 8 Space and Astronomy pg 31
Windows shareware shareware designed for technical QRZ! Ham Radio pg 9 Space Shuttle Encyclopedia pg 31
working for you. users. Recently updated! Teacher 2000 pg 10 Clip Art Image Library pg 32
Welcome to Thailand pg 10 Clip Art Cornucopia pg 32
NewT................. pg 7 Business Library.......... pg 18 Welcome to Africa pg 10
2 Text 3
An all-new collection of Every business person will Music Workshop pg 11
Windows NT utilities to help benefit from the tools and 2000 TrueType Fonts pg 12 Internet Info pg 33
you work smarter! utilities included on this disc. Font Garden pg 13 East Asian Text Processing pg 34
The Beer Homebrewing Guide pg 13 TEX pg 34
Hobbes OS/2................ pg 14 Power DOS....... pg 22 Project Gutenberg pg 35
OS/2
See why OS/2 Magazine gave this Our technical experts packed this
Unix
CDROM their 1994 editor’s choice CDROM with 1,909 of the world’s Hobbes OS/2 Archived pg 14
award. Newly updated! best and freshest DOS programs. Hobbes Ready-to-Run pg 16 Slackware Linux pg 36
FreeBSD 2.0.5 pg 40
Simtel MSDOS.............. pg 17 Ultra Mac Utilities........pg 24 DOS
4.4BSD Lite pg 42
The easiest access to over 10,000 An essential disc for organizing, Simtel MSDOS pg 17 X11R6 pg 43
MSDOS shareware files. Get the streamlining, and enhancing your The Business Library pg 18 GNU pg 44
files you want in seconds! Macintosh system. The Science Library pg 19 Nebula for NEXTSTEP pg 45
Toolkit For Doom pg 20 Sys Vr4 pg 45
Powerful Operating Systems Doom 1 Shareware pg 20 Programming
Giga Games 3 pg 21
Giga Games 2 pg 21 Source Code pg 46
FreeBSD 2.0.5....... pg 40 Slackware Linux..... pg 36
Giga Games 1 pg 21 Tcl/Tk pg 47
From Berkeley BSD Unix, Tens of thousands of people Power DOS pg 22 CP/M pg 47
FreeBSD is the choice for around the world use Slackware Kirk’s Comm Disc pg 22 Ada pg 48
rock-stable performance Linux because it’s easy to install C Users Group Library pg 49
on your PC. Join Network and run. With tons of neat Macintosh Perl pg 50
providers & power users software, Slackware is an Ultra Mac Utilities pg 24 Turbo User Group Library pg 51
who rely on FreeBSD. ideal choice. Ultra Mac Games 2 pg 25 Clipper pg 51
Font Garden pg 25 Math Solutions pg 52
Exciting Imaging Applications
Multimedia Authors Wanted
POV-Ray CDROM........ pg 29 Fractal Frenzy II.......... pg 27 Awesome Animations pg 26 Are you looking for a publisher for
Now you can make An exciting Virtual Reality Zone pg 26 your CDROM title? Some of our
3-D artwork like the collection of fractals titles were developed by outside
Images authors like yourself. We pay well.
pros! Includes all the created by the
scene source, program world’s best fractal Fractal Frenzy pg 27 If you have a technical collection or
source, utilities, and artists. Create your Fractal Frenzy II pg 27 a cool multimedia project cooking,
tips you need to own fractals with the The Official POV-Ray CDROM pg 29 we’d like to hear about it. Send us
create vivid artwork. arvid@oslonett.no
included programs. The Visions Series pg 30 a review copy or send email to Jack
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Personalize your desktop with: Our friendly shell makes accessing

Windows

Windows
• dozens of bitmaps these files easy.
• thousands of icons
The CICA disc is a copy of the
Enliven your writing with: Center for Innovative Computer
• font viewers and editors Applications (i.e. CICA). CICA is
• PostScript fonts the Internet's largest MS Windows
• ATM fonts ftp site, with 1,320 MB of MS
4 • TrueType fonts Windows programs in 5,120 files. 5

