JSE newsletter vol 4 no 3 [jse]

From the Editor's Desk

Dear Member,

With all the acclaim surrounding Windows, we have decided to devote this issue entirely to WINDOWS! We know that there are many of you who feel that Windows is not delivering the goods (in terms of productivity computing at an optimum cost/benefit ratio or in technical performance) and still many others cannot afford to run Windows (too expensive, both software AND hardware). However, we cannot escape the fact that Windows has been the top bestselling software package and a couple of million PCs out there are using it - with apparent success. Just refer to the latest (Feb 92) PC-Magazine survey to see this illustrated. And, unlike OS/2 for which as good as no shareware ever appeared, it seems like solid shareware software support is now well on its way.

So there you have it. For those who have Windows, lots of fun software - in fact, you could order our entire library for the cost of one commercial application! For those who don't use Windows (yet?), keep this for future reference or pass it onto someone else. With Windows 3.1 on its way, one never knows.

Yours in productive AND fun computing.

Jean-Paul Van Belle.

Table of Contents

Windows Software For a Song

PC-Magazines Selection of Windows Shareware 2

"Unrecoverable Application Error

Some Suggestions from MicroSoft on How to Avoid These 3

Modifying Group Icons

How to Patch Those Dreary-Looking Group Icons 6

Notes on Windows 3.0 and High Memory 9

Mouse & Baud Rate Fixes

Attaching a Mouse to COM3 or COM4 & Increasing BAUD Rate 11

"Recommended" Shareware Games 14

Additions to the Windows Library

More Than One Hundred WINDOWS Applications 16

WINDOWS SOFTWARE FOR A SONG

"You can call Windows software many things - innovative, powerful, and forward looking - but there's one thing you can't call most Windows programs: inexpensive. A good application usually lists for $400 or more, and even utilities often cost in the $100 range.

"If you like Windows, that can put a serious dent in your pocketbook. So we've scoured every shareware source around and come up with the following collection of great Windows software at bargain prices. None of the programs sells for more than $70. They're all top-notch. And they're all shareware, which means that you can try them out for free and pay only if you decide to continue using them.

"Some of the utilities listed here make up for shortcomings in Windows' File Manager, Print Manager, and Task Manager - shortcomings that Microsoft has noted and may fix in forthcoming versions. But if you want solutions now, these try-before-you-pay shareware alternatives can't be beat."

[Preston Gralla, PC-Computing, Jan 92, pp.163-170]

This is the introduction to an article that contains PC-Magazine's reviews of top Windows shareware. Copyright prevents us from reprinting the full-length article but we give you their selections below, together with volume numbers. Our catalogue descriptions can be found at the back of this newsletter - for more elaborate descriptions refer to the original article.

APPLICATIONS.

UNICOM - The Great Communicator: W030.

WINCHECK - Automate Your Checkbook: W028.

WINEDIT - Fast and Easy Text Editor: W100.

WINDOWS ENHANCEMENTS.

SLOOP MANAGER - Add Power to Program Manager: see Folder W115.

METZ TASK MANAGER - Powerful Task Manager Replacement: W031.

WINNAV - A Better File Manager: W087.

ICON AND WALLPAPER UTILITIES.

ICONMASTER - For Total Icon Mastery: W078.

DOSICON - Cure for the Gray DOS Box: superseded by NoDos W140.

ZIPAPER - For Wallpaper Master: superseded by NewPaper W017.

GRAPHICS UTILITIES.

PIXFOLIO - Catalog Your Graphics Files: W091 & W092.

WINGIF - Complete Graphics Toolbox: W031.

FONTER - Master Your Fonts: replaced by W049 (doesn't require VBRUN).

MISCELLANEOUS UTILITIES.

METZ FREEMEM - Memory Watcher: part of the Metz utilities W083 & W084.

WHISKERS - Make Full Use of Your Mouse: W111.

WINCLI - A Better Window into DOS: W032.

"Unrecoverable Application Error"

From Microsoft Corporation, 1990.

Updated 90/07/13 04:30

This article contains information on potential causes of the Microsoft Windows version 3.00 error message:

Unrecoverable Application Error

Terminating current application

This error occurs only in standard- and enhanced-mode Windows 3.00. It indicates that a Windows application has caused a protection violation (that is, an application has written to a memory space to which it does not have access, potentially corrupting other code in that area of memory).

If you receive this error, the Windows 3.00 system will be unstable until you exit Windows, reboot the system, and restart Windows. After one application causes such an error, memory will be corrupted. This could cause other applications to subsequently receive the same error, even though they are not actually the cause of the problem.

The following are possible causes for an unrecoverable application error:

1. You are running an application that was designed for Windows versions 2.00, 2.03, 2.10, and 2.11 under Windows 3.00 in standard or enhanced mode.

If an application has not been properly designed to function correctly under Windows 3.00 protected modes, it will cause an error. If an application is designed for Windows versions 2.00, 2.03, 2.10, and 2.11, it will generate a dialog box when executed that advises you of this error. Such applications should be run only under Windows 3.00 real mode as the dialog box suggests.

2. You have selected an incorrect machine and/or network while using the Setup program.

Some machines and networks require you to override the default detection made by Windows 3.00 Setup and make a specific selection. If the correct selection is not made, Windows will not operate correctly.

Machines that must be specifically selected in Windows Setup include the following:

All 80386- and 80486-based AST machines

All 80386-based Zenith machines

All Hewlett-Packard machines

Everex Step 386/25

NCR PC 386SX

NCR PC 925

NEC PowerMate SX Plus

NEC ProSpeed 386

Toshiba 1600

Toshiba 5200

Networks that must be specifically selected in Windows Setup include the following:

3Com 3+Open LAN Manager (XNS only)

3Com 3+Share

Banyan VINES version 4.0

LAN Manager versions 1.x (or 100-percent compatible)

IBM PC LAN program

If you did not choose your machine or network specifically during Setup, you should exit Windows and run the DOS version of Setup from the WINDOWS directory. This will allow you to make the proper selection without having to completely reinstall Windows 3.00.

3. You have incompatible TSRs (terminate-and-stay-resident programs) or unsupported network drivers in the CONFIG.SYS or AUTOEXEC.BAT files.

Temporarily remove all suspect drivers and TSR programs to bring the system to a minimum configuration for testing purposes. If this eliminates the problem, then the problem was caused by one of the drivers or TSRs that was removed. Replace the removed lines one by one until the problem reappears, thus showing which line was causing the problem.

4. You have a page-mapping conflict in enhanced mode.

This cause applies only to enhanced-mode Windows. Test the problem under standard mode by running Windows with the WIN /S parameter. If the problem does not occur in standard mode, it may be a page-mapping conflict in the adapter segment area of memory (between A000 and EFFF hexadecimal). Edit the SYSTEM.INI file with Notepad or SYSEDIT and insert the following line in the [386ENH] section:

EMMExclude=A000-EFFF

This will exclude the entire adapter segment from mapping. This line is not case sensitive. If inserting this line solves the problem, you may want to determine the position of all hardware adapters in the adapter segment and exclude them specifically rather than excluding the entire region. Multiple EMMExclude lines may be used if necessary. If you are using a Micro Channel (MCA) bus machine such as an IBM PS/2, you may determine the adapter location by booting with the machine's Reference Disk. If you are using a standard (ISA) bus machine, consult your adapter documentation and/or manufacturer's technical support service for information on memory locations used, if any.

5. You have the incorrect DOS version.

Machines should have the proper DOS version for their hardware type. OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) versions of DOS such as COMPAQ DOS or IBM PC-DOS should not be used except on their respective OEM hardware platforms (that is, COMPAQ DOS only on COMPAQ machines, IBM PC-DOS only on IBM machines).

On other machines, the proper DOS should be determined by the following rule:

If the manufacturer has an OEM version of DOS, it should be used.

If the manufacturer does not have an OEM version of DOS, generic Microsoft MS-DOS should be used.

SYSTEM LAWS & RULES

Dror's First Law:

While the difficulties and dangers of problems tend to increase at a

geometric rate, the knowledge and manpower qualified to deal with these

problems tend to increase linearly.

Dror's Second Law:

While human capacities to shape the environment, society, and human

beings are rapidly increasing, policymaking capabilities to use those

capacities remain the same.

Dude's Law of Duality:

Of two possible events, only the undesired one will occur.

Dunne's Law:

The territory behind rhetoric is too often mined with equivocation.

The "Enough Already" Law:

The more you run over a dead cat, the flatter it gets.

Ettorre's Observation:

The other line moves faster.

Corollary:

Don't try to change lines. The other line -- the one you were in

originally -- will then move faster.

