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Look in the SPECIAL INTERESTS category for more HOME AND HOBBY programs!
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Name: BOWL-101
Disk #: HO108
Author: Randy Stowe
Requirements: Mono or CGA+, one floppy drive, printer
A bowling league management program for managing bowling leagues. It
will handle up to 36 teams and five bowlers per team. This menu driven
program was written with the computer beginner in mind. It can be run by
anyone with an IBM compatible and very little computer knowledge.
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Name: CAR BUILDER
Disk #: HO110
Author: Optimum Resource, Inc.
Requirements: CGA or higher, one floppy drive
Build your dream car with CAR BUILDER. You can design the body and the
mechanics, test drive it and then "store" it for later use. It will give
you a complete report on the mpg, length, wheelbase, weight, height, fuel
capacity and much more.
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Name: CDMASTER
Disk #: HO111
Author: Unicorn Software Ltd.
Requirements: 256K RAM, Mono or CGA+, 2 floppy drives or a hard drive
CDMASTER will help you catalog your CDs and assist with printing cata-
logs, listings and labels for the front of the CD. It's menu driven and
easy to use and installs automatically. Options include updating or
deleting a specific title or CD number, set screen colors, and a quick
info key helps you find a CD quickly.
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Name: CYCLER'S LOG and BICYCLE TUNE-UP AND REPAIR
Disk #: HO112
Author: Larry Hack and Jeff Napier
Requirements: CGA or higher, one floppy drive
CYCLER'S LOG keeps track of your averages for the week, month or longer in
a colorful and entertaining way. BICYCLE TUNE UP AND REPAIR shows you
step by step how to tune up and repair your bicycle. Very good!
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Name: DECORATOR
Disk #: HO113
Author: I.B. Magazette
Requirements: 128K RAM, one floppy drive, CGA or higher
Written to aid anyone who must occasionally rearrange a roomful of furn-
iture. It takes the guesswork out of placing furniture by allowing the
user to create the room layout on the computer screen before ever moving
a single piece of furniture. Easy to use and self prompting.
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Name: LAYOUT and WALLPAPER
Disk #: HO170
Author: Martin L. Waldman
Requirements: DOS 2.0, 256K RAM, Color graphics card.
LAYOUT is a program that you can use to describe, display and print a
drawing of any two-dimensional area. An area may be a floor plan of a
home, a map of a piece of land, the design for a quilt - anything you can
think of. WALLPAPER will calculate how many rolls of wallpaper you'll
need for any given room.
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Name: DIVER'S LOG
Disk #: HO115
Author: Bruce E. Stemplewski
Requirements: CGA or higher, one floppy drive
The DIVER'S LOG will help you keep track of all of your dives. It can
also help you build a dive profile for you next dive. All calculations
are done for you, the only information you need to supply is depth, time
and surface interval.
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Name: EXERCISE DESIGNER
Disk #: HO118
Author: Mike Sachais
Requirements: Color graphics card, one floppy drive
The purpose of this program is to aid both experienced and non-exper-
ienced weight trainers in developing an exercise routine which will help
them achieve their desired results. The program is based on proven
weight training formulas obtained from various manuals and instructors.
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Name: C.G.D.D. "A Disk Full of Flowers" **NEW!**
Disk #: HO123
Author: Compu-gro
Requirements: CGA or higher, one floppy drive
This disk contains full cultural information on over 400 flowers. It
includes common name, botanical name, other names, class, germination,
sowing guide, transplant, height, colors, light needs, soil and much
more! A must for the gardener!
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Name: THE GARDENER'S ASSISTANT
Disk #: HO120
Author: Shannon Software, Ltd.
Requirements: Mono or CGA+, hard drive or one high density drive
TGA is a general purpose vegetable garden planner. Enter the length and
width of your garden, orientation or compass point, row direction and
region. Enter the number of people in your family and you're well on
your way to planning the perfect garden to suit your needs.
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Name: LANDSCAPE PLANT MANAGER
Disk #: HO142
Author: Robert W. Boufford
Requirements: Minimum requirements are 128K RAM, one floppy drive
A plant selection oriented program developed for use in ornamental
horticulture. You can store and retrieve information on plants used in
your landscape. The main feature of the program is the ability to find
plants in a data file based on 1 to 24 different criteria including such
characteristics as form, height, spread and hardiness zone. It can hold
between 500 to 5000 plants.