Get any Windows Be more productive with utilities for: When programming, you’ll find Find what you need fast
• Microsoft Excel the programming tools in the with our friendly browser!
program you need – now! • Aldus Pagemaker CICA collection vital.
“A real winner... top-of-the-line • Paradox for Windows • C & C++ code and utilities As Windows 95 approaches,
shareware struts its stuff in an • Word for Windows • Toolbook programs source Windows software development
impressive display of elegance and • Word Perfect • Turbo Pascal source and info will be rapid. The patches to
sophistication.” • Visual Basic source and info commercial programs and updates
– David A.Wade, CD-ROM Today You’ll also get 200 great • Paradox source and info to shareware programs on CICA
games like: • Excel source and utilities will help you keep your windows
CICA™ for Windows is • asteroids • Neural Network software machine running efficiently. We
your gateway to the world • checkers • dll libraries update this disc quarterly to keep
of Windows shareware. • chess • api documentation up with the changes.
CICA has thousands of • word games • help document writing tools
programs that span the range • card games Many programs on the disc Whenever you order, you’ll be
of all that Windows offers. Enhance • commercial demos include their source code. assured that you are getting the
your desktop, have fun and get the latest in Windows shareware. You
most out of Windows. can even subscribe to the CICA
collection and automatically
With the CICA disc you’ll receive the latest version as we
improve Windows with: release each disc. You’ll save
• disk, mouse, and keyboard money and join those who are first
utilities to get the latest version of CICA.
• screen savers and
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• updated printer and video your copy of the CICA MS
drivers Windows collection. We know
• loan amortization programs you’ll be pleased.
• communication and email CICA is a trademark of Walnut Creek CDROM.
• WWW browser software !
• personal information cr ibe
manager programs Subs
• shells, backup and restore CICA for Windows....... $ 29.95
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fundiciones, programmas Enhance your NT


workstation with

Windows

Windows
conductivos, y programas
originales.
powerful applications!
NEWT

In Italiano We carefully sorted the NewT™


for Windows NT

“«CICA MS Windows for Windows NT collection into 16


The Ultimate Shareware Collection for Windows NT
Shareware», straordinaria raccolta categories so you can quickly find
di 900 utility.” – “L’Arena di Pola” what you want. Almost all the
6 binaries are for the Intel platform, Walnut Creek
CDROM
7
Con il solo tocco di un pulsante with a few for Alpha and Mips.
potete passare in Italiano o tornare You’ll find:
En Français in Inglese. 1320 Megabyte del • SMTP mail agents, NNTP
En touchant un boton vous doppio set CICA offronr 5120 • programming utilities such as: newsreaders, & WAIS search
pouvez changer de ottimi programmi per il GNU programs including engine toolkit
langue pour l’Anglais ou mondo di Microsoft source code revision control
le Français. L’ensemble Windows. Migliorante la system – rcs, grep, diff, sed, • an extensive, current driver
de deux disques CICA vostra scrivania con giochi, gzip, tar collection including drivers for
renferme 1.320 mega utility, font, driver e video cards, tape drives, scsi
octets de matériaux pour Windows. codice sorgente. • GNU emacs 19.17, including adapter, and ethernet cards
Vous y retrouverez 5.120 source. This is the premier
programmes, classés en plusieurs Japanese programmer’s editor, bar none • fixes and patches to NT
catégories tel: des jeux, des 3.50 and older versions
utilitaires, des polices de • vi clones, variants on emacs and
caractéres, des guides et du code binary editors • games like Nethack 3.1.2, Life
source.
• Perl 4.036, including libraries • screen saver modules
Auf Deutsch to update the NT bindery
Auf Knopfdruck können Sie • JPEG and GIF image viewers
nach Deutsch umschalten • 4NT - 4DOS ported to NT. Get
oder zurück nach Englisch. Die the advantages of this enhanced • POV-Ray ray tracing for NT
1320 Megabyte CICA Doppel-CD shell under NT (see page 29 for full collection)
bietet 5120 großartige Windows-
Programme. Bereichern Sie Ihren • Hamilton C shell demo (for all • ghostscript 2.61 – preview
Desktop mit Spielen, Utilities, platforms) if you prefer postscript printing on your
Fonts, Treibern und Source-Code. the standard Unix shell monitor and print to any printer!
(see page 16 for picture)
En Español • Unix communication programs
Toqué una tecla y cambiarse including finger daemon and • Fax Server software.
entre descriptiones en telnet daemon. Imagine
!
español e inglés. CICA [dos discos
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CICA Japanese..............$ 29.95
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thousands of ready-to-use fonts. Do you love Ham Radio?