Modifying Group Icons

by J.M.Miller

Windows 3.0 is a terrific program.

One of the things that makes it such a great program is it's capacity to allow the user to configure so many parts of it to the user's own personal preferences. Experimentation with the Control Panel, especially the specialty palette, should result in color settings that can please anyone's taste.

One of the things that Microsoft does not yet let one customize are the boring Group Icons in the Program Manager. (I'm hoping that Microsoft fixes this in the next version.) Until you get into a specific group, it all looks pretty drab. All of the icons are identical, so that you cannot select them on the basis of differences in color or design, as one should be able to do with a GUI. This has lead some people to "save" the program manager, at the end of a session, so that it next starts with several groups already opened.

I was personally determined to find a way to change the icons themselves. I uploaded several messages to Compuserve's Window's forum, but everyone said it couldn't be done.

They were, in fact, both right and wrong. After some time with the Windows' Technical Reference Manual, and several hours of experimentation, I have learned a great deal about group icons.

It is, first of all, correct that the Program Manager group icons cannot yet be differentiated. Unlike what one can do through the "Properties" utility for individual programs (which is great, and has led to the development of hundreds of creative icons), there is no way to get the PM to call anything but the same group file icon for every group. The Program Manager simply makes the same icon call to the section in itself where the group icon map is located. (The PM also contains the eight other basic PM icons: windows, DOS, etc).

It is possible, however, to modify the internal map of the Group Icon, so that at least the multiple opening group icons look more colorful and reflective of the Windows user. The following procedure will allow the user to change the colors of the 3 lower file folders in the icon, the 3 upper folders, and the top border. (With just a little more experimentation, it is also possible to modify the design of the icon and colors in the remaining areas: side border, internal background, etc).

What you need:

1. To take personal responsibility for the modifications to the Program Manager that you make.

2. A back-up copy of the Progman.exe file, in case you make a mistake.

3. A file sector editor: Professional Master-Key, Norton, etc.

4. A VGA display, I think. PM contains and calls different icon maps depending on the kind of display that Windows believes that you are using. I have only found, and worked with, the map called for VGA. You can try these changes for other displays, but I'm not sure what you'll get.

What to do:

1. Load Progman.exe into the file edit area of the sector editor.

2. Go to relative sector 102. (All of the icon maps are located at this end of the PM file.) You should see a display like that below. I have marked with symbols the 3 sections of bytes that you will want to change. (There will be other numbers/letters currently in the spaces marked with the symbols.)

3FFFFFFC 3FFFFFFC 3818181C 3BDBDBDC 3BDBDBDC 3BDBDBDC

3B1B1B1C 3B3B3B3C 3878787C 3FFFFFFC 3FFFFFFC 3818181C

3BDBDBDC 3BDBDBDC 3BDBDBDC 3B1B1B1C 3B3B3B3C 3878787C

3FFFFFFC 3FFFFFFC 00000000 2AAAAAA8 15555554 00000000

00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 FFFFFFFF FFFFFFFF

FFFFFFFF 80000001 80000001 80000001 80000001 80000001

80000001 80000001 80000001 80000001 80000001 80000001

80000001 80000001 FFFFFFFF FFFFFFFF FFFFFFFF FFFFFFFF

28000000 20000000 40000000 01000400 00000000 00000000

00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00008000

00800000 00808000 80000000 80008000 80800000 80808000

C0C0C000 0000FF00 00FF0000 00FFFF00 FF000000 FF00FF00

FFFF0000 FFFFFF00 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000

00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00777777 77777777

77777777 77777777 00777777 77777777 77777777 77777777

00000000 00000000 00000000 00000077 0FFFFFFF FFFFFFFF

FFFFFFFF FFFFF077 0FFFFFFF FFFFFFFF FFFFFFFF FFFFF077

0FFF0000 00FF0000 00FF0000 00FFF077 0FFF0??? ?0FF0???

?0FF0??? ?0FFF077 0FFF0??? ?0FF0??? ?0FF0??? ?0FFF077

0FFF0??? ?0FF0???

?? = 24 bytes for bottom folders.

Editing "PROGMAN .EXE" relative sector 102.

[Ed.: there didn't seem to be a "third step in the original article!]

4. Go to relative sector 103. You should see something like the following display, except I have again substituted symbols in key bytes:

?0FF0??? ?0FFF077 0FFF0??0 00FF0??0 00FF0??0 00FFF077

0FFF0??0 0FFF0??0 0FFF0??0 0FFFF077 0FFF0000 FFFF0000

FFFF0000 FFFFF077 0FFFFFFF FFFFFFFF FFFFFFFF FFFFF077

0FFFFFFF FFFFFFFF FFFFFFFF FFFFF077 0FFF0000 00FF0000

00FF0000 00FFF077 0FFF0+++ +0FF0+++ +0FF0+++ +0FFF077

0FFF0+++ +0FF0+++ +0FF0+++ +0FFF077 0FFF0+++ +0FF0+++

+0FF0+++ +0FFF077 0FFF0++0 00FF0++0 00FF0++0 00FFF077

0FFF0++0 0FFF0++0 0FFF0++0 0FFFF077 0FFF0000 FFFF0000

FFFF0000 FFFFF077 0FFFFFFF FFFFFFFF FFFFFFFF FFFFF077

0FFFFFFF FFFFFFFF FFFFFFFF FFFFF077 00000000 00000000

00000000 00000077 0******* ******** ******** *****077

0******* ******** ******** *****000 00000000 00000000

00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000

00000000 00000000 FFFFFFFF FFFFFFFF C0000000 C0000000

00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000

00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000003

00000003 FFFFFFFF FFFFFFFF FFFFFFFF 00000000 00000000

28000000 20000000 20000000 01000100 00000000 00000000

00000000 00000000

++ = 24bytes for top folders

** = 28bytes for top border

Editing "PROGMAN .EXE" relative sector 103.

(You're almost there.)

5. Now substitute the hex codes for the colors that you want to appear in the 3 locations. The codes for the basic colors are:

99: Red

AA: Green

BB: Yellow

CC: Blue

Obviously be careful only to modify the right bytes. (Although since this is a map section, an error will usually only end up as an error in the icon versus a program crash.) 6. Save the changes to each sector. 7. Exit Windows, if you've been working in it, and re-start Windows. The new icons will be displayed as the PM initializes.

That's all there is to it.

I like the way my new Group Icons look. With a little experimentation, I hope that you will like yours too.

Now all I wish is that Microsoft makes it possible to fully customize group icons in the next version of Windows.

Enjoy,

Jerry Miller

Notes on Windows 3.0 and High Memory

by Ashley Saldanha

As you may have discovered, the standard and 386 enhanced modes of Windows 3.0 are incompatible with 386 control programs like QEMM and 386-to-the-Max, and like Windows/386 2.1 before it, the latest release of Windows provides no "high memory" features. While this absence makes little difference to Windows applications, it does affect the maximum size of any DOS windows opened under the 386 enhanced mode of Windows 3.0.

On many 386 machines, however, it is possible to endow a Windows 3.0 environment with high memory by loading either Quarterdeck's QRAM or Quantilas' Move'em AFTER Microsoft's HIMEM driver. Designed as memory enhancement products for 286 machines, these control programs do not attempt to access protected mode in any manner that conflicts with either Windows 3.0 (or Windows/386 2.1 for that matter). The conventional memory one saves by loading device drivers and TSRs into high memory, while insignificant as far as Windows is concerned, can be of critical significance when attempting to run standard DOS applications in Windows 3.0's enhanced 386 mode.