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Name: G.I.F.T.S. - Gift Ideas For Timely Shopping
Disk #: HO121
Author: Hulen & Associates
Requirements: Mono or color graphics card, one floppy drive
Helps you make gift selections judging by a person's age, sex and
the cost of the gift.
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Name: GOLF LEAGUE SECRETARY
Disk #: HO122
Author: Don Dawson
Requirements: 128K RAM, One floppy drive, Mono or CGA+, printer option
Makes the chore of the league secretary easy, accurate and less time con-
suming. Once the golfer and league data has been entered, all that need
be done following each match is to enter the golfer's scores and team
points. It calculates new handicaps for the following match, provides
reports showing the leagues best scores and much more.
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Name: AMATEUR RADIO LICENSE PREPARATION, HAMLOG, and SUPER MORSE
Disk #: HO125
Author: Eugene Jones, Bud Enoches, M. Lee Murrah
Requirements: Color graphics card, one floppy drive
AMATEUR RADIO is offered as a tutor and quiz type preparation to assist
the ham or prospective ham review for the FCC examination. Most of the
questions on the FCC exam are reproduced here, the only exception are
those dealing with schematics. HAMLOG is intended to serve as a logging
and information providing tool for the amateur. SUPER MORSE is a full
features Morse code training program to help you pass the SM test in
order to get your license. Very detailed and complete.
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Name: THE HOME ENTERTAINMENT LIBRARY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
Disk #: HO127
Author: BugZapper
Requirements: 256K RAM, CGA+, hard drive recommended
The HELM is designed to give the user an easy to understand program with
which to manage their home entertainment libraries. Help windows and a
mouse interface help with ease of use. It currently supports updating,
sorting on five fields and formatted printing.
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Name: HOMEWARE
Disk #: HO128
Author: Ron Whittington
Requirements: 256K RAM, 1 or 2 floppy drive, Mono or CGA+
HOMEWARE is a series of programs directed for use in the home. Features
include separate programs for household inventory, automobile mainten-
ance, meal schedule and shopping list, and mixed drinks preparation and
selection. Menu driven with lots of online help.
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Name: MODEL PILOT'S LOGBOOK
Disk #: HO131
Author: TDM Software
Requirements: CGA or higher, one floppy drive
Designed as a logbook for model aviation pilots who regularly fly radio
control, control line or free flight aircraft. The program allows input
of dates, aircraft names, sky conditions, wind temperature, number of
flights and a short descriptive note about the flight.
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Name: MAGAZINE DATABASE
Disk #: HO132
Author: DCS Software
Requirements: CGA or higher, one floppy drive, hard drive recommended
Written to provide a system to catalog magazine articles for reference.
This version of the program features a word processor-like remarks field,
automatic database file creation, automatic indexing, full-screen editing
and online context sensitive help.
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Name: ORIGAMI
Disk #: HO136
Requirements: GW Basic, Color graphics card, HD disk or Hard drive
This program contains step by step instructions of ORIGAMI, the Japanese
art of paper-folding. Learn how to make such figures as candy, boxes,
penguins, puppies, rabbits, pigs and much more. Excellent graphics.
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Name: SUE'S ORNAMENT MASTER
Disk #: HO137
Author: Sue Robichaux
Requirements: Color graphics card, high density disk or hard drive
The complete Christmas organizer. This excellent program will not only
maintain your valuable Christmas ornament collection, but also organize
your shopping trips and maintain your Christmas card list AND party list!
A must have for every PC home.
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Name: THE MOVIE SEARCH LIBRARY **NEW!**
Disk #: HO116
Author: Scott Edgar
Requirements: Mono okay, one floppy drive
This program will prove invaluable to all you couch potatoes out there!
It contains a database of over 3800 movies that are currently on video.
If you register, the program contains 11,000 titles and is constantly
updated. Very well put together. A must have!
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Name: PHOTOGRAPHIC INDEX
Disk #: HO140
Author: Harley Burton
Requirements: Color graphics card, one floppy drive
The PHOTOGRAPHIC INDEX allows you to create and maintain a database of
your photographs, either slide or print. By using some of the built-in
features of this program, you can easily add new entries and finally have
the record of your photographs you've always wanted. Very simple to run.