Windows

Windows
Speed up your system with Then you’ll love the QRZ!™ Ham
hundreds of up-to-date printer and Radio CDROM, volume five. This
video drivers. There’s much more disc contains the most up-to-date
you can do with this CDROM, US FCC amateur radio license data
including: with over 935,764 names,
addresses and callsigns.
• use image-processing tools to
8 manipulate photos and turn This edition includes DX callsigns 9
GIF image files to BMP for Austria, Canada, Cuba, Italy,
Save time with select the United States and the UK. You With the QRZ! Ham Radio
• create 3-D landscape models for can access the 935,764 callsigns CDROM you get:
Windows applications! your home or office with easy-to-use MS Windows,
The Butterfly™ Collection of MS DOS, and OS/2 search programs. • hundreds of PC-compatible
Windows shareware brings you the • manage your money with amateur radio programs
finest in MS Windows software. comprehensive budgeting “I’m impressed with how
programs fast look-ups are ...and “Much effort and • radio and scanner
You’ll find 1,650 carefully selected since you can run the thought has gone MODs (in
programs with a focus on scientific • plan your schedule with call look-ups from the into the excellent hypertext MS
applications and advanced utilities. powerful appointment calendars CDROM, it won’t take up menu-driven Windows Help format)
any hard disk space.” interface”
What can you do with this • capture screens from your – Bill Blinn, – Que’s 1995 • TCP/IP software,
collection? computer for graphic N8POV, Radiogram CD-ROM Buying Packet Radio BBSs,
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You’ll learn with neural network, We’ve also included a programs
astronomy, and scientific programs. • check your documents for huge collection of
Relax while playing 44 educational spelling errors with professional amateur radio software. It’s no • morse code training software
games. Write your own multimedia dictionaries wonder that QRZ! is the most
and hypertext programs with a popular ham radio CDROM sold • contest logging software
wide variety of applications, sound Every MS Windows user can today.
utilities, and graphics editing tools. optimize his Windows environment • USENET Ham Radio
with the exceptional Butterfly You can search and display by News archives
Listen to music CDs on your collection. callsign, name, city, street address,
CDROM player with audio CD or zip code. You may then save the • SoundBlaster compatible
player software. results to a file or generate WAV files for TNC testing
ready-to-print mailing labels.
Explore the Internet and World • new Windows Visual Basic and
Wide Web with an extensive QRZ! volume five also includes C++ compatible DLL library.
collection of Internet utilities powerful new QRZ-II MS Windows !
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Create beautiful
music on your PC!

Windows

Windows
Do you want to make music? Then
you need Music Workshop™. If
you’re a beginner, Music Workshop
will help bring music to your
computer. If you are a professional,
you’ll feel at home because a fellow
10 musician produced this disc. 11

Take an exciting 2000 educational With 450 megabytes of music related • miscellaneous: various music
programs and professional demos, files including teaching tools for
trip to Thailand! programs Music Workshop is an incredible children, label makers for your
With the Welcome to Thailand™ The Teacher 2000™ CDROM is music resource for everyone. The disc tape and CDROM collections,
CDROM, you’ll join travel crammed full of educational features a custom interactive interface chord databases for guitarists,
photographer John de Garis on a programs. Everyone from toddlers that’s a delight to use. and more
multimedia journey through the to teachers will love the 2,294
jewel of South East Asia. educational applications on this Music Workshop includes: • WAV’s: hundreds of WAV files
disc. The Teacher 2000 disc to spruce up your environment
You’ll discover the beauty of includes something for everyone: • MIDI applications:
Bangkok and the historical capitals heaps of • converters: programs to convert
of Sukhothai and Ayutthaya. At • kids: computer and typing useful MIDI between WAV, VOC, MOD, etc.
each location you can examine the tutorials, word processors, applications
pictures in detail, or watch a slide introductions to programming, including: •drivers: drivers
show complete with travellers’ tales drawing programs; tutors for sequencers, for many popular
and enchanting music. Cook savory math, reading, and spelling mappers, sound cards
meals with authenticThai recipes. MIDI setup
Let this CDROM be your guide! • college-bound students: study utilities, and •MIDI’s: tons of
aids, grade point average keyboard MIDI files to
calculators, SAT study-help librarians listen to or study
programs, and advice on
selecting a college • players: •demos: a
Welcome to Thailand $ 19.95 enjoy WAV, comprehensive
• teachers: programs to create, MID, and Music Workshop’s clear interface collection of
Visit Africa on your PC! print, and administer quizzes; MOD files on professional
A multimedia journey through programs to keep track of your computer. commercial
African life. 450 original photos and names, grades, and test scores. Dozens of players turn your demos from the world’s leading
African farmer simulation game. CDROM drive into a music music and MIDI software publishers.
CD player