The following are the contents of typical config and autoexec files, with and without the high memory produced by Move'em (the syntax is somewhat different for QRAM, but the results are similar):

Without high memory

STACKS=0,0

FILES=30

BUFFERS=3

DEVICE=C:\HIMEM.SYS

DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\SMARTDRV.SYS 2048 512

DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\RAMDRIVE.SYS 1024 /E

DEVICE=C:\DOS\ANSI.SYS

DEVICE=C:\DOS\MOUSE.SYS

INSTALL=C:\DOS\SHARE.EXE

SHELL=C:\COMMAND.COM /P /E:256

CLS

SET TEMP=E:\

PATH C:\;C:\DOS;C:\WINDOWS

PROMPT $P$

C:\DOS\DOSKEY.COM

C:\DOS\MODE.EXE LPT1:,,P

C:\DOS\MODE.EXE COM1: 9600,N,8,1

C:\DOS\MODE.EXE COM2: 9600,N,8,1

CLS

With high memory

STACKS=0,0

FILES=30

BUFFERS=3

DEVICE=C:\HIMEM.SYS

DEVICE=C:\MOVE'EM.MGR EXCLUDE=E000-EFFF

DEVICE=C:\DOS\MOVE'EM.SYS PROG=C:\WINDOWS\SMARTDRV.SYS 2048 512

DEVICE=C:\DOS\MOVE'EM.SYS PROG=C:\WINDOWS\RAMDRIVE.SYS 1024 /E

DEVICE=C:\DOS\MOVE'EM.SYS PROG=C:\DOS\ANSI.SYS

DEVICE=C:\DOS\MOVE'EM.SYS PROG=C:\DOS\MOUSE.SYS

SHELL=C:\COMMAND.COM /P /E:256

CLS

SET TEMP=E:\

PATH C:\;C:\DOS;C:\WINDOWS

PROMPT $P$

C:\DOS\MOVE'EM.COM PROG=C:\DOS\MODE.EXE LPT1:,,P

C:\DOS\MOVE'EM.COM PROG=C:\DOS\DOSKEY.COM

C:\DOS\MOVE'EM.COM PROG=C:\DOS\SHARE.EXE

C:\DOS\MODE.EXE COM1: 9600,N,8,1

C:\DOS\MODE.EXE COM2: 9600,N,8,1

CLS

(The 64K area from E000 to EFFF excluded on the Move'em load statement above leaves a page frame for Windows 3.0's own internal EMM manager, and a pointer to that area can be added to the system.ini file.)

In this example, on a 386 with 4 MB of memory and a VGA1024 card, running under DOS 4.01, Move'em produces 96Kb of non-conflictual high memory, where some 40Kb worth of device drivers and TSRs are loaded, thus relieving the drain on conventional memory by just that much. Without any high memory, the maximum executable program size under DOS is 535Kb, while in a DOS window under Windows 3.0, you are left with 522Kb; the same setup with high memory, leaves a maximum executable program size of 579Kb under DOS, and 558Kb for a DOS window under Windows 3.0. The 36Kb saved can make all the difference between running an application inside Windows 3.0, and having to exit the environment altogether.

Note that when loaded in high memory some device drivers and TSRs conflict with the environment Windows 3.0 attempts to create (the files.com utility packaged with QRAM, for example), so a trial-and- error approach is necessary. But even if the only device driver or TSR you find you can load in high memory is Smartdriv, you'll still have relieved your conventional memory drain by 20Kb.

MOUSE & BAUD RATE FIXES

by Dave Karr

Microsoft Mouse COM port interrupt fix.

The Microsoft mouse driver makes a dangerous assumption when it finds a serial mouse attached to your computer. If you only have two COM ports all will be transparently well. But for those of you wanting to connect the mouse to COM3 or COM4 you run into a situation that assumes COM3 is using INT 4 and COM4 uses INT 3. For most default installations this is correct, but what if you also want to use another interrupt driven serial port that uses the same interrupt vector. You can't. The mouse driver grabs it and hangs on. The only way to correct it is to move that serial port to another interrupt vector, say INT 2. The mouse driver runs and indicates that it installed, but all is not well, your mouse doesn't work. The driver install ASSUMES a defacto STANDARD configuration and doesn't bother even checking!

To remedy the situation is an easy patch to a table in the mouse driver. Use a file hex editor like NORTON or PCTOOLS and search MOUSE.COM or MOUSE.SYS for:

F8 03 0C EF ;Com 1

F8 02 0B F7 ;Com 2

E8 03 0C EF ;Com 3

E8 02 0B F7 ;Com 4

For version 7.00 MOUSE.COM this is at Offset 3468h.

For version 7.00 MOUSE.SYS this is at Offset 34C0h.

For version 7.04 MOUSE.COM this is at Offset 46BFh.

For version 7.04 MOUSE.SYS this is at Offset 4717h.

If you are a Windows user then you will also need to patch Windows. For some reason Microsoft decided to have Windows drive the mouse itself so if you only use your mouse for Windows then you need not load the mouse driver before running Windows. For version 2.11 Windows 386 the table is in WIN200.BIN. The table is as described above except it only contains COM1 and COM2 port info. The table offset will vary from configuration to configuration. WIN200.BIN is created during SETUP depending on the equipment configuration. In any case the patch will be the same. For version 3.0 Windows the table is in MOUSE.DRV at offset 82Ch.

The first two bytes of each entry are the serial ports base address. The next byte is the actual interrupt vector. The interrupt jumpers most of you are used to dealing with refer to the designations as they are assigned on the PC bus not the actual microprocessor vectors. The bus interrupt requests are routed to an 8259 interrupt controller. This device is offset from INT 0 by 8. So INT 2 (Bus) is in actuality INT 0Ah. The last byte is a value that gets ANDed with the value on I/O port 21h which is the 8259 interrupt controller control port. This is a bit mapped port which indicates which interrupts are pending. The LSB is INT 0 and the MSB is INT 7. For convenience these are the numbers you need to use for your interrupt choice:

INT 2 - 0A FB

INT 3 - 0B F7

INT 4 - 0C EF

INT 5 - 0D BF

INT 7 - 0F 7F

So decide which port you are going to connect to, pick an interrupt and patch one of the entries. I used COM3 and INT2 and patched the first table entry (COM1) as:

0E 03 0A FB

As for other versions of Windows or other versions of mouse drivers I

would assume the same patch would work just go in and look for it!

WINDOWS SERIAL PORT BAUD RATE PATCH

This is another Microsoft Windows patch. The need arose to allow Windows to access it's printers serially though a print buffer. This was the only piece of software that did not co-operate with a MODE redirect of LPT1:=COM1:.

Microsoft again bypasses MS-DOS and does their own peripheral driving, however each print also reinitalizes the baud rate to something you don't want. This file describes how to patch WIN200.OVL to allow almost any baud rate. What they don't tell you is that any baud rate from 2 to 19200 is valid. Windows takes the value you enter and divides it into 115200 to come up with a divide rate for the ACIA.

This patch removes the 19200 upper limit and allows up to 65535 to be specified as a baud rate. By entering a baud rate of 1 you will end up running 115200 baud. With this you should be able to hit any of the "standard" fast baud rates. For Windows 3.0 you will need to patch COMM.DRV located in the \SYSTEM subdirectory off the main windows subdirectory. The patch is at offset 15B0h.

What you need to do is change 21 bytes. Search for the following:

33 C0 83 F9 02 72 0E 81 F9 01 4B

Starting where the 33 is, replace it with:

B8 01 00 MOV AX,0001 ;Divisor for 115200 baud

83 F9 02 CMP CX,0002 ;Is desired rate < 2

72 0D JB 056C ;Yes then use ACIA divisor of 1 (AX)

BA 01 00 MOV DX,0001 ;DX:AX = 115200

B8 00 C2 MOV AX,C200

F7 F1 DIV CX ;AX=DX:AX/CX otherwise calculate ACIA divisor

90 NOP ;Extra room !

90 NOP

There ya go!

Ed.: As with all technical patches of software code, you should realize that you may corrupt the code which - at best - makes it unusable. Do not attempt these patches if you are unsure about what you are doing. In all cases, make sure that you have (at least one) valid backup copy of the programs you're about to patch!

SYSTEM LAWS AND RULES

Evans's Law:

Nothing worth a damn is ever done as a matter of principle. (If it is

worth doing, it is done because it is worth doing. If it is not, it's

done as a matter of principle.)

Evans's Law of Politics:

When team members are finally in a position to help the team, it turns

out they have quit the team.

Evelyn's Rules for Bureaucratic Survival:

1) A bureaucrat's castle is his desk . . . and parking place. Proceed

cautiously when changing either.

2) On the theory that one should never take anything for granted, follow

up on everything, but especially those items varying from the norm.

The greater the divergence from normal routine and/or the greater the

number of offices potentially involved, the better the chance a

never-to-be-discovered person will file the problem away in a drawer

specifically designed for items requiring a decision.

3) Never say without qualification that your activity has sufficient

space, money, staff, etc.

4) Always distrust offices not under your jurisdiction which say that

they are there to serve you. "Support" offices in a bureaucracy tend

to grow in size and make demands on you out of proportion to their

service, and in the end require more effort on your part than their

service is worth.

Corollary:

Support organizations can always prove success by showing service to

someone . . . not necessarily you.

5) Incompetents often hire able assistants.

"RECOMMENDED" SHAREWARE GAMES

The following is a list of "recommended" Windows games (and fun programs) which was posted on a US Bulletin Board System. Most of these are available on our games (and fun) disks. Not that some were written for Windows version 2, although they should work with version 3 - if necessary, restart windows with the /R command-line switch.

ANNOY.ZIP 27,593 08-12-90 Annoying joke programs for 3.x

ANTS.ZIP 12,260 05-14-91 Ants roam the desktop...