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Name: PRO~STAMP
Disk #: HO143
Author: Rob W. Smetana
Requirements: 256K RAM, DOS 2.1, Floppy drive okay
A full featured program to track and evaluate stamp collections. It will
handle very large collections or small ones. You can use different work
sheets to track different sets of stamps - separate worksheets for dif-
ferent countries, types, values, your kids stamp collection, etc.
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Name: RUNNER'S LOG
Disk #: HO144
Author: Larry Hack
Requirements: Color graphics card, one floppy drive.
Keep track of your "running" with the RUNNER'S LOG. It can record aver-
ages for the week, month, and year. You can enter notes such as the
weather that day, where you ran, your thoughts while running, etc.
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Name: FOOTBALL FUN
Disk #: HO119
Requirements: Color graphics card, one floppy drive
This disk contains three programs for you football fans out there. To-
gether they will keep help you keep track of the football schedule for
the entire current season, keep track of football cards simply and effec-
tively and forecast the probable outcome of an NFL football game.
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Name: STATMAN BASEBALL
Disk #: HO146
Author: Fantasy Sports Software
Requirements: DOS 2.1, Mono or CGA+, One floppy drive and a hard drive
STATMAN is designed to assist you in managing your Fantasy/Rotisserie
League on your personal computer. Keeps complete league records includ-
ing statistics, points standings and league treasury, automatically cal-
culates team standings, automatically updates league stats, pre-entered
with all National League or American League rosters.
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Name: COMPUSTITCH
Disk #: HO147
Author: John George, Jr.
Requirements: 256K RAM, DOS 3.0, CGA+, mouse and laser printer option
An easy and fun to use program for designing and printing cross-stitch
patterns in your spare time. Features pull-down menus, six stitch types,
three colors plus black, auto stitch, sound, screen dim, hot keys, 207
stitch combinations and more.
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Name: SWIMBASE
Disk #: HO148
Author: Donald L. Wahl
Requirements: 512K RAM, DOS 3.0, Mono or CGA+, One floppy drive and a
hard drive
SWIMBASE will keep the swimmer rosters and results for each week. Roster
reports, mailing labels, telephone lists, event results, swim team lad-
ders and time in the water are some of the reports that can be generated
by SWIMBASE.
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Name: VACATION PLANNER **UPDATED!**
Disk #: HO151
Author: R.L. Volkmar
Requirements: Color graphics card, one floppy drive
Helps you plan vacation trips by car. It determines the shortest route
to your destination even if you need deviations from the most direct
route to visit friends or visit popular vacation spots. VP will also
produce a trip plan that gives directions including highway, time and
distance information.
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Name: VIDEO LIBRARIAN and VIDEO TIME CALCULATOR
Disk #: HO153
Author: Lemuel D. Turner and David B. Manning
Requirements: 320K RAM, One floppy drive, Mono or CGA+, DOS 2.0
A fast and easy-to-learn database manager to help organize and keep track
of your video library. With this program, you can quickly search your
video library files and view reports. The program will also print labels
for your VCR tapes for easy identification. VIDEO TIME CALCULATOR is
used to calculate how long a show is on a video tape and how much time is
left until the end of the tape.
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Name: BROTHER'S KEEPER
Disk #: HO157
Author: John Steed
Requirements: 384K RAM, 2 disk drives or a hard drive, CGA+
A set of programs which will help you organize your family tree informa-
tion. You can print descendant charts which show how anyone in the file
is related to everyone else, print ancestor charts, family group sheets,
alphabetical name lists, descendant trees, birthday lists and customized
reports.
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Name: WEDDING ORGANIZER
Disk #: HO159
Author: Janie & Frank Semeraro
Requirements: Color graphics card, one floppy drive
This program was designed to help ease the tension of trying to plan the
"perfect wedding". It helps plan, schedule, create a guest list, seating
charts and automatically calculates your expenses to help you keep within
your budget. After the wedding is over, you can use the program to print
mailing labels for thank you notes, Christmas cards, party invitations
and birth announcements.
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Name: SMART HOME SHOPPER
Disk #: HO161
Author: Torbert Data Systems, Inc.
Requirements: 512K RAM, DOS 2.1, CGA or higher, hard drive recommended
Quickly and conveniently create a grocery store shopping list. You may
use it to indicate items and the quantities to be purchased, print it out
so that items on the same aisle will be grouped together, record up to
five different store prices for each item and even print five different
lists, placing the best buys from each store on the proper list.