• utilities: programs to add


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Along with all the fonts, you also

Windows

Windows
get 5000 black and white PCX clip
art images. You can use these
images to illustrate any document.
We’ve included a handy view
program that lets you view the clip
art and copy it directly to your hard
disk.
12 13
We’ve printed every clip art image
You’re sure to find fonts from the CDROM in the Hand picked fonts let Brew your own beer!
accompanying book. This convenient
and clip art you’ll use. guide includes sections that are: your documents bloom. The Beer Homebrewing Guide™ is
Add power and elegance to any Font Garden™ is a comprehensive a complete reference and tutorial on
letter, document, or design with the • cute: cats, dogs, birds, fish, selection of 500 reliable fonts. All brewing beer at home. Whether
2000 TrueType Fonts™ book and pigs, cows, sheep, and deer fonts work with both Macintosh your favorite is a golden lager, an
CDROM. This disc gives you and MS Windows. We made sure oatmeal stout, or a hefe-weizen, this
2,000 fonts and 5,000 clip art • beautiful: works of art, old by running all of them through an CDROM shows you how to brew it,
images in PCX format. You also book plates, and photos imagesetter. You get each font in step-by-step from start to finish.
get a collection of font TrueType and Type 1 PostScript.
manipulation shareware and • decorative: borders, We include instructions on how to
graphics utilities. frames, balloons Font Garden comes with a full- select the right ingredients and tools,
sized book with each font clearly as well as the proper techniques and
The accompanying book • timely: holiday printed and described. Get this recipes to produce fine quality beers.
makes it easy to choose images for every professional font collection today!
which font or clip art occasion You get a collection of beer recipes
picture you want. You’ll in an indexed, hypertext format,
be amazed at how simple it • useful: computers, giving you instant point and click
is to spice up a drab medical, and work- reference to your favorite style. An
document. festive clip art related images archive of the Internet beer
enlivens any design discussion news groups gives you
To find a font by name, • important: access to the experiences of
you may search an index on the symbols and icons for hazards, hundreds of amateur brewers.
CDROM. The program that allows warnings, and notices
online searching will also copy the “Anyone interested in homebrewing
fonts to your hard disk. You’ll see 2000 TrueType Fonts has Preview and install fonts easily will definitely find it a must buy, I
each font on the CDROM printed everything you need to design with the user friendly MS certainly enjoyed it.” – Eyo Sama,
in the book – so you’ll know documents that get noticed! Windows FontView program CDROM Mag, May 1995.
exactly how the fonts will look in
your document. The book also has
a section that explains how to use
and install your new fonts in 2000 TrueType Fonts and The Beer
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• poker • fonts
• Wizards of War • Emacs 19.27
• dungeon (with source!) • EMX 09a C compiler