ARACHNID.ZIP 80,430 03-17-91 Interesting card game for Windows

ATTAXX.ZIP 10,965 03-17-91 Board strategy game for Windows

BANGBANG.ZIP 36,280 12-15-90 Cannon-shooting game for Windows

BG06.ZIP 22,978 02-16-91 Backgammon game for Windows

BLACKO24.ZIP 50,538 06-30-91 Blackout game - how quick's your mouse?

BLITZER.ZIP 60,174 05-14-91 Blitzer, helicopter shooting game

CHESS101.ZIP 56,649 10-17-90 Windows port of GNUChess

CHOMP11.ZIP 22,453 06-21-91 Pac-Man game for Windows

CONCEN10.ZIP 11,390 05-21-91 The game of Concentration

HEXTRIS.ZIP 8,520 05-08-91 Hexagonal Tetris for Windows

HOP.ZIP 4,990 03-04-91 Small, simple game for Windows

KLTZ211A.ZIP 46,549 11-21-90 Update to KLOTZ, works in real mode

LUCAS.ZIP 37,465 02-02-91 "Lucas' Problem" puzzle game

MINES30.ZIP 19,817 12-15-90 "Minefield" game for Windows

MRMIND.ZIP 15,373 08-12-90 MasterMind game for Windows

NEKO.ZIP 25,445 04-28-91 Kitten chases cursor onscreen - cute

SLOT.ZIP 27,683 02-16-91 Slot machine game for Windows

SPACEW.ZIP 18,380 11-13-90 SpaceWalls shoot-em-up game

TAIPEI3.ZIP 27,801 08-12-90 Chinese tile game for 3.x

TRIPLETS.ZIP 16,439 05-28-91 Simple board game

WINPOKER.ZIP 51,346 02-09-91 Poker game for Windows

WORMWAR3.ZIP 7,623 08-12-90 Centipede-like game for Windows 3.x

AFORCE.ZIP 16,025 11-15-90 Small shoot-'em-up game

YTZ101.ZIP 24,119 01-05-91 "Yacht-Z" dice game for Windows

SYSTEM LAWS AND RULES

Everitt's Form of the Second Law of Thermodynamics:

Confusion (entropy) is always increasing in society. Only if someone or

something works extremely hard can this confusion be reduced to order in

a limited region. Nevertheless, this effort will stil result in an

increase in the total confusion of society at large.

Eve's Discovery:

At a bargain sale, the only suit or dress that you like best and that

fits is the one not on sale.

Adam's Corollary:

It's easy to tell when you've got a bargain -- it doesn't fit.

Nonreciprocal Laws of Expectations:

1) Negative expectations yield negative results.

2) Positive expectations yield negative results.

First Law of Expert Advice:

Don't ask the barber whether you need a haircut.

Faber's Laws:

1) If there isn't a law, there will be.

2) The number of errors in any piece of writing rises in proportion to

the writer's reliance on secondary sources.

Fairfax's Law:

Any facts which, when included in the argument, give the desired result,

are fair facts for the argument.

Falkland's Rule:

When it is not necessary to make a decision, it is necessary not to make

a decision.

Farber's First Law:

Give him an inch and he'll screw you.

Farber's Second Law:

A hand in the bush is worth two anywhere else.

Farber's Third Law:

We're all going down the same road in different directions.

Farber's Fourth Law:

Necessity is the mother of strange bedfellows.

Farrow's Finding:

If God had intended for us to go to concerts, He would have given us

tickets.

Law of Fashion:

Any given dress is: indecent 10 years before its time, daring 1 year

before its time, chic in its time, dowdy 3 years after its time, hideous

20 years after its time, amusing 30 years after its time, romantic 100

years after its time, and beautiful 150 years after its time.

Rule of Feline Frustration:

When your cat has fallen asleep on your lap and looks utterly content

and adorable, you will suddenly have to go to the bathroom.

Fetridge's Law:

Important things that are supposed to happen do not happen, especially

when people are looking.

Fett's Law of the Lab:

Never replicate a successful experiment.

The Fifth Rule:

You have taken yourself too seriously.

Finagle's Creed:

Science is Truth. Don't be misled by fact.

ADDITIONS TO THE WINDOWS LIBRARY

Please note that all of the following programs require Microsoft WINDOWS 3.0 in order to run (except when indicated e.g. IDIR on W077). Most applications were tested individually on my 286 (MS-DOS v.5.0) with only 2MB of RAM but no other tasks running concurrently. However, the almost infinite amount of different configurations (disk caches, DOS versions, RAM configurations, installation setups, BIOS, bugs in Windows, and more) are likely to create problems at one stage or another for virtually any piece of well-behaved Windows software. Unlike DOS problems occurring with our other shareware, these can take an enormous amount of time to diagnose even with all the identical equipment on site. We there CANNOT SOLVE ANY PROBLEMS YOU MAY EXPERIENCE with any of our Windows software.

Some general pointers:

Please read the documentation very carefully, especially in respect of installation procedures and software requirements. 90% of the problems can be solved this way. A few games, fun programs and utilities were written for Windows version 2 (although we try to avoid including them in the library). Windows will report this - you may have to restart WIN in real mode (/R) in order to run these properly. Some software needs to be installed from DOS, especially if the software is archived in order to fit on as few floppies as possible. Others can be installed from within Windows. Refer to the Windows manual on the 3 different ways in which applications can be launched from Windows. Documentation for programs usually is on the disk in the form of ASCII text files (like our other shareware). However, sometimes they are in the form of .WRI files, i.e. to be read by the Windows WRITE text processor. Others have no separate docs but include all program information in a thorough on-line Windows HELP file. Should all efforts to load the software fail, or if you keep getting persistent UAE messages, return the disk to us with instructions to swop for another volume or for a refund. The only case when you should ask for a replacement disk (i.e. the same volume) is when you there are physical disk media errors, e.g. "disk error reading" or "bad sector" or "sector not found". These indicate that the disks were damaged in the post and we will gladly send you a new replacement copy.

Do not run any of our software from the floppies or stiffies; this will result in many errors (not enough disk space or errors caused by high-density writing). Use our disk for backup only and make a work copy on hard disk. Please make sure that you have at least a 286 with EGA or VGA and a couple of free megabytes on your hard disk. Enjoy!

W030 UNICOM v2.0 Data Communications Application.

UNICOM will perform all data communication tasks in the background while other applications are running. Supports all popular file transfer protocols; Color ANSI-BBS, VT52 and TTY Terminal Emulation (with user selectable terminal fonts); a 250 line Scrollback Buffer; a user configurable Utility Menu allowing instant access to your favourite Windows or Dos applications and a comprehensive Script Language.

W031 GIF Viewer, TaskManager & Task/Drive-watcher.

WINGIF v.10 supports palette manipulation commands, PCX format, .GIF decoder/.BMP conversion, printing, as well as integrated help. TASKS displays the system information (some in ICON mode) on currently executing tasks, processor types, windows mode and comprehensive memory & EMS statistics (type, installed, available, driver). DRIVES displays the amount of total, used, available space on your hard disks, and cluster & sector information. METZ Task Manager provides the same basic functionality as the Microsoft Task List app, as well as the ability to quickly run programs and files, and a customizable Tools menu. Also includes a fully customizable screen display blanker (screen saver), Windows arrangement functions, directory tree display, file finder, point-and-shoot file manager, and system memory and disk space display. Task Manager uses under 25K of memory.

W032 Better DOS interfaces: Click! file manager and 4WIN.

Click! Filer is there to manage all those hundreds of files on your disk. This program is essentially a file managing utility for those of you who find Program Manager inadequate for power file management. 4WIN: Better DOS shell for Windows, replaces COMMAND.COM (see description of the popular 4DOS).

W033 to W041: the big Windows 3.0 GAMES collection.

W033: AFORCE Small shoot-'em-up game; BACKG another Backgammon Game; BB Bouncing Bugs Game; BLACKOUT v.2.4 - how quick's your mouse?; BLAST Shoots bullet holes through screen, good sound. W034: BLITZER helicopter shooting game; KLOTZ v2.09 Tetris Like Game; LIFE The Game of Life; HEXTRIS Hexagonal Tetris; HOP Small, simple game. W035: BOXES; BRICK v3 Brick Wall Game; CHESSEXE Chess Game; CONCEN10 The game of Concentration; DOWNER; FENSTER. W036: RBREAK Breakout Game; RPUZZLE2 Small puzzles; LUCAS2 puzzle; MINES logic game, great graphic; MISER1; MRMIND Mastermind game; QUICKEYE. W037: SLOT Slot machine game; SUPSLIDE SuperSlider puzzle game; TRIPLETS: Simple board game; TIMEWARP 2; Maze Game. W038: SOLITAIR game; SPACEWALLS shoot-em-up game; SPY; STARBASE. W039: WINJACK Blackjack game; ARACHNID Interesting card game. W040: WORMWAR Centipede-like game; WORDHAI Word game; WINPOKER LZHade Style Poker Game. W041: WINRISK Windows version of game of RISK; WINCHKRS Checkers.