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Name: FISH EXPERT SYSTEM
Disk #: HO164
Author: Strat-Tech, Inc.
Requirements: 250K RAM, DOS 2.0, Monochrome or CGA+, floppy drive
This program will help you plan a successful and safe fishing trip.
The system is for largemouth bass, brown, brook, rainbow trout and wal-
leyed pike. 250 proven fishing patterns are covered when you register.
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Name: BASSTIPS and FISHBASE ][
Disk #: HO168
Author: Richard Olsen
Requirements: Mono or CGA+, floppy drive okay
Two programs to help you with you Bass Fishing! BASSTIPS contains over
100 bass fishing tips gathered from many sources. FISHBASE ][ is a diary
that will keep track of your fishing trips. You can record such things
as weather conditions, water temperature, size of fish caught and more.
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Name: COLLECT!
Disk #: HO200
Author: G.L. Alston
Requirements: VGA only, 640K RAM, mouse required
An advanced specialty database that is used to keep track of the things
people collect such as baseball cards, antiques, comic books, video/audio
tapes, records, fine arts, books and magazines. It will also serve to
keep track of household inventory.
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Name: PERSONAL SOFTWARE LIBRARIAN
Disk #: HO205
Author: J. Stuart Hobday
Requirements: Color graphics card, one floppy drive
Easily keep track of your software with this program. The author has
kept the new computer user in mind with easy to understand instructions
and plenty of online help. Guaranteed to get your software organized
quickly and painlessly!
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Name: TIKLER
Disk #: HO100
Author: Richard Olsen
Requirements: Color graphics card, one floppy drive
TIKLER helps you keep track of upcoming events. It will display the com-
ing events for any number of days in the future. It's a kind of note
taker, reminder, calendar program you should find useful, if not
indispensable. Designed to be quick, easy to learn and free formed.
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Name: THE AARDVARK'S ADDRESS BOOK SYSTEM
Disk #: HO105
Author: Aardvark Data Group Inc.
Requirements: DOS 2.0, 320K RAM, One or two floppy drives or hard drive
TAABS can save you considerable time, expense and frustration. It can
organize, control, search and print addresses and phone numbers. Added
features include a printed output which is formatted in mini, alpha-
betized pages which you can assemble into a pocket sized address book or
view from your computer screen. One of the best of its kind.
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Name: HELP WITH BABY
Disk #: HO104
Author: Michael O'Rourke, Greenline Computing Co., Laura M. Young
Requirements: Color graphics card, one floppy drive
Here are three programs to help you with your new baby! THE BABYSITTER
can call you, friends, doctor, police or any emergency number. Alarms
included for events through out the day, activity log and more! IT'S ALL
IN A BABY'S NAME! takes a light-hearted look at choosing baby's name and
<K>IDS <I>MMUNIZATON <R>ECORD <K>EEPER is a handy little utility for
keeping track of kid's vaccine records.
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Name: DIARY
Disk #: HO114
Author: Nathaniel S. Johnson
Requirements: CGA or higher, Hard drive required
Here is a nice big diary for those of you that would like to have a
rolodex, daily, weekly and monthly planner, phone base, and a personal
diary all rolled into one. Plenty of online help with pull down menus
makes the program easy to learn. You can even customize the colors to
suit your personal needs. Very nice.
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Name: DAILY JOURNAL
Disk #: HO106
Author: Dan Dye
Requirements: Color graphics card, one floppy drive
For the person who just wants a simple diary, this one is for you. Offers
up to 250 lines or approximately 4 pages in each daily entry. Password
protection is an option. Entries are saved in an encrypted format and
may NOT be loaded into a word processor, thus offering even more privacy.
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Name: RACE
Disk #: HO162
Author: Competitive Software
Requirements: Monochrome or higher, one floppy drive
Events such as swimming, long distance canoe marathons, triathlons, sled
dog championships and cross country skiing are just some of the events
that can be used with this program. Program will create a master roster
for you and keep track of a teams races. Many options.
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Name: THE BIRTHDAY PROGRAM
Disk #: TU160
Author: John DeLay
Requirements: Color graphics card, one floppy drive
Input your name and your birthday, plus the current date and this program
will generate a wealth of information for you. Find out the day you
arrived, how many days old you are, who your birthday president is, your
flower/stone and zodiac sign is and more!