OS/2

OS/2
• key-bangers for babies
• more than 100 more! IBM’s latest Corrective Service
Diskettes for TCP/IP and OS/2.
graphics programs:
• 3-D chart and plotting Novell Netware OS/2 client.
14 • paint programs 15
There much too much more to list.
multimedia programs You’ll get tons of cool desk tools
“If you’re looking for OS/2 • audio CD music players If you’re interested in source code,
tools, you need this disc!” • sound mixers you’ll love this disc. The Hobbes OS/2 user’s group newsletters.
• MPEG player collection probably has more
– OS/2 Magazine source code than any of our With 650 megabytes of virus
The Hobbes™ OS/2 Archived system utilities shareware CDROM.s – there’s tons scanned programs and
CDROM brings the Internet’s of source code here from C++ documentation to customize your
largest collection of OS/2 material 5000+ icons classes to assembly stubs. working
within your grasp. environment, you’ll
We constantly update Internet connectivity aids Everything you need to own the most
“OS/2’s main
Hobbes (ftp- • elm email 2.3 r.14 customize your OS/2 comprehensive
weakness (lack of
os2.cdrom.com) so workstation! selection of
device drivers) is
you get the freshest GNU and Unix utilities: shareware and
cured with the
in OS/2 shareware • GCC 2.6.1 “For the low price of freeware for OS/2.
purchase of this
and freeware. • bash 1.12 admission, you can save
CD-ROM.”
• cvs 1.4 money if you copy a few of “There’s megabytes
“John C. Dvorak’s – Que’s 1995 • fortran to C these files from the more stuff on the
Favorite Discs:The best CD-ROM • IRIT 5.0 modeler CDROM rather than Hobbes CDROM. If
of the best ...This Buyer’s Guide • Perl 4.36 and 5.0 paying to download them you get it, ration
company has a crop of • TCL 7.3 from a commercial on-line yourself. I didn’t; I
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is but one. I have found lots of nifty System utilities distance calls to OS/2- exploring it, and this
utilities, fonts, and other goodies.” • archive utilities specific bulletin boards.” month’s column is late. Sorry, editor.”
– John Dvorak, PC Computing • calculators – OS/2 Magazine, Oct. 1994 – Chris Bidmead,
• CPU usage monitor Personal Computer World.
This disc contains: Need to know more about OS/2?
drivers: Look no further. You get Hobbes is a trademark of Walnut Creek CDROM
product updates and patches • sound documents about OS/2
• for OS/2 3.0 Warp • video programming, system, supported
!
• for commercial app’s • printer hardware, and user Frequently
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Asked Questions as well as IBM’s Sub
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The premier programmer’s


• sed – stream editor
• touch – modify file times shareware collection!

OS/2

DOS
• tar – tape archive utility “If you have ever found yourself
• xargs – expand arguments digging through BBS file bases for the
perfect utility to suit your current
edit using the world’s best problem, this disc is for you.” – QUE’s
programmer’s editor, Emacs 19.25 1995 CD-ROM Buyer’s Guide

16 world class C and C++ compilers: With the Simtel™ MSDOS two-disc 17
• EMX08h CDROM set, you will always find
• GCC 2.5.8 what you need. Use our tradition of source code
“Save disk space by friendly shell program distribution. Many programs
accessing files directly from typeset your documents with: for easy access to include source code so you
• TEX 10,000 files. You’ll find can learn from the masters.
the CDROM” • 248 fonts what you need in seconds.
– Esther Schindler, OS/2 Magazine With this disc you will: You’ll also find a wealth of
view and debug PostScript output programming tools for many
From the Hobbes Internet site, here with Ghostscript 2.6.1 • communicate using languages, including C++ (there’s a
is a disc full of ready-to-run OS/2 programs such as great 32-bit C++
applications. Ready- enjoy a wealth of fun: TPC/IP, UUCP, compiler), Assembly,
to-Run Hobbes™ • 250 MB of AVI and Zmodem “Stuffed full of APL, ADA, Clipper,
allows you to use movies – along with several utilities and COBOL, DBase, Forth,
your CDROM drive • 4803 icons full-featured applications, it’ll take Fortran, Lotus 1-2-3,
to save precious hard • 350 .AVI sound comm packages you hours just to Pascal, and Basic.
drive space. Now clips browse through the
you can sample large • use programs for index of this Simtel also includes
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from the CDROM. .avi movies, the fonts, – David A. Wade, popular Emacs
and the .wav files • explore a large CD-ROM Today programmer’s editor
solve common Use Ghostscript 2.6.1 to instantly available” assortment of ham and copies of
problems with output your postscript. – OS/2 Magazine. radio programs programming magazine articles.
the entire GNU
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Stop looking for The


bookkeeping, bar coding, or Scientific
brainstorming program. Many of scientific software! and
Technical

DOS

DOS
these programs aren’t available at The Scientific and Technical Library
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