W042 to W045: FUN & JOKES COLLECTION, April Fool's programs etc.

These programs really put the fun back into computing - from the hilarious to the philosophical. Many programs can also serve as graphics demos or to show off the capabilities of Windows. W042: COOKIE, WORM, BUGS, BURST, BURST2, EYES, FACE, FRIED, ANTS, BARTEYES, SNDCNTRL, FIREWORK. W043: BOUNCE, FORTUNE, EYES, POSITION, QTIME, STATUS, GOPHER, GHOST, FUSE4. W044: CIRCLSQ2, CIRCLSQ3, CIRCUS, BURST, BURST2, BUGS, PUZZLE, CRUMBLE, CUBE. W045: EYECON, FACE, EYES, FISH3, GUTS, GURU, HORSE, YINYANG, MANDALA, NEKO, TP, PUZZLE, TICTAC3D, QTIME, QUOTE, FISHES, SLUG.

W046 to W048: SOUND-related programs.

W046: SNDTOOL Play, modify sounds in Windows. W047: SOUNDER Makes sounds with the Speaker. W048: SPUT110 Sound synthesizer; WINSOUND sound generator; ZOUNDS Different Sounds.

W049 FONT EDITORS & TOOLS.

FONTANGL Rotate or Slant Fonts; FONTDEMO Displays Available Fonts; FONTLIST Lists/Displays Available Fonts; FINFO Font Info; QFONT v15 Quick Font Editor.

W050 to W054 SCREEN FONT COLLECTIONS.

W050: ATMFIX Text on using Adobe Type Manager w/ Ventura and many fonts including ATM-fonts, BLACKCHA, GRAPHLIG, POSTCRY, SAINTRA, ARCHI. W051: HELVCOMD, GREYFUTU, TINYFONT, AVTGRD, BOOKMAN, CHANCERY, COOPER. W052: HOBO, MAC_FONT, PARKAVE (in many different sizes), TYPEWRTE. W053: GA_WIN, PALATINO, SONATA, STYMIE. W054: FREEFONTS Chancery 12 & 24, Helvetica 6, 12 & 24, Rock 10 & 40, Roman 10 & 18.

W055 to W057 The entire collection of PostScript fonts.

These disks give you all the Applewriter fonts so that, together with the fonts already available in Windows, you have the entire 35 standard Adobe PostScript fonts available! Note that this duplicates some of the fonts on the other disks.

W058 to W060 The ultimate windows FONT collection.

These three disks contain more than 3 Megabytes worth of fonts in archived format.

W061 INFO & Textfiles on the use of windows.

This disk contains a whole collection of information and beginner's advice on Windows 3 as well as various technical information snips (including tutorials on memory, how to run Windows on some networks etc.)

W062 ALMANAC v1.04 Calendar, to-do-list, scheduler, alarm.

Almanac is a full-featured calendar application with: Traditional month calendar display (with prior and next month corner calendars); Dynamically calculated calendar information; Standard Gregorian or Jewish calendar; Calculation of recurring events (weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, and annual); religious holidays and span events such as business trips or vacations; Special handling of birthdays and wedding anniversaries. The desktop includes scheduler, notepad, alarm clock, day calendar and event viewer. Also calculates local sunrise and sunset times and azimuths; phases/time of the moon.

W063 & W064 APORIA v1.4 object-oriented user interface.

Aporia is a program which provides you with a more convenient, flexible interface for Microsoft Windows by adding a fully graphical, object-oriented user interface which lets you customize your working environment. It gives you a better way to organize your work by allowing you to display graphically your programs and data files. Aporia also has the ability to train your programs to run the same way each time for a given situation; thus, allowing you to work more efficiently.

W065 Active Life v1.2: Personal Information Manager (PIM)

Active Life is a powerful system for planning, managing, and tracking one's active business and personal life. Dynamic schedules manage workflow effectively. All types of recurring activities need be entered just once. Active Life also includes a pop-up calendar, alarms, and week-at-a-glance. It generates printed schedules for use throughout the day. With Active Life, you can plan time for everything you want to do!

W066 PC-Magazine's Graphics Benchmarks.

Contains version 11 of the graphics benchmarks collection used by PC-Magazine. Also good for demos or hardware comparisons/testing.

W067 APPART: Screen capture and manipulation program.

AppART consists of two programs: AppCAP and AppLOOK. Use AppCAP to capture computer application screens. Use AppLOOK to look at and annotate captured screens. Captured images can be reproduced as very high quality slides and 4x5 transparencies by the (US) authors.

W068 BOGUS: Icon-based front-end (no docs).

W069 CARD-FILE replacement and utilities.

CardConv is a small file converter which brings Card-Data from MS-WINDOWS CARD.EXE program into ASCII format, readable with common database or wordprocessing programs. CARDFILE is a clone of the CardFile program which comes with Windows, but can run from DOS! It was written to demonstrate the capabilities of the MEWEL window library, and to show how similar a MEWEL application can look to a Windows, Presentation Manager, or Mac application.

W070 & W071 DDE: technical help and monitor.

Technical information and demo of Dynamic Data Exchange facility available under Windows. Primarily intended for programmers and application developers. Also includes a DDE activity monitoring program.

W072 DFFLOW: Flow Chart program.

DFFLOW is a comprehensive flowchart program which includes extensive on-line help, many different types of boxes/lines etc.; 24 Arrow types; laser printer support etc.

W073 HYPERDISK v 4.10 disk cache program (faster than SMARTDRV?).

HyperDisk claims to improve hard disk system performance by 300% to 1000%, while simultaneously prolonging the lifetime of your drive by reducing the wear and tear caused by frequent access. HyperDisk will improve the performance of any PC, XT or AT based system. HyperDisk can use expanded & extended RAM. It may be installed a DOS Device Driver (DD) or as a Terminate and Stay Resident (TSR) program. Most parameters may be changed easily on the fly (no re-booting). Note: runs from DOS but reputedly improves Windows' speed.

W074 DESKTOP NAVIGATOR 2.5 File/disk navigator program.

METZ Desktop Navigator is a comprehensive, yet easily understood file and directory manager for Microsoft Windows. With Desktop Navigator you can quickly change drives, directories, or process files. Powerful features such as the ability to move an entire directory tree to another directory and/or drive are also included. Display options include a 12 or 24 hour clock on screen, a memory display (DOS & EMS), an edit field which lets you specify the type of file to be displayed, a graphical directory tree, and a comprehensive file display. Desktop Navigator uses about 30K of memory.

W075 to W078 ICON editors and utilities.

W075 ICONDRAW 1.2 Icon drawing program, comes with 190 icons. W076: ICONVERT converts Windows icons to OS/2 icons; IKE is PC Magazine's simple icon editor; ICONMAKR another icon creator. W077: IEdit v3.0 is a feature-packed icon creation and editing tool. Functions like Mirror, Invert, Grid, and more separate IEdit from the other icon editors. IEdit is being used across the U.S. by individuals, corporations, universities, as well as in Europe and the U.K. Also includes lets you "steal" icons from other Windows programs for editing or use elsewhere. IDIR v3.0 DOS Application that displays Windows Icons; ICONART Crude Icon Drawing Program. W078: IconMaster v3 full-featured icon editor; ICONTAMER Icon manager utility from Moon Valley.

W080 & W081 INTELWIN: Intel's Window memory requirements estimator.

Program developed by Intel to estimate actual RAM memory requirements for running Windows 3 - nice and educational (for technically minded people).

W082 LOANSP 1.1: Tracks Personal loans to friends

LOAN$ TRACKER was created to keep track of all of those small loans (and the big ones too!) that one makes to family, friends, business associates and partners. "Hey bud, can I borrow a 'C' note?" Sure, but now, not only can you keep track of it, you can also make some bucks if you're not paid back on time!

W083 & W084 The famous and indispensable Windows METZ utilities.

These contain the acclaimed METZ utilities including Lock 1.4, Dialer 2.1, Free Memory 3.5, Task Runner 1.20, Phone directory 3.41, Time, Desk Navigator 2.5 (see W074) and the Desktop Manager (see W031). NO WINDOWS SHOULD BE WITHOUT THESE!

W085 Message Master 1.2: Fido message editor.

Message Master (MsgMstr) was developed out of the need for a good, clean FidoNet message reader for Windows. MsgMstr is not only a *.MSG format message editor in the traditional sense but also a message maintenance system. Features reply and quoting features; easy, one-step access to file requests; powerful Mass Deletion and much more.

W086 MULTED Edit several Windows files simultaneously

W087 NAVIGATOR v.5 Magellan-like file searching & viewing application.

WinNav is designed to allow users to navigate and explore all of the files, directories and information contained on their system drives and hard disks. It features many new and unusual features that can be customized; these features in some ways extend well beyond those of Windows' Program Manager, File Manager and MS-DOS Executives, or any other Windows application to date. WinNav offers an intelligent, customizable interface that allows users to optimize Microsoft Windows to fit their specific needs. Comes with a 260k docs!

W088 ORGANIZER 1.30 Personal Information Organizer

Organize! - The most innovative, easiest to use and most cost effective PIM (Personal Information Manager) for MS-Windows? Organize! looks and feels exactly like a diary, making it one of the easiest to use software ever. No matter how disorganized you are, Organize! can organize it all for you. Organize! flips pages like the real thing with binders that click open to insert pages. It uses a Word in Context system to manage random and structured personal information that you enter into the diary.

W089 MEWEL Develop character-based Windows look-alike applications.

MEWEL stands for Magma Extensible Window and Event Library. MEWEL uses the same kind of event-driven, message passing model which is used by windowing systems like X-Windows, MS-Windows, SunView, and PM. The internals of MEWEL were designed to be very similar to MS-Windows. It implements all of the gadgets which are required by an SAA application, such as radio buttons, checkboxes, dialog boxes, pushbuttons, and scrollbars along with mouse support, but applications developed in MEWEL run from DOS on ordinary 8086! This disk contains some sample applications: 1) A simple dialog editor which can be used to build MEWEL dialog templates. 2) A demo of manipulating listboxes. 3) A mouse demo. 4) A demo of scrollbars. 5) A demo of multiple timers and sound 6) A menu editor. 7) A demo of the PC Magazine benchmarks front-end which they asked us to do. 8) The resource compiler 9) Large-model library for Microsoft C 5.1 and Turbo C 2.0

W090 PC-MOVE Windows-lookalike file manager.

Allows you to move files between Windows and Mewel (see disk W089) PCMove is a small program which was developed with MEWEL for PC Magazine at their request. They needed the ability to locate files across their network and to move these files between the directories and machines "owned" by the various departments (editing, art, production, etc). They needed a program with the exact same functionality, look and feel as the Windows version, but which would run on ordinary PCs.

W091 & W092 PIXFOLIO View & catalog images in many formats.

PixFolio can view a variety of bitmapped graphics formats and maintain multiple catalogues of images. The graphics formats currently supported are: IFF (Amiga); TIFF (Tag Image Format, incl. 24 bit color); PCX (Paint & PC Paintbrush); TGA (Targa); GIF (CompuServe Graphics Interchange Format); BMP (Windows Bitmap); RLE (Windows Run Length Encoded).

W093 PROFILER: Windows application profiler.

The profiler displays the current execution profile on a per-segment bas is in a window, and updates that display periodically. Changes in the execution profile as you operate your Windows application are therefore visible on the fly. Note: Windows v.2!

W094 Prodigy Helper v.1.5

Proplus is composed of a resident program (TSR) and many other tools compatible with Prodigy emulation software. Easy to install; compatible with Prodigy v2.1 & 3.0; full PCX graphics support; various connection stats; keyboard macros and comprehensive message support.

W095 PAINT SHOP v.2.01 Graphics Viewer & Editor.

Paint Shop can be used as a picture viewer, but it may also be used as a file format converter; picture manipulator (alter the picture and its colors) and as a screen capture utility. As an example, you can use Paint Shop to open a TIFF file, dither the picture to black and white, mark off the area of the picture to be used, copy that area to the clipboard, then paste the picture into your into your document.

W096 & W097 SOLVE-IT 4.1 a financial calculator.

SolveIt! is a general purpose financial calculator that is capable of answering many of the questions that you might have when it comes to money. Its features a VERY EASY to use user interface that asks a series of questions. You simply "fill-in-the-blanks" and the program will calculate the results. There is NEVER any need to do any programming. And all of the routines are accessed using an standard menu system. More than 30 routines include future purchasing power, loan redemptions etc.

W099 TIME-STAR v.2.08 Time organizer & TIME-IS-MONEY time tracker.

TimeStar 2.0 provides you with the most effective tools for managing your time. You can have TimeStar print single page reports that list your schedule for the present day and next, plus a 3 month calendar. It will also list all highlighted events for up to 90 days into the future. TIME IS MONEY will allow you to time and track costs for various events. It can be used by contractors, and consultants can use it to time the amount of time that they spend on a project, and also how much to charge a client. It can be used to determine how much time and money is spent on electronic bulletin boards; or to time phone calls, and calculate the amount spent for each call.

W100 WIN-EDIT v 10.F popular ASCII editor.

WinEdit is an ASCII text editor designed to take full advantage of the Windows 3.0 graphical environment. WinEdit is first and foremost a programmer's editor, with features designed for creating and maintaining program source code. With its ASCII file format, ability to edit files of almost unlimited size, and word processing features such as headers and footers, WinEdit also serves as an effective "front end" for desktop publishers and word processors including PageMaker, Word For Windows, and Ventura Publisher. Features: 16MB memory use, unlimited number of documents, run & monitor compiler from within WinEdit, power text manipulation, print "two-up" pages in landscape, etc.

W101 & W102 WIN-BATCH v3.0A Wilson's Winware Batch Language.

WinBatch allows you to create sophisticated batch language files to control your Windows environment. WinBatch has over a hundred different functions to manipulate files, directories, windows, and other window applications. WinBatch even has a SENDKEY statement that allows you to send keystrokes to other windows applications and even to DOS applications.

W103 XVT-DRAW comprehensive windows drawing program.

Objects include lines, bent lines, scribbles, rectangles, rounded rectangles, polygons, ovals, arcs, wedges, text objects, picture objects, group objects etc.

W104 ZIP Manager 3.01 Front-end for data compression utils.

Zip Manager is a complete Windows 3.0 environment for PKZIP,'UNZIP, ARC-E, and LHarc file compression utilities. It also supports the virus detection program SCAN, and the popular LIST program. If you do a large amount of file compression work, Zip Manager will increase your productivity significantly. The nature of Windows allows you to maintain and create compressed files with a high degree of accuracy and speed. Once you start using Zip Manager you won't want to work any other way! (comes with LHarc)

W105 GOLF, CrossWords, While-You-Were-Out.

WINGOLF Golf solitaire card game; XWORD Crossword puzzle player and generator; WYWO While You Were Out, phone note poster.

W106 Biorhythm, Unit Conversion, Post-it notes, HP-Calculator.

BIORHYTHM Charts Emotions, Finance, and Health Biorhythms; CNVRT101 Measurement conversion program; WNHPCALC HP-style calculator; WinPost 3.0 Post-it notes; CASELINE Print cassette labels in Windows

W107 Checkbook v6.5 & Credit Card Manages.

CHECKBOOK helps you manage your personal finances. It contains several selections including deposits, withdrawals, corrections, void checks, clearing of checks, reports and bank book balancing. CREDITWINDOW is a credit account management program. Though mainly for use with credit cards, it can be applied to other types of consumer credit. Too many of us have large credit card bills without really knowing how they got that way. CreditWindow allows you to track these purchases. CreditWindow is also optimized to track only credit, unlike many other programs on the market that attempt to use one data entry system for everything.

W108 Kaleidoscope, Gravity, Guitar Tutor, Elements, Fireworks.

KALDEMO Kaleidoscope display; GRAVITY simulator; GTOYS Graphics Program, anything but a toy; GUITAR v2.1 For learning to play guitar: displays frets, etc.; ELEMENT v3 Periodic table of the elements; FIREWORKs display.

W109 MEDIC v1.1 system information & PRO-SHAPE v1.1 drawing program.

PRO-SHAPE is a wonderful yet simple drawing program. It enable one to draw simple pictures without having to learn complex drawing program. MEDIC reports on system hardware (memory, video, mouse, disk, ...) and software (dos, windows, ROM-code, environment etc)

W110 RECIPE 1.1 meal/shopping planner & recipe database.

Recipe Maker is an application that was designed to help make weekly grocery shopping, meal planning and recipe organization easier. Recipe Maker, enables you to plan out each meal for an entire week, and in just minutes have a complete shopping list of items needed to make those meals come together. It also stores all of your recipes and the different ingredients and measurements that are necessary to make your meals.

W111 Winclock, Whiskers, WinQuote, PrtScr, WORDS viewer.

WINCLOCK 3.00 Digital clock with many options, alarms; WHISKERS v 2.5 Make right mouse button into "enter" key; WORDS Scrolling viewer for Windows; WINQUOTE daily quote program; WIN3PRSC Print screen utility.

W112 to W123 The ULTIMATE WINDOWS HANDY UTILITY COLLECTION.

A collection of the most popular and diverse utilities collected from megabytes of Windows software.

W112: ASCII table; BACKMENU Popup menu utility; BCURSOR Enlarge cursor arrow; BIGDESK Makes large, scrollable "virtual desktop"; CAL v1.2 Popup Calendar Program; CAP Screen Capture; CLEAN Cleans viruses from within Windows; CLOSER Close Windows Applications Immediately; CMDLINE Add arguments to command lines; COPYIT v1.3 file copier/manager; CPUUSE v1.3 Shows percentage of CPU use in icon.

W113: CursorControl - change arrow, hourglass "cursors"; CUSBUT custom buttons; CYCLE through open windows w/mouse; DC v1.11 Single-pass disk copier; DESKSAVE v3 Save-restore Desktop on startup; DICE v1.1 dice roller application.

W114: DEUS Comprehensive file management utility; DH v10 "Desktop Helper" pop-up program launcher; EXECVIEW Watch the executing progress of programs; DMAP Graphical display of HD usage.

W115: EXITWIN Quick Exit for All of Windows; FC File integrity checker (anti-virus!); FI v1.6 File Information; FIRE v5.4 Screen saver with fireworks display; FOLDER v3.1 Create folders within program groups; FREESPACE Reports on mode, free disk space.

W116: GCP v4.20 Graphics Viewer/exchanger; HOTKEY v1.1 Launch Winapp with "hotkey"; HOTPOP Hotkey to pop-down menus; HOTWIN v1.2 Pop-up menu, now with hotkeys; HUNTER v1.9 file finder; GRAYBU Makes Big Gray Radio Buttons; GROUPB Group Builder; GRPICON Alter colors of group icons (text).

W117: INIEDIT System file editor; KFREE v5 Displays available memory & free space; KIVIAT Track resource usage, for developers; JAXCAM Capture screen to clipboard; Launch! v2, hotkey program launcher; LYWHIT v1.1 TASKS/DRIVES: display diags.

W118: LISTED List-editor; MAKEPFF make .PIF files; MENU v1.06 program menu; MARK30 Marks old Windows Apps for ver. 3.x; MASKER Lets WinBatch mask dialog box file selections; MICKY-W mouse clock; MONTROSA Screen Blanker; MREDIT v1.1 Notepad replacement; MSKEYSTA Check status of keylock; MSMEMORY Displays Free Memory; MSOFTFIX Use mouse on COM 3 & COM 4.

W119: MONDRI Draws patterns; MOONTL Track phases of the moon; MWSCRN Screen Saver; NEWPAPER Changes Wallpaper every time windows starts; PALETTE Displays Color Pallete For Windows; QUICKRUN Quick loader/runner for Windows apps; PORTFIX Suggested patches for mouse\port problems; RAISE v1.10 Switch windows without clicking; PAPERBOY Randomly switches wallpaper bitmaps; REDBUTTON quick exit from Windows; RNPRG v2 Configurable automatic program launcher; REALCHEK Tells if Windows is loaded in "real mode"; ROPS Raster image loader (viewer); SATLITE; SCRPLAY Configurable screen saver.

W120: SIZEIT Keep track of program sizes; SLAP Screen Capture and utilities; STARS Similar to Fireworks screen blanker; TRECLM Directories in Tree format; TIME v2.5 Pop-up digital clock; STAT v1.5 Launcher/clock/status reporter; TIMELI Time utility; TUNNEL 256 Color Graphics Demo; TWEAK HiRes patch for standard VGA cards; USHER v1.1 program launching utility; DRAGON'S EYE utilities; WATSON System Info Popup.

W121: WAM v1.02 Windows Application Manager; W-ALARM Alarm clock; VI v1.01 Icon viewer; WCLOCK A different kind of clock - French or English; WDN Directory Notes; W3SETCOM Enable COM3 and 4; WEB Spider Webs for your screen; WEM "Windows Easy Menu" program launcher; WHEREWIN File finder; WINBEEP Change your beep to something else.

W122: Change your Cursor; file for math co-processors; Display full Windows ASCII character set; WINKER A neat screen saver; Run programs at preset times; filter I/O through dialogue box; Exit Windows without Program manager; WINMEM Display Free Memory; head parking utility; Melting MS-DOS Executive; Spawn DOS session from Windows; disk space monitor; Set startup directory/display mode; Hotkey programs & commands.

W123: Wallpaper manager; Send messages over Netware LAN w/ Windows (v14B); Auto-launch up to 8 applications at once; Run programs from command line; Benchmarks from PC-Magazine; Small, plain screen saver; CONCEAL Hide & Password Protect files; CONMAN Network connection manager; Shows percentage of CPU use in icon; Converts BitMaps (.BMP) to other formats; Make Lava Screens; Convert .GIF pics to Win3 icons; READMAC to MS Paint translator.

W124 ICON utilities: LICO v2.0, ICON Manager & ListIcon

ListIcon shows available Windows icons from within DOS(!) or WINDOWS, up to 4000 icon files. With the LISTICO MS-DOS Version, you can easily find an icon in a large library and launch an Icon Editor. LISTICO supports the following Icon editors: IEDIT, ICON2, ICONDRAW and IKE (See W075-W078). LICO v2.0 In order to have a visual reference to the individual icon files, the system enables you to see up to 50 icons per group. With the set of macros included here you can build your own icon library group windows with automatic installation of single icons or groups of 50 in a subdirectory. There are also two macros that automate changing the icon of a Dos program or WinApp in Program Manager - you'll never have to remember or type an icon filename. ICON MANAGER provides you with a complete set of tools which allow you to create , modify, extract, and organize full-color icons for use with Microsoft Windows 3.0. Special attention has been given to attempt to make every feature as straight-forward and easy to use as possible. To fully enjoy the power and features

W125 to W129 The ultimate ICON collection.

More than 1300 public domain icons from various sources for almost all conceivable programs and applications; popular programs have several options - you choose the one you like the most.

W130 TAO hypertext book of Tao & SV800 SuperVGA Windows driver.

SV800.DRV is a Windows 3.0 driver for a "generic" super-vga 800x600 16 color mode. The card must support the 800x600 mode at the BIOS level. TAO: book of tao in hypertext format - fun, educational, intriguing.

W131 WINFERN Draws fern leaves & BOOTPICT select bootup bitmap picture.

BOOTPICT is an MS-Windows application that allows you to replace the desktop background with a picture. You can display any bitmap or combinations of bitmaps or even overlay bitmaps to achieve a desired effect. FRACTAL FERN GENERATOR is based on code from the "Fractal Programming in C" book.

W132 Graphics utilities: SHOWGIF, SNAGIT!, WINPCX.

Showgif is a Microsoft Windows program that can view a variety of bitmapped graphics formats and also maintain multiple catalogues of images. SnagIt is the print utility that Windows forgot. SnagIt is a screen print and capture program for Windows. SnagIt processes input from the screen, the clipboard, or a BMP file and outputs to the default printer, the clipboard, or a BMP file. SnagIt provides control over color intensity, monochrome intensity threshold, and gray scaling. SnagIt may be controlled by DDE to provide other applications the ability to output screen data. WinPcx is a MS Windows program that reads .PCX paint files and displays them on the screen. Since there doesn't seem to be help available on how to read .PCX Files under Windows, the author is posting this program for all to use, alter and incorporate into their own programs.

W133 Powerful Windows enhancements: WINPIPE, WINPRINT & WINBRAG.

WINPRINT is an application for printing standard text files out of your printer from within Windows. WinPrint is capable of printing your files with page breaks, headers and footers (including page numbers, file revision date, and current date), using all of the capabilities of Windows and your printer. WinPrint takes full advantage of the Windows Spooler program to allow you to get on with other work while your files print. WINBRAG's sole purpose is to simplify the steps required to make remove the Windows "BRAG"screen (i.e. opening screen when loading) to the startup screen of your choice. You need a .RLE graphics file with which to replace the windows opening screen. The WINPIPES DLL is a tool that provides IPC communications to MS-Windows 3.0 and is designed to emulate stream file functions under 'C.' While pipes are an integral part of many operating systems, Windows lacks this facility. Windows relies almost exclusively on DDE and the clipboard for applicati on communication. While these methods are fine for large complicated pieces of data, pipes are simple structures and require very little brain work to incorporate. With a pipe, communication between processes is as simple as file I/O .

W134 PC-MAGAZINE's Desktop arrangement saver & smooth scrolling program.

Both with full "C" source code. WinSaver is a utility that remembers both the names of the programs running when you exit Windows and the arrangement of their windows and icons. When you next bring up Windows, WinSaver restarts all of these programs, restores their windows and arranges them, even minimizing them to icons, as appropriate. Scroll is a text-browsing utility, that provides smooth, bi-directional scrolling at user-selectable speeds to ease reading from the screen.

W135 WINEXT file associations and wallpaper collection.

Contains some bitmap files for Windows 3.0 that will produce some pleasing or irritating wallpaper patterns depending on your opinion. WINEXT is designed to extend the association power of File Manager, the MS-DOS Executive and Program Manager.

W136 Utilities with "C" source code: QExit, Progset, Start, Progress.

START is a simple, completely user configurable, elegant and flexible Windows application starter. Start loads "menu" options from a WIN.INI-like text configuration file into its list box. Double-clicking on an option will cause Start to execute the application listed. You can nest multiple levels of menus in the configuration file. Try it! Simple, easy, no kitchen sinks. PROGSET is a Windows utility that lets you restore order to your WIN.INI file painlessly and without the possibility of corrupting it. PROGSET also fills a few gaps in the Windows Control Panel and File Manager by giving you complete control over the file "associations" that let you start an application by clicking on one of its files. QEXIT: Windows 3.0 may be the desktop of the future, but many times we need to exit back out to DOS to get something done now. This handy little utility allows you to double-click on an icon of Bart Simpson to quickly shut down Windows and return to DOS. SYSGRAPH: Windows System Queue Loading Graphical Display SYSQUEUE displays the load in the Windows system queue in an icon at the bottom of the screen (updated once every second) showing the number of opportunities each application is getting to run.

W137 SABDU v1.20 Single-pass copier/formatter & SCREENPEACE screen saver.

SAB Diskette provides the user with a set of services that makes the copying, comparing, and formatting of diskettes a pleasure instead of a pain. It will copy, in a single pass, the entire contents of a diskette, at the sector level, into an image either in memory or in a temporary hard disk file. The image can then be used to produce multiple copies of the original diskette. The system makes use of the Windows 3 Messages and Timers to work cooperatively with other Windows 3 applications. It can be run entirely in Iconic mode. SCREEN PEACE is a very popular screen saver for MS Windows. Screen Peace by itself is not terribly flashy - it just blanks the screen after a certain number of seconds, but it is extensible: it comes with about 15 sample screen save displays and you can easily add your own savers.

W138 MU Math Utility

MU (Mathematical Utilities) is a program which puts two useful utilities at your finger tips. The first option is a unit converter, which allows you to perform conversions on a multitude of measurement units. With its help, you will no longer need to flip through your old physics books and manuals in order to find out how to convert from meters to miles, or from ft-lbs to ergs, for example. The second is a right triangle calculator utility which performs common calculations on the right triangle with dimensions chosen by you.

W139 NOTEPAD utilities and replacements.

MULTIPAD Open multiple notepads in Windows

POWERPAD v1.1, a more full-featured Notepad

NOTEBOOK v1.51 notepad with unlimited file size

VIEWER v2 is designed to work with unlimited size text documents in the Microsoft Windows environment. It is intended for the programmers, writers, desk-top publishers and system integrators. The Viewer utility is further advanced by the availability of powerful searching and bookmarking functions, ability to copy and paste blocks of text into other applications, and printing support that allows page formatting and use of any available font.

W140 NODOS V2.1 Change icons for DOS apps & NEWSTART startup selection.

NEWSTART will select a .RLE file for your Windows 3.0 startup screen randomly, or will build a win.com file using the .RLE file you specify on the command line. You may also use NEWSTART in a mouse-active menu-driven mode which will display a pick list of .RLE files. NoDOS - the DOS Icon Eliminator, is the most powerful authentic solution for the 'DOS' icon blues: it gives you the ability to finally use all those icons that you have for DOS applications. NODOS Displays minimized DOS apps as icons defined by user; supports up to 30 icon definitions; features colorful user-friendly dialog box interface; doesn't use system hooks that slow down system performance.

W141 MLINK telecommunication program

W142 MCURSOR Change cursor shape; MATCH Text file comparison; MAGIC screen saver.

MCURSOR "permanently" changes the shape of the system default mouse cursor. This program may be run once, then erased from your hard disk to conserve space. The original cursor setup is preserved and may be restored later by running a batch file. Match is a text file comparison program for Windows and DOS. Magic is a configurable screensaver utility filling your screen with colourful animation, as well as providing password protection for your computer.

W143 MAGIC Enlarge portions of VGA screen & CLICK Shell/file/LZHhive manager.

MAGic (MAGnification In Color) is a software product which provides 2x2 text and graphics magnification ── in a tiny 7K memory resident size!! MAGic is compatible with DOS based PCs equipped with VGA, XGA, or SVGA video systems. The demo version of MAGic is restricted to 20 minutes of operation after each loading. Click! Filer provides the functionality of Program Manager and File Manager in one package. Copy, Move, and Launch programs much more easily. You can even program from 2-99 panels of 12 buttons each to launch DOS, BAT and Windows programs using various argument options.

W144 DAGENT v14B system monitor & LAYOUT Customize & save desktop format

dAgent is intended for use by programmers and people of a somewhat technical bent who use Windows v3.0. It improves your ability to monitor and manipulate your Windows system. dAgent generates a report of the information given by the General, Keyboard/Mouse, System Metrics and Device Capabilities tools described above. This could be used for remote diagnosis, during systems development or to analyze the differences between device drivers. LAYOUT is a utility for automatically arranging your desktop. It allows you to arrange your application windows and then save their positions and sizes to a file. Later, Layout can read this file and restore your windows to their original arrangement. You can keep several Layout files for each of your different desktop configurations. You can have Layout run at startup, so that every time you start Windows, your desktop will start in the same configuration.

W145 ELANA system configuration editor & FILEVIEW file viewer/browser.

ELANA enables you to change the system.ini, win.ini and other settings that control panel does not allow. Elana allows you to: change the windows startup log, change the programs that are loaded and run at windows startup, change the system.ini settings for both standard and enhanced mode etc. FILEVIEW allows you to browse files on your hard-drive or network drives. Unlike other Windows browsers, It does not load the file into memory, allowing you to browse files that are larger than available memory while leaving room for other windows applications to run.

The following are a repeat of Windows shareware descriptions from our "additions leaflet" distributed earlier. The volume numbers have been changed to reflect our separate cataloguing system for windows shareware.

W013 WINFRACT windows version of FracInt. This is the fastest, most advanced of all fractal picture generators, with a maximum resolution of 2048x2048x256 colour (if your monitor supports it!)

W014 to W018 WALLPAPER collections.

These disks contain attractive .BMP files to replace the standard windows background. W014: 26 miscellaneous Wallpapers. W015: 6 space themes. W016: miscellaneous (3x Simpson cartoon, 4x Star Wars, Waterfall, US Eagle). W017: NEW PAPER from Buttonware gives you a different background each time you start Windows. W018: WALLMAC gives your Windows the background of the Apple Macintosh and Mac II computers.

W019 Monitor Saver.

This Screen Saver program has customizable delay times and is network compatible. Use blank or moving patterns.

W020 & W021 Games collection.

Checkers: for 1 or 2 players, 5 levels of difficulty. Atmoids: a windows version of the classic asteroids. Lander: can you land the LEM on the moon - in real time? KLOTZ and WINTRIS: two clones of the popular and challenging Tetris game. Also Puzzle and Taipei.

W022 Windows CHESS.

Simple chess program with 4 levels and hint feature. Includes "C" source code.

W023 COMMAND POST file manager.

This is a file manager and menu system that lets you customize your windows workstation into a power horse!

W024 Relax & Show-off.

2 fancy programs to show off your Windows capabilities: HORSES galloping in small windows; YINYANG zen philosophy.

W025 LESS-IS-MORE multitasking enhancement utility.

Eases the multitasking of applications whilst supporting the cut-and-past of text and graphics across programs.

W026 MANDELBROT for Windows. Generate fractals in a separate window.

W027 WINPOST sophisticated notepad.

Features alarm, search, hide and automatic saving.

W028 WINCHECK userfriendly personal financial manager.

This is an attractive and user-friendly financial cheque and savings account management program. It balances your account, prints cheques and performs all other standard operations with one button click.

W029 PARENTS: a windows genealogy